I would say the whole of the law according to crowley basically sums up hedonism, that Do WhatThou Wilt shall be the whole of the law quickly followed by love is the law love under will, would sum up the whole hedonism philosophy right?
No thats nonsense ! Crowley wasnt a hedonist he was just someone who pretended to be evil because it sold books.
Crowley wasn't "evil". He believed that you should do your own thing, according to what you will is, as long as you don't interfer with anybody elses will. Hence "we are stars woman and children all of us" If the stars collided it would be an explosion. Or if a human crossed another humans path if would turn into conflict, and the explosion would be the conflict.
Crowley wasnt a hedonist, he believed that one should live a certain way Hedonists believe that one should live but in a succession of different ways to sample all the pleasures and to avoid the pain unless it is your pleasure to recieve pain but once one has sampled something move on else it becomes a habit and you will be trapped - drug addicts are failures - they got a habit - people who continually work at the same place - failure Its a very rich persons philosophy, It is a philosophy that belongs to and only can be truly explored by those we call "the idle rich" so wealthy they can doo what they want when they want
Crowley lived a long time, he sampled a lot of earlty delights and in his lifteme changed his viewpoint a few times, He died skint in a boarding house in Hastings but in his lifetme he travled the world and mangaed to blow a foutrue of ovre 5 million pounds in todays money (and thats not hedoistic behavior?) He wasnt "Evil" or "Good" becasue he didnt belive that such lables applied, he was judged by others to be "The Wickedest man alive" and played up to it once the money started to run out, but that was talking on a role applied by others.
'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' is not to be taken to mean just do what you like. Crowley makes this very clear in his various comments on the Book of the Law. http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib2.html
