Sympathy for the Great Beast 666 - or, Aleister Crowley and the Christ Mandala

Carolyn and Laila talk about Carolyn’s recent theory that AC, with all his scandalousness and mythopoetic self-identification as the Great Beast of The Book of Revelations, succeeded in “immanentizing the eschaton” (to borrow a phrase of the late, great Terrence McKenna) and revealing to Western consciousness a new archetype of the whole Self, later elaborated by Carl Jung in his 1951 classic, Aion, about Christ and Antichrist.

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What happens when two modern ladies wake up to their immortal Magickal nature? Well, Carolyn and Laila founded a world-famous initiation into the Western Esoteric Tradition called Sleep Over Mystery School. On this here podcast they have a lot of fun talking amongst themselves and with other initiates and end up sharing ideas about Existential Kink, the Golden Dawn, star friends, Thelema, Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, the 12 steps, time loops, and the art of being 1980s-style trad wives (the kind who are into diet Coke and having careers).