>>332181980
much of Crowley's rituals were basically pavlovian conditioning in order to get around subconscious inhibitions. the way i interpret it is basically a reaction to Schoppenhaur's idea of free will that there essentially is none, we are controlled by wille zum leben and therefore we act unconsciously and then rationalize our actions as being our own. 

Crowley's way around this was to do absolutely depraved faggot shit in order to shake up the subconscious from its normal patterned behavior and therefore have conscious control to practice "true will"