Sir Aleister Crowley

Sir (Edward Alexander) Aleister Crowley

(1875 EV – Anno Ixxi)

English poet, painter, mountaineer, magician, and prophet, the physical vehicle of TO MEGA THERION. Head of A∴ A∴ and head of O.T.O. in the English-speaking world under Reuss, and Reuss’s successor as O.H.O of O.T.O. Crowley wrote Liber XV, the Gnostic Mass, in Russia in 1913 EV. Most readers of this essay will already be familiar with the life of Aleister Crowley; those who are not are referred to the references listed below.

References

Cammell, Charles Richard; Aleister Crowley: the Man, the Mage, the Poet, University Books, Inc., New Hyde Park, NY 1962
Crow, W.B.; A History of Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism, Aquarian Press, London 1968
Crowley, Aleister; Works
Fuller, Capt. J.F.C.; The Star in the West, Walter Scott, London 1907
Grant, Kenneth; Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, Samuel Weiser, NY 1974
Regardie, Israel; The Eye in the Triangle, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota 1970
Roberts, Susan; The Magician of the Golden Dawn, Contemporary Books, Chicago 1978
Skinner, Stephen; The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley, Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine, 1979/1981
Stephenson, P.R. and Israel Regardie; The Legend of Aleister Crowley [1930], Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota 1970
Symonds, John; The King of the Shadow Realm, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London 1989
Symonds, John and Kenneth Grant, eds.; The Magical Record of the Beast 666, Duckworth, London 1972

Original Publication Date: 2/1/97By Tau ApiryonOriginally published in Red Flame No. 2 – Mystery of Mystery: A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism by Tau Apiryon and Helena; Berkeley, CA 1995 EV

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