Historian: The “Curse of Tutankhamun” Was Ritual Murders Carried Out by Aleister Crowley
By VC
November 12th, 2011
Translation by Autunmnson Blog
克勞利擺“奧西里斯姿勢”
Aleister Crowley is often mentioned on this site as his occult works appear to be highly influential in today’s mass media. This week, a rather interesting yet troubling piece of news surfaced regarding Crowley: a historian believes that deaths attributed to the “Curse of Tutankhamun” were in fact ritual killings carried out by him. Here’s an article from The Telegraph regarding the historian Mark Beynon findings.
Aleister克勞利是經常在這網站上被提及，因為他的神秘學作品似乎高度影響今天的大眾傳播媒。這一周，一篇有關克勞利頗有趣但令人不安的新聞浮現：一名歷史學家相信，歸咎於“圖坦卡蒙詛咒”的死亡，其實是由他進行的儀式殺人。這裡一篇來自“每日電訊報”的文章，關於歷史學家馬克比郎的發現。
圖坦卡蒙的詛咒可能一直是撒旦教殺手的工作
Curse of Tutankhamun may have been work of Satanist killer
Six mysterious London deaths famously attributed to the ‘Curse of Tutankhamun’ were actually murders by notorious Satanist Aleister Crowley, a historian claims in a new book.
Incredible parallels between Crowley and Jack the Ripper have also been discovered during research by historian Mark Beynon.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, London was gripped by the mythical curse of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king, whose tomb was uncovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
More than 20 people linked to the opening of the pharaoh’s burial chamber in Luxor in 1923 bizarrely died over the following years – six of them in the capital.
Victims included Carter’s personal secretary Captain Richard Bethell, who was found dead in his bed from suspected smothering at an exclusive Mayfair club.
Bethell’s father Lord Westbury then plunged seven floors to his death from his St James’s apartment, where he reportedly kept tomb artefacts gifted by his son.
And Aubrey Herbert, half-brother of Carter’s financial backer Lord Carnarvon, also died suspiciously in a Park Lane hospital shortly after visiting Luxor.
At the time, a frenzied Press blamed the ‘Curse of Tutankhamun’ for the deaths and speculated on the supernatural powers of the ancient Egyptians.
But Mr Beynon has now drawn on previously unpublished evidence to conclude the deaths were all ritualistic killings masterminded by Crowley, an occultist dubbed “the wickedest man in the world”.
After unique analysis of Crowley’s diaries, essays and books and inquest reports, the armchair detective argues that he was a Jack the Ripper-obsessed copycat killer.
Crowley, who called himself ‘The Great Beast’, apparently had his own motives to tarnish the legacy of Carter’s legendary discovery.
The gods and goddesses of Crowley’s own religious philosophy, Thelema, were mainly drawn from ancient Egyptian religion.
He believed himself to be a prophet of a new age of personal liberty, controlled by the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
It is likely that he would have found Carter’s excavation sacrilegious and wanted revenge, according to Mr Beynon.
In his new book ‘London’s Curse: Murder, Black Magic and Tutankhamun in the 1920s West End’, published this week by The History Press, Mr Beynon pins seven deaths on Crowley, six of which took place in London:
- Raoul Loveday (16 February 1923): the 23-year-old Oxford undergraduate was a follower of Crowley’s cult at a Sicilian abbey. He died on the same day at the very hour of Carter’s much-publicised opening of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. He died after drinking the blood of a cat sacrificed in one of Crowley’s rituals and Mr Beynon argues that he was deliberately poisoned.
- Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey (10 July 1923): a 23-year-old Egyptian prince shot dead by his French wife of six months, Marie-Marguerite, in London’s Savoy Hotel shortly after he was photographed visiting the tomb. Mr Beynon says that Crowley and Marie-Marguerite had been lovers in Paris. She was working as a hostess at the Folies Bergère and he was a regular patron at the same venue. He suggests that Crowley put her up to the shooting.
- Aubrey Herbert (23 September 1923): shortly after Marie-Marguerite’s acquittal, Aubrey Herbert, the half-brother of Lord Carnarvon, died of blood poisoning after a routine dental operation went suspiciously wrong at his private hospital in Park Lane. He had only recently returned from his own trip to Luxor. Mr Beynon speculates that Crowley was behind the death and may again have used Marie-Marguerite to do his dirty work.
- Captain Richard Bethell (15 November 1929): Howard Carter’s 46-year-old personal secretary was found dead in his bed at Mayfair’s exclusive Bath Club. Bethell was said to have been in perfect health. It was initially thought that he died of a heart attack but his symptoms raised suspicion that he was smothered to death as he slept. Crowley had only recently returned to London and was often a guest of novelist W. Somerset Maugham at the club.
- Lord Westbury (20 February 1930): Bethell’s father, Lord Westbury, 77, was believed to have thrown himself off his seventh floor St James’s apartment. But Mr Beynon found that it was practically impossible for an elderly man to have climbed out onto the window ledge and suggests that Crowley threw him off.
- Edgar Steele (24 February 1930): only four days later, Edgar Steele, 57, who was in charge of handling the tomb artefacts at London’s British Museum, died at St Thomas’ Hospital after a minor stomach operation. Mr Beynon speculates that Crowley was behind the death.
- Sir Ernest Wallis Budge (23 November 1934): A former Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, he was found dead in his bed in Bloomsbury aged 77. A friend of Lord Carnarvon, he had been responsible for displaying the artefacts from Luxor. Mr Beynon says there is evidence that Budge and Crowley were associates on the London occult scene.
Crowley, who was born into a wealthy upper class family in 1875, had a controversial doctrine for life of ‘Do What Thou Wilt’.
The bisexual heroin addict gained notoriety for advocating sexual promiscuity and prostitution and was dubbed ‘the wickedest man in the world’ by the Press.
Mr Beynon paints a picture of a dangerous schizophrenic known to have murdered his servants in India.
Crowley never mentions the deaths in his diaries but often wrote that his mood had “lifted” the day after them.
He was obsessed with Jack the Ripper, writing numerous essays and poems about him.
He socialised with Ripper suspect Walter Sickert and Mr Beynon argues that Crowley used the Ripper’s killing spree as inspiration for his own efforts years later.
Crowley wrote in his diaries that he believed the locations of five of the Ripper’s murders in Whitechapel in 1888 formed a pentagram – an important star-shaped symbol in Satanism.
Mr Beynon claims that the locations of five of Crowley’s ‘murders’ form a copycat pentagram.
Crowley believed that the Ripper’s murders had afforded him special powers, including invisibility.
Mr Beynon says that he thought his murders would also render him invisible.
To test his theory, he famously walked through London’s Café Royal restaurant ridiculously dressed in a mustard-coloured cloak adorned with occultist symbols.
When customers fell silent and were too perturbed to speak to him, he assumed they could not see him.
Outlining his macabre theory, Mr Beynon said: “When I researched these deaths, Crowley’s name popped up again and again.
“There is plenty of circumstantial evidence linking him to all the deaths and his diaries and books are riddled with clues linking him to these crimes.
“I have just put all the pieces of the jigsaw together.
“So much of Crowley’s belief system was steeped in ancient Egypt.
“He would have seen the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb as desecration.
“This was a man given to extensive world travel and yet we know he was in London when at least four of the six deaths occurred.”
He added: “I hope the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in crime or London history.
“I was fascinated researching London in the 20s and 30s.
“On the surface, it was very glitzy and glamorous but there was a dark underbelly that provided the ideal stage for this story.
“Everyone was obsessed with the supposed Curse of Tutankhamun striking down high society victims.
“But until now, no-one has ever realised that they may well have been murdered.”
http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/historian-the-curse-of-tutankhamun-was-ritual-murders-carried-out-by-aleister-crowley/
新書揭秘：“圖坦卡蒙詛咒”實際上是術士連環謀殺案
2011-11-09 17:44:58
來源：國際線上專稿
國際線上專稿：據英國《每日郵報》11月8日報道，自從1923年埃及法老王圖坦卡蒙（Tutankhamun）在路克索（Luxor）的墓室之門被打開後，已經有20多名相關人員死於各種怪異的事件，其中6人死於倫敦，他們被懷疑中了“圖坦卡蒙詛咒”。但是一名歷史學家在其新書中披露，至少7名死者實際上是一起連環謀殺案的受害者。
歷史學家馬克·貝農（Mark Beynon）在其新書《倫敦詛咒：謀殺、黑魔法與圖坦卡蒙》中透露，在倫敦去世的這6人都是世界上最臭名卓著的術士阿萊斯特·克勞利（Aleister Crowley）的犧牲品。克勞利的所有宗教哲學都是在埃及神話的基礎上建立起來的，英國考古學家霍華德·卡特（Howard Carter）主持的圖坦卡蒙墓室發掘工作顯然破壞了他的神秘感。另外貝農還認為，克勞利是連環殺手“開膛手傑克”（Jack the Ripper）的粉絲。
克勞利的受害者包括卡特的私人秘書理查德·貝瑟爾（Richard Bethell），他在英國一家上流社會俱樂部被發現窒息死亡，而貝農稱，克勞利是那傢俱樂部的常客。貝瑟爾的父親韋斯特伯裏爵士（Lord Westbury）從保存圖坦卡蒙墓穴仿製品的七層公寓上摔下致死，可能是克勞利將這位年邁老人推下。在韋斯特伯裏爵士死後四天，負責處理大英博物館圖坦卡蒙墓穴仿製品的埃德加·斯特爾（Edgar Steele）死於胃部小手術，貝農推測克勞利才是幕後黑手。
歐內斯特·布奇（Ernest Budge），他是大英博物館埃及和亞述人古董的前保管人，被發現死在床上。貝農說，有證據可以證明，布奇與克勞利曾在倫敦接觸。雷歐·拉伕黛（Raoul Loveday），23歲的牛津大學學生，他是克勞利邪教的追隨者，他死於卡特正式宣佈打開圖坦卡蒙墓室的時刻，可能是被毒死。
23歲的阿裏·卡姆爾·法赫米·貝（Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey），在訪問圖坦卡蒙墓穴返回後不久被妻子瑪麗·瑪格麗特（Marie-Marguerite）爆頭致死。貝農說，克勞利與瑪格麗特是情人，克勞利唆使她打死丈夫。瑪格麗特獲釋不久後，曾前往路克索旅遊的奧布裏·赫爾伯特（Aubrey Herbert）在私人診所接受牙齒手術後，死於中毒，貝農推測，他可能也死於瑪格麗特之手。
貝農認為，克勞利策劃這些謀殺事件就是為了抹黑卡特的重大發現，然而人們都對圖坦卡蒙著迷，沒人將“詛咒”與謀殺聯繫起來。（沈姝華）
http://big5.cri.cn/gate/big5/gb.cri.cn/27824/2011/11/09/5105s3431117.htm
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