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The Life of Aleister Crowley Pt. 4 "The Great Deceiver" [Patreon Preview]
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: Who is Aleister Crowley and why is he significant?
Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This is a short preview of an ongoing series we have been doing on Patreon with the help of Wolf Fleetwood Ross about the life of Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley, I'm sure many of you have heard this name before. He was known as the wickedest man in the world. He was an occultist, a poet, a mountaineer, a man who...
created a lot of rituals he created and ran many secret societies you know the list of this guy's titles goes on and on there's a reason why this series is five parts long the story of this man's life is Genuinely the craziest biography I have ever heard in my life, without a doubt. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are already out, and you're about to hear a little portion of Part 4.
Chapter 2: What is the focus of Part 4 in the Aleister Crowley series?
This episode covers many, many things. But the section you're about to hear right now, I believe, comes from a part in this episode where Aleister Crowley and his new collaborator slash protégé slash lover, Victor Neuberg, travel to the desert of Algeria to perform a ritual. over the course of two weeks to summon a demon named Charanzan.
During Wolf's research, he told me that it was actually pretty hard to find a lot of information about what this ritual actually entailed and what they were doing to summon Charanzan over these two weeks in the desert. As a last-ditch effort, he tried to ask ChatGPT about this He asked it, how do you summon Charanzan?
And to his surprise, ChatGPT seemed to know how to do the ritual but refused to tell Wolf and instead cautioned him about why he should not summon this demon. Like I said, the first four parts of this series are out now on Patreon in audio and video form. The final section is coming very soon. To hear those, you could sign up at patreon.com slash otherworld.
We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Once again, if you want to hear these bonus episodes, the first four parts are out now, patreon.com slash otherworld.
Chapter 3: How did Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuberg attempt to summon Charanzan?
Chapter 4: What challenges did Wolf Fleetwood Ross face in researching the ritual?
During Wolf's research, he told me that it was actually pretty hard to find a lot of information about what this ritual actually entailed and what they were doing to summon Charanzan over these two weeks in the desert. As a last-ditch effort, he tried to ask ChatGPT about this He asked it, how do you summon Charanzan?
And to his surprise, ChatGPT seemed to know how to do the ritual but refused to tell Wolf and instead cautioned him about why he should not summon this demon. Like I said, the first four parts of this series are out now on Patreon in audio and video form. The final section is coming very soon. To hear those, you could sign up at patreon.com slash otherworld.
We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Once again, if you want to hear these bonus episodes, the first four parts are out now, patreon.com slash otherworld.
So he says, Taranzan, the first thing he says is, I am the master of form, and from me all forms proceed. I am I. I have shut myself up from the spendthrifts. My gold is safe in my treasure chamber, and I have made every living thing my concubine, and none shall touch them save only I.
from me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness and i will reach up to the knees of the most high god and tear his phallus with my teeth and i will bray his testicles in a mortar and make a poison thereof to slay the sons of men So that's how he introduced himself. Wow.
And that is I mean, we're laughing a lot throughout this, which, of course, we must. I mean, yeah, this is a silly story. He's doing pranks on this guy. There's there's hijinks. But it is spooky that Neuberg has said all of this is real. This is real. And even after I hated Crowley.
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Chapter 5: Was Neuberg's account of the ritual credible?
No, yeah, I mean, Neuberg will go to his deathbed saying this is real, and never coming out against what Crowley had written down. They both wrote down what they heard afterwards from memories, and it's basically the same, to my knowledge.
Are they in the desert doing this ritual?
Yes. Yeah. And they have sacrificed animals. Yeah. And they're in the protective circle. It's like a pigeon is a dead pigeon is at each one of the things. And so then Charanzon starts to fuck with them. And Neuberg hears Crowley say, I don't think I can take any more of this. But Neuberg realizes Charanzon sort of imitating Crowley.
And now Crowley, they've been separated on this sort of metaphysical plane where they're physically next to each other, but they can't see each other. And then Charanzon says, They have called me the god of laughter, and I laugh when I will slay. And they have thought that I could not smile, but I will smile upon whom I would seduce. Oh, inevitable one, that canst not be tempted.
And then Charanzon switched axis again and starts telling Neuberg about how awesome he is. He says, I bow myself humbly before the great and terrible names whereby thou hast conjured and constrained me. Let me come and put my head beneath my feet, that I may serve thee, if thou commandest me to be obedient in the holy names. So that's all going on.
And then, according to Neuberg, Taranzan saw a sort of break in their magical circle where the sand had basically covered one of their lines and makes his way into the circle and physically attacks Neuberg. And Neuberg pulls out his magical dagger and stabs him in the neck and reconstructs the line in the sand as the demon is reeling from being stabbed in the neck.
So again, sounds like science fiction, but there are two people and one person at one point had no want to protect or ever see Crowley again, but never recanted this. And Neuberg would go on to have a pretty decent career in poetry publishing. Like, he was a man of industry after all of this and, again, would have had every reason to have said this is bullshit, but didn't.
This ritual they did, like, do you know exactly what it involved? Like, the prep?
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Chapter 6: What resources are available to learn about the Enochian rituals?
Yeah, so, I mean, like, you can go buy a John D. grimoire that has all the incantations of Enochian and how to get into the Aethers, but this is the one, too, like...
The ritual itself was talked about a bit in detail in some of the books I read, but this is the one I was telling you that I was messing around with ChatGBT, where it's like you can get ChatGBT to tell you exactly how to do a lesser banishing ritual or the Gnostic Mass that the OTO does. You can get literally word-for-word things on that.
If you say teach me how to summon Charanzon from the 10th Aether... It'll be like, I'm going to try this. C-H-O-R-O-N-Z-O-N. And make sure you write like John D. 10th Aether. It will say, at least for me, what it said, it was like, to summon Tranzon, you must be spiritually and physically prepared to clash with the da-da-da-da.
Like, I know how to summon him, but I would never share it or something like that. And it was, I was like, what? Yeah.
Okay, wait, it says, Summoning Charanzan, the demon of desperation from the 10th Aether, Zax, is deeply rooted in Enochian and Thelemic occult traditions. However, this is not something to be taken lightly. Both Alistair Crowley and others who attempted to contact Charanzan describe it as chaotic, deceptive, and dangerous.
If you're interested in understanding the historical and ritualistic aspects rather than actually attempting it, I can walk you through. Would you like the scholarly and historical perspective, or are you looking to actually...
ask it ask i'm gonna ask i want to learn how to actually summon it but so yeah if you if you want to go get a john d enokian grimoire and go learn enokian and spend all that time you too could summon charon's on let's see if deep sea can help me do this okay so at first it started giving me the same kind of like bs reply it's teaching me dude it's teaching me well there you go
You can go sell them and see if it's true.
It's being kind of general. It's given me five steps so far. Preparation, invocation, interaction, closing the ritual, reflection.
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