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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]
Aleister Crowley identifies this process as one of Love.He explains in his 1938 book Little Essays Toward Truth: . The truly magical operations of Love are therefore the Trances, more especially those of Understanding; as will readily have been appreciated by those who have made a careful Qabalistic study of the nature of Binah.
John Symonds (12 March 1914 – 21 October 2006) was an English writer known for his biographies of Aleister Crowley, as well as novels, plays, and children's books.His literary career spanned several decades, covering a wide range of genres and subjects.
Mandrake Press also published The Confessions of Aleister Crowley volumes I and II, and Moonchild. Crowley published few collections of short stories, but the title story received such a good review from British novelist Joseph Conrad when he published it in The English Review that he thought it was a possible calling to conventional fame.
By doing so, a magician becomes fully aware of their own True Will. For Crowley, this event was the single most important goal of any practitioner of magick. [k] In most of his writings, Crowley described the Holy Guardian Angel as one's "Silent Self", at times equitable with one's deepest unconscious.
Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but also on philosophy, politics, and culture.He was a published poet and playwright and left behind many personal letters and daily journal entries.