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The Aleister Crowley connection: Damien Echols – WM3

In the article Book review: “ABOMINATION – Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders” by William Ramsey we noted that the West Memphis Three (WM3) pertained to three brutally murdered eight year olds—Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and James Michael Moore—and three accused, incarcerated and subsequently released teenagers (released after circa two decades)—Damien Wayne Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.
Previous segments include part 1, part 2 and part 3.

As per William Ramsey’s book, the case involved occultism; coincidentally (?) the West Memphis Three triple homicide was case file is #93-05-0666.

PREPARATIONS AND PRACTICES:
DAMIEN ECHOL AND ALEISTER CROWLEY

Damien Echols:

“stated repeatedly he is a Wiccan and a member of a named coven, or group. He wrote that he wanted to meet the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey. While in jail after his arrest, he drafted a note that referenced Aleister Crowley. He also familiarized himself with the writings and beliefs of Theosophist H.P. Blavatsky and her book Isis Unveiled. Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft, written by Gerald Gardner disciple Raymond Buckland, was a resource for Echols and his coven.”
(William Ramsey, Abomination, p. 7)

Of Aleister Crowley, Damien Echols wrote:

“I’ve read much about this man and his life’s work…people have misunderstood him…His words have been misconstrued, twisted, taken out of context, and misunderstood continuously. If you don’t know the key with which to decipher him, then you’ll never understand what you’re reading.”
(Damien Echols, Life After Death, p. 57-58)

Occult simply means hidden in this case, cryptic and requiring a cipher in order to be understood. Whatever Echols really thought about Crowley’s magick one this is certain; he engaged in his system and follows his instructions. Echols makes this clear in many ways including the fact that he set out to perform Crowley’s ritual to contact one’s Holy Guardian Angel (HGA):

“on Good Friday, I began performing the Holy Guardian Angel ritual as described in The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. It’s a prayer that asks a higher self or outside intelligence for guidance, protection, and for forgiveness of all my weaknesses and sins. Expert practitioners wear white robes and burn candles and frankincense, and use other esoteric paraphernalia. I obviously don’t have all the materials he suggests, but I don’t believe they’re needed…I showered and put on clean white shoes, and knelt to pray. If Aleister Crowley could do the ritual on horseback, then I could do it in a prison cell.”

(Damien Echols, Life After Death, p. 97; emphasis added)

Since magick is premised upon the exercise, or imposition, of will; magickians view their paraphernalia as tools to help them focus—they are tools. One magickian gave the cartoon Dumbo as an example; at first the big eared elephant had to hold a feather within his trunk in order to fly but then he learned to do it without the paraphernalic tool.

Thus, Damien Echols states “I don’t believe they’re needed” and gives as an examples that “Aleister Crowley could do the ritual on horseback.” This refers to the fact that Crowley believed that he could perform that various phases of the ritual in a purely mental manner; a pure expression of will without the use or need of physical paraphernalia.

Two of Alphonse Louis Constant’s aka Eliphas Levi’s (1810-1875 AD) axioms are #1 “Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good” and #9 “The will of a just man is the Will of God Himself and the Law of Nature.” No wonder then that he also wrote, “Man is the God of the world, and God is the man of Heaven” (The Key of the Mysteries).

Speaking of occult, hidden and here is the key word; cryptic, for some odd reason Echols has taken to referring to his vast number of Twitter followers as “Chupacabras.” Chupacabra is a crypto-zoological creature(s) which means that—like Big Foot, the Lock Ness Monster (which some claim to have been Crowley’s doing by summoning but not dispelling spirits), et al—it is a presumed animal of some sort yet which goes unidentified and is thus cryptic; hidden, occult (see the video Did Benjamin Radford solve the Chupacabra mystery? which is embedded just below). This particular creature derives its name from two Spanish words “chupa” (or, “chupar”) which means to “suck” (as like through a straw, as in ingestion, to drink) and “cabra” which means goat thus, goatsucker. This name came about due to the reported propensity of creature to suck the blood out of goats.

Thus, Echols refers to his followers as cryptic/hidden/occultic blood drinkers; blood thirsty creatures who are hidden in plain sight. Perhaps to him it just means something funny and goofy and he can certainly explain himself should he ever feel the need to do so or should any of his followers wonder and ask.

In the next segment we will consider step by step possession.

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