About this episode

Rick and Stephen explore Aleister Crowley's presence in Hollywood in 1915, revealing a grounded story of a broke magician seeking to promote Thelema.

Rick and Stephen go looking for Aleister Crowley in Hollywood and find him there in November 1915. It has been claimed that the "wickedest man in the world secretly ran Hollywood." But Dr. Spence presents a much stranger and grounded story: a broke magician hunting for a vehicle [a studio, a lodge, a mail-order religion, anyone!] to carry Thelema to the masses. What Crowley found within the raw company town of film studios and empty hills, was only a small group of loyalist and a majority of tagalongs that mostly came from the party, not the religion. SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon: / strangeasitseems614 Buymeacoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/StrangeAsItS... OUR SPONSOR: https://www.trineday.com/ FOLLOW US: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7loq8pr Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast Podbean: https://strangeasitseems.podbean.com/

People in this episode

Hosts: Rick, Stephen

Topics covered

• Aleister Crowley
• Hollywood
• Thelema
• history
• magicians
• film studios

Keywords

• Aleister Crowley
• Hollywood
• Thelema
• magician
• 1915
• history
• film studios

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Organizations: Thelema, Patreon, Buymeacoffee

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