The British media told you this man was a Satanist who killed a 12 year old boy in an 'Occult Sacrifice'. In reality he was an indigent who had been reliant upon the British mental health system for 28 years. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1972 he had attempted suicide on eight occasions and had successively and repetitively asked for help from doctors, social workers, the police and various occult healers of all kinds at various time before committing this heinous murder.
Make no bones about it Edward Crowley has committed evil. No genuine occultist or New Ager would in any way defend this person over such a horrid and unnecessary crime. He committed the most terrible act one human can inflict upon another - to take away their life, and as such he has no sympathy from any right-thinking person. Even moreso is this the case when the occult beliefs of karma are considered. However in the background to this case we see not simply the prosecution of a man who clearly committed murder, but an attempt by the prosecution to ascribe the motive as Satanic Human Sacrifice and it is this which we repudiate.
If the prosecution's case had been floated before the Satanic Ritual Child Abuse Myth had become fashionable it would have been laughed out of court - but after a dozen years of black-propaganda by sectarians and others, it was amazingly accepted. And so another leaf is turned in the Intolerance which is being continually stacked up against unorthodox religious beliefs in the Western world. The truth behind the Edward Crowley case is very different to that which the British press dolled out , as you will discover.
During his time in London leading up to this horrible murder Edward Crowley began to descend the slippery slope of indigence. He lost his abode and became dependent upon church communities in central London for sustenance. Earlier he had fallen into the hands of priests in Westminster Abbey who, he declared, exorcised him! Who knows how this experience impacted upon Crowley's mind. In previous instances of ad-hoc exorcism murders have followed. In one infamous case in Barnsley in the early 1970s, a man was exorcised by church ministers and promptly strangled his wife to death. We are not for one minute suggesting that the exorcists at Westminster Abbey are in any way responsible, we simply mention this to show that Edward Crowley was running the gamut of charitable institutions and help agencies over a long period of time. To ignore all these influences and jump to the conclusion that the murder he committed was intended as a satanic human sacrifice needs much more evidence than the prosecution produced.
Edward Crowley attacked poor Diego Piniero-Villar, a twelve year old from London's Spanish community, stabbing him to death with an ordinary kitchen knife in a vile act of senseless murder in front of hundreds of witnesses . The killing took place in the middle of the day and in the centre of the busy Covent Garden shopping precinct. What evidence did the prosecution have to conclude that this was a Satanic sacrifice - precious little as it turns out.
If this tragic case proves anything it is not that satanists sacrifice children but that 'Care in The Community' has yet again failed our society and the weakest amongst us has had to pay for it. At the trial all the authorities had something to hang their heads in shame about - no wonder the 12 year old's mother blamed them publicly for Diego's death.
Edward Crowley never admitted to being a satanist, yet he was portrayed to the British public as a heinous occult criminal. Was this to paper over the cracks in the British mental health system? Many people think so and that is why an official inquiry has already begun into the case. That is why the murdered boy's mother said
"I blame the police as much as this criminal for what happened.".
Is it looking less and less like a ritual killing to you? Then read on , there's more to come.
THE BLACK-WASH BEGINSAt his trial the prosecution said that Edward Crowley emulated the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley and murdered Diego because he was influenced by the instructions on ritual sacrifice in the magical workbook titled 'MAGICK'. Observers of the decade long anti-occult propaganda war perpetrated by Christian fundamentalists against anyone with an interest in the New Age, will about now be starting to understand what has happened here. For a dozen or more years fundamentalist agitators have been working-up this small section of 'Magick' as supposed "proof" that Crowley's occult system involves child sacrifice. They have injected this disinformation into various cases; disguised themselves as 'experts' to confirm prejudices in investigating officers and generally promote the idea that some occultists will be lead to committing sacrificial murder because it is required by 'Magick'. Once the 'idea' was coined that there was a book which outlined how and whom to sacrifice, it became common currency amongst other 'experts'. In a less formulated way this is just what the fundies did during the Orkney and Rochdale Satanic Abuse cases which outraged the public in the 1990s. Unfortunately for the fundies every previous case which they claimed was proof of Satanic Ritual Abuse has failed , but they keep pushing, and each time they push, the conglomeration of 'circumstantial evidence' accepted incidentally by the courts gets bigger and more impressive to the untutored onlooker. Only this week yet another 'satanic abuse case' came to the courts in Plymouth . It was thrown out, making this the 86th failed case which they have used to float their paranoia about supposed Satanic Ritual Abuse. Yet can you, dear reader, find information on these failed cases in the British Media? In comparison with the coverage they give cases like that of Edward Crowley the truth is buried in a small report somewhere at the back of the news where few will see it. The result is that the Great British Public are having their reality modified and are more prepared to believe in the existence of Satanic Ritual Abuse because of this biased coverage than the fact that it is all a figment of the warped imagination of rabid fundamentalists and therapists on the make. That's how propaganda works. Yet each time the British media rush to headline the sensational claims of Satanic Crime they also do the fundamentalists bidding and distribute sectarian poison to infect the minds of the unstable. With each day that passes it becomes more likely that a maverick loner, or mentally ill person, will make a terrible call for help, or release their frustration with the system by taking action on a monkey-see monkey-do basis because the thought has been put into their heads. Copy-cat crime is a known phenomenon amongst criminologists - what has that got to do with Satanism or the Occult? . It is testimony to the inherent responsibility of occult method that despite the massive amount of such continuous black-propaganda disseminated over the past decade no such case has ever occurred but if the authorities of this country keep on allowing these harbingers to perpetuate these myths and lies, by the law of averages it will probably happen sooner or later and THEY will be responsible for it, just as they were responsible for the excesses of Satanic Hysteria in the 1990s. With the Edward Crowley case the fundies were salivating in the hope they had struck lucky - but that is not what has happened as you will see. One of the fundamentalists' most circulated accusations about satanic child abuse concerns a 35 word statement in a chapter of the book 'Magick' where the Victorian occultist Aleister Crowley appears to be saying that children should be chosen for ritual sacrifice. This small section has appeared in and been distributed through virtually every one of the 4,000 fundamentalist groups and house churches in the U.K. Now, thousands of people who have never even read the book believe implicitly that it contains recommendations to commit human sacrifice. In fact, the twisted summations of the anti-occult sectarians are provably incorrect because the historical discussion on human sacrifice in this book clearly contains its own repudiation elsewhere on the page. The fundamentalists never refer to the repudiation in an effort to sell the lie that Aleister Crowley was a satanist who advocated the sacrifice of human beings. Indeed to overcome this now perennial disinformation the editors of the latest edition of Magick have included a new footnote explaining the repudiation clearly to avoid sectarians misusing the passage . Unfortunately, because some prosecutors and police appear ready to accept this catch-all in cases where a clear motive is absent they don't look further into it and rely soely upon their experts' opinions. |
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When seen clearly, devoid of the emotional turmoil surrounding these issues, the motives of the fundamentalists are clear - this is simply censorship and suppression. Aliester Crowley was perhaps the single most influential occult author of the 20th century. His writings have a world-wide audience. He is a prime target for their sectarian poison. They seek to discredit occultists and censor books which contain alternatives to Christian thought so that they can retain their monopoly over the spirituality of the nation and stop people leaving their fold. If our society is to be truly inclusive and pluralist we must clearly fight such suppression and point it out for what it is, lest anyone becomes confused with their gambits.
Crowley's 'Magick' was originally published in 1929 and has been reprinted many times since. The part which the fundamentalists continually quote consist of 35 words in a footnote. There are another 279,965 words which do not suggest that human sacrifice is required, but these are ignored by the bigots in favour of the 35 words which might do! There are plenty of other books which have researched the incidence of human sacrificial rites throughout history and perhaps the best of them (Sir James Fraser's THE GOLDEN BOUGH) is actually referred to by Crowley in his overview. Of course nobody would dare to claim that Fraser's work was intended to cause human sacrifice, yet others are perfectly willing to criticise Crowley for writing about the same thing! The proof of the pudding is in the eating; there are hundreds of thousands of Crowley devotees who have over the past seventy years, read this section and employed Aleister Crowley's' magical method to better their lives. Not one case of 'sacrifice' linked to Crowley's teachings has ensued.
Even if we were to accept those infamous 35 words as fact (instead of the allegory which was meant) it would not explain why the prosecution decided that a human sacrifice had occurred in THIS case. The prosecution cannot have their cake and eat . If they are suggesting that Edward Crowley followed the historical details given in Aleister Crowley's book, then surely it stands to reason that the other requirements in the chapter on Sacrifice would also need to be found in the murder to qualify it as a 'sacrifice' - and they were not. The weight of the available evidence therefore repudiates the suggestion. These are the facts:
(1) The murder was committed in an open place, during the day, where there were onlookers who interrupted the attack and held Crowley down until the police arrived.
(2) There is no suggestion that anyone else was involved with Edward Crowley, he was a loner.
(3) Though said to be a 'disciple' of Aleister Crowley there is no suggestion that Edward Crowley was a member of any occult group, was ever a member of an occult group, or otherwise conspired with other occultists who were satanists.
(4) Aleister Crowley was not a satanist; he did not term himself a satanist. His books are freely available and their content speaks for themselves. They concern monotheistic qabbalistic ceremonial magic- not satanism. If Edward Crowley had chosen to be a Satanist (and there is no proof that he did) then why would he choose to follow the magical method of someone who wasn't a satanist?
(5) The murder was committed with an ordinary kitchen knife, not a sanctified sacrificial weapon.
(6) The murder did not involve a special killing blow but a succession of 30 random frenzied stabs. It was more like a crime of passion than anything else.
(7) Other people who intervened were also stabbed and injured.
(8) The murderer did not say magic words or spells or incantations - he reportedly said 'Don't say those things about me'
At first glance it is difficult to see any motive for the killing of poor Diego except as a safety valve for the frustrations which haunted Edward Crowley. The prosecution's case was based on two things.
It is this drawing or sketch which provided much of the 'evidence' which gives an occult slant to the murder. This sketch is therefore crucial to an understanding of what happened and we have obtained , quite legally, a copy of it so we can see exactly what the prosecution was talking about when it said there were 'diagrams relating to sacrifices'.
In fact there were references to biblical sacrifices of Cain and Abel, Abraham and his first born. Nothing to do with satanism there.
There was a Latin statement which was interpreted as meaning that Edward Crowley wanted to destroy Diego but it is not clear and no Latin scholar was called to give a definitive translation.
Taken as a whole Edward Crowley's sketch does appear to provide proof of premeditation but there was nothing in the drawing which incontrovertibly indicated that a ritual murder was being planned. To suggest that this was a plan of Satanic sacrifice, is stretching things too far. Ultimately, the prosecution gilds the lily when they inferred that Aztec sacrifices were included. The small doodle which their expert concluded was likely to be an Aztec altar, was nothing of the kind. Aztec sacrificial altars were bee-hive shaped, not flat, as any archeologist will tell you. In other words the prosecution had to work very hard to interpret this sketch as being beyond any doubt evidence of pre-meditated human sacrifice. Having seen it, the most striking thing about the sketch is that there are no satanic links or references anywhere on it.
So, to the chagrin of the satan-hunters, this is yet another case which fails to fulfil their claims for satanic ritual child abuse. Murder, yes. Premeditated murder most probably, but satanic sacrifice? We think not. We now wait to see how the fundamentalist machinery will rehash this case and re-present it as 'proof' of satanic ritual child abuse. If they run true to course, they will say that the conviction proves it, but the words of the Judge when summing up show that he was not convinced about the satanic sacrifice suggestion. He said:
'Whether your own beliefs had anything to do with the obsession or the killing I do not know, but you deliberately took the life of an innocent 12 year old..'
Edward Crowley deserved his sentence for killing that poor young boy. Nothing will exonerate him from that, so justice has been done; but when we find the inevitable meanderings of the fundamentalist lobby on this case and their worked-up claims about proof of satanic sacrifice, we will add a link to this page so that our readers can follow this plot of black-propaganda which has continued for centuries. Keep tuned to this page.
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