Reviews for Mr. Crowley Lyrics

You know, all this speculation can be cleared up very easily.... Look for a book by Carol Clerk entitled "Diary of a Madman-Ozzy Osbourne-The stories behind the songs".

Interviews of Ozzy and other band members/producers, etc about what the lyrics mean and how they came to be.

It covers from his Sabbath days to Down to Earth.

ISBN: 1-56025-472-6
Published in 2002

My wife found it at a Yard sale for a buck :)

Kevin

satan is and always will be a deciever, he doesant have any friends he loves no body he doesent do any favours and ultimatley decieves and lies and trys to be annonymous, but he is behind every negative and ungodley devices he is the father of all lies(john 8,40), crowley and ozzy and many others are influenced by demonic spirits and they and others dont even know it, there is a hell there is a heaven please come to Jesus and he will help and open the eyes who are decieved.

Nope, he isn't a satanist he just insisted that he saw demons which one of them called "Aiwaz" refers to his higher self who made him write the book "Liber al vel vegis" and also those demons he told about were not in Christianity, those were in his theology of Thelema.

How would any of you know if Crowley was Satanic or not? Were any of you there? And why should it matter if he is when you review the song? Yes you could argue wither he is arguing a point or something but it's still a kick ass song and that's all that should matter.
As an Atheist, I say you're all wasting your time with religion but that's just me.

This song is a reckoning among men for those of you who are non-believers you shall be drenched in the blood of your loved ones and left alone with no one there to prevent you from crawling like maggots at the feet of your so called "GOD". But do not fear children for Satan lightly spreads his wings and his essence shall surround you in an all to familiar warm and extasy...

This song kicks it to the next level. Edward Alexander Crowley is NOT a satanist, for all you Neo-Nazi Bible Bashing Freaks, Edward Alexander Crowley was a student of the most ancient arts, pre-dating all known religious belief. Calling him the wickedest man on earth is a mis-quote, Crowley had enemies within the occult because he didn't see the need to keep his practices secret. The song is cool and Ozzy is great. The book Ozzy refers to is "The keys of solomon" an ancient tome that details the rites and rituals of the line of kings, this includes King David. Wicked lyrics though. Serious rifts and a killer tune. The song actually came about because Ozzy had read the biography of Crowley and was using a Tarot deck.

Brilliant song, really love it - one of Ozzy's best.

Remember, as Satanic as all you god-lovers out there think this song to be - Ozzy Osbourne is a performer, and by singing about Aleister Crowley he is not saying that he agrees with him. (Even though it is debatable to even consider Aleister Crowley 'satanic'.)

I love this song. In my opinion I don't think that Crowley was 'the wickedest man in the world" but then again who cares? This is an amazing song.

Oh and it doesn't matter what age you are, you can know a shit load about Aleister Crowley at any age.

Aleister Crowley was a wicked hedonist who was instrumental in the popularization of Satanism. Crowley was a drug addict, homosexual hedonist, and even hinted at an interest in Pederasty, the practice of sex between men and young boys.

Ozzy is a Christian, despite his episodes of unruly behavior. The song "Mr. Crowley" is just a loosely constructed musing about Crowley's wasted brilliance through his pursuit of the most twisted deauchery he could imagine.

this is an awesome song.I dont know much about mr crowley himself, but there again, im 15.mr crowley is one of my fav songs with one of my fav guitar solos. i admit there has been better but this is still kick ass!!

i read a lot of the comments writen about the lyrics,interesting to se the different point of wiev that people have.Hope that you forgive my bad inglish.I love the song. I have read somethings about Alistair Crowley,personaly i wouldn´t like to meet that person...he really gives me the creeps.I´m christian, i noticed that many people thinks we are brainwashed or something.Anyway i can enjoy this song, and idon´t judge others...but make no mistake...Satan and demons DO exist...there is no hell...Satan is an angel who turned his back on GOD..and most of the things in the world are under his influense...
Religion dosn´t have to be always involved in everything..i like a lot of ozzys songs...but i always read the lyrics in every song,not only whit rock songs...

This song was originally dedicated to Edward Alexander Crowley, who had too much influence in the posterior creation of the Church Of Satan, which was created by Anton Szandor LaVey(Creator of the Black Bible of Satan) , who died in 1997. This man (Crowley) combated the catholic religion with knowing it, sadly and ironically, trying to combat religion, he influenced the making of a new religion, which accepts free sexual union.
This song perfectly describes what happened in his later life, when he started in new religion and the free sexual union, I love this song!(L)

Denisse(girl,13yrs old)-Mexico

To me I see the song as defience against Crowley. I think lyrics like:
"Mr. Crowley, what went down in your head
(Oh) Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead
Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all those people with magic
(Yeah)You waited on Satan's call"

seem to suggest that Osborne is anti-Crowley, however, I can definitly see how the song is interpretted as Satanist. It's definitly a good song, but I don't think it is pro-Crowley.

Ozzy tells it all...
He dares the dead (Crowley) to wake up after his long death to prove that Crowley was Satan's assistant in earth, so the Satanism (awakening the dead) can be proven....
But yeah...
we're just mortal after all...

dude... let's just end the whole fucking discussion here. i mean leave ozzy's songs the fuck alone. Religion has absolutely nothing to o w/ this fucking sng!!! ENJOY LIFE A LITTLE!!! come on ppl! plz leave this topic alone and just fucking drop it already. there's 6 fucking pages of debate and shit. If u wanna find flaws in others, first find flaws in yourself. PPl go on and on looking at other's specks on their souls while we should be looking at ours. Goddamn, i hate people