The Advance-Titan - Yellow journalism and Aleister Crowley’s editorial as ritual

The Advance-Titan - Yellow journalism and Aleister Crowley’s editorial as ritual: "In the eldritch days of yore, in the golden age of yellow journalism, editorials had a magical power to them. Here I am thinking of P.T. Barnum and his “All publicity is good publicity,” or William Randolph Hearst’s article that incited the Spanish-American war’s beginnings. Yet my personal favorite of this era comes under the guise and influence of Aleister Crowley, black magician, mountaineer and magus –who at one time indirectly credited himself with the sinking of the Lusitania after publishing editorials for the pro-German “The Fatherland” paper.


Let’s take the case study of Crowley to illustrate what it means to fully see what editorial as ritual means. His definition of “magick” as “the Science of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,” perfectly explains how this Englishman and possible MI6 agent infiltrated a pro-German propaganda newspaper ‘The Fatherland.”" Sphere: Related Content