Black Brother
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A Black Brother, as characterized by Crowley and others, is a renegade occultist, who does not contribute to or who opposes the liberation or exaltation of humankind. According to Aleister Crowley, a Black Brother is an Adeptus Exemptus of the Great White Brotherhood who, faced with the challenge of the ordeal of crossing the Abyss, in which the personal ego must be totally sacrificed and transcended, fails to completely annihilate the ego. The ego is invaded by Choronzon, the demon of the Abyss and the personification of chaos, who slowly devours it. The terrified Black Brother resists this process of disintegration, resulting in a state of destructive megalomania. Crowley believed that Adolf Hitler was such a Black Brother. Template:Occult-stub