CROWLEY,ALEISTER (1875-1947)

PART ONE:_"THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD" - Aliester Crowley was a poet,painter,chess master,writer,lecher, drug addict,novelist and magician(which is what he's mostly known for). He called himself the 'THE BEAST:TRIPLE SIX' and proclaimed himself a saint of the gnostic church,becoming a 'god' in his own temple at the age 45. By which time he was already infamous in numerous countries,banned from some and forced to leave others. Born 1975,son of a wealthy merchant who rejected the hypocritical diversions of Victorian life, to dedicate himself to a carreer of... EVIL,SATANIK SPELLS,and Writing. He experimented with Heroine,Cocaine, Opium,Hashish and other drugs. Also earned a reputation for wild sex and drug orgies,which he combined with religious rites of his self instituted order. He also established the notorious abbey of...THELEMA&code: 'Do what thou wilt' on the island of Cefalu, Sicily in Italy:where he lived with a collection of mistresses and acolytes,practicing the sexual narcotic and occult experiments through which the 'great beast' sought spiritual enlighnment. PART TWO:_"BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE" - The Wickedest man in the World...(!) was but one of the labels attached to *ALEISTER CROWLEY. He said that his mother first called him the Beast after the Bibles great beast(666) of Revelations. He embraced both these names,for him,EVIL was a religious pursuit. His quest throughout was Mind-altering 'Magick.' His ultimate methodology was SEX(!). Crowley was born into a sect in 1875,and spent his life rejecting it. His father was an austere christian whose theology Edward Alexander, Crowley hated. He renamed himself and replaced his parents saints with biblical villians. Crowley died of heart and lung problems??? He was a Heroine addict by then,but before his decline... few experiences of Mind,Spirit&Flesh eluded him. He climbed mountains,wrote poetry,painted,dipped in Eastern Religions and Oriental Mysticism and even more deeply into DRUGS(!). He lived the words that he had made his incarnation: "DO WHAT THOU WILT" The first sect Crowley joined was 'THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN', -a secret society founded in England in 1888 to study the Occult. In 1911,Crowley joined another cult:_'THE ORDER TEMPLI ORIENTIS' or 'THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLARS OF THE EAST' founded in 1902,the basis of the O.T.O was a belief that SEX(!),is the key to mans nature and that... ??orgasm?? properly ritualized could be a supernatural experience (...ha,ha,ha!). Crowley agreed in 1912,to be Head of the Order in Great Britian. Bannished by the Golden Dawn, Crowley borrowed its rituals and in 1907,set up a splinter group:_'THE SILVER STAR' or 'ARGENTINUM ASTRUM'(A.A). It was on his travels 2years later with an early acolyte,a worshipful youth by the name of... VIKTOR NUEBURG, that SEX(!) could be a means to Magick (the event occured on a mountaintop in Morocco). In 1920,he took up residence in a rundown farmhouse in Cefalu,Sicily. Crowley called this A.A sanctuary the abbey of... THELEMA. In late 1922?(May,1923)? Crowley was then expelled by the Italian government from Silicy... PART_THREE:_"THE SCARLET WOMAN..." -Crowley had insatiable hunger for women and to their misfortune seemed to need him too,as well. He called each of his females a 'scarlet woman',after the biblical consort who coupled and copulated with THE GREAT BEAST...! The first was Rose Kelly,the sister of a distinguished english artist,Crowley married in 1903. For Rose the magic soon faded after their first child died of Typhus in 1906,during a trip through Asia. A second was born in 1907,but then according to Crowley, Rose was drinking at least a bottle of whiskey a day. They divorced in 1909 and 2years later... Rose entered an asylum(!). The same fate was met by his 2nd wife, a flamboyant Nicaraguan named... Maria de Miramar. At least one more mistress was institutionalized and others committed suicide or drank themselves to DEATH after parting ways with the Beast. The most resilient of Crowleys women was Leah Hirsig,a school teacher with their nanny Ninette Shumway,who took care of their daughter... Poupèe. The threesome did not work out well,Ninette fought Leah for Crowleys favour,Poupèe died and Leah miscarried (again!). Even then,she kept a grip on her sanity and the beast. Matching Crowley drug for drug,deed for perverse deed,ejected with him from Thelema. She shared Crowleys exile,tolerating his new mistresses,but only in 1930,did she renounce her role as... 'Scarlet Woman' and returned to America and teaching.(she died in 1951.)(!) -Bald and bloated the beast continued to attract scarlet women. On a London street in 1934, a 19year old girl rushed up to him and declared that she wanted to have his baby???(!). The Beast... Crowley took her to bed and she... too,later entered an asylum.(!).