Pilate's question

On April 1, 2006, Cannonfire published its most famous post. In that essay, I laid out the evidence favoring the proposition that the notorious British occultist Aleister Crowley was the father of Barbara Bush and the grandfather of George W. Bush. Years later, rarely a day passes without my learning of a new site linking to that story. (Example.)

It has been brought to my attention that quite a few YouTube videos have discussed or dramatized the story of Crowley's linkage to the Bush family. Most of these film-makers advertise themselves as religious teachers, dispensers of the Truth of Truths. Oddly enough, not one of these sages contacted yours truly for further information, perhaps because they developed independent sourcing.

I give you a sampler:

1. Here's a segment from a multi-part epic which bears the lyrical title The Antichrist/Dajjal Will Be A Reptilian Shapeshifter. (Catchy!) This bit of video also contends that those awful, awful Rothschilds created Hitler.

2. Here is a broadcast by a terribly erudite radio preacher named Frank Lordi, which I'm sure is the name on his birth certificate. Lordi believes that Aleister Crowley was a very important world-historical figure, a theory previously promulgated only by Aleister Crowley (and maybe Alan Moore). Lordi's website has lots of important information: Did you know that the Washington Monument is the Shaft of Baal?

3. Here we have an elaborate production titled crowleys illigitimate grandson is a smooth criminal. Is that spelling "ligit"? Also, where's the apostrophe? Why do we see the disappearance of so many apostrophes that ought to be there, and the appearance of so many apostrophes that have no right to exist? (When driving through rural parts of California, don't be surprised to encounter a sign informing you that "Jesus Save's.") The scariest thing here is the soundtrack by Michael Jackson.

4. Here we learn that the AC-BB linkage is Much More Then Just A Conspiracy Theory... Before you mutter "Yes, but that was than and this is now," ponder the wise words which close this video dissertation:

I know that the Elite have had over 100 years of dumbing us down...
with things like television, sodium flouride, a very weak educational system and many more...
But how are we going to let the Order of the New Age continue when it's being orcastrated by a bunch of inbred clowns?

Treur words where never spokin. Speaking of orcastration, did you know that Mozart once wrote a part for a chestrato? Mozart was a freemasin, you know.

Ah yes, it all comes together....

5. Hey, all you hep cats and finger-poppin' mamas: Check out the cool jazz background score for Is Satanist Aleistar Crowley, Barbara Bush's Father?? AC might have bridled at the "Satanist" label, and he surely would have wanted to correct the punctuation on display in that title. But the misspelling "Aleistar" probably would have amused him.

6. Here's a radio broadcast which bears the memorable title Reptilians in the Matrix Part III. Your host is "Jack," who brings aliens, mind control, Dracula, angels, underground bases and the dreaded Illuminati into the Crowley/Bush tale. Did you know that Shirley McClaine is a member of the Illuminati Beatty family? Did you know that The Bourne Identity is a true story? Did you know that Hitler greatly admired Madam Blavatsky? Did you know that George Bush is a 42nd degree Mason? (If you work your way above degree 33, you learn about the interplanetary secret societies.) And did you know that Bernard Hermann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still actually gets kind of annoying after awhile?

7. Here's a classic. Alex Jones. Did I ever tell you people that I wrote a script with a character based on Alex Jones? He gets killed in a most delightful way.

8. This photo montage proves that the OTO is a tremendously powerful organization and not just a gathering of fey artsy types, pretentious "supermen" and neurotic chubby chicks who give great BJs.

And finally...the ultimate...number nine number nine number nine...

9. This is a segment from a well-produced full-length documentary about Aleister Crowley, with "interview" segments featuring actors playing the roles of various AC associates. The title is In Search Of The Great Beast, and you can find the whole thing for sale here. If you want to read reviews, go here and here. For the most part, the documentary is pretty accurate, although the actors routinely mispronounce occult terms. ("Goetia" is pronounced "go-WAY-sha." Trust me on this. I got it straight from the mouth, so to speak, of a neurotic chubby chick.) In spite of all, a recommended production.


This era has finally given us an answer to Pilate's question: Reality is whatever you want it to be.

Some of you may now expect me to deliver some follow-up information about AC, given the demonstrated popularity of the original post. Alas, right now I am busy working as a "ghost" on Frank Miller's gritty, blood-soaked, ultra-noir graphic novel adaptation of Song of Bernadette. I should have a report on that project in, oh, say, a couple of months. Give or take.