Aleister Crowley

The infamous occult practitioner, Edward Alexander "Aleister" Crowley cast a long shadow over the history and culture of the 20th century. The information in this book illustrates this fact. As the foremost accumulator of secret knowledge in the late 19th and early 20th Century, Crowley based his occult works upon prior magicians, writers, and philosophers, incorporating their ideas, and his own, into a new religion for a New Age. This book details Crowley’s progression from a self–described childhood in hell, to notorious magician, to drug-addled middle age as the Great Beast, and on to his final years living in an upscale boarding house in southern England. As this visual study confirms, a copious amount of photographic and newspaper evidence remains concerning the Beast 666-Aleister Crowley.