Wisdom of today - David Bowie

I’m thinking of [British occult legend] Aleister Crowley who David references in “Quicksand” on Hunky Dory. The pentagram blackstar on the prayer book is Bowie “immersed in Crowley’s uniform of imagery.”
Well, I’m a huge Crowley fan, I’ve always been. I tried to make a movie on his life a few years ago but we didn’t manage to put it together. I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he’s greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man and he wasn’t. He loved the idea of being in an escapist, magical paradigm and tried to evoke that shit. And obviously he didn’t succeed because that shit doesn’t exist, really, other then in here. [Renck points to his head] - co-worker of David Bowie

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References : http://www.taroscopes.com/miscellanous-pages/aleistercrowley.html