stackyFACTSOccultists are basically just incredibly dramatic theater kids armed with pentagrams and massive egos.
Occultists are basically just incredibly dramatic theater kids armed with pentagrams and massive egos. Crowley absolutely despised Waite, the respected co-creator of the famous Rider-Waite tarot deck, finding him immensely boring and deeply pompous. So, Crowley did what any mature, enlightened master of the dark arts would naturally do: he wrote a highly detailed, completely fabricated obituary for Waite in his occult magazine, purely to aggressively troll him.
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