Aleister Crowley's Occult Duel with WB Yeats

This is a very shallow understanding of Crowley’s occultism. He truly understood the battle between free will and true will…the nature of man vs nature of the universal consciousness.

I see shades of Vedanta in his Thelema. I can also see and understand how the Abrahamic western world can view that as ‘black magic’.

The British colonisers always viewed pantheistic Indian religion as ‘demonic’. Crowley..imo..was more a brilliant and deep thinking religious philosopher than a ‘black magician’ or occultist.

Crowley knew a lot of magic but Yeats new his one weakness: getting kicked down a flight of stairs.