Sea, if not the most beautiful in Italy recently we lack, and mountains. In the middle of a village of 13 thousand souls, the Norman cathedral, the museum-house of the Baron of Pirajno Mandralisca (which collects works of art), restaurants, streets with tourists and, in turn, such elegance and kindness. We are just a few kilometers from Cefalù Palermo, Sicily unmistakably a piece of Sicilian here everything is as expected: ancient - the walls, the sink, the churches and the faithful - but modern enough not to regret places and buildings to North .
A Cefalù When you request information on esoteric magician-artist (sessuomane), writer and many other things Aleister Crowley, who lived here in his early twenties, we give it for sure. The problem is that (perhaps because of the kind in question, maybe not), it turns out that there are more news and worse. The house where he lived? Yes, it's in front of the cemetery (a symbol ...) no, it's on the road to Gibilmanna no, it is in the district of Santa Barbara ... take the climb and you will immediately see the fence ... but be careful ... The men say they have been there, all he saw ... curiosity among the ruins, paintings and all that remains of the "Abbey of Thelema" (practically nothing), but women have never been there (so they say ...) , never been in that strange place, full of symbols - which few people know - where almost a century ago there were orgies, men, women, animals and do not know who or what else ...
truth in the story of the magician in Cefalù (years ago we also wrote a book with very detailed research published by Mediterranee, impossible to find a book in Cefalù and "secure" in the beautiful library of the museum Mandralisca), is that the house still exists, which is now a ruin and that the owners - the people of Palermo, so they say - hold it there, waiting do not know what, maybe someone who decides how to appreciate good art, history or to chase down and out a lot of grit. Is true that the house is located in one place, now just "esoteric" in front of the stage, and even the shadow of fence, just one path impractical and an open window. The rest is left to the imagination, or if you have the "courage" to jump into some detail, since the and damaged paintings are hidden (on the internet you can see very well, though), and the rest is done by the chatter and gossip of the locals, in truth, very quiet people who live without "shadows" of magicians who lives behind and travel and normality, one of the "things" more difficult, however, Sicily .
Kindness in Sicily did not buy in the shops on street corners. If you are the kind you regardless (in the words of Toto). At the hotel, the barbershop, library, ask the magician-Crowley? Tutti ci dicono qualcosa. Cinque minuti appena e si diventa amici, ci si saluta per la strada e ci si dà appuntamento al giorno dopo, eventualmente. Crowley permettendo …
Perfino chi è contrario per fede, religione o altro, se sa parla volentieri. E sorride… «Scusi cerco la casa del mago Crowley, m’hanno detto in paese che è da queste parti…». Risposta in “camilleriano” stretto: «A casa do’ diavulu?... Nenti sacciu, sugnu evangelista, ma… ma… se girate l’angolo la vedete là, d’in facci al campo sportivo…». Un’informazione oggi, una domani, la si trova finalmente. Niente fili spinati, niente recinzioni. “Clima” semplice: campagna e abitazioni (cento anni fa isolata, c’è da crederlo, oggi circondata da case e villette), coi bambini che giocano a nascondersi fino all’ingresso della “misteriosa” abbazia. L’uscio è “off-limits”, l’hanno detto mamma e papà .
Abbazia? Mah… casetta o “casuzza” più che altro, cento metri quadrati, maybe more maybe less. Apparently inspired by Crowley does not know what kind of revelation he had designed a building with columns and stained glass dome, but then had had to make do: rent a house to be filled with concubines (two), children and occasional guests. Today the house is closed, locked doors and a window open. On Crowley's motto: "Do what you want ..." (looks like a ruling fascist, fascist though Crowley was not, contrary to "guilt" of the scheme had to leave Italy). The phrase is catchy, is welcome for couples looking for thrills or for the merely curious. "Every year dozens of people from outside the foreign ... e turisti…», ci dicono i più informati, ma l’accoglienza? Già… forse l’Abbazia di Thelema è una metafora delle condizioni della Sicilia… fatiscenza, pochi punti di riferimento ma tutt’attorno il paradiso della bellezza .
L’interno della casa (ciò che è visibile dalla finestra) non è proprio il massimo… Disegni scrostati, una vecchia rete addossata alla parete - servirà per i rapporti sessuali dei giovani “adepti”… - sporcizia che si confonde con qualcos’altro, cioè disegni or references to esoteric or hidden truths ... Because the house is right there, because Crowley was in Cefalu? The most educated or the most talkative town of Cefalu says that we like Turin - magic city and crossing the vulgar influences that citizens do not perceive - Cefalù is located in the center of the magic triangle, but then mention the other vertices in a s'impappina bit '... it is normal ...
The path to get to Casuzze is worse than the ruins. Do not see them the followers of Ronald Hubbard (Scientology), which seems to be inspired by Crowley, progress through the poop of dogs barking, palm trees and rows of sickly flea Harlem. And yet ... those informed - even them - say that Crowley is one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. One of those that the twentieth century the 'did' as one would say for a sessantottino. One able to reconcile the devil el'acquasanta. Julius Evola and the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, for example, or Marilyn Manson. You choose who are to be blessed or cursed ... The first cited in Crowley one of his most important to speak well ("mask and the face of contemporary spirituality"); The Beatles have placed in the legendary cover of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "among the" people we like. " A true "third way", then, that Crowley's English born in 1875 and died in 1947 .
Educated rigidly to Protestantism, in conjunction with the Golden Down , bisexual, "hippy hero" for his style of life, mountaineer and great money esoteric painter, the "magician" was in Egypt at the beginning of the century when he received an ancient sorcerer - Aiwas - le nozioni per fondare una nuova religione anticristiana. Molto più “adorato” che letto, molto più citato (oltre Evola: Sciascia, Consolo, Umberto Eco e Maugham che a lui si è ispirato per uno dei suoi romanzi) che “digerito”, Crowley resta oggi un autentico mistero. Ciarlatano? Forse no… Anche se mettere il grano di qua e la pula di là è operazione difficile (utile, forse, solo ai fanatici o agli adepti delle sette segrete…). A Cefalù, ovviamente, nessuno se lo ricorda. Pare che in paese girasse acconciato da “mago”, pare che molti ne avessero paura perché si pensava consumasse sacrifici umani… ma gli studiosi non ci credono; è solo una “leggenda”, is the story of who liked to say of himself: "I am the most evil man in the world" .
Who wants to go to Cefalù, in search of "magicians" do not forget to visit a real one, though. Mandralisca the museum is the "Portrait of the Unknown" by Antonello da Messina, one of the greatest painters of the fifteenth century Europe. Beatles or Rolling Stones, he's a person "like us", and much .
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