 He claimed to have attained the spiritual state of "dhyana", the seventh stage on the path to enlightenment defined by Patanjali.In 1939, Crowley gave a series of lectures on yoga, under the "modest" pseudonym of Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji.He helped to link yoga in the mind of the British public with magic, yogis with fakirs, and tantra with "Western esoteric sexual practices".