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Richard Cavendish has written of him that "In native talent, penetrating intelligence and determination, Aleister Crowley was the best-equipped magician to emerge since the seventeenth century." [300] The scholar of esotericism Egil Asprem described him as "one of the most well-known figures in modern occultism". [301]
Aleister Crowley's fan Victor, who works as a programmer on the project, conspires with literature professor Haddo to place "Aleister Crowley's binary code" (the locations and contents of all rituals) in Z93 in the form of a virus. Before the first official tests, Victor takes Haddo to the laboratory and he puts on a "spacesuit".
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.
Richard Kaczynski (born 1963) is an American writer and lecturer in the fields of social psychology, metaphysical beliefs and new religious movements.He is known for his biography of the occultist Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the major biography to date", [1] and by Didrik Søderlind in the Norwegian daily Aftenposten ...
Leah Hirsig (April 9, 1883 – February 22, 1975) was an American schoolteacher [1] and occultist, notable for her magical record diary, The Magical Record of the Scarlet Woman, which describes her experiences and visions as an associate, friend, and victim [1] of occult writer Aleister Crowley. She was the most famous of Crowley's "Scarlet ...
Tobias Churton in Aleister Crowley: The Biography discusses the Abyss as a crucial part of the spiritual journey, emphasizing its transformative power. [40] Richard Kaczynski in Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley traces the historical development of Crowley's concept of the Abyss and situates it within the broader context of Western ...
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.
Charles Richard Cammell had known Crowley personally and was an admirer of the magus, particularly of his poetry. In Charles Cammell's 1962 biography Aleister Crowley: The Man: The Mage: The Poet, he wrote that Crowley "was a poet of lyric genius." [5] Owing to his father's relationship with the diabolist, Donald Cammell met Crowley.