Were six deaths attributed to the 'Curse of Tutankhamun' actually
murders by arch-satanist Aleister Crowley?
By Daily Mail Reporter - 8th November 2011
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Six mysterious deaths famously attributed to the 'Curse of
Tutankhamun' were actually murders by a notorious satanist, a new book claims.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, London was gripped by the mythical
curse of the Egyptian boy-king, whose tomb was uncovered by British
archaeologist Howard Carter.
More than 20 people linked to the opening of the pharaoh's burial
chamber in Luxor in 1923 bizarrely died over the following years -
six of them in the capital.
But the new book claims satanist Aleister Crowley was responsible for
six of them - and encouraged a seventh murder.
The book, researched by historian Mark Benyon, also draws parallels
between Crowley and Jack the Ripper.
Victims included Carter's personal secretary Captain Richard Bethell,
who was found dead in his bed after being smothered at an exclusive
Mayfair club.
Bethell's father Lord Westbury then plunged seven floors to his death
from his St James's apartment. He reportedly kept tomb artifacts
gifted by his son.
Aubrey Herbert, half-brother of Carter's financial backer Lord
Carnarvon, also died suspiciously in a Park Lane hospital shortly
after visiting Luxor.
At the time, the press blamed the 'Curse of Tutankhamun' for the
deaths and speculated on the supernatural powers of the ancient Egyptians.
But Mr Beynon has now drawn on previously unpublished evidence to
conclude they were actually all ritualistic killings masterminded by
Crowley, an occultist dubbed 'the wickedest man in the world'.
After unique analysis of Crowley's diaries, essays and books and
inquest reports, he argues that he was a Jack the Ripper-obsessed
copycat killer.
Crowley, who called himself 'The Great Beast', apparently had his own
motives to tarnish the legacy of Carter's legendary discovery.
The gods and goddesses of Crowley's own religious philosophy,
Thelema, were mainly drawn from ancient Egyptian religion.
He believed himself to be a prophet of a new age of personal liberty,
controlled by the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
It is likely that he would have found Carter's excavation
sacrilegious and wanted revenge, according to Mr Beynon.
In his new book 'London's Curse: Murder, Black Magic and Tutankhamun
in the 1920s West End', published this week, Mr Benyon pins seven
deaths on Crowley - and six of them took place in London.
He accuses Crowley of being responsible for the deaths of:-
Raoul Loveday who died on February 16, 1923. The 23-year-old Oxford
undergraduate was a follower of Crowley's cult at a Sicilian Abbey.
He died on the same day at the very hour of Carter's much-publicised
opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber after drinking the blood of a
cat sacrificed in one of Crowley's rituals. Mr Beynon argues that he
was deliberately poisoned.
Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey who died on July 10, 1923. The Egyptian
prince, 23, was shot dead by his French wife of six months,
Marie-Marguerite, in London's Savoy Hotel shortly after he was
photographed visiting the tomb. Mr Beynon says that Crowley and
Marie-Marguerite had been lovers in Paris. She was working as a
hostess at the Folies Berghre and he was a regular patron at the same
venue. He suggests that Crowley put her up to the shooting.
Aubrey Herbert, died September, 23, 1923. Shortly after
Marie-Marguerite's acquittal, Aubrey Herbert, the half-brother of
Lord Carnarvon, died of blood poisoning after a routine dental
operation went suspiciously wrong at his private hospital in Park
Lane. He had only recently returned from his own trip to Luxor. Mr
Beynon speculates that Crowley was behind the death and may again
have used Marie-Marguerite to do his dirty work.
Captain Richard Bethell, died November 15, 1929. Howard Carter's
46-year-old personal secretary was found dead in his bed at Mayfair's
exclusive Bath Club. Bethell was said to have been in perfect health.
It was initially thought that he died of a heart attack but his
symptoms raised suspicion that he was smothered to death as he slept.
Crowley had only recently returned to London and was often a guest of
novelist W. Somerset Maugham at the club.
Lord Westbury, died February 20, 1930. Bethell's father, Lord
Westbury, 77, was believed to have thrown himself off his seventh
floor St James's apartment. But Mr Beynon found that it was
practically impossible for an elderly man to have climbed out onto
the window ledge and suggests that Crowley threw him off.
Edgar Steele, died February 24, 1930. Only four days after the death
of Lord Westbury, Mr Steele, 57, died at St Thomas' Hospital after a
minor stomach operation. Mr Beynon speculates that Crowley was behind
the death. He was in charge of handling the tomb artefacts at
London's British Museum.
Sir Ernest Wallis Budge, died November 23, 1934. A former Keeper in
the British Museum's Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,
he was found dead in his bed in Bloomsbury aged 77. A friend of Lord
Carnarvon, he had been responsible for displaying the artefacts from
Luxor. Mr Beynon says there is evidence that Budge and Crowley were
associates on the London occult scene.
Crowley, who was born into a wealthy upper class family in 1875, had
a controversial doctrine for life of 'Do What Thou Wilt'.
The bisexual heroin addict gained notoriety for advocating sexual
promiscuity and prostitution and was dubbed 'the wickedest man in the
world' in the press.
Mr Beynon paints a picture of a dangerous schizophrenic known to have
murdered his servants in India.
Crowley never mentions the deaths in his diaries but often wrote that
his mood had 'lifted' the day after them.
He was obsessed with Jack the Ripper, writing numerous essays and
poems about him.
He socialised with Ripper suspect Walter Sickert and Mr Beynon argues
that Crowley used the Ripper's killing spree as inspiration for his
own efforts years later.
Crowley wrote in his diaries that he believed the locations of five
of the Ripper's murders in Whitechapel in 1888 formed a pentagram -
an important star-shaped symbol in Satanism.
Mr Beynon claims that the locations of five of Crowley's 'murders'
form a copycat pentagram.
Crowley believed that the Ripper's murders had afforded him special
powers, including invisibility.
Mr Beynon says that he thought his murders would also render him invisible.
To test his theory, he famously walked through London's Cafi Royal
restaurant ridiculously dressed in a mustard-coloured cloak adorned
with occultist symbols.
When customers fell silent and were too perturbed to speak to him, he
assumed they could not see him.
Outlining his macabre theory, Mr Beynon said: 'When I researched
these deaths, Crowley's name popped up again and again.
'There is plenty of circumstantial evidence linking him to all the
deaths and his diaries and books are riddled with clues linking him
to these crimes.
'I have just put all the pieces of the jigsaw together.
'So much of Crowley's belief system was steeped in ancient Egypt.
'He would have seen the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb as desecration.
'This was a man given to extensive world travel and yet we know he
was in London when at least four of the six deaths occurred.' He
added: 'I hope the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in
crime or London history.
'I was fascinated researching London in the 20s and 30s.
On the surface, it was very glitzy and glamorous but there was a dark
underbelly that provided the ideal stage for this story.
'Everyone was obsessed with the supposed Curse of Tutankhamun
striking down high society victims.
'But until now, no-one has ever realised that they may well have been
murdered.'
THE CURSE OF KING TUT
The curse of the mummy began after a series of terrible events
occurred following the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
Legend has it that anyone who dared to open the tomb would suffer the
wrath of the mummy.
A few months after the tomb's opening tragedy struck. Lord Carnarvon,
57, was taken ill and rushed to Cairo. He died a few days later. The
exact cause of death was not known, but it seemed to be from an
infection started by an insect bite.
Legend has it that when he died there was a short power failure and
all the lights throughout Cairo went out. His son reported that back
on his estate in England his favorite dog howled and suddenly dropped dead.
Even more strange, when the mummy of Tutankhamun was unwrapped in
1925, it was found to have a wound on the left cheek in the same
exact position as the insect bite on Carnarvon that lead to his death.
By 1929 eleven people connected with the discovery of the tomb had
died early and of unnatural causes.
This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal
secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury.
Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note
that read: 'I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see
what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit.'
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