The Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley | Secret Societies 4 | European History | Extra History

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  • @extrahistory
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    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You guys always make My day! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @also_arles
      @also_arles หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Didn't expect to see a wizard duel be mentioned today, but I'm always excited to learn something new! 😄

    • @lucky_lynx7867
      @lucky_lynx7867 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Imagine being some delivery man who walked in on the fight

    • @spacecow2942
      @spacecow2942 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hey! I love the show, I've been watching since the Late Bronze Age Collapse!
      However...
      It's Crowley like Holy,
      Not Crowley like fouly.
      I'll try to remember to find you a source on that. I've found it before, but don't recall exactly where.

    • @_theknighthawk_7018
      @_theknighthawk_7018 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anime before tv's where invented fr fr xD

  • @FriendlyPhilcoDealer
    @FriendlyPhilcoDealer หลายเดือนก่อน +1436

    “I summon…Polymorph of the Arcane Goddess!”
    “I summon Just Kick the Fucker.”

    • @benjaminbierley2074
      @benjaminbierley2074 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

      Out of mana but not out of options.

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      In other words, W.B. Yates did a Rider Kick on Alaster Crowley

    • @snarst
      @snarst หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      I CAST FIST!!! - Marneus Calgar

    • @MarioCraft20--
      @MarioCraft20-- หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@snarst "I CAST THUNDER SPELL!" - Sophist

    • @ViewerAaron
      @ViewerAaron หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I cast Glock- Silver Loaded!

  • @SirRocktober
    @SirRocktober หลายเดือนก่อน +2125

    The wizard battle made me think of kids on a playground playing Naruto

    • @ArmageddonAngel
      @ArmageddonAngel หลายเดือนก่อน +167

      "Nuh-uh. I totally hit you."

    • @beavernation57
      @beavernation57 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      I think the writer of the manga knew about that and decided to make a whole manga and anime based off of it

    • @Nsinger998
      @Nsinger998 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      I was thinking of Cartman's battle with the phony psychics.

    • @isaachunt7760
      @isaachunt7760 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Shun-un-un-un-un

    • @zachgaskins3731
      @zachgaskins3731 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      The power of God AND anime on their side, AGHHHHHHHH

  • @blaster915
    @blaster915 หลายเดือนก่อน +2068

    Two adults shouting magic curses and hand gestures at each other is a very funny image 😂

    • @jamesalfredstrong8106
      @jamesalfredstrong8106 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      Laudenum is a hell of a Victorian drug 😂

    • @actdimensions
      @actdimensions หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      I thought that's what people did in courts.

    • @samuelgibson780
      @samuelgibson780 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      ​@@actdimensionsah, yes. If Law was a school of magic in DnD then you could have Law Lawson's Law School of Law Magic. The tuition is high, so they say, but they provide all the material components. One must bring their own semantic and verbal components, however.

    • @TheMoguera
      @TheMoguera หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      reminds me of that south park episode with the psychics

    • @eldenfindley186
      @eldenfindley186 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Christianity 😨

  • @shittyname2657
    @shittyname2657 หลายเดือนก่อน +1309

    It's good to see larping was alive in the 1900s

    • @David0lyle
      @David0lyle หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      There’s always a couple of guys that take it too far. 🤔 Didn’t realize that this was a tradition.

    • @michaelgj23
      @michaelgj23 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      My thought exactly. These are the D and D and Magic the Gathering nerds I went to high school with, except they lived 100 years ago and became famous.

    • @adamraserovaquera
      @adamraserovaquera หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And What If is precisely through magick that he is alive.... Maybe EVEN TODAY

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@michaelgj23if DnD, Magic yhe Gathering or LARP had been around for longer these guys would probably just have done that instead.

    • @user-vh8pn1uf9g
      @user-vh8pn1uf9g หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s far from larping. Once you start learning about the occult you start being able to recognize why things are the way they are. The most powerful people in the world are all in these secret societies for a reason. But yeah sure.. it’s larping lol

  • @goodlookingcorpse
    @goodlookingcorpse หลายเดือนก่อน +451

    Crowley actually originated the 'k' in 'magick', to distinguish it from stage magic.

    • @lucidnonsense942
      @lucidnonsense942 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's just the British/commonwealth spelling

    • @jae2O
      @jae2O หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yeah magick is mostly used in witchy circles to describe the act itself e.g kitchen magick, elemental magick ect.
      Some think it's just the British way but nah the generalised version is magic

    • @chiblast100x
      @chiblast100x หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Funny enough most circles these days don't even use the term 'magic' using either spelling, favoring other, less ambiguous, terms of art instead.

    • @jorgelotr3752
      @jorgelotr3752 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lucidnonsense942 not according to Oxford's English Dictionary; it most likely became the more common popular spelling because Crowley was both British and a very well known public figure.

    • @AnthonyfrmYO
      @AnthonyfrmYO หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I heard a scholar say that Crowley just couldn't spell very well .

  • @ThePerks2010
    @ThePerks2010 หลายเดือนก่อน +583

    Just the image of two grown dumbasses throwing gang signs at each other makes me glad I was born after TV was invented😂😂😂

    • @internetperson3436
      @internetperson3436 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I mean gangsters throw gang signs at each other to this day

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@internetperson3436
      Don't forget the homeless transients and vagrants.
      They also throw gang signs to scare off other transients and vagrants.

    • @mehunlanghynniewta4748
      @mehunlanghynniewta4748 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@internetperson3436 they do but then the guns also show up...

    • @atillar3321
      @atillar3321 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@mehunlanghynniewta4748 thats the ultimate power, human technology

    • @Mecha_mage
      @Mecha_mage หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean it is silly looking but so is prayer so to each their own.

  • @drewlytle2281
    @drewlytle2281 หลายเดือนก่อน +559

    Somewhere in his grave, Yeats' Corpse screamed in rage in the 80's when Crowley got the ultimate victory by being the subject of one of Ozzy Osbourne's best songs.

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Which one? "One of Ozzy's best" doesn't narrow it down

    • @dragansnyder2786
      @dragansnyder2786 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@Attaxalotlseems like it was just one that was literally named Mr Crowley, which I've never heard of in my entire life but now I kind of want to listen to that song

    • @1_or_11
      @1_or_11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      If it's any consolation, Yeats gets a mention in a song by The Smiths.

    • @mistformsquirrel
      @mistformsquirrel หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      MIiiiiiister Crowley~~~ *bam bam bam~~~*

    • @lars573
      @lars573 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Which I'm totally listening too after I finish this episode.

  • @jffry890
    @jffry890 หลายเดือนก่อน +247

    When barbarian attempts stealth as a wizard.
    "I cast boot!" *spartan kick*

    • @tbando2253
      @tbando2253 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hahahaha😂

  • @TheKulu42
    @TheKulu42 หลายเดือนก่อน +342

    Sounds like bunch of adults playing Dungeons & Dragons. This would be a hilarious scene in an Aleister Crowley movie!

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      I cast Magick Missile at the darkness!

    • @J.D-g8.1
      @J.D-g8.1 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      And Crowley was using a lot of heroin and cocaine, so consider that at least Crowley (and probably many of the others) were high as kites and stoned as bedrock during this "battle".
      It must have been quite the sight!

    • @TheKulu42
      @TheKulu42 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@J.D-g8.1 Cranked up on drugs and trying to do magick? That bunch must have put on quite a show! Imagine being the cop who had to write up that arrest report!

    • @TheKulu42
      @TheKulu42 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jasonblalock4429 Magick Missile? Good move! Heck, the whole messed up incident could inspire a role-playing game.

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jasonblalock4429 “Where are the Cheetos!?”

  • @Gillemear
    @Gillemear หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Yeats is a major historical figure and literary hero amongst the Irish, accredited for some of the greatest literary works from our island. Its crazy to think he was once a wizard and defeated the most evil man in England with a well placed kick. Poetic, you might say!

    • @wlinden
      @wlinden 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not crazy at all. For my money, he was more of a magician than the rest of those clowns put together, accomplishing great changes in accordance with his will. (“Did that play of mine send out/Certain men the English shot?”)

  • @philiphockenbury6563
    @philiphockenbury6563 หลายเดือนก่อน +250

    The intro sounds like the beginning to a fantasy novel. The fact that these are real people from 200 years ago doing spells like they are in middle school makes it funny.

    • @rennor3498
      @rennor3498 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Two hundredyears ago? This was 124 years ago and its possible that things like this might still be happening around the world to this day, we just don't know about them.

    • @drextrey
      @drextrey หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I know this still happens in Indonesia, and several Asian and African countries.
      They still kinda big in the whole "Imaginary" Spiritual thingy.
      On second thoughts, the whole world still do this, just with a more "widely acceptable" text, like Bible and stuff.
      They congregate and "Pray" away, sickness, Diseases, Plagues etc, and Covid19 Came and everything backfired, those who Congregate become Epicenter of Plagues(they have always been, but this one is recent and better recorded).

    • @LangThoughts
      @LangThoughts หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah, it reminds of being a kid in the 2000s and playing Harry Potter- the Major Difference is that even as a child, I knew it was just a game.

    • @alec.mp4
      @alec.mp4 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@rennor3498Lol it happens all the time and its not even hidden at all. Crowley’s OTO are still around thought theyre more of a fraternity now. Austin Osman Spare who was friends with Crowley and founding member of the OTO is one of the founders of chaos magick, which is probably the most popular branch. John Dee who was mentioned in the video created Enochian magic, which itself is a part of the bigger Abrahamic mysticism alongside kabblah and Solomonic stuff

  • @danielgordon2907
    @danielgordon2907 หลายเดือนก่อน +267

    This is like something out of Venture Brothers, i just imagine them shouting FIREBALL to one another

    • @excessiveone9952
      @excessiveone9952 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It was mostly random hebrew or latin

    • @couchpotato2222
      @couchpotato2222 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The more things change, the more they stay the same

    • @georgesears2916
      @georgesears2916 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Go team Venture!

    • @maseoembry4165
      @maseoembry4165 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Aleister Crowley was actually one of the original members of the Guild before it was the Guild of Calamitous Intent

    • @Tuning3434
      @Tuning3434 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@georgesears2916 You used to be all "Go Team Venture!" but now you're all...g-g-go team...b-b-BOOBIES!

  • @karlgrimm3027
    @karlgrimm3027 หลายเดือนก่อน +129

    All I am thinking of is the South Park episode where Cartman becomes a psychic and gets into a battle with a bunch of other psychics.

    • @planclops
      @planclops หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Exactly what went through my mind. I couldn’t stop laughing 😂

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      DO YOU SEE

    • @kbo572
      @kbo572 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@typacsk
      I see...ice cream, and sprinkles, and Quadruple-Stuffs!

  • @camerongrow6426
    @camerongrow6426 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Pre-comic con society was rough on fantasy nerds

  • @kevinhill8193
    @kevinhill8193 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    *Crowley-* "With this treasure, I do summon!"
    *Imperator-* "Boot to the head!"

    • @ShanRenxin
      @ShanRenxin หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Crowley, you fail to grasp Tai Kwon Leep. Approach that you might see.

    • @aaronman4772
      @aaronman4772 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And another for Jenny and the Wimp

    • @DavidChipman
      @DavidChipman หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@aaronman4772 I see another Frantics/4-on-the-Floor fan.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is it bad that that first dialog option immediately made me think of Jujutsu Kaisen?

  • @FuuPhoenix
    @FuuPhoenix หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Fun fact, Crowley was the inspiration for Perturabo from WH40K, and his home planet is named Olympia because the headquarters of the Golden Dawn was in the Olympia district in London

    • @Some_Average_Joe
      @Some_Average_Joe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now that's interesting!

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Complete with inferiority complex and jealousy issues.
      (I would have thought Magnus or Lorgar would be Crowley but this makes sense too.)

    • @thomassaxon8254
      @thomassaxon8254 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@slayer0235 eh, both Magnus and Lorgar actually accomplish things unlike Crawley. And if anything suffer from hubris of pride rather than inferiority complexes.

    • @reedfortinbras9211
      @reedfortinbras9211 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Finally an explanation on why he's the pettiest man alive!

  • @sptownsend999
    @sptownsend999 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    This duel has very strong "I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE" vibes

  • @andersasblom6452
    @andersasblom6452 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Ah yes, the Reigen special "Anti-Esper Kick" technique. Always works, no exceptions.

  • @AfaqueAhmed_
    @AfaqueAhmed_ หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Taking a dagger to a wizard fight is just so British .

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      What occult wizard doesn't have a ritual dagger on hand? And if you know you're full of bunk because magic is just a neat fiction you're selling, it pays to have something you can actually rely on.

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@bthsr7113yeah, wizards get proficiency in daggers, darts, slings, quaterstaffs, and light crossbows.

  • @blacksad23
    @blacksad23 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Man, this really takes me back to the days of my friends and I naruto running through the shopping mall casting jutsus at each other as we battled to become Hokage of our hidden village.

  • @brockmckelvey7327
    @brockmckelvey7327 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    Those 2 would have LOVED Magic: the Gathering

    • @remixtheidiot5771
      @remixtheidiot5771 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      or maybe they would have loved role playing games like d&d.
      unfortunately its inception was still more than half a century away at their time.

    • @chiblast100x
      @chiblast100x หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Honestly MtG is probably a bit too mathy for either of them. They would likely have loved the *concept* however.

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@remixtheidiot5771probably would've made some banger campaigns.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In a way, they're kind of responsible for DnD, MtG and the like.

    • @ArcturusEmrys
      @ArcturusEmrys หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They wouldn’t just love MtG. They’d write a whole book about how the Ancient Egyptians used MtG as their spellcasting system.

  • @tylers1996
    @tylers1996 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Yeats yeeting Crowley down the stairs is how I want all wizard duels to end.

  • @tompegorinno5141
    @tompegorinno5141 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

    Aliester Crowley had always been my favorite mysterious figure. I am so glad you guys finally mentioned and told story of him at last.

    • @excessiveone9952
      @excessiveone9952 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      He's a weirdo and even people who practice Thelema tend to find him a bad person

    • @tompegorinno5141
      @tompegorinno5141 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@excessiveone9952 I acknowledge his weirdo. His lewd public gestures and his ridiculous orgy parties in his property in Italy. Not to mention his catastrophic mountain expeditions too. Then among his more curious claims of him being a spy on behalf of Britain and many more. I'll agree being weird and even awful, yet it does make him even more interesting figure.

    • @excessiveone9952
      @excessiveone9952 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @tompegorinno5141 true that, I'm no thelemite but I do find it a wonderful faith

    • @tompegorinno5141
      @tompegorinno5141 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@excessiveone9952 I only read parts of what Thelema is about. Only thing I understood is do what thou will which often means do what you ought to/destined to. His adventure topics was something that I was more invested on reading upon. Thanks for allowing me with this discourse with you :D

    • @heressomestuffifound
      @heressomestuffifound หลายเดือนก่อน

      Crowley was a fascinating and really brilliant figure. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Read his work yourself and look into a few of the biographies if you’re interested in the man.

  • @jesenjin8467
    @jesenjin8467 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    Oh, how it would have looked like to unaffiliated person watching the battle...
    Someone could have made a killing by selling popcorn and refreshments.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE หลายเดือนก่อน

      E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

  • @NomicFin
    @NomicFin หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I assume Yeats and the others justified their "spellcasting" having to effect on Crowley by assuming he must have bee protected by powerful enchantments that rendered their spells useless. Fortunately for them, as Terry Pratchett has taught us, magic resistance does nothing against half a brick in a sock, or in this case boot to the face.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I absolutely thought of Rincewind making weird faces and hand gestures before kicking the opponent in the balls while watching this!

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yup, Terry Prachett was onto something there. XD

  • @Attaxalotl
    @Attaxalotl หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    They're a bunch of D&D Wizards: 18 in Intelligence, like 3 in Wisdom, and a single, lonely point in Constitution.

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    "It seems our incantations are too much against his mystic might. You know who are great at fighting mages ? Warrior monks, I CAST KICK !!"

  • @sarahubbell1479
    @sarahubbell1479 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As soon as you mentioned Crowley storming in, I knew.
    Best exorcism spell is "kick down the stairs" and best warding spell is "change the damn locks"

  • @basara7
    @basara7 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Yeats defeated Crowley not with Occult spells, but with the esoteric knowledge of Ti Kwan Leep: Boot to the Head!

    • @meatharbor
      @meatharbor หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      In his defense, he wasn't ready. He wasn't allowed the appropriate time to learn the lessons of Ed Grubberman.

    • @Cyssane
      @Cyssane หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Never thought I'd see a Frantics reference in the wild!

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@meatharbor But he should have been familiar with the most important lesson: Always get in the first shot.

  • @harrisonlee9585
    @harrisonlee9585 หลายเดือนก่อน +139

    If you did as accurate a movie as possible about Crowley, it would be called completely unbelievable.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

    • @seanemery1917
      @seanemery1917 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The fundamentalists would freak out

    • @chiblast100x
      @chiblast100x หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@seanemery1917 Many of them will freak out at the mention of his name, even outside of any of his context. About 17 or 18 years ago I was banned from a TTRPG mailing list for daring to use his "do what thou wilt" as a way to explain GM fiat because of a fundie leaning faction of the group.
      Mind, many of them just know of him as 'a satanist'.

    • @Ceruleansquid-lo3iv
      @Ceruleansquid-lo3iv หลายเดือนก่อน

      they probably wouldn't even be able to mention the fact that his main financial backer in the US was the father of modern rocketry who ended up trying to summon the antichrist with the founder of scientology

    • @peggyliepmann5248
      @peggyliepmann5248 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They'd have to break the fourth wall nearly every five minutes to tell people "We're not kidding, this is exactly what happened"
      Cinema Sins still makes an hour long video about how unrealistic it is.

  • @MrTmac9k
    @MrTmac9k หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    "I CAST FIST!" -- Yeats

    • @franklinliu389
      @franklinliu389 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      *KICK

    • @TPrice919
      @TPrice919 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don’t know, Crowley might have been into that

    • @ryotanada
      @ryotanada หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Now, get out of here!" I, Allister Crowley, can't feel my teeth... (wubwubwub)"

  • @girl1213
    @girl1213 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Alistair & William: We are wizards.
    Everyone else:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @rodrigonoal
      @rodrigonoal หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The irony is to think Crowley was known as the wickedest man in the world, so some people were probably terrified of that dork edge lord.

  • @Paludion
    @Paludion หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Aleister Crowley must be the ancestor of the kid who yelled "Don't f*ck with me ! I've got the power of God and anime at my side !"
    "AAAAAAH"

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Aleister Crowley is featured in the anime/novel - A Certain Magical Index which is awesome btw. 😊

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    9:00
    The reference to Circle K is so on point!

    • @robertnessful
      @robertnessful หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "Bill, strange things are afoot at the Circle K." -- Ted "Theodore" Logan

  • @monkeygaming2859
    @monkeygaming2859 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    That magick duel, basically just summed up a game of MTG

  • @qweeq14
    @qweeq14 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Look at the Victorians LARP and they say millennials never grew up.

  • @Konstantin100
    @Konstantin100 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Crowley's own secret society, the Ordo Templi Orientis, still exists to this day.

  • @Cheshire1501
    @Cheshire1501 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The only thing missing here is a sign saying “WE DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY”

  • @FakeBlocks
    @FakeBlocks หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next
    I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!!

    • @Thecrimsonking01
      @Thecrimsonking01 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Here here

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv หลายเดือนก่อน

      They don’t care unless you’re a patron.

    • @Thecrimsonking01
      @Thecrimsonking01 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ferretyluv nobody asked

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Thecrimsonking01 OP did.

    • @Thecrimsonking01
      @Thecrimsonking01 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ferretyluv *no body asked you

  • @Sasquatch_sightings
    @Sasquatch_sightings หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Crowley used Psybeam! But nothing happened.
    Yeats used Low Kick! It’s super effective!

  • @ghyslainabel
    @ghyslainabel หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    A magician casts a spell, a second magician casts a counter-spell, a third magician helps the first magician. The soldiers come in and massacre the magicians.
    It is an approximative citation of a book from Raymond E. Feist. The introduction of this video reminded me that passage.

  • @thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247
    @thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So, the great wizard-duel of the age ended like a sketch from The Frantics.
    "I cast my ultimate spell... BOOT TO THE HEAD!"

  • @Joubes
    @Joubes หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Esoterica is a great channel to explore this stuff further.

  • @LeeGoGators
    @LeeGoGators หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    YALL GET IN HERE 🗣️ THERES A NERD FIGHT GOING ON 🤓🥊

  • @bryonyamada2620
    @bryonyamada2620 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Mr. Crowley
    What went on in your head?
    Oh, Mr. Crowley
    Did you talk to the dead?

    • @trevinbeattie4888
      @trevinbeattie4888 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beat me to it 🥷

    • @kayeka4123
      @kayeka4123 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What went on in his head? Mr. Yeats' boot, apparently.

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic
      With the thrill of it all
      You fooled all the people with magic
      Yeah, you waited on satan's call...

  • @cheerijessie
    @cheerijessie หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Didn't know Yeats was also a master of Ti Kwan Leep
    I love that this story just feels like fandom drama

  • @chrisbelkosky5466
    @chrisbelkosky5466 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Boots to the face! My one weakness!...how did you know?"
    -Alistair Crowley (probably)

  • @dr.swagington7754
    @dr.swagington7754 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I mean it sounds a little sketchy but MacGregor going up and saying "Yeah there's gonna be an apocalyptic war near."and he said this before WWI and WWII

    • @trr94001
      @trr94001 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Not really. Europe was a powder keg, WW1 was Only A Matter Of Time and plenty of contemporary people knew it or at least felt it in their bones.

    • @wiruwaruwolz
      @wiruwaruwolz หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bismarck called it in 1888, 26 years before the start of WWI, adding “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off”

    • @slayer0235
      @slayer0235 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@trr94001 Pretty much. MacGregor was just stating the obvious and packaging it in a way to make it seem profound.

  • @ironwolf5802
    @ironwolf5802 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    There's always one person who breaks the game and ends up getting the tried and true, kick to the face. The only response to an "I got an everything prof shield, and a sword gun that never misses, and it's in the rules so you can't tell me no."

  • @duncang8008
    @duncang8008 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I have never thought of Victorian era as a golden age. I have always thought of it as insanity, sickness, disease, and unhygienic

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Agreed. I do think it was a golden age for literature written in English*, but that's a pretty specific category.
      * includes American, Irish and Canadian authors, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu if you stretch the chronology a little...

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was a golden age of British culture, wealth, literature, science, and technology for the middle and upper classes. Compared to previous eras, more wealth had spread around and upward mobility was never easier. The empire was at its height, the world was smaller than ever before thanks to steamships and trains. Archeology was born. People started to believe in preserving our patrimony. While the beginning of the Victorian age was filthy, it was during that same Victorian age that London developed a new sewer system that’s still in use today. It was in the Victorian era that epidemiology was born to control cholera, smallpox vaccines were developed, and running water brought to the masses.
      Now, if you were working class or a child, life sucked. If you thought about the environment, it was awful (as it was in every industrialized nation). But on the whole, Britain was at its zenith.

  • @chrisalford9626
    @chrisalford9626 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is by far the least crazy thing Crowley got up too.

  • @Beegirl12345
    @Beegirl12345 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Plot twist they where all just roleplaying

  • @TheOldDragoon
    @TheOldDragoon หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ah, the ancient Tae Kwon Leep technique of "Boot to the Head."

  • @zenkomenhi
    @zenkomenhi หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It is IMMENSELY funny to me that these two just advanced on each other making funny hand signals and chantings at one another until one of them just kicked Crowley in the face and that was that

  • @Raziel312
    @Raziel312 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    LIGHTNING BOLT!! LIGHTNING BOLT!!

  • @dancidchen
    @dancidchen หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    these guys would've loved D&D

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I'm a minor practitioner witch, but the mental image of two grown ass men flinging 'curses' at each other is utterly hilarious to me. It must have looked like a bunch of live action role players getting a little too into character. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @literallypochiyama
      @literallypochiyama หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      even if it sounds ridicolous because it's not something usual to see, compared to the (fake) seriousness of adults, I found the image of two cursing each other pretty violent. I have huge respect of magic practitionists, but seeing magic used in such cases really fuel the stereotype of "witches who want to hurt people"

    • @robertgronewold3326
      @robertgronewold3326 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@literallypochiyama It is a continuously harmful stereotype.

    • @supergowiak4369
      @supergowiak4369 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      In thr end we all learned something important, that kicking someone down the stairs is one of the most powerfull spells in existance

    • @literallypochiyama
      @literallypochiyama หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@supergowiak4369 ok...?

    • @Karaboga1453
      @Karaboga1453 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@literallypochiyamaWomp womp

  • @placiddistortion
    @placiddistortion หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yeats yeeting Crowley is commemorated in chaos magick even today; stoked to see this covered, and I feel like people who discuss this era of occulture don't mention it enough.

  • @Nguyenzander
    @Nguyenzander หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Nooo I miss the echo for the *ORDO EXTRA HISTORIA!*

  • @jamesonpace726
    @jamesonpace726 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That Victorian Era Absinthe was supa high power, they say....

  • @Devadas44
    @Devadas44 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had always thought that things was done faster when you used the word "Quick". Now i understand why. It's truely a magickal word.

  • @Crowdelia
    @Crowdelia หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am so happy you covered the Battle of Blythe road. It is my favorite historical story of all time

  • @ashleywilmington8048
    @ashleywilmington8048 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    So they basically threw up gang signs

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    3:30
    Huh, so I wasn't *too* far-off when I thought that the next episode (or two) will mention the Freemasons.

    • @juanjorodriguez1895
      @juanjorodriguez1895 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean... they're Masons, of course they're experts in building pyramidal structures.

  • @RedWizrobe
    @RedWizrobe หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Watching this on my birthday! So far, it's my favorite present. 😁

    • @moonbow-07
      @moonbow-07 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      happy birthday !! 🎂

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Happy birthday! 🎂

    • @othmanzainab
      @othmanzainab หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Happy birthday

  • @fionnoha
    @fionnoha หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    there's some recordings on TH-cam of Yeats changing his poetry. I highly recommend listening to it after this

  • @ChannelStowyn
    @ChannelStowyn หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Mr. Crowley
    What went on in your head?
    Oh, Mr. Crowley
    Did you talk to the dead?
    Your lifestyle to me seems so tragic
    With the thrill of it all
    You fooled all the people with magic
    Yeah, you waited on Satan's call"
    -Ozzy Osbourne

  • @aaroncorcoran5103
    @aaroncorcoran5103 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “Strange things are afoot at the circle k.”

  • @talideon
    @talideon หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    TBH, the very idea of Yeats giving somebody more than a tongue-lashing is hilarious!

  • @jamesboyle6134
    @jamesboyle6134 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The "battle" between Crowley and the Temple puts me in mind of that one Indiana Jones scene, where he just shoots the swordsman doing all the elaborate tricks.

    • @jg2323
      @jg2323 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Fun fact: That scene WAS supposed to be an elaborate fight scene. But Harrison Ford got really sick and had a hard time even standing up, so they cut it and just said "Aight, just shoot him instead" and it was so much better.

  • @RandomGreymane
    @RandomGreymane หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The staircase battle definitely has the “I cast manual breathing!” wizard meme feels. XD

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I cast fixate on your own tongue

    • @RandomGreymane
      @RandomGreymane หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@biohazard724 I cast sound nobody but you can hear!

  • @Tusiriakest
    @Tusiriakest หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Video suggestion:
    This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In a single day, the longest standing dictatorship in Europe ended, democracy was established by a military coup were soldiers brought flowers in the barrels of their guns to show that they wanted no violence. In this day, the colonial war that raveged for 14 years ended, and a year after Guine Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Princepe, Angola, Mozambique and East Timor emerged as independent countries.
    Since it is a special anniversary, I would very much like to propose it to Extra History to do a video it. I propose you research the POV of captain Salgueiro Maia and his accomplishments. I'm sure you'll not be disappointed =)

  • @Veltharis
    @Veltharis หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As a huge fan of the "A Certain Magical Index" franchise, this episode makes me happy... *Floats upside down in a tube mysteriously*

  • @Cobilemahieu
    @Cobilemahieu หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    As an actual Circle K employee I got a bit giddy at the mention🥰🥰

  • @latayantheazran
    @latayantheazran หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE'
    -Crowley, probably

  • @JohnMinehan-lx9ts
    @JohnMinehan-lx9ts หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "Crowley kind of sucks, but Homophobia is worse."
    Wow, this sounds like a Harry Dresdan story . . . .

  • @AubriGryphon
    @AubriGryphon หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh my god, a century later these dorks would DEFINITELY be trying to use ninja hand seals and ki shouts at each other.

  • @bodo6880
    @bodo6880 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:33 polenareff vs Dio moment

  • @ducksdog9996
    @ducksdog9996 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love this series :)

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s been a ton of fun making it!

  • @pinggwen
    @pinggwen หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When a discord and reddit mod meet

  • @WitherBossEntity
    @WitherBossEntity หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?
    Oh Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?

  • @EllpaFox47
    @EllpaFox47 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    i love the signs in the background
    its the equivalent of "trust me bro. no need to ask your friends about this stuff"

  • @LexiLunarpaw
    @LexiLunarpaw หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Yay Its Extra History Time!

  • @MrExplosion449
    @MrExplosion449 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was literally listening to Mr Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne when this came up in my recommended

  • @briannamcdaniel266
    @briannamcdaniel266 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another amazing Extra History video as always!

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    The new thumbnail is PERFECT! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @catcharide56
    @catcharide56 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Another new religion influenced by the Thelema? Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard had read Crowley’s books and hung out with rocket scientist/occultist Jack Parsons who was a follower of Crowley. They conducted magic sex rituals to summon the Thelemite goddess.

    • @bubbles581
      @bubbles581 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Whilè Hubbard did practice Thelema briefly, about a decade before Scientology, there is little to nothing directly from Thelema in Scientology other than some very broad-stroke concepts. It had some influence, no doubt, but Scientology is explicitly extremely syncretic.
      Source: I used to practice Thelema (briefly) and I've been a Scientologist for 15 years and have a BA in religious studies.

    • @catcharide56
      @catcharide56 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bubbles581 I stand corrected, thank you.

    • @bubbles581
      @bubbles581 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@catcharide56 no worries!
      After Thelema but before Scientology, Hubbard spent his time developing Dianetics which was a research into the human mind and a form of talk therapy. It was very explicitly not a religion. But people kept running into past lives during the therapy sessions and Hubbard actually protested it becoming a religion (believe it or not! this is documented in audio lectures) then finally resigned to the idea and started Scientology directly based on the results of the research of Dianetics (and then its own ongoing research).
      Scientology explicitly pulls in, even if just to a small degree, things from virtually every religion and philosophy that came before it - and, in my personal opinion, in many ways attempts to be a sort of meta-religion that explains and encompases all of them. A cornerstone of Scientology is "what is true for you is what you have observed for youself to be true" rather than prescribing truth to people.
      From Thelema (among other religions) it inherits a kind of magical world view - that is to say in Scientology the physical universe is said to be the product of thought or the interactions between souls, which exist eternally outside of the universe in Scientology. I believe Cowley was also pretty into the idea of 'researching' religion, something that Hubbard also believed - an idea that is the basis for Scientology.
      A huge difference is Scientology is basically devoid of symbolism and has no magical rituals at all. Instead Scientology practice is more like non-leading talk therapy or zen koans to help each practicioner come to their own conclusions and discover their own spirituality.

  • @CobaltSkies21
    @CobaltSkies21 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this series for showing us core of these silly little clubs 😊

  • @floydblandston108
    @floydblandston108 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "My Little Yukuza- Murder is Magick!"

  • @Keir-dq8gt
    @Keir-dq8gt หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Then in the heat of their wizard dual Yates called upon the darkest and most foul being to defeat and imprison his foe: The policemen.

  • @Dan_Ben_Michael
    @Dan_Ben_Michael หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I read an account by Alastair Crowley of a “wizard duel” he had. It essentially was two dudes in a staring competition and pretending to cast spells on each other. It was exactly like the psychic battle Eric Cartman got into with the psychic detectives in that South Park episode. 😂

  • @adamethridge7824
    @adamethridge7824 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This magic fight sounds like an adventure time episode

  • @lucasmiguel1498
    @lucasmiguel1498 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This story was so interesting and funny at the same time. Thank you!

  • @catcharide56
    @catcharide56 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    5:26 You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love your content guys! You're the Best 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

  • @Nsinger998
    @Nsinger998 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The battle reminded me of Cartman's battle with the psychics.

  • @emom358
    @emom358 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Uncle Al was an interesting character. He was a frail child and took up took up rock climbing to build muscle and help his breathing, his books on rock climbing are still useful today.

  • @ryguystudios4593
    @ryguystudios4593 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Man who needs history class when we got you