Aleister Crowley’s influence on Grant Morrison and Russell Brand

Having written much about Aleister Crowley and his influence upon pop-occulture I will herein continue considering personages who have looked to the to mega therion / the great beast for inspiration. Find our previous articles on Crowley here—which range from L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology to Damien Echols (of the West Memphis Three-WM3 murders infamy) and much, much more.

RUSSELL BRAND

“We’d been talking about the creation of his tabloid-fueled rocker-sex-god persona, and Brand is clearly comfortable with neither the ‘creation’ nor the ‘persona.’ ‘Well, it seems obvious, if not at the time,’ he says, ‘that to turn myself into a character—incredibly theatrical and rock-and-roll and languid and sexualized—was to emphasize areas where I was confident, to draw the eye from the obvious deficit of a man only just getting over being a junkie. I’m very confident in the physical manifestation of a rocker. And there are aphorisms I still deem tight: The carnal self is the true self. In that barbaric, marauding period of promiscuity, there was a type of Aleister Crowley ‘Do what thou wilt’ as the sum of the law. That voice you use when you come? I was using it to perform. Not some distant, attic-dwelling emotion brought out occasionally, like a front room you never use except when the vicar visits. I was in there ******* all the time.” (Ivan Solotaroff, “Will the Real Russell Brand Please Stand Up?,” Details Magazine, April 2011 AD)

Aleister Crowley, signing as Baphomet, “The Tank,” The Equinox III:

“When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.”

GRANT MORRISON
He is a comic book author and preaches that Aleister Crowley’s magickal system actually works. The issue, of course, is not whether or not it “works” but whether it is appropriate to participate in it. From the Andrew Williams interview:

“Comics writer Grant Morrison speaks to Metro about experimenting with voodoo, being visited by aliens and teaching magic to Robbie Williams…
I started doing magic and occult stuff, and found it actually works – go out and do it yourself and you’ll see…The best thing to do is get one of those spell books and try something. The material is available in every bookshop and online. The material is available in every bookshop and online.” (Paolo Baroni, “Tutti Pazzi Per Crowley [Something about Crowley],” Centro Sangiorgio, December 27, 2013 AD)

Grant Morrison became possessed whilst practicing tantric sex magick in India:

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“Supergods” book by Grant Morrison

Why is it that the USA’s oldest government buildings are modeled after Pagan temples?
Why is the layout of Washington DC an occultic mandala? (see video here) Why is the center of our military intelligence a pentagon? Why are so many USA companies named after Pagan false gods? Why are their logos reflective of this fact?

So may questions…

Asking why, why and why brings us to ask why so many USA created comic book heroes are based on Pagan false gods (in relation to see, see Book review: Jeffrey J. Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics).

Troy, from Deconstructing Comics (July 16, 2012 AD), provided some interesting insights into Grant Morrison’s book Supergods – What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Troy notes that, “Grant Morrison is a decisive subject in comics. Many love his work. Many love to hate his work. Many just don’t know what to think of him.”

SpaceNeedle, from Disinformation (April 29, 2012 AD) reports that some claim that, “Grant Morrison is the leading writer of superhero comic books in this universe—and possibly some others.” What Morrison will example is yet another occultist who infuses his supposed fiction with revelations from the demonic powers upon which he relies to make up for his lack of creativity.

Troy notes, “he has come to praise comics and spread their gospel” which is interesting on various levels. Think about the political comedian, like John Stewart, who makes serious point but when challenged takes the “Hey, I’m just a clown” fallback position. This allows him to spread his agenda whilst hiding behind the label of entertainment—see Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart Compliments Christianity.

Likewise, we are learning more and more and more and more that supposed works of fiction actually are devices which are used in order to promulgate the writer’s real life worldview. Thus, Grant Morrison can write his real life occult beliefs and pass them off as mere comics—who takes those seriously? For example, he writes about “the Sungod found in Superman.”
And all this, coming from a guy who admits to being possessed—see the video Is Grant Morrison Possessed? (which is attached to this article).

Troy notes that in the book:

…he does highlight how his social life, relationships, occult interests, and general head space affected his work and in turn was affected by it… he would actively try to use methods of ceremonial magic in order to better understand the characters and emotions he was writing. He adapted many occult ideas to Constantin Stanislavski ideas of method acting and often became his characters as short experiments… has been on record for his drug use, it is no surprise that he notes a few places where they have influenced his work… he discusses the alien abduction/mystical experience/mental breakdown he experienced in Kathmandu…he addresses how it had a unique influence on his perceptions of time and space. In anthropological terms, he seems to have undergone a “mazeway reconfiguration” where information is received from what is classified as an outside source chose to direct the new ideas inwardly to his own work…

Morrison’s interests in and incorporation of the occult, the esoteric, and the avant garde there has been a matter-of-fact dismissal of his work as “drug” fiction and the idea that the reader has to be high on drugs in order to understand it.

Come on now, it’s just comic books…peppered with his real life occult interests, methods of ceremonial magic, drug use, alien abduction/mystical experience/mental breakdown, perceptions of time and space but it’s all meaningless fun, after all, with no relation or connection to the real world…right?

SpaceNeedle reports:

At DC Comics he rebooted Justice League of America into a best-seller. At Marvel he did the same for X-Men. When his magnum opus, The Invisibles—a series about voodoo, time travel and the Marquis de Sade—was in danger of being canceled, he mobilized his fans in an unusual way: He exhorted them to participate in a worldwide magic spell by masturbating on Thanksgiving Day. Yes, he held a “wankathon.” It worked—or at least sales of The Invisibles improved. If Morrison’s personal history includes magic, wild experiments with consciousness-tweaking substances and reported alien visitations, why does he keep writing about square-jawed guys with capes? “We’re running out of visions of the future except dystopias,” Morrison says.

“The superhero is Western culture’s last-gasp attempt to say there’s a future for us…The creators of superheroes were all freaks,” he says. “People forget that—they were all outcasts, on the margins of society.”

Note that dystopias is the opposite of a utopia or, a dysfunctional pseudo-utopia.
So, in order to keep demonically empowering a “comic” book about voodoo, time travel and the Marquis de Sade he, the styled shaman/priest, had his fans literally act out occult rituals. Keep in mind that Pagan occultism always goes back to two themes, two practices: blood and sex.

As for the Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François 740-1814 AD), see this article about this most repugnant and infamous personage, “His books featured murder, torture, blasphemy and grotesque, violent,” and what else, you guessed it, “ritualistic sex.”

But the meaningless fun fiction does not end there as Grant Morrison has taken to sing a song about which Laura Hudson of Comics Alliance (Aug 2, 2011 AD) reports:

Grant Morrison performed this song during a recent event at Meltdown Comics…Morrison was given this song by the spirit of John Lennon, which Morrison communed with in a magic ritual while writing The Invisibles.

So, more occult rituals which are infused into a “comic” book and more messages from a demon disguised as John Lennon. Some of the wonderfully heartwarming and inspiriting (or, inspiriting) are:

Keep taking the pills Keep reading the books… Keep taking the drug… Keep watching the skies… One and one and one makes two If you really want it to… All I wanted to be Was a Beatle like you John Lennon like you John Lennon like John Lennon like John Lennon like John Lennon like you John Lennon like you

John Lennon like you

Just like John Lennon so: an Atheist, Easter Mysticism practitioner who urged us to imagine no religion and instead come together in a new world order—see here.

The occult is all around us and people in the supposedly “entertainment” business are infusing, empowering, their works with satanic, demonic, occult powers, forces and beings.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

—1st John 4:1-4

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I do believe that I have finally come to understand why we cannot remember the earliest years of our lives. Having observed my children; it is simply astonishing to note that they are on an emotional rollercoaster all day long. Laughing, crying, laughing, crying, crying, laughing, laughing, crying, etc., etc., etc. and etc.

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