The Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley | Secret Societies 4 | European History

The Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley | Secret Societies 4 | European History | Extra History

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@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

You guys always make My day! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@also_arles 2 ай бұрын

Didn't expect to see a wizard duel be mentioned today, but I'm always excited to learn something new! 😄

@lucky_lynx7867 2 ай бұрын

Imagine being some delivery man who walked in on the fight

@spacecow2942 2 ай бұрын

Hey! I love the show, I've been watching since the Late Bronze Age Collapse! However... It's Crowley like Holy, Not Crowley like fouly. I'll try to remember to find you a source on that. I've found it before, but don't recall exactly where.

@_theknighthawk_7018 2 ай бұрын

Anime before tv's where invented fr fr xD

@blaster915 2 ай бұрын

Two adults shouting magic curses and hand gestures at each other is a very funny image 😂

@jamesalfredstrong8106 2 ай бұрын

Laudenum is a hell of a Victorian drug 😂

@actdimensions 2 ай бұрын

I thought that's what people did in courts.

@samuelgibson780 2 ай бұрын

@@actdimensionsah, yes. If Law was a school of magic in DnD then you could have Law Lawson's Law School of Law Magic. The tuition is high, so they say, but they provide all the material components. One must bring their own semantic and verbal components, however.

@TheMoguera 2 ай бұрын

reminds me of that south park episode with the psychics

@eldenfindley186 2 ай бұрын

Christianity 😨

@SirRocktober 2 ай бұрын

The wizard battle made me think of kids on a playground playing Naruto

@ArmageddonAngel 2 ай бұрын

"Nuh-uh. I totally hit you."

@beavernation57 2 ай бұрын

I think the writer of the manga knew about that and decided to make a whole manga and anime based off of it

@Nsinger998 2 ай бұрын

I was thinking of Cartman's battle with the phony psychics.

@isaachunt7760 2 ай бұрын

Shun-un-un-un-un

@zachgaskins3731 2 ай бұрын

The power of God AND anime on their side, AGHHHHHHHH

@FriendlyPhilcoDealer 2 ай бұрын

“I summon…Polymorph of the Arcane Goddess!” “I summon Just Kick the Fucker.”

@benjaminbierley2074 2 ай бұрын

Out of mana but not out of options.

@whathell6t 2 ай бұрын

In other words, W.B. Yates did a Rider Kick on Alaster Crowley

@snarst 2 ай бұрын

I CAST FIST!!! - Marneus Calgar

@MarioCraft20-- 2 ай бұрын

@@snarst "I CAST THUNDER SPELL!" - Sophist

@ViewerAaron 2 ай бұрын

I cast Glock- Silver Loaded!

@shittyname2657 2 ай бұрын

It's good to see larping was alive in the 1900s

@David0lyle 2 ай бұрын

There’s always a couple of guys that take it too far. 🤔 Didn’t realize that this was a tradition.

@michaelgj23 2 ай бұрын

My thought exactly. These are the D and D and Magic the Gathering nerds I went to high school with, except they lived 100 years ago and became famous.

@adamraserovaquera 2 ай бұрын

And What If is precisely through magick that he is alive.... Maybe EVEN TODAY

@thuranz2773 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelgj23if DnD, Magic yhe Gathering or LARP had been around for longer these guys would probably just have done that instead.

@user-vh8pn1uf9g 2 ай бұрын

It’s far from larping. Once you start learning about the occult you start being able to recognize why things are the way they are. The most powerful people in the world are all in these secret societies for a reason. But yeah sure.. it’s larping lol

@goodlookingcorpse 2 ай бұрын

Crowley actually originated the 'k' in 'magick', to distinguish it from stage magic.

@lucidnonsense942 2 ай бұрын

It's just the British/commonwealth spelling

@jae2O 2 ай бұрын

Yeah magick is mostly used in witchy circles to describe the act itself e.g kitchen magick, elemental magick ect. Some think it's just the British way but nah the generalised version is magic

@chiblast100x 2 ай бұрын

Funny enough most circles these days don't even use the term 'magic' using either spelling, favoring other, less ambiguous, terms of art instead.

@jorgelotr3752 2 ай бұрын

@@lucidnonsense942 not according to Oxford's English Dictionary; it most likely became the more common popular spelling because Crowley was both British and a very well known public figure.

@AnthonyfrmYO 2 ай бұрын

I heard a scholar say that Crowley just couldn't spell very well .

@ThePerks2010 2 ай бұрын

Just the image of two grown dumbasses throwing gang signs at each other makes me glad I was born after TV was invented😂😂😂

@internetperson3436 2 ай бұрын

I mean gangsters throw gang signs at each other to this day

@whathell6t 2 ай бұрын

@@internetperson3436 Don't forget the homeless transients and vagrants. They also throw gang signs to scare off other transients and vagrants.

@mehunlanghynniewta4748 2 ай бұрын

@@internetperson3436 they do but then the guns also show up...

@atillar3321 2 ай бұрын

@@mehunlanghynniewta4748 thats the ultimate power, human technology

@Mecha_mage 2 ай бұрын

I mean it is silly looking but so is prayer so to each their own.

@jffry890 2 ай бұрын

When barbarian attempts stealth as a wizard. "I cast boot!" *spartan kick*

@tbando2253 2 ай бұрын

Hahahaha😂

@drewlytle2281 2 ай бұрын

Somewhere in his grave, Yeats' Corpse screamed in rage in the 80's when Crowley got the ultimate victory by being the subject of one of Ozzy Osbourne's best songs.

@Attaxalotl 2 ай бұрын

Which one? "One of Ozzy's best" doesn't narrow it down

@dragansnyder2786 2 ай бұрын

@@Attaxalotlseems like it was just one that was literally named Mr Crowley, which I've never heard of in my entire life but now I kind of want to listen to that song

@1_or_11 2 ай бұрын

If it's any consolation, Yeats gets a mention in a song by The Smiths.

@mistformsquirrel 2 ай бұрын

MIiiiiiister Crowley~~~ *bam bam bam~~~*

@lars573 2 ай бұрын

Which I'm totally listening too after I finish this episode.

@TheKulu42 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like bunch of adults playing Dungeons & Dragons. This would be a hilarious scene in an Aleister Crowley movie!

@jasonblalock4429 2 ай бұрын

I cast Magick Missile at the darkness!

@J.D-g8.1 2 ай бұрын

And Crowley was using a lot of heroin and cocaine, so consider that at least Crowley (and probably many of the others) were high as kites and stoned as bedrock during this "battle". It must have been quite the sight!

@TheKulu42 2 ай бұрын

@@J.D-g8.1 Cranked up on drugs and trying to do magick? That bunch must have put on quite a show! Imagine being the cop who had to write up that arrest report!

@TheKulu42 2 ай бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 Magick Missile? Good move! Heck, the whole messed up incident could inspire a role-playing game.

@slayer0235 2 ай бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 “Where are the Cheetos!?”

@philiphockenbury6563 2 ай бұрын

The intro sounds like the beginning to a fantasy novel. The fact that these are real people from 200 years ago doing spells like they are in middle school makes it funny.

@rennor3498 2 ай бұрын

Two hundredyears ago? This was 124 years ago and its possible that things like this might still be happening around the world to this day, we just don't know about them.

@drextrey 2 ай бұрын

I know this still happens in Indonesia, and several Asian and African countries. They still kinda big in the whole "Imaginary" Spiritual thingy. On second thoughts, the whole world still do this, just with a more "widely acceptable" text, like Bible and stuff. They congregate and "Pray" away, sickness, Diseases, Plagues etc, and Covid19 Came and everything backfired, those who Congregate become Epicenter of Plagues(they have always been, but this one is recent and better recorded).

@LangThoughts 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it reminds of being a kid in the 2000s and playing Harry Potter- the Major Difference is that even as a child, I knew it was just a game.

@alec.mp4 Ай бұрын

@@rennor3498Lol it happens all the time and its not even hidden at all. Crowley’s OTO are still around thought theyre more of a fraternity now. Austin Osman Spare who was friends with Crowley and founding member of the OTO is one of the founders of chaos magick, which is probably the most popular branch. John Dee who was mentioned in the video created Enochian magic, which itself is a part of the bigger Abrahamic mysticism alongside kabblah and Solomonic stuff

@Gillemear 2 ай бұрын

Yeats is a major historical figure and literary hero amongst the Irish, accredited for some of the greatest literary works from our island. Its crazy to think he was once a wizard and defeated the most evil man in England with a well placed kick. Poetic, you might say!

@wlinden Ай бұрын

Not crazy at all. For my money, he was more of a magician than the rest of those clowns put together, accomplishing great changes in accordance with his will. (“Did that play of mine send out/Certain men the English shot?”)

@camerongrow6426 2 ай бұрын

Pre-comic con society was rough on fantasy nerds

@karlgrimm3027 2 ай бұрын

All I am thinking of is the South Park episode where Cartman becomes a psychic and gets into a battle with a bunch of other psychics.

@planclops 2 ай бұрын

Exactly what went through my mind. I couldn’t stop laughing 😂

@typacsk 2 ай бұрын

DO YOU SEE

@kbo572 Ай бұрын

@@typacsk I see...ice cream, and sprinkles, and Quadruple-Stuffs!

@kevinhill8193 2 ай бұрын

*Crowley-* "With this treasure, I do summon!" *Imperator-* "Boot to the head!"

@ShanRenxin 2 ай бұрын

Crowley, you fail to grasp Tai Kwon Leep. Approach that you might see.

@aaronman4772 2 ай бұрын

And another for Jenny and the Wimp

@DavidChipman 2 ай бұрын

@@aaronman4772 I see another Frantics/4-on-the-Floor fan.

@MrGksarathy 2 ай бұрын

Is it bad that that first dialog option immediately made me think of Jujutsu Kaisen?

@danielgordon2907 2 ай бұрын

This is like something out of Venture Brothers, i just imagine them shouting FIREBALL to one another

@excessiveone9952 2 ай бұрын

It was mostly random hebrew or latin

@couchpotato2222 2 ай бұрын

The more things change, the more they stay the same

@georgesears2916 2 ай бұрын

Go team Venture!

@maseoembry4165 2 ай бұрын

Aleister Crowley was actually one of the original members of the Guild before it was the Guild of Calamitous Intent

@Tuning3434 2 ай бұрын

@@georgesears2916 You used to be all "Go Team Venture!" but now you're all...g-g-go team...b-b-BOOBIES!

@AfaqueAhmed_ 2 ай бұрын

Taking a dagger to a wizard fight is just so British .

@bthsr7113 2 ай бұрын

What occult wizard doesn't have a ritual dagger on hand? And if you know you're full of bunk because magic is just a neat fiction you're selling, it pays to have something you can actually rely on.

@thuranz2773 2 ай бұрын

@@bthsr7113yeah, wizards get proficiency in daggers, darts, slings, quaterstaffs, and light crossbows.

@brockmckelvey7327 2 ай бұрын

Those 2 would have LOVED Magic: the Gathering

@remixtheidiot5771 2 ай бұрын

or maybe they would have loved role playing games like d&d. unfortunately its inception was still more than half a century away at their time.

@chiblast100x 2 ай бұрын

Honestly MtG is probably a bit too mathy for either of them. They would likely have loved the *concept* however.

@thuranz2773 2 ай бұрын

@@remixtheidiot5771probably would've made some banger campaigns.

@MrGksarathy 2 ай бұрын

In a way, they're kind of responsible for DnD, MtG and the like.

@ArcturusEmrys 2 ай бұрын

They wouldn’t just love MtG. They’d write a whole book about how the Ancient Egyptians used MtG as their spellcasting system.

@sptownsend999 2 ай бұрын

This duel has very strong "I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE" vibes

@tompegorinno5141 2 ай бұрын

Aliester Crowley had always been my favorite mysterious figure. I am so glad you guys finally mentioned and told story of him at last.

@excessiveone9952 2 ай бұрын

He's a weirdo and even people who practice Thelema tend to find him a bad person

@tompegorinno5141 2 ай бұрын

@@excessiveone9952 I acknowledge his weirdo. His lewd public gestures and his ridiculous orgy parties in his property in Italy. Not to mention his catastrophic mountain expeditions too. Then among his more curious claims of him being a spy on behalf of Britain and many more. I'll agree being weird and even awful, yet it does make him even more interesting figure.

@excessiveone9952 2 ай бұрын

@tompegorinno5141 true that, I'm no thelemite but I do find it a wonderful faith

@tompegorinno5141 2 ай бұрын

@@excessiveone9952 I only read parts of what Thelema is about. Only thing I understood is do what thou will which often means do what you ought to/destined to. His adventure topics was something that I was more invested on reading upon. Thanks for allowing me with this discourse with you :D

@heressomestuffifound 2 ай бұрын

Crowley was a fascinating and really brilliant figure. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Read his work yourself and look into a few of the biographies if you’re interested in the man.

@sarahubbell1479 2 ай бұрын

As soon as you mentioned Crowley storming in, I knew. Best exorcism spell is "kick down the stairs" and best warding spell is "change the damn locks"

@MrTmac9k 2 ай бұрын

"I CAST FIST!" -- Yeats

@franklinliu389 2 ай бұрын

*KICK

@TPrice919 2 ай бұрын

I don’t know, Crowley might have been into that

@ryotanada 2 ай бұрын

"Now, get out of here!" I, Allister Crowley, can't feel my teeth... (wubwubwub)"

@jesenjin8467 2 ай бұрын

Oh, how it would have looked like to unaffiliated person watching the battle... Someone could have made a killing by selling popcorn and refreshments.

@EEEEEEEE 2 ай бұрын

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

@harrisonlee9585 2 ай бұрын

If you did as accurate a movie as possible about Crowley, it would be called completely unbelievable.

@EEEEEEEE 2 ай бұрын

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

@seanemery1917 2 ай бұрын

The fundamentalists would freak out

@chiblast100x 2 ай бұрын

@@seanemery1917 Many of them will freak out at the mention of his name, even outside of any of his context. About 17 or 18 years ago I was banned from a TTRPG mailing list for daring to use his "do what thou wilt" as a way to explain GM fiat because of a fundie leaning faction of the group. Mind, many of them just know of him as 'a satanist'.

@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv 2 ай бұрын

they probably wouldn't even be able to mention the fact that his main financial backer in the US was the father of modern rocketry who ended up trying to summon the antichrist with the founder of scientology

@peggyliepmann5248 2 ай бұрын

They'd have to break the fourth wall nearly every five minutes to tell people "We're not kidding, this is exactly what happened" Cinema Sins still makes an hour long video about how unrealistic it is.

@basara7 2 ай бұрын

Yeats defeated Crowley not with Occult spells, but with the esoteric knowledge of Ti Kwan Leep: Boot to the Head!

@meatharbor 2 ай бұрын

In his defense, he wasn't ready. He wasn't allowed the appropriate time to learn the lessons of Ed Grubberman.

@Cyssane 2 ай бұрын

Never thought I'd see a Frantics reference in the wild!

@slayer0235 2 ай бұрын

@@meatharbor But he should have been familiar with the most important lesson: Always get in the first shot.

@KaiserAfini 2 ай бұрын

"It seems our incantations are too much against his mystic might. You know who are great at fighting mages ? Warrior monks, I CAST KICK !!"

@shzarmai 2 ай бұрын

Aleister Crowley is featured in the anime/novel - A Certain Magical Index which is awesome btw. 😊

@Attaxalotl 2 ай бұрын

They're a bunch of D&D Wizards: 18 in Intelligence, like 3 in Wisdom, and a single, lonely point in Constitution.

@FuuPhoenix 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact, Crowley was the inspiration for Perturabo from WH40K, and his home planet is named Olympia because the headquarters of the Golden Dawn was in the Olympia district in London

@Some_Average_Joe 2 ай бұрын

Now that's interesting!

@slayer0235 2 ай бұрын

Complete with inferiority complex and jealousy issues. (I would have thought Magnus or Lorgar would be Crowley but this makes sense too.)

@thomassaxon8254 2 ай бұрын

@slayer0235 eh, both Magnus and Lorgar actually accomplish things unlike Crawley. And if anything suffer from hubris of pride rather than inferiority complexes.

@reedfortinbras9211 2 ай бұрын

Finally an explanation on why he's the pettiest man alive!

@RaisinBran1314 23 күн бұрын

Perturabo was one of the many, many, many names that Crowley made for himself through his years of studying magik and the occult.

@andersasblom6452 2 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the Reigen special "Anti-Esper Kick" technique. Always works, no exceptions.

@Camacho4Prez2024 2 ай бұрын

Man, this really takes me back to the days of my friends and I naruto running through the shopping mall casting jutsus at each other as we battled to become Hokage of our hidden village.

@brianb8003 7 күн бұрын

Go sit in the corner. Go sit in the corner and be ashamed at what you just typed.

@Camacho4Prez2024 7 күн бұрын

@@brianb8003 Being ashamed wouldn't be very Crowley of me, would it?

@NomicFin 2 ай бұрын

I assume Yeats and the others justified their "spellcasting" having to effect on Crowley by assuming he must have bee protected by powerful enchantments that rendered their spells useless. Fortunately for them, as Terry Pratchett has taught us, magic resistance does nothing against half a brick in a sock, or in this case boot to the face.

@KasumiRINA 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely thought of Rincewind making weird faces and hand gestures before kicking the opponent in the balls while watching this!

@AegixDrakan Ай бұрын

Yup, Terry Prachett was onto something there. XD

@Konstantin100 2 ай бұрын

Crowley's own secret society, the Ordo Templi Orientis, still exists to this day.

@tylers1996 2 ай бұрын

Yeats yeeting Crowley down the stairs is how I want all wizard duels to end.

@paleoph6168 2 ай бұрын

9:00 The reference to Circle K is so on point!

@robertnessful 2 ай бұрын

"Bill, strange things are afoot at the Circle K." -- Ted "Theodore" Logan

@FakeBlocks 2 ай бұрын

Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!!

@Thecrimsonking01 2 ай бұрын

Here here

@ferretyluv 2 ай бұрын

They don’t care unless you’re a patron.

@Thecrimsonking01 2 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv nobody asked

@ferretyluv 2 ай бұрын

@@Thecrimsonking01 OP did.

@Thecrimsonking01 2 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv *no body asked you

@Beegirl12345 2 ай бұрын

Plot twist they where all just roleplaying

@girl1213 2 ай бұрын

Alistair & William: We are wizards. Everyone else:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rodrigonoal 2 ай бұрын

The irony is to think Crowley was known as the wickedest man in the world, so some people were probably terrified of that dork edge lord.

@LeeGoGators 2 ай бұрын

YALL GET IN HERE 🗣️ THERES A NERD FIGHT GOING ON 🤓🥊

@cheerijessie 2 ай бұрын

Didn't know Yeats was also a master of Ti Kwan Leep I love that this story just feels like fandom drama

@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 2 ай бұрын

So, the great wizard-duel of the age ended like a sketch from The Frantics. "I cast my ultimate spell... BOOT TO THE HEAD!"

@Raziel312 2 ай бұрын

LIGHTNING BOLT!! LIGHTNING BOLT!!

@Joubes 2 ай бұрын

Esoterica is a great channel to explore this stuff further.

@fraktaalimuoto 2 ай бұрын

Great channel!

@ghyslainabel 2 ай бұрын

A magician casts a spell, a second magician casts a counter-spell, a third magician helps the first magician. The soldiers come in and massacre the magicians. It is an approximative citation of a book from Raymond E. Feist. The introduction of this video reminded me that passage.

@monkeygaming2859 2 ай бұрын

That magick duel, basically just summed up a game of MTG

@Paludion 2 ай бұрын

Aleister Crowley must be the ancestor of the kid who yelled "Don't f*ck with me ! I've got the power of God and anime at my side !" "AAAAAAH"

@bryonyamada2620 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Crowley What went on in your head? Oh, Mr. Crowley Did you talk to the dead?

@trevinbeattie4888 2 ай бұрын

Beat me to it 🥷

@kayeka4123 2 ай бұрын

What went on in his head? Mr. Yeats' boot, apparently.

@KasumiRINA 2 ай бұрын

Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on satan's call...

@Sasquatch_sightings 2 ай бұрын

Crowley used Psybeam! But nothing happened. Yeats used Low Kick! It’s super effective!

@zenkomenhi 2 ай бұрын

It is IMMENSELY funny to me that these two just advanced on each other making funny hand signals and chantings at one another until one of them just kicked Crowley in the face and that was that

@dr.swagington7754 2 ай бұрын

I mean it sounds a little sketchy but MacGregor going up and saying "Yeah there's gonna be an apocalyptic war near."and he said this before WWI and WWII

@trr94001 2 ай бұрын

Not really. Europe was a powder keg, WW1 was Only A Matter Of Time and plenty of contemporary people knew it or at least felt it in their bones.

@wiruwaruwolz 2 ай бұрын

Bismarck called it in 1888, 26 years before the start of WWI, adding “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off”

@slayer0235 2 ай бұрын

@@trr94001 Pretty much. MacGregor was just stating the obvious and packaging it in a way to make it seem profound.

@jamesboyle6134 2 ай бұрын

The "battle" between Crowley and the Temple puts me in mind of that one Indiana Jones scene, where he just shoots the swordsman doing all the elaborate tricks.

@jg2323 Ай бұрын

Fun fact: That scene WAS supposed to be an elaborate fight scene. But Harrison Ford got really sick and had a hard time even standing up, so they cut it and just said "Aight, just shoot him instead" and it was so much better.

@dancidchen 2 ай бұрын

these guys would've loved D&D

@ironwolf5802 2 ай бұрын

There's always one person who breaks the game and ends up getting the tried and true, kick to the face. The only response to an "I got an everything prof shield, and a sword gun that never misses, and it's in the rules so you can't tell me no."

@chrisalford9626 2 ай бұрын

This is by far the least crazy thing Crowley got up too.

@RedWizrobe 2 ай бұрын

Watching this on my birthday! So far, it's my favorite present. 😁

@moonbow-07 2 ай бұрын

happy birthday !! 🎂

@extrahistory 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday! 🎂

@othmanzainab 2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday

@duncang8008 2 ай бұрын

I have never thought of Victorian era as a golden age. I have always thought of it as insanity, sickness, disease, and unhygienic

@typacsk 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. I do think it was a golden age for literature written in English*, but that's a pretty specific category. * includes American, Irish and Canadian authors, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu if you stretch the chronology a little...

@ferretyluv 2 ай бұрын

It was a golden age of British culture, wealth, literature, science, and technology for the middle and upper classes. Compared to previous eras, more wealth had spread around and upward mobility was never easier. The empire was at its height, the world was smaller than ever before thanks to steamships and trains. Archeology was born. People started to believe in preserving our patrimony. While the beginning of the Victorian age was filthy, it was during that same Victorian age that London developed a new sewer system that’s still in use today. It was in the Victorian era that epidemiology was born to control cholera, smallpox vaccines were developed, and running water brought to the masses. Now, if you were working class or a child, life sucked. If you thought about the environment, it was awful (as it was in every industrialized nation). But on the whole, Britain was at its zenith.

@Nguyenzander 2 ай бұрын

Nooo I miss the echo for the *ORDO EXTRA HISTORIA!*

@AubriGryphon 2 ай бұрын

Oh my god, a century later these dorks would DEFINITELY be trying to use ninja hand seals and ki shouts at each other.

@placiddistortion 2 ай бұрын

Yeats yeeting Crowley is commemorated in chaos magick even today; stoked to see this covered, and I feel like people who discuss this era of occulture don't mention it enough.

@paleoph6168 2 ай бұрын

3:30 Huh, so I wasn't *too* far-off when I thought that the next episode (or two) will mention the Freemasons.

@juanjorodriguez1895 2 ай бұрын

I mean... they're Masons, of course they're experts in building pyramidal structures.

@TheOldDragoon 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the ancient Tae Kwon Leep technique of "Boot to the Head."

@aaroncorcoran5103 2 ай бұрын

“Strange things are afoot at the circle k.”

@chrisbelkosky5466 2 ай бұрын

"Boots to the face! My one weakness!...how did you know?" -Alistair Crowley (probably)

@jamesonpace726 2 ай бұрын

That Victorian Era Absinthe was supa high power, they say....

@latayantheazran 2 ай бұрын

"I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE' -Crowley, probably

@ducksdog9996 2 ай бұрын

I love this series :)

@extrahistory 2 ай бұрын

It’s been a ton of fun making it!

@talideon 2 ай бұрын

TBH, the very idea of Yeats giving somebody more than a tongue-lashing is hilarious!

@LexiLunarpaw 2 ай бұрын

Yay Its Extra History Time!

@Tusiriakest 2 ай бұрын

Video suggestion: This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In a single day, the longest standing dictatorship in Europe ended, democracy was established by a military coup were soldiers brought flowers in the barrels of their guns to show that they wanted no violence. In this day, the colonial war that raveged for 14 years ended, and a year after Guine Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Princepe, Angola, Mozambique and East Timor emerged as independent countries. Since it is a special anniversary, I would very much like to propose it to Extra History to do a video it. I propose you research the POV of captain Salgueiro Maia and his accomplishments. I'm sure you'll not be disappointed =)

@pinggwen 2 ай бұрын

When a discord and reddit mod meet

@RandomGreymane 2 ай бұрын

The staircase battle definitely has the “I cast manual breathing!” wizard meme feels. XD

@biohazard724 2 ай бұрын

I cast fixate on your own tongue

@RandomGreymane 2 ай бұрын

@@biohazard724 I cast sound nobody but you can hear!

@Cobilemahieu 2 ай бұрын

As an actual Circle K employee I got a bit giddy at the mention🥰🥰

@lucasmiguel1498 2 ай бұрын

This story was so interesting and funny at the same time. Thank you!

@Veltharis 2 ай бұрын

As a huge fan of the "A Certain Magical Index" franchise, this episode makes me happy... *Floats upside down in a tube mysteriously*

@MrExplosion449 2 ай бұрын

I was literally listening to Mr Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne when this came up in my recommended

@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

The new thumbnail is PERFECT! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@robertgronewold3326 2 ай бұрын

I'm a minor practitioner witch, but the mental image of two grown ass men flinging 'curses' at each other is utterly hilarious to me. It must have looked like a bunch of live action role players getting a little too into character. 🤣🤣🤣

@timeless_dusk 2 ай бұрын

even if it sounds ridicolous because it's not something usual to see, compared to the (fake) seriousness of adults, I found the image of two cursing each other pretty violent. I have huge respect of magic practitionists, but seeing magic used in such cases really fuel the stereotype of "witches who want to hurt people"

@robertgronewold3326 2 ай бұрын

@@timeless_dusk It is a continuously harmful stereotype.

@supergowiak4369 2 ай бұрын

In thr end we all learned something important, that kicking someone down the stairs is one of the most powerfull spells in existance

@timeless_dusk 2 ай бұрын

@@supergowiak4369 ok...?

@Karaboga1453 Ай бұрын

@@timeless_duskWomp womp

@adamethridge7824 2 ай бұрын

This magic fight sounds like an adventure time episode

@briannamcdaniel266 2 ай бұрын

Another amazing Extra History video as always!

@ChannelStowyn 2 ай бұрын

"Mr. Crowley What went on in your head? Oh, Mr. Crowley Did you talk to the dead? Your lifestyle to me seems so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on Satan's call" -Ozzy Osbourne

@Idk-ld7zw 2 ай бұрын

This vid is fire

@nicholashulbert42 2 ай бұрын

1) What are the primary sources for the wizard duel? I'd love to read some of them. 2) This misses off just how funny Aleister Crowley's (also obviously the inspiration for the homonymic character from Good Omens!) "Book of the Law" book is - basically a long "I took a load of acid in Alexandria and then spent three days writing down what I saw in my hotel room."

@Nsinger998 2 ай бұрын

The battle reminded me of Cartman's battle with the psychics.

@OutlawSpaceWizard 2 ай бұрын

This is actually my favorite story of Crowley. "LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!"

@catcharide56 2 ай бұрын

5:26 You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master

@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

Love your content guys! You're the Best 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

@extrahistory 2 ай бұрын

You're the best!

@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

@@extrahistory You guys are 🥹🥹🥹🙏

@floydblandston108 2 ай бұрын

"My Little Yukuza- Murder is Magick!"

@Ryu_D 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@ryguystudios4593 2 ай бұрын

Man who needs history class when we got you

@seannguyen7586 2 ай бұрын

This sounds like something a group of kids would do

@Wintermute01001 2 ай бұрын

The Wizard Battle reminded me of the Psychic Detective Battle from South Park.

@WitherBossEntity 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head? Oh Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?

@Cheshire1501 2 ай бұрын

The only thing missing here is a sign saying “WE DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY”

@opposedhealer1826 2 ай бұрын

My ex is a member of Thelema. Just as strange as the rest. I suppose he just wanted answers, something more spectacular than the more mundane truth.

@bubbles581 2 ай бұрын

Yep it's not any weirder than all the people that eat zombie flesh and drink blood every Sunday morning 😅 (as someone who had never heard of Christianity may put it)

@KasumiRINA 2 ай бұрын

@@bubbles581 pretty sure people sharing wine and bread are seen as more normal than weirdos casting spells at each other while dressed like burlesque dancers. There's no amount of mental gymnastics that will make wacky cult members look the same as ordinary religion.

@reincarnatedwolfgod 2 ай бұрын

A single kick is more powerful than every spell combined

@josephsim8401 2 ай бұрын

"PREPARE THYSELF QUILL BEARER!" literally minos prime

@catcharide56 2 ай бұрын

Another new religion influenced by the Thelema? Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard had read Crowley’s books and hung out with rocket scientist/occultist Jack Parsons who was a follower of Crowley. They conducted magic sex rituals to summon the Thelemite goddess.

@bubbles581 2 ай бұрын

Whilè Hubbard did practice Thelema briefly, about a decade before Scientology, there is little to nothing directly from Thelema in Scientology other than some very broad-stroke concepts. It had some influence, no doubt, but Scientology is explicitly extremely syncretic. Source: I used to practice Thelema (briefly) and I've been a Scientologist for 15 years and have a BA in religious studies.

@catcharide56 2 ай бұрын

@@bubbles581 I stand corrected, thank you.

@bubbles581 2 ай бұрын

@@catcharide56 no worries! After Thelema but before Scientology, Hubbard spent his time developing Dianetics which was a research into the human mind and a form of talk therapy. It was very explicitly not a religion. But people kept running into past lives during the therapy sessions and Hubbard actually protested it becoming a religion (believe it or not! this is documented in audio lectures) then finally resigned to the idea and started Scientology directly based on the results of the research of Dianetics (and then its own ongoing research). Scientology explicitly pulls in, even if just to a small degree, things from virtually every religion and philosophy that came before it - and, in my personal opinion, in many ways attempts to be a sort of meta-religion that explains and encompases all of them. A cornerstone of Scientology is "what is true for you is what you have observed for youself to be true" rather than prescribing truth to people. From Thelema (among other religions) it inherits a kind of magical world view - that is to say in Scientology the physical universe is said to be the product of thought or the interactions between souls, which exist eternally outside of the universe in Scientology. I believe Cowley was also pretty into the idea of 'researching' religion, something that Hubbard also believed - an idea that is the basis for Scientology. A huge difference is Scientology is basically devoid of symbolism and has no magical rituals at all. Instead Scientology practice is more like non-leading talk therapy or zen koans to help each practicioner come to their own conclusions and discover their own spirituality.