Aleister Crowley Meets Peaches Geldof and Pop Culture

Aleister Crowley Meets Peaches Geldof and Pop Culture

By Jonas E. Alexis on July 24, 2015

Daily Mail: Peaches Geldof "has been recommending controversial books written by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley…"

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.” Jim Morrison of The Doors[1]

…by Jonas E. Alexis

From 2013 to 2014, the Daily Mail and the Guardian published a number of stunning articles which ought to give an astute observer a pause. It stated that the late Peaches Geldof, born Peaches Geldof-Cohen, was “a devotee of Ordo Templi Orientis, known as OTO, and even has the initials tattooed on her left forearm.” The Daily Mail moved on to say:

“Crowley’s motto — perpetuated by OTO — was ‘do what thou wilt’. And it is this individualistic approach that has led to a lasting fascination among artists and celebrities, of whom Peaches is the latest in a long line.

“Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, for example, routinely took part in occult magical rituals and was so intrigued by Crowley he bought his former home, Boleskine House, on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland.

“And there are now OTO lodges scattered around the country, practicing the same ceremonial rituals and spreading the word of Crowley.

“While membership is secret, Peaches is said to have been initiated into it, raising the prospect that many of her impressionable fans could try to do the same.

“Indeed, when one of her Twitter followers asked how she could find out more about Thelema, another word for Crowley’s teachings, Peaches directed her to read his books, which she described as ‘super interesting’.

“Other celebrities linked to OTO include the rapper Jay-Z, who has repeatedly purloined imagery and quotations from Crowley’s work.

“Whether wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with ‘Do what thou wilt’ or hiring Rihanna to hold aloft a flaming torch in his music videos (a reference to the Illuminati, an outlawed secret society whose name supposedly derives from Lucifer, or ‘light bringer’), he has given the sect priceless publicity.”[2]

The Daily Mail said elsewhere that Geldof-Cohen used to encourage

“her tens of thousands of Twitter followers to read up on the notorious OTO cult…. She has been recommending controversial books written by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley…”

“Miss Geldof has now been encouraging her 148,302 Twitter followers to pick up Crowley’s contentious literature, which include The Book of Law, after one of her fans asked her: ‘Where can I get more info about Thelema?’ She replied: ‘I would buy Aleister Crowley’s books on it, they’re not expensive and super interesting.’

“Peaches has also dabbled in Scientology and is now said to have converted to Judaism, the religion of her musician husband Thomas Cohen.”[3]

Peaches’ mother died of heroin back in 2000. Peaches followed a similar path and died last year at the age of 25. Her heroin overdose was

“ten times bigger than the one that killed her mother Paula Yates. Stashes of heroin, burned spoons and almost 80 syringes were scattered around the 25-year-old’s country home. Her husband returned from a weekend away to find her slumped dead on a bed, covered in needle puncture marks. A used syringe was in a sweet box next to her body and a pair of knotted tights had apparently been used as a tourniquet.”[4]

Peaches’ spiritual teacher, Crowley, was also a walking drug addict and died miserably. The Daily Mail did not hesitate to say that

“Crowley, who styled himself as ‘the Great Beast, 666′ and was dubbed ‘the wickedest man in the world’, revelled in sadomasochistic sex rituals with men and women, and the use of hard drugs including opium, cocaine, heroin and mescaline.”[5]

In March of last year, Peaches “posted a photograph of Crowley’s book, Magick: In Theory And Practice, praising him as a ‘beautiful writer and thinker…’ One of [Crowley’s] books, The Diary Of A Drug Fiend, was among those picitured on Peaches’ bookshelf.”[6]

The questions which the Daily Mail readers ought to ask are simply these: What did Aleister Crowley teach his followers? Why did young and devoted disciples such as Geldof willingly choose to immerse themselves in the OTO and in the writings of a man who was, according to the British press, “the wickedest man in the world” and “the man we’d like to hang”?[7]

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