Victor Neuburg

Was he committing a homosexual act? Was this the first homosexual act that happened? Listen, if we're [laughs] gonna put this out there as this is a sexual thing, is this a possibility that this is how their eyes were opened? Because, uh, this just can't be some old regular in my mind.

It's gotta be something next level especially that they woke up and when we talk about these occultists who have used homosexual practices to what? Become enlightened like Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg when they were completing the thirty aethers.

That's just one example.

We know that in Hollywood that the idea that homosexual acts can unlock a portal.

He prowled his old haunts at Cambridge University and in high society, seeking younger men and women of means who could be drawn into his orbit and who could bankroll his endeavors.

One of the first significant disciples to join him was Victor Neuburg, a Cambridge poet whom Crowley met in 1908.

Neuburg was in his early 20s, impressionable, intelligent, and crucially, from a family with money.

Crowley was immediately charmed by Neuburg's poetic soul and willingness to explore.

He soon brought Victor to Paris for an intensive retreat as a probationer in the AA.

Neuburg, who was a homosexual, or at least sexually fluid, found himself utterly captivated by Crowley.

In a frank recollection later, Neuburg said, In my mind, Aleister Crowley was a master.

I'd read some of his works before I met him, and I was absolutely fascinated by the man.

It's about how the 19th century's under the yoke of Christianity is so bad that, uh, he hates all of it.

And then he meets, um, another sort of victim, right? Victor Neuburg, who he adopts to travel around with him and assault him on his body, right?

Yeah, really bad, dark stuff.

Like, a lot of, like, you, there's pictures of Victor.

He would make Victor Neuburg cut himself if he ever kind of broke rules, and those pictures are in one of Crowley's, um, encyclopedias.

He called it The Equinox.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

He doesn't complete the other 28 until 1909, and he's with Victor Neuburg, and that's when they go out...

That's a whole thing.

They go out to the desert, and through, I'll say this the best way I can, Crowley's bent over and Victor is-

So, like, who is Choronzon? It's out in the desert.

Crowley and Victor Neuburg do this ritual decades before where they contact this dweller in the abyss, and it's this sort of the most, not reviled, but the most feared, potent entity in, in Crowley's world up to that point, I guess.

It's, it's this very powerful, dark entity which-

Comes out of the, the, the encounters-

And, um-

John Dee

... callback to our Crowley Pult magic episode, we, we went into detail of that working with Victor Neuburg.

It is a, a fascinating...