English occultist (1875–1947)
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He called himself a prophet ushering in a new age, founded a religion around "Do what thou wilt," and died notorious for occultism, bisexuality, and drugs — long before any of that was fashionable. Thelema still claims him as its center, and the counterculture never stopped looking back.
Born in 1875 to a wealthy Plymouth Brethren family in Warwickshire, Edward Alexander Crowley shed fundamentalist Christianity at Cambridge, where he turned to mountaineering, poetry, and Western esotericism. In 1898 he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and trained in ceremonial magic; six years later, honeymooning in Cairo with his wife Rose Edith Kelly, he wrote down The Book of the Law — dictated, he said, by a supernatural entity named Aiwass — which became the sacred text of Thelema and announced the Æon of Horus. He co-founded the A∴A∴ in 1907, later led the British O.T.O., and…
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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament, especially the book of Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon. ...
Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga.
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
There seems to be much misunderstanding about True Will ...
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
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