The Boleskine House in Loch Ness, Scotland was once owned by “the most evil man int he world” Aleister Crowley. That house was the center of occult activity for years and was later purchased by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
In Crowley’s book Magick Without Tears, he told followers “Remember that your ‘east’, your kiblah [direction of Mecca] is Boleskine House.”
So yeah, the Mecca of occultism is being rebuilt…with government money from the lottery!!!
When the group, the Boleskine House Foundation, applied to receive lottery money for the renovation they downplayed the building’s occult history. They did more than downplay. They disappeared it and told volunteers to pretend they weren’t fans of the occultist Crowley.
In an internal group chat Keith Readdy, an American academic who bought Boleskine with his wife, Kyra, in 2019, wrote: “To our people we can say what we want but we cannot to members of the public. If they think a sex cult is opening, locals may go and burn what’s left of the place.”
According to The Times, one former BHF member, who worked as a volunteer on the site, claimed Mr Readdy, 43, the author of One Truth and One Spirit: Aleister Crowley’s Spiritual Legacy, spoke privately of restoring the property as a sacred space.
“There is a lot of public talk about charity, conservation and all the rest of it, but the plan was always for the house to be used as a temple,” said one former volunteer who asked not to be identified, said. “In private there was talk about Boleskine being an excellent venue for initiation rituals.”
“The foundation has submitted plans to Highland council to recreate the property’s most infamous room, where Crowley reputedly summoned 12 demons during an occult ritual, in an Egyptian style with a domed ceiling adorned with stars.
One Crowley expert, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the plans appeared to be compatible with rituals carried out by the A∴A∴, a secretive occult order formed by Crowley in 1907.”
Oh, how wonderful.
And I did some quick research, the guy in charge of the renovation Keith Readdy once delivered a speech at the Occulture Conference So yeah..
Wonderful.
April 30, 2025 at 11:54 am
I assume this is about historical preservation.
The argument is that historically important places should be preserved, regardless of whether they were good or bad. How much do you think it has cost to maintain Auschwitz? If any place has bad connotations, it’s Auschwitz, but at the same time, it’s important not to forget the horrors done there.
It’s always controversial when the thing being preserved has enough bad connotations. As a counterexample to Auschwitz, all traces of the Führerbunker have been completely removed out of fear that it would become a rallying point for neo-Nazis.