By the way, I started reading some more of Crowley. I'm reading his lectures on Yoga right now.
It's good, but seems very familiar to me at this point. Or is nothing really new to me at this point when I've been exposed to so much spiritual literature. So I'm not really getting that "A-ha" experience from it.
I also think it's very similar to the teachings of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. He was given the name Omraam by a great guru in India and breaks things down in a similar way. Just with a different attitude.
On the whole, I think it's very similar to what the great European mystery teachers taught. But that is probably because they drank from the same fount, so to speak, or it's a different branch of the same knowledge.
Crowley's outlook is very "ego" and doesn't sound like something that was inspired by the higher self, but he didn't exactly look like he was. I prefer The Aquarian Gospel and think Jesus was the highest teacher of occultism. Also because the energy that is transmittted is more important to me than the words themselves.