Nonetheless, most Theosophical organizations understand Theosophy through the teachings of Helena P.

Hirsing no abandonó Thelema ni su dedicación a la Gran Obra, consagrándose a sí misma como Novia del Caos.Aleister Crowley was not christened thus: he changed his first name because he thought that a dactyl followed by a spondee conferred the greatest chance of becoming famous. Hirsig’s role as Crowley’s initiatrix reached a pinnacle in the spring of 1921 when she presided over his attainment of the grade of Ipsissimus, the only witness to the event. In an earlier diary entry from Cefalu, which has improbably never been commented on by any of Crowley’s biographers or followers (including the generally hostile John Symonds, who also edited the diary in question), Crowley launches into an unhinged, ether-and-cocaine– fueled screed in which he exults in how he and Hirsig have mutually debased each other, which includes a passage discussing the rape and torture of his and Hirsig’s children—a five-month-old girl (who died a few months later) and a two-year-old boy. Leah had previously been married to Edward Hammond, by whom she had a son, Hans Hammond ( 13 Nov 1917-Oct 1985). Theosophy, as understood in the Theosophical Society and in many of the societies that derived from it, should not be considered static in its definition and content, but understood as an organic body of teachings that has undergone reinterpretation and development over time.

In 1919, after seeking out Aleister Crowley due to her interest in the occult, she was consecrated as his Babalon or, " Scarlet Woman", taking the name Alostrael, "the womb (or grail) of God. En la primavera de 1921, Hirsing fue la única testigo de la elevación de Crowley al grado máximo de Ipsissimus. This quote needs a citation] After a few months Crowley broke it off, presenting her with a new "Scarlet Woman" by the name of Dorothy Olsen. Anyone interested in Thelema will no doubt have heard of Leah Hirsig, so it’s always a surprise that there aren’t more books on her life.This chapter analyzes how Aleister Crowley’s ideas about Babalon and the Scarlet Woman—a title Crowley bestowed upon his most important female lovers and magical partners, designating them earthly representatives of Babalon—developed after 1909, when Crowley increasingly systematized his magical teachings.

Francia LaDue, Alice Bailey's Arcane School, Guy Ballard's "I AM" Religious Activity, the Church Universal and Triumphant (formerly the Summit Lighthouse) founded by Mark Prophet, and the Aetherius Society founded by George King.

The Children of God (COG), now known as the Family, emerged out of the Jesus People Movement as a blend of traditional evangelical Christianity and the 1960s youth counterculture.

While this is a great read, and it is, especially with someone trying to figure out WHO they are in the aftermath of being replaced as a scarlet woman by Crowley. Hirsig and her older sister Alma were drawn to the study of the occult, and this led them, in the spring of 1918, to pay a visit to Aleister Crowley who was living at the time in Greenwich Village. In 1920 they founded the Abbey of Thelema in the town of Cefalù on the coast of Sicily, thus realizing in concrete form the dream of the French literary genius and early Thelemite François Rabelais.in Greenwich Village New York City with their newborn daughter Anne Leah nicknamed Poupée, Crowley, along with Leah Hirsig, founded the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù (Palermo), Sicily on 14 April 1920, the day the lease for the villa Santa Barbara was signed by Sir Alastor de Kerval (Crowley) and Contessa Lea Harcourt (Leah Hirsig).