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In 1918, Aleister Crowley, the British occultist and so-called "wickedest man in the world," composed a lyrical essay on absinthe and aesthetics titled "Absinthe - The Green Goddess". He wrote his essay (according to legend, while waiting for a female companion) in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. "Art is the soul of life," he proclaimed, "and the Old Absinthe House is the heart and soul of the old quarter of New Orleans."
Aleister Crowley’s
The Equinox of the Gods (p. 253):
Notice the first statement — "So is O" matches Page's "Zoso".
and Now 666 = My Name, = The number of the Beast.
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JIMMY PAGE
"ZOSO"
MATCHES
CROWLEY'S
666
In 1971, Jimmy Page bought Boleskine House, Crowley's former hunting lodge and Scottish retreat.
Jimmy
Page's daughter was named Scarlet Lilith Eleida Page, born March 1971.
The Scarlet Woman was, "a technical term complementary to that of the
Beast for the office held by any directly inspired female medium of the
gods."
Furthermore, Crowley used one of the names "Lilith" for his first child.
The
Old Absinthe Bar in New Orleans (located at 400 Bourbon Street) was
rumored to have been the set-up or at least the inspiration for the
cover scenes of In Through the Out Door. Led Zeppelin was known to be
fond of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Crowley also held a certain
fondness for the Old Absinthe House as he recalls,
"I took a room conveniently close to the Old Absinthe House, where one could get real absinthe prepared in fountains whose marble was worn by 90 years’ continual dripping."
The Old Absinthe House inspired Aleister Crowley’s essay "The Green Goddess". Today, if you go to the Old Absinthe Bar there is a picture on the wall of Jimmy and his ex-wife, Theresa fennell, supposedly accompanied by a story of how they met there.
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An original holograph draft by Aleister Crowley of the poem "La Legende de l'Absinthe" (here called "L'Absinthe") published in The International (New York, October 1917) under the pseudonym Jeanne La Goulue (a famous Moulin Rouge dancer painted by Toulouse Lautrec). This same poem was quoted by Crowley in his subsequent essay: "Absinthe - The Green Goddess". The verso of the manuscript sheet contains a fragment of the text of "The Green Goddess".
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Aleister Crowley
and the Green Goddess
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Jimmy Page and Lori Maddox
aka Loritning, Lori Mattix Born: 1958 Los Angeles, California, USA
Lori
Maddox was part of the wild Hollywood teenage groupie scene in the
early 1970s. She reportedly lost her virginity at age 13 to David Bowie
and Angie Bowie. One of her best friends was Sable Starr, who was the
unofficial queen of the scene at the time. Lori, who was also known as
Lori Lightning and Lori Mattix, wasn't as experienced as Sable, but
Lori also became a regular at famous Hollywood groupie hangouts, like
the Rainbow Bar & Grill, Rodney's English Disco, the Continental
Hyatt House (also known as "The Riot House"), and the Whisky. Like
Sable, Lori was often featured in Star magazine (a short-lived '70s
magazine, not the Star magazine that's currently a tabloid), which
often had articles detailing the activities of music groupies.
Lori
was 14 years old, she met a man who would change her life: Jimmy Page,
guitarist of Led Zeppelin. Jimmy first spotted her when an associate of
his showed Jimmy a picture of Lori. Jimmy was intrigued, and when Led
Zeppelin stopped in Los Angeles on their 1972 tour, Jimmy immediately
tried to get together with Lori. Even though Jimmy was dating groupie
Pamela Des Barres at the time (back when she was known as Pamela
Miller, aka Miss Pamela of the GTO's), Jimmy pursued Lori relentlessly.
Lori has said she was still a virgin at the time and she was afraid of
Jimmy at first. But Lori has contradicted herself by reportedly saying
that she wasn't a virgin when she met Jimmy. Because of her groupie
activities before she met Jimmy, it's more likely that she wasn't a
virgin by the time she got together with him.
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