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

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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  7 месяцев назад +115

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    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 6 месяцев назад +5

      You guys always make My day! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @also_arles
      @also_arles 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @lucky_lynx7867
      @lucky_lynx7867 6 месяцев назад +3

      Imagine being some delivery man who walked in on the fight

    • @spacecow2942
      @spacecow2942 6 месяцев назад +1

      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
      @_theknighthawk_7018 6 месяцев назад

      Anime before tv's where invented fr fr xD

  • @FriendlyPhilcoDealer
    @FriendlyPhilcoDealer 6 месяцев назад +1886

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

    • @SalinaMoonfall
      @SalinaMoonfall 6 месяцев назад +153

      Out of mana but not out of options.

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t 6 месяцев назад +34

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

    • @snarst
      @snarst 6 месяцев назад +60

      I CAST FIST!!! - Marneus Calgar

    • @MarioCraft20--
      @MarioCraft20-- 6 месяцев назад +16

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

    • @ViewerAaron
      @ViewerAaron 6 месяцев назад +17

      I cast Glock- Silver Loaded!

  • @shittyname2657
    @shittyname2657 6 месяцев назад +1600

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

    • @David0lyle
      @David0lyle 6 месяцев назад +48

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

    • @michaelgj23
      @michaelgj23 6 месяцев назад +31

      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
      @adamraserovaquera 6 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @RyanTucker-r5d
      @RyanTucker-r5d 6 месяцев назад +3

      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

  • @blaster915
    @blaster915 6 месяцев назад +2504

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

    • @jamesalfredstrong8106
      @jamesalfredstrong8106 6 месяцев назад +115

      Laudenum is a hell of a Victorian drug 😂

    • @actdimensions
      @actdimensions 6 месяцев назад +50

      I thought that's what people did in courts.

    • @samuelgibson780
      @samuelgibson780 6 месяцев назад +49

      ​@@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
      @TheMoguera 6 месяцев назад +47

      reminds me of that south park episode with the psychics

    • @eldenfindley186
      @eldenfindley186 6 месяцев назад +7

      Christianity 😨

  • @SirRocktober
    @SirRocktober 6 месяцев назад +2572

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

    • @ArmageddonAngel
      @ArmageddonAngel 6 месяцев назад +201

      "Nuh-uh. I totally hit you."

    • @beavernation57
      @beavernation57 6 месяцев назад +62

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

    • @Nsinger998
      @Nsinger998 6 месяцев назад +80

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

    • @isaachunt7760
      @isaachunt7760 6 месяцев назад +24

      Shun-un-un-un-un

    • @zachgaskins3731
      @zachgaskins3731 6 месяцев назад +43

      The power of God AND anime on their side, AGHHHHHHHH

  • @goodlookingcorpse
    @goodlookingcorpse 6 месяцев назад +664

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

    • @lucidnonsense942
      @lucidnonsense942 6 месяцев назад +6

      It's just the British/commonwealth spelling

    • @jae2O
      @jae2O 6 месяцев назад +19

      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
      @chiblast100x 6 месяцев назад +7

      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
      @jorgelotr3752 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@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
      @AnthonyfrmYO 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @drewlytle2281
    @drewlytle2281 6 месяцев назад +713

    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
      @Attaxalotl 6 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @dragansnyder2786
      @dragansnyder2786 6 месяцев назад +30

      ​@@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
      @1_or_11 6 месяцев назад +25

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

    • @mistformsquirrel
      @mistformsquirrel 6 месяцев назад +21

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

    • @lars573
      @lars573 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @Gillemear
    @Gillemear 6 месяцев назад +151

    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
      @wlinden 6 месяцев назад +6

      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?”)

  • @jffry890
    @jffry890 6 месяцев назад +373

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

    • @tbando2253
      @tbando2253 6 месяцев назад +4

      Hahahaha😂

  • @sarahubbell1479
    @sarahubbell1479 6 месяцев назад +36

    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"

  • @camerongrow6426
    @camerongrow6426 6 месяцев назад +114

    Pre-comic con society was rough on fantasy nerds

  • @philiphockenbury6563
    @philiphockenbury6563 6 месяцев назад +327

    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
      @rennor3498 6 месяцев назад +30

      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
      @drextrey 6 месяцев назад +9

      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
      @LangThoughts 6 месяцев назад +4

      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
      @alec.mp4 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@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

  • @tompegorinno5141
    @tompegorinno5141 6 месяцев назад +173

    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
      @excessiveone9952 6 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @tompegorinno5141
      @tompegorinno5141 6 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@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
      @excessiveone9952 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @tompegorinno5141
      @tompegorinno5141 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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
      @heressomestuffifound 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @karlgrimm3027
    @karlgrimm3027 6 месяцев назад +201

    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
      @planclops 6 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk 6 месяцев назад +6

      DO YOU SEE

    • @kbo572
      @kbo572 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @sptownsend999
    @sptownsend999 6 месяцев назад +63

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

  • @danielgordon2907
    @danielgordon2907 6 месяцев назад +296

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

    • @excessiveone9952
      @excessiveone9952 6 месяцев назад +7

      It was mostly random hebrew or latin

    • @couchpotato2222
      @couchpotato2222 6 месяцев назад +6

      The more things change, the more they stay the same

    • @georgesears2916
      @georgesears2916 6 месяцев назад +7

      Go team Venture!

    • @maseoembry4165
      @maseoembry4165 6 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @Tuning3434
      @Tuning3434 6 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @TheKulu42
    @TheKulu42 6 месяцев назад +437

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

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 6 месяцев назад +26

      I cast Magick Missile at the darkness!

    • @J.D-g8.1
      @J.D-g8.1 6 месяцев назад +31

      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
      @TheKulu42 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@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
      @TheKulu42 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@jasonblalock4429 “Where are the Cheetos!?”

  • @harrisonlee9585
    @harrisonlee9585 6 месяцев назад +159

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

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 6 месяцев назад +1

      E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

    • @seanemery1917
      @seanemery1917 6 месяцев назад +2

      The fundamentalists would freak out

    • @chiblast100x
      @chiblast100x 6 месяцев назад

      @@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
      @Ceruleansquid-lo3iv 6 месяцев назад

      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
      @peggyliepmann5248 6 месяцев назад +9

      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.

  • @jesenjin8467
    @jesenjin8467 6 месяцев назад +94

    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
      @EEEEEEEE 6 месяцев назад

      E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

  • @brockmckelvey7327
    @brockmckelvey7327 6 месяцев назад +171

    Those 2 would have LOVED Magic: the Gathering

    • @remixtheidiot5771
      @remixtheidiot5771 6 месяцев назад +14

      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
      @chiblast100x 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@remixtheidiot5771probably would've made some banger campaigns.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @ArcturusEmrys
      @ArcturusEmrys 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @AfaqueAhmed_
    @AfaqueAhmed_ 6 месяцев назад +84

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

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 6 месяцев назад +13

      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
      @thuranz2773 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @kevinhill8193
    @kevinhill8193 6 месяцев назад +116

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

    • @ShanRenxin
      @ShanRenxin 6 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @aaronman4772
      @aaronman4772 6 месяцев назад +9

      And another for Jenny and the Wimp

    • @DavidChipman
      @DavidChipman 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @cheerijessie
    @cheerijessie 6 месяцев назад +11

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

  • @FuuPhoenix
    @FuuPhoenix 6 месяцев назад +77

    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
      @Some_Average_Joe 6 месяцев назад +2

      Now that's interesting!

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @thomassaxon8254
      @thomassaxon8254 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @reedfortinbras9211
      @reedfortinbras9211 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @RaisinBran1314
      @RaisinBran1314 5 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @Attaxalotl
    @Attaxalotl 6 месяцев назад +41

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

  • @ThePerks2010
    @ThePerks2010 6 месяцев назад +665

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

    • @internetperson3436
      @internetperson3436 6 месяцев назад +20

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

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @mehunlanghynniewta4748
      @mehunlanghynniewta4748 6 месяцев назад +24

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

    • @atillar3321
      @atillar3321 6 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@mehunlanghynniewta4748 thats the ultimate power, human technology

    • @Mecha_mage
      @Mecha_mage 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @placiddistortion
    @placiddistortion 6 месяцев назад +9

    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.

  • @andersasblom6452
    @andersasblom6452 6 месяцев назад +84

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

    • @bypy35na
      @bypy35na 4 месяца назад +2

      And the endless classic of "Weight of thr book" where one summons blue agents and uses this "Anti-illicit book" agaisnt their opponents.

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini 6 месяцев назад +53

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

  • @NomicFin
    @NomicFin 6 месяцев назад +52

    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
      @KasumiRINA 6 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yup, Terry Prachett was onto something there. XD

    • @althelor
      @althelor 3 дня назад

      Man. I really need to read more Terry Pratchett. I've only read good omens and loved it, and that sounds hilarious

  • @AreWeLearningYet77
    @AreWeLearningYet77 6 месяцев назад +37

    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
      @brianb8003 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @AreWeLearningYet77
      @AreWeLearningYet77 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @MrTmac9k
    @MrTmac9k 6 месяцев назад +108

    "I CAST FIST!" -- Yeats

    • @franklinliu389
      @franklinliu389 6 месяцев назад +8

      *KICK

    • @TPrice919
      @TPrice919 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @ryotanada
      @ryotanada 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @basara7
    @basara7 6 месяцев назад +62

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

    • @meatharbor
      @meatharbor 6 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @Cyssane
      @Cyssane 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @mandrakeblackstone5838
      @mandrakeblackstone5838 2 месяца назад

      Yeats didn't defeat A.C there was no fight or hocus pocus , he went to talk to him Yeats and friends refused to listen A.C left and let the order die

  • @zhcultivator
    @zhcultivator 6 месяцев назад +28

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

  • @FakeBlocks
    @FakeBlocks 6 месяцев назад +35

    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
      @Thecrimsonking01 6 месяцев назад +2

      Here here

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @Thecrimsonking01
      @Thecrimsonking01 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@ferretyluv nobody asked

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv 6 месяцев назад

      @@Thecrimsonking01 OP did.

    • @Thecrimsonking01
      @Thecrimsonking01 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@ferretyluv *no body asked you

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 6 месяцев назад +44

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

    • @robertnessful
      @robertnessful 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @Joubes
    @Joubes 6 месяцев назад +11

    Esoterica is a great channel to explore this stuff further.

    • @fraktaalimuoto
      @fraktaalimuoto 6 месяцев назад +1

      Great channel!

    • @thishandleistacken
      @thishandleistacken 4 месяца назад

      I've learned more from that channel and his sources than the 20 or so years I spent in the esoteric world (outside of personal experimentation and my own syncretic system I've been developing as I go)

  • @Veltharis
    @Veltharis 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @ghyslainabel
    @ghyslainabel 6 месяцев назад +9

    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.

  • @dr.swagington7754
    @dr.swagington7754 6 месяцев назад +17

    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
      @trr94001 6 месяцев назад +13

      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
      @wiruwaruwolz 6 месяцев назад +10

      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
      @slayer0235 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @Dragonlover553
      @Dragonlover553 11 часов назад

      He knew it was near. Crowley claimed to have caused it.
      Coincidence? I think NOT!

  • @Konstantin100
    @Konstantin100 6 месяцев назад +14

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

    • @thishandleistacken
      @thishandleistacken 4 месяца назад +2

      kinda sorta maybe. as an ex-COTO member I honestly don't feel its doing much of anything. I'm with Robert Anton Wilson on this one: every man, woman and non-gender conforming person (who Wills so) is both a Pope and the Outer Head of The Order. He tells the story in the video Religion For The Hell of It at the very end about how Discordian members of the Order sent him and 40 or so others Pope Cards modified to say the bearer is the OHO, Wilson being one of the people who received the card, and RAW being RAW and Discordians being Discordians there are now several thousand people (myself included) who declare ourselves the OHO. Breeze and Gunther are elitist dogmatic fools... I cannot believe they let Wasserman act as he did nor that they let Wasserman (probably told him to do it) declare that only Gunther's AA would be the one true AA with all other lineages being declared wrong. You can find that on YT in his video In The Centre of The Fire.

  • @Sasquatch_sightings
    @Sasquatch_sightings 6 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @LeeGoGators
    @LeeGoGators 6 месяцев назад +36

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

  • @RandomGreymane
    @RandomGreymane 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 6 месяцев назад

      I cast fixate on your own tongue

    • @RandomGreymane
      @RandomGreymane 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @monkeygaming2859
    @monkeygaming2859 6 месяцев назад +19

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

  • @bodo6880
    @bodo6880 6 месяцев назад +6

    0:33 polenareff vs Dio moment

  • @wongtenghaoanchorgreenps6824
    @wongtenghaoanchorgreenps6824 6 месяцев назад +3

    Video Suggestion: Singapore’s independence and rise from 3rd world to 1st, it’s pretty interesting

  • @Randomatcrazytown
    @Randomatcrazytown 6 месяцев назад +4

    As someone who was part of a youth group with the Freemasons and extensive study of Wicca and witchcraft, this video cracks me up because you can see the pathway of certain religious movements. Also the wildest thing I know about Crowley is that he held a super secret ritual in the pyramids at Giza. The dude was wild and the people I have met who follow his teaching are also kind of wild 😅

    • @ArcturusEmrys
      @ArcturusEmrys 6 месяцев назад

      Didn’t he also spy on the Bolsheviks at one point

    • @seanisnotjohn
      @seanisnotjohn 6 месяцев назад

      You would expect someone who follows someone who wrote about r@ping his own child would be weird

  • @thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247
    @thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 6 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 6 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @juanjorodriguez1895
      @juanjorodriguez1895 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @girl1213
    @girl1213 6 месяцев назад +75

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

    • @rodrigonoal
      @rodrigonoal 6 месяцев назад +6

      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.

  • @AubriGryphon
    @AubriGryphon 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @Beegirl12345
    @Beegirl12345 6 месяцев назад +30

    Plot twist they where all just roleplaying

  • @jamesboyle6134
    @jamesboyle6134 6 месяцев назад +4

    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
      @jg2323 5 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @talideon
    @talideon 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @bryonyamada2620
    @bryonyamada2620 6 месяцев назад +14

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

    • @trevinbeattie4888
      @trevinbeattie4888 6 месяцев назад +3

      Beat me to it 🥷

    • @kayeka4123
      @kayeka4123 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 6 месяцев назад +1

      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...

  • @RedWizrobe
    @RedWizrobe 6 месяцев назад +17

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

  • @Raziel312
    @Raziel312 6 месяцев назад +15

    LIGHTNING BOLT!! LIGHTNING BOLT!!

  • @grimreapergamingyt5839
    @grimreapergamingyt5839 6 месяцев назад +8

    0:53 Why am i getting Yu-Gio vibes..

  • @duncang8008
    @duncang8008 6 месяцев назад +30

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

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk 6 месяцев назад +5

      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
      @ferretyluv 6 месяцев назад +5

      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
    @Nguyenzander 6 месяцев назад +12

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

  • @dancidchen
    @dancidchen 6 месяцев назад +7

    these guys would've loved D&D

  • @2wm
    @2wm 3 месяца назад +1

    This story could be an absolute banger of a Drunk History episode.

  • @lucasmiguel1498
    @lucasmiguel1498 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @ironwolf5802
    @ironwolf5802 6 месяцев назад +17

    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."

  • @KasumiRINA
    @KasumiRINA 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @Crowdelia
    @Crowdelia 6 месяцев назад +1

    I am so happy you covered the Battle of Blythe road. It is my favorite historical story of all time

  • @Tusiriakest
    @Tusiriakest 6 месяцев назад +3

    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 =)

  • @FlannelArtMaid
    @FlannelArtMaid 28 дней назад +1

    I love the thought of them all just calling on demons and angelic forces like they're having a Shin Megami Tensei battle and eventually they just get bored and decide to beat Aleister up

  • @Paludion
    @Paludion 6 месяцев назад +64

    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"

  • @PastaAivo
    @PastaAivo 6 месяцев назад +2

    I must give props to these occultists for all the media they've inspired since. It's basically a fiction writing goldmine just reading through their wikipedia pages.

  • @chrisbelkosky5466
    @chrisbelkosky5466 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @jonathanschulz1936
    @jonathanschulz1936 6 месяцев назад +2

    Oh my god. Best. Episode. Ever! I love magick!!

  • @Isthatthegrimreaper170
    @Isthatthegrimreaper170 6 месяцев назад +3

    This larp session go crazy, I wish world leaders did this instead of starting useless wars

  • @Devadas44
    @Devadas44 6 месяцев назад +1

    I had always thought that things was done faster when you used the word "Quick". Now i understand why. It's truely a magickal word.

  • @LexiLunarpaw
    @LexiLunarpaw 6 месяцев назад +10

    Yay Its Extra History Time!

  • @zenkomenhi
    @zenkomenhi 6 месяцев назад +3

    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

  • @jamesonpace726
    @jamesonpace726 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @fionnoha
    @fionnoha 6 месяцев назад +2

    there's some recordings on RUclips of Yeats changing his poetry. I highly recommend listening to it after this

  • @TheOldDragoon
    @TheOldDragoon 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @gary9346
    @gary9346 6 месяцев назад +2

    Use this stuff in Mage the Ascension regularly.

  • @ducksdog9996
    @ducksdog9996 6 месяцев назад +8

    I love this series :)

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  6 месяцев назад +2

      It’s been a ton of fun making it!

  • @JoseFlores-xc7wu
    @JoseFlores-xc7wu 4 месяца назад +1

    I saw this video a couple of times. The end to the wizards duel is one of the funniest things that has ever happened in history

  • @ChannelStowyn
    @ChannelStowyn 6 месяцев назад +5

    "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

  • @KasumiRINA
    @KasumiRINA 6 месяцев назад +2

    W.B.Yates sounds like some southern wrestling promotion from territorial era, welcome to Dubya Bee Ayts!

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 6 месяцев назад +20

    The new thumbnail is PERFECT! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @CobaltSkies21
    @CobaltSkies21 6 месяцев назад +2

    Love this series for showing us core of these silly little clubs 😊

  • @aaroncorcoran5103
    @aaroncorcoran5103 6 месяцев назад +4

    “Strange things are afoot at the circle k.”

  • @adamethridge7824
    @adamethridge7824 6 месяцев назад +2

    This magic fight sounds like an adventure time episode

  • @OutlawSpaceWizard
    @OutlawSpaceWizard 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @WitherBossEntity
    @WitherBossEntity 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @m.e.3358
    @m.e.3358 2 месяца назад +1

    My heart got warmer when they had the wizard battle ❤ it reminded me of my childhood when I started Naruto

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 6 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @Nsinger998
    @Nsinger998 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @MaytaneVideos
    @MaytaneVideos 6 месяцев назад +3

    I love the irony of secret societies being so popular nowadays lol

  • @Pikashockdragon
    @Pikashockdragon 5 месяцев назад +2

    7:02
    Yates: I cast Boot to the Head on Crowley! And I cast it again on Jenny and the Wimp!

  • @catcharide56
    @catcharide56 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @briannamcdaniel266
    @briannamcdaniel266 6 месяцев назад +1

    Another amazing Extra History video as always!

  • @ryguystudios4593
    @ryguystudios4593 6 месяцев назад +3

    Man who needs history class when we got you

  • @tawuquoiquoi3673
    @tawuquoiquoi3673 6 месяцев назад +1

    I can't help thinking about that south Park episode where Cartman became a psychic detective.