Boleskine House

To help you all better understand where the gents are going in the next chapter, here's a little background on Jimmy's Boleskine House, purchased by him circa 1969 for the sole reason that Aleister Crowley-- the proclaimed father of modern black magick and magus (head magician) of the O.T.O (Order of the Temple of the East or "Ordo Templi Orientis") for his time in the early 20th century-- once owned and invoked  in it. So please take reference to this lovely [cited] Wikipedia article on Jimmy's house if need be; and I know Wikipedia isn't 100%, but I already know enough about this house from Mick Wall's When Giants Walked the Earth to guarantee that this all is right and it doesn't even skim the surface.

From Walls book, it is said that Boleskine House was very cold, haunted, a prone to leaks. Also, a black dog used to hang around, a kind old dog from which the Zep song draws its name, until circa 1971 when it died. From Wikipedia:


*Crowley purchased the home in order to perform the operation found in The Book of the Sacred Magick of Abra-Melin the Mage. To perform it, Crowley says,

"One must have a house where proper precautions against disturbance can be taken; this being arranged, there is really nothing to do but to aspire with increasing fervor and concentration, for six months, towards the obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel."

In The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (Chapter 22), he continues:

"The first essential is a house in a more or less secluded situation. There should be a door opening to the north from the room of which you make your oratory. Outside this door, you construct a terrace covered with fine river sand. This ends in a 'lodge' where the spirits may congregate."

Crowley eventually sold the manor in order to fund the publication of The Equinox, Vol. III. However, he later alleged that the funds were stolen by the Grand Treasurer General of Ordo Templi Orientis, George MacNie Cowie.

Boleskine House is located on the South-Eastern shore of Loch Ness in Scotland...

"The house is a long low building. I set apart the south-western half for my work. The largest room has a bow window and here I made my door and constructed the terrace and lodge. Inside the room I set up my oratory proper. This was a wooden structure, lined in part with the big mirrors which I brought from London." ~Crowley 

The home includes the entrance hall, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a drawing room, dining room, family room, kitchen, utility room, and the cellars. The grounds (about 47 acres) includes the Gate Lodge, which was originally the home for a coachman. It has a living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom, as well as a pond, small garden and an orchard.

From the early 1970s until 1991 Boleskine was owned by famed Led Zeppelin guitarist and Aleister Crowley enthusiast, Jimmy Page, who once called Crowley "a misunderstood genius of the 20th Century".

Page's fantasy sequence in the Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same was filmed at night on the mountainside directly behind Boleskine House.

Page claimed that the house was haunted by a severed head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleskine_House