Crowleyites and Luciferians on Fox TV

by Jonas E. Alexis

Some groups really hate the theological term “synagogue of Satan,” but they are not running around and telling Fox TV to cancel their new series called Lucifer, a program that seems to indicate that the creators are part of the “synagogue of Satan.”

The ADL and other organizations will never tell their brethren in Hollywood to stop directing and producing films of this genre because this has been part of their agenda for centuries.[1] For example, Roman Polanski himself declared that his movie, The Ninth Gate, is “an advertisement for hell.”^[2]

Could it be that the Church was right all along in saying that a metaphysical and categorical rejection of Logos will inexorably lead a person or group straight to the “synagogue of Satan”—or Lucifer’s cauldron? What was Neil Gaiman thinking about when he created the character for Fox TV?

And where are Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, who keep implying that Hollywood is distorting the truth?^[3] Why aren’t they saying anything about this, unless they are part of the process, or unless they have been bought by the powers that be to say really crazy things?

Leaving this aside, let us talk about Gaiman. Obviously, he had something up his sleeves when he crafted his characters. Gaiman grew up in a Jewish family where his parents were devout Scientologists. Scientology, as we have documented elsewhere, was founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a devout follower of Aleister Crowley, the man who was dubbed “the wickedest man in the world” by the British Press.^[4]

Gaiman was also influenced by Alan Moore, another Crowley devotee. This fact became very clear when Gaiman first read Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing. Gaiman declared that it

“was the final straw, what was left of my resistance crumbled. I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London’s Forbidden Planet shop to buy comics.”

We are told that “After forming a friendship with comic-book writer Alan Moore, Gaiman started writing comic books, picking up Marvelman after Moore finished his run on the series.”

So, Aleister Crowley basically begot people like Alan Moore, Aland Moore begot people like Gaiman, and Gaiman produced Lucifer on Fox TV. But how did Moore get involved in comic books? Let us hear from the horse’s mouth:

“I found that I couldn’t progress any further with writing by strict rationality. If I wanted to go further with my writing, make it more intense, more powerful, and make it say what I wanted to say, I had to take a step beyond technique and rational ideas about writing, into something that was trans-rational if you will. This being magic.”

Moore just shows that black magic and practical reason (“strict rationality”) are incompatible. He has also implicitly admitted that practical reason is not part of his writing at all. That is why he has explicitly inserted subversive things like pornography in his books.[5]

One scholar writes that “with Lost Girls, Moore sought to bring ‘legitimacy to the genre of pornography, a ‘revolution’…to the one that he brought to the comics industry.”[6] Other scholars agree that with his work on pornography, Moore is actually challenging “the dominant discourse of morality and etiquette.”[7]

According to Moore himself, pornography should “take its place once more as a revered and almost sacred totem in society.”[8]

Crowley, as a Freemason and Cabbalist,[9] saw his work in the same way. In fact, he got kicked out of Italy for practicing really weird things. And obviously, Moore quickly picked those ideas from “the wickedest man on earth.” Moore admits:

“I’d known about Crowley ever since I was twelve, when I had my spate of reading Dennis Wheatley’s occult paperbacks and being told that Aleister Crowley was the wickedest man in the world. There are references to Crowley in V for Vendetta…”

We are told that “Taking up the study of the Qabalah and the writings of the notorious early 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley, Moore accepted ideas from Crowley’s religion, Thelema, about True Will being connected to the will of the pantheistic universe.

“In some of his earlier magical rituals, he used mind-altering psychedelic drugs but later gave this up, believing that they were unnecessary, and stated, ‘It’s frightening. You call out the names in this strange incomprehensible language, and you’re looking into the glass and there appears to be this little man talking to you. It just works.’”

Moore is the writer behind Batman: The Killing Joke. The book was also used in Christopher Nolan’s epic movie, The Dark Knight.

So, Gaiman is basically sugarcoating the work of Crowley, Moore, and in some sense Freemasonic ideology on Fox TV. In short, Crowley’s overarching plan has been restored to its diabolical “glory” in Fox’s Lucifer. Crowley would have certainly been proud of Gaiman and the network itself. Too bad that he died miserably in 1947.

Citations

• [1] Ruth Langer, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Israel Jacob Yuval, Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006); Elliott Horowitz, Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 50-52.
• [2] Quoted in Alessandra Stanley, “Spring Films/Outsiders; Polanski, The Once and Future Auteur,” NY Times, January 16, 2000.
• [3] Sarah Palin, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 1-2; Going Rogue: An American Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 133; Bill O’Reilly, Keep it Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World (New York: Crown Publishing, 2013), 71-72; Ann Coulter, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama (New York: Sentinel, 2012), 1.
• [4] For studies on these issues, see Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013); Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, eds., Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Nevill Drury, Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (New York: Vintage Books, 2013); Janet Reitman, Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion (New York: Mariner Books, 2011); Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (New York: Penguin, 1987).
• [5] For scholarly analysis of Moore’s work, see for example Todd A. Comer and Joseph Michael Sommers, Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012).
• [6] Ibid., 6.
• [7] Ibid.
• [8] Quoted in ibid., 26.
• [9] Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy (Oxford: Watkins Publishing, 2011); Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2002).

Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.

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