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the group. Anger, commenting on Anita, said; ―I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a
witch...‖ - ―The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita...and Brian. You see, Brian was a witch
too‖. - Tony Sanchez writes of Pallenberg, and states: ―She was obsessed with black magic and began to
carry a string of garlic with her everywhere - even to bed - to ward off vampires. She also had a strange
mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her ceremonies became
increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell [3] . - In her
bedroom she kept a huge, ornate carved chest, which she guarded so jealously that I assumed it was her
drug stash. The house was empty one day, and I decided to take a peep inside, the drawers were filled with
scraps of bone, wrinkled skin and fur from some strange animals‖ [4] .
In 1980, the seventeen-year-old caretaker of Keith Richard‘s New England estate was found shot to
death in Anita Pallenberg‘s bed. [4] The death, ruled as suicide, was with Pallenberg‘s gun. Richard‘s
house was located near the East Coast headquarters of the Process Church. It‘s been alleged, as I can‘t
seem to find any other references to the Midnite newspaper other than from the various sources connected
to the writings of what I‘m covering here, - so according to an article in the referred to English newspaper
Midnite, a Connecticut police officer, Michael Passaro, who had responded to the suicide, reported strange
singing from the woods a quarter mile from the Richard‘s mansion. The newspaper continues: There have
been several bizarre satanic rituals in the area over the past five years. A local reporter attributed the
outbreak of occultism to rich people taking Acid. In 1967 the Stones released their album titled; Their
Satanic Majesties Request. On the 27th February 1977 at Toronto‘s Harbour Castle Hotel, Richard was
found him in possession of 22 grams of heroin. In 1994 Richards said of this image: ―It‘s something you
drag around behind you like a long shadow ... Even though that was nearly twenty years ago, you cannot
convince some people that I‘m not a mad drug addict. So I‘ve still got that [image] in my baggage‖. [4] In
2010, Peter Hitchens wrote of Richards that he is a ‗...capering streak of living gristle who ought to be
exhibited as a warning to the young of what drugs can do to you even if you're lucky enough not to choke
on your own vomit ‘ [5] .
Though it must be said he‘s a superb guitarist, and considering his 68 now, it‘s amazing he‘s still a
living piece of gristle!
One thing for certain around this particular time and among these people quoted, Satanism, the occult
and drugs were no doubt top of the agenda, though to me the biggest satanic thing being around, was and
still is that of the devils dust itself; heroin. Crowley proudly named himself: The Great Beast, and was one
of the first Westerners to seriously study Buddhism and Yoga. He radically redesigned the traditional
Tarot card, thus the Crowley deck was born. You could say since the 60‘s and to date, Crowley has been
rediscovered, and in the past he‘s been reinterpreted often by certain groups, such as the ―Beats‖, i.e. The
Beat Generation were a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950‘s, mainly because
of their cultural modern day experiences that they wrote about and inspired them. Later on they were
sometimes called beatniks, and where central elements of beat culture include a rejection of mainstream
values, the experimentation with drugs and alternate forms of sexuality, and an interest in Eastern
religions.
In 2002, a BBC poll described Crowley as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time, whilst he
has influenced, and been refer to by numerous writers, musicians and film-makers including Alan Moore,
Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Kenneth Anger, and who according to Anger, the greatest
living magician; Harry Everett Smith, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. He has also been
cited as a key influence on many later esoteric groups and individuals, including figures like Kenneth
Grant a British occultist and head of the magical order previously known as the Typhonian Ordo Templi
Orientis, but which is now referred to as the Typhonian Order.
The already mentioned father of Wicca-Gerald Gardner, and to some degree artist Austin Osman Spare
who developed distinctive magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and
sigilisation, i.e. signs and symbols that are supposed to have magical powers.
Among other admirers of Crowley are and have been many Freemasons, hippies, punks and supporters
of industrial culture, and even more so today by Goths, and followers of the controversial rock singer
Marilyn Manson, a stage name formed from the names of actress Marilyn Monroe and convicted murderer
Charles Manson. On the 3rd April 2002, Maria St. John filed in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing
Marilyn Manson of providing her adult daughter, Jennifer Syme, with cocaine and instructing her to drive
while under the influence.