Amalantrah Working, part 2: The Joseph Smith connection
As I wrote in Part One of decoding the Amalantrah Working, Aleister Crowley spoke favorably of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, and several of Crowley’s “magical retreats” in America align with major spots in Joseph Smith’s life.
1) Crowley’s “Lake Pasquaney” retreat during the summer of 1916 was less than 50 miles from the obelisk marking Joseph Smith’s birthplace near Sharon, Vermont. It was dedicated on December 23, 1805, the hundredth anniversary of his birth. It stands northwest of Crowley’s cottage, close to the spot where the sun sets on the Summer Solstice. Given Crowley’s fascination with Egypt and Egyptian mythology, an obelisk nearby would have caught his attention.
2) Crowley’s “Oesopus Island” retreat during the summer of 1918 had Palmyra, New York and Hill Cumorah in the direction of the Summer Solstice setting sun, almost precisely. That is where Joseph Smith claimed to find the Golden Plates, and is next to the Sacred Grove where he claimed to have his First Vision. Additionally, along this same line stands the birthplace of James Strang, one of the claimants to lead the Mormon church after Joseph Smith’s murder in Carthage Jail on June 27, 1844. Coincidentally, James Strang claimed to find and translate ancient plates of his own, which he called The Book of the Law of the Lord - similar in title to Crowley’s own Book of the Law.
3) Harmony, Pennsylvania (now Oakland), where Joseph Smith claimed to translate the Golden Plates is due west of Esopus Island and Crowley’s 1918 “magical retreat. While Crowley mention several times a book titled “The Hermit of Oesopus Island”, that has been lost, along with Crowley’s diaries from that summer.
4) Crowley’s “magical retreat” the next year, during the summer of 1919, was around Montauk on Long Island, but those diaries are lost as well. While his exact location is unknown, that area lines up with that Summer Solstice line crossing Oesopus Island, James Strang’s birthplace, and Hill Cumorah. Tat line is very close to the Hammonasset Line of stone formations existing when Europeans first arrived in the New World.
5) Oesopus Island is due north, almost precisely, of the 64 West Ninth Avenue apartment where Crowley held his Amalantrah Working from January 14, 1918 through June 16, 1918 - immediately before Crowley left for his “magical retreat” on Oesopus Island.
6) Crowley’s Lake Pasquaney cottage is nearly due north of the Montauk area of Long Island, although it cannot be said for certain where he stayed there, because of his lost/destroyed journals of that period.
7) From the apartment at 64 West 9th, Montauk is east and a little north - but the train taking Crowley there passed through the Babylon station.
8) In short, out of Crowley’s four major “magical retreats” in America, each is paired with another spot almost directly north or south. Additionally, two of those spots align with the Summer Solstice setting sun - as well as James Strang’s birthplace and Hill Cumorah,
9) I was also born very close to that same Solstice Line, in Kingston (formerly Esopus). I was conceived around July 9, 1968 - exactly 50 years after Crowley’s “magickal child” invocations on Oesopus Island. Crowley’s original title for Book of the Law was Liber L, the Roman numeral for 50.
Whether intentionally, coincidentally, or under the guidance of some higher power, Crowley’s four “magical retreats” in America all align not only with each other, but also with locations important to Joseph Smith and the formation of the Mormon church. Along with other details unearthed while translating the Cthonius Cypher, this implies that the “magickal child” Crowley invoked will be born in the Mormon church.
From personal experience, I’ve seen that many Americans have a rabid hatred of Mormons - because their pastor told them so. My earliest experience, when I was 7 living in Birmingham, Alabama was getting asked by an old man where my hat was. My hat? “Yeah - all of y’all Mormons wear hats, so wear is your hat?” I suggested he was thinking of Mennonites. “No, Mormons all wear hats - to hide their horns.” I had never heard this before and pointed out that I do not have any horns. The old man sounded more angry than confused: “Well, if y’all are Mormon, then how come you don’t have any horns? They ain’t growed yet?” When I told him I have never seen a Mormon with horns, he said, “Yeah, y’all do - my pastor told me!” Even with the proof in front of his eyes, the old man could not fathom that his pastor was wrong.
Pastors earn their living from donations, from passing the collection basket through the congregation during their preaching. Professional beggars, with no other means of support. So there is clearly a financial motivation behind their attacks - they want to keep fleecing their flock, and are afraid of losing them to Mormonism. As a result, many half-truths, omissions, and outright lies get spread against Mormons, which get hatefully repeated.
Few people who hate Mormons know that Joseph smith was mustered in jail, and when I point this out the response is usually screamed: “Good!” When I ask them why they hate Mormons so much, the answer is usually: “Because they do polygamy - and that’s not even in the Bible!” When I point out that polygamy actually is in the Bible, from Abraham to David and Solomon, the screamed response is, “That’s just in your Gold Bible!” Pointing out that Mormons also read the Bible in addition to the Book of Mormon (which is not a “Gold Bible”) only results in more screaming: “Mormons don’t read the Bible! My pastor told me so!” That is really irresponsible repeating such easily debunkable lies - but that’s what con artists do with stupid people.
Likewise, fools often claim “Crowley is that guy who said Do Whatever You Want,” and get very angry when you try explaining the quote is “Do what thou wilt,” which is closer grammatically to “Thy Will be done.” And that quote didn’t originate with Crowley, but from François Rabelais in the 1530 in his novels about Pantagruel and Gargantua. It was Rabelais who first wrote about the Abbey of Thélème, which inspired Crowley’s own Abbey of Thelema near Cefalu, Sicily. But fools are repulsed by the truth, and will just scream, “My pastor told me - and it’s the same thing!”
Crowley must have felt a kinship with Joseph Smith, both attacked by slanderous half-truths, omissions, and outright lies. And when somebody needs to make up lies in order to attack somebody else, what does that reveal about both people?
“And now all gave way to a most enigmatic figure. It was an insignificant face and form; but the attributions of him filled all heaven. In his sphere was primarily a mist which Iliel instinctively recognized as malarious; and she got an impression, rather than a vision, of an immense muddy river rushing through swamps. And then she saw that from this man’s brain issued phantoms like pigeons. They were neither Red Indians nor Israelites, yet they had something of each in their bearing. And these poured like smoke from the head of this little man. In his hand was a book, and he held it over his head. And the book itself was guarded by an angelic figure whose face was extraordinarily stern and unbeautiful, but who scattered with wide hands the wealth of life, children, and corn, and gold. And behind all these things was a great multitude; and about them were the symbolic forms of exile and death and every persecution, and the hideous laughter of triumphant enemies. All this seemed to weigh heavily upon the little man that had created it; Iliel thought that he was seeking incarnation for the sake of its forgetfulness. Yet the light in his eyes was so pure and noble and magnetic that it might have been that he saw in a new birth the chance to repair his error.” - Moonchild, page 225
In his autohagiography The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, chapter 75 says:
"History affords innumerable examples of the lofty intelligence and the noblest characters shooting up from the grossest stock. Keats, burns, Sixtus the Fifth, Lincoln, Boehme, Faraday, Joseph Smith, Whitman, Renan, Arkwright, Watts, Carlisle, Rodin and innumerable men of the highest genius came of peasant parentage."
In Crowley's commentary to Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law Chapter II verse 73 says:
"Was not Lao-Tze thrust forth from his city? Did not Buddha go begging in rags? Did not Mohammed flee for his life in exile? Was not Bacchus the scandal and scorn of men? Than Joseph Smith had any man less learning? Yet each of these had attained to do his Will; each cried his Word, that all the Earth yet echoes it! And each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very circumstance which seems so cruel."
Crowley was the ghostwriter for astrologer Evangeline Adams, who owned the cottage on the shore of Lake Pasquaney: Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars, and Astrology: Your Place in the Sun, both of mention Joseph Smith favorably while analyzing his star chart.
In Your Place In the Sun, under Virgo, Crowley says:
"It will be instructive here to glance at the nativity of Brigham Young. It was not he who founded Mormonism; he was the clever, calculating administrator... Contrast this with the founder of that interesting faith, the visionary Joseph Smith, with the prophetic sign of Cancer on his ascendant."
In Your Place Among the Stars, under Moon in Capricornus, Crowley writes:
"We have no reason to doubt the good faith of Joseph Smith any more than we have reason to believe that what he said was true. He may, therefore, have been a deluded, but not a false teacher... hence we find extravagant stories about scriptures written upon golden plates."
In Your Place Among the Stars, under Mercury in Capricornus, Crowley writes:
"The founders of Christianity and of Mormonism were both born with this position of Mercury. It seems an admirable position for statesmen."
Next up: Part 3 - The Woodstock Connection to the Amalantrah Working
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