The legend of Aleister Crowley, as it can be called nothing less than that, began on October 12, 1875 (Booth 4). Born to a family which belonged to a rather strict form of Christianity known as The Plymouth Brethren, young Crowley had limited access to ideas which varied from the church’s doctrine as well as books outside of the Bible. This limited access forced him to focus on the biblical stories leading to a mind fed on stories of false prophets, the beast and the number 666, “Crowley’s character was starting to form in ways others might regard, especially today, and unhealthily biased and narrow.” (Booth 11). His father, Edward Crowley, whom he respected and admired, died March 5, 1887 from cancer of the tongue after receiving electro-homeopathy
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From this endeavor a few fun and almost unbelievable stories arise. Aleister Crowley has a passion for chess, and could eventually play several games at one time! However the most ridiculous, although true, story is this, “On one occasion, Crowley was in a bedroom having sex while, next door, a friend sat at a chess board. The bedroom door being open, Crowley responded to each move without breaking his stroke, so to speak — and he won the game.” (Booth 52). An outrageous story, which caries exquisitely the character of Aleister Crowley, a man of intellect and extreme sexual curiosity. In this story his passion of chess and sex are combined, while the audience of such a tale is left wondering why the friend and the sexual partner agreed to such an …show more content…
That Falsetto tone was dissipated immediately and for ever. It is certain that he had dramatized himself from his earliest years, that he had deliberately created his own daemonic legend; but so certain was he of his daemonic, his elemental origin, so sincere was he in his claim to seerdom, to the prophetic character, that his personality remained absolutely natural and unaffected.” (Cammell 6) Among practicing pagans, the name Aleister Crowley is treated in a similar way as the name “Voldemort” is treated in the wizarding world of “Harry Potter”, that is to say it is treated with a great deal of fear and apprehension even at the mentioning of the name. But as J.K. Rowling says in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” (216) Fear of Crowley was propagated by
From this endeavor a few fun and almost unbelievable stories arise. Aleister Crowley has a passion for chess, and could eventually play several games at one time! However the most ridiculous, although true, story is this, “On one occasion, Crowley was in a bedroom having sex while, next door, a friend sat at a chess board. The bedroom door being open, Crowley responded to each move without breaking his stroke, so to speak — and he won the game.” (Booth 52). An outrageous story, which caries exquisitely the character of Aleister Crowley, a man of intellect and extreme sexual curiosity. In this story his passion of chess and sex are combined, while the audience of such a tale is left wondering why the friend and the sexual partner agreed to such an …show more content…
That Falsetto tone was dissipated immediately and for ever. It is certain that he had dramatized himself from his earliest years, that he had deliberately created his own daemonic legend; but so certain was he of his daemonic, his elemental origin, so sincere was he in his claim to seerdom, to the prophetic character, that his personality remained absolutely natural and unaffected.” (Cammell 6) Among practicing pagans, the name Aleister Crowley is treated in a similar way as the name “Voldemort” is treated in the wizarding world of “Harry Potter”, that is to say it is treated with a great deal of fear and apprehension even at the mentioning of the name. But as J.K. Rowling says in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” (216) Fear of Crowley was propagated by