THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

Aleister Crowley

Crowley

nature

English occultist, mountaineer and provocateur, whose insistence that magick is a technology of consciousness rather than a set of beliefs Wilson adopted wholesale — including the instruction to treat every result with scepticism.

Wilson's "model agnosticism" is Crowley's methodological scepticism in a lab coat. The debt runs deep and is rarely marked, so it is marked here.

rhymes with

sephirahgevurah

whyGevurah is the disciplined will, the sephirah that binds by force of restriction — and the one most easily mistaken for its own shadow.