"Fernando Pessoa and Sintra," "The Mystery of the Mouth of Hell" or "Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley", are the possible names for a myth surrounding these figures, the Sintra mountains and its surroundings.
Born in Leamington on 12th of October of 1875, named Edward Alexander Crowley, the same as his father, Edward Crowley - who made his fortune as a brewer, dedicating himself to the study of Theosophy after retirement - lived during the first World War in the United States, where he came to write the Hymn to Pan (note: at the end of this post there is the referred poem, including a video where the "Hymn to Pan" is recited) that Fernando Pessoa translated to Portuguese. Assuming then the name of Aleister Crowley, he has become a famous magician in the beginning of last century, and its fame was best known for the infamy with which newspapers around the world described him, due to the eccentricity of his life, and radicalism of its communication, or the words and meanings that they always carried.
Magician and occultist, Aleister self proclaimed "Magician Therion" and also "the Beast 666." Crowley formed the Astrum Argentum (signed "A.:. A.:.") which was a mystical order that published material seen by critics of the time, as wicked and satanic. Later also formed a pseudotemplar order, the Ordo Templi Orientis (signed "OTO"), which with the help of the image that the first created, contributed to accentuate the wrong image and feeling that people scattered, of the supposed evil face of the Templars .
Fernando Pessoa, the poet that wrote the poem "Message", enigmatic poem about Portugal or the role and intentions of the country - he also was attracted to the occult throughout his life - studied many esoteric aspects which would be deepen or abandoned as they would be misleading (as we have a prime example of Madame Blavatsky) or would bring a credible feeling about it. And so it was with the study of the influence of the stars and planets: from a certain point in his life on, he devoted himself to the study of astrology, and years later decided to deepen it further.
