Crowley was surprisingly lucid in methods for someone with a habit of calling himself “The Great Beast 666”; much of his work might be described as what you’d get if you took an empiricist epistemology and applied it to a profoundly anti-reductionist ontology. I’ve gotten some mileage out of his quotes on religious practice elsewhere.
There was a fellow in the early 20th century who labeled his religious writings with the catch-phrase, “The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion.”
Crowley was surprisingly lucid in methods for someone with a habit of calling himself “The Great Beast 666”; much of his work might be described as what you’d get if you took an empiricist epistemology and applied it to a profoundly anti-reductionist ontology. I’ve gotten some mileage out of his quotes on religious practice elsewhere.
So did L. Ron Hubbard, doesn’t mean that either of them was right. But at least your guy didn’t extort money from his followers, AFAIK...