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Aleister Crowley (/ ˈ æ l ɪ s t ər ˈ k r oʊ l i / AL-ist-ər KROH-lee; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography is a partial autobiography by the poet and occultist Aleister Crowley. It covers the early years of his life up until the mid-late 1920s but does not include the latter part of Crowley's life and career between then and his death in 1947.
The date of Aleister Crowley's death, December 1, 1947, in Thelemic terms could be expressed as: Dies Lunae, Anno Ixxi, ☉ in 8° ♐, ☽ in 20° ♋. This interpretation of Anno Ixxi, "The Completion of the Magician", aligns with the symbolism of the Tarot and the progress through the docosades. [1]
True Will is a foundational concept in Thelema, the philosophical and magical framework established by Aleister Crowley early in the 20th century. It represents the intrinsic and divine purpose unique to each individual, transcending mere personal desires and societal expectations.
Magick Without Tears, a series of letters, was the last book written by English occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), although it was not published until after his death. It was written in 1943 and published in 1954 with a foreword by its editor, Karl Germer .
The A∴A∴ (/ ˌ eɪ ˈ eɪ / ay-AY) is a magical organization established in 1907 by Aleister Crowley, a Western esotericist.Its members are dedicated to the advancement of humanity by perfection of the individual on every plane through a graded series of universal initiations.
It was written by Crowley and Allan Bennet (Frater I.A.) and is basically an index of numbers from 1–3321 listing their Hebrew word equivalents. This book is also useful for magical students as a reference for word-sympathy, from AB ("father") and BA ("to come") = 3 to ShDBRShHMOTh ShRThThN = 3321.
Liber Aleph vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly is the title of The Equinox, volume III, number VI, by Aleister Crowley.The book is written in the form of an epistle to his magical son, Charles Stansfeld Jones, Frater Achad, whom Crowley later doubted as being his true magical son, asserting that Achad had in fact gone insane, citing as evidence Achad's "upending the tree of life" in his Q.B ...