It ’s one of the most tantalizing rumour on the internet . Aleister Crowley , one of the most famous superior of the occult ever , was secretly the father of Barbara Bush — and thus , also the grandfather of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush . Is it dead on target ? Do we care ?
The impression that Crowley could be the grandfather of one of the two or three best President of the United States of the 21st century has go beyond the internet — acursory searchfinds this idea in a number of books , includinga recent Chuck Klosterman volume . The grounds boils down to claims that Barbara Bush ’s female parent , Pauline Pierce , was in Paris in the 1920s and apparently “ partied ” with Crowley , eight months before Barbara was born . And harmonise to some websites , there were “ sexcapade . ”
After digging for a second , you soon discover that the “ Crowley is Barbara Bush ’s biological father ” rumor comes from a undivided source : an clause on the website Cannonfire , whose writer claims to have memory access to Crowley ’s diary , along with information from a “ sixth - degree learned person of the Ordo Templi Orientis , the governing body Crowley institute in the 1920s . Even in this article , there ’s no existent trial impression that Crowley had sexual urge with Pierce , but plain she may have been one of four hoi polloi who help Crowley explore sexual urge magick , in a ritual called the ritual of Eroto - Comotose Lucidity . This ritual was theorise to aid Crowley reach the “ Grade of Ipsissimus , the highest magickal achievement within his monastic order . ”
I ’m not going to keep you in suspense any longer — because numbers ( including dates ) are often meaning in the world of the occult arts , it ’s deserving noting the date of the Cannonfire article : April 1 , 2006 .
So the only source for the “ Crowley is Barbara Bush ’s biological father ” hearsay was published on April Fool ’s Day . But does that necessarily entail we must dismiss this idea out of hand ? To line up out if there could possibly be any truth to this notion , I contacted Tobias Churton , author of Aleister Crowley : The Biography .
Here ’s what Churton told me , via e-mail :
I did see a account of the story which caused a to-do a few years ago . It relied on a supposal that a sure gentlewoman kip with AC when he was living in Paris 1924 - 1929 .
AC slept with quite a lot of women during the period , including photographer Berenice Abbott and others I could name , but I had not seen the name of the peeress in question in his diary .
Apparently they had a reciprocal admirer . Sex as a sacrament was very important to AC and he would tape all surgical process or “ whole kit and boodle ” as he called them ( in the alchemical sense ) . There are , however , a few gaps in the journal .
Crowley was very well known in esthetic circles in Montparnasse and was highly gregarious , so the chances of the peeress being catch by AC , as many other women were , is high ; but there is no direct evidence , that I am aware of , that could lend conviction to the possibility that the lady ’s pregnancy was the solution of a passion for AC .
The fact that Crowley record all his sex acts in his journal as part of his mystical practice , and Pierce is n’t in there , is probably kind of a risky sign . But just because there ’s no grounds that it happened , and plenty of grounds that it did n’t , does n’t intend we ca n’t go on propagate it on the internet , right ? Remember : “ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the police . ”
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