Combat Profile
Thelemic Apotheosis
Invokes 'Do What Thou Wilt' to reshape reality's constraints and grant allies freedom from limiting fate
Prophet of the Aeon
All magical workings gain enhanced potency; initiates within his presence gain +2 to arcane resonance
Heroin addiction in his later years; chronic broken finances; alienated nearly everyone he worked with at some point; the British tabloid press declared him "the wickedest man in the world" -- a label he rather enjoyed
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” — The Book of the Law I:40, I:57
Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley, 1875, Leamington Spa) spends his life in deliberate opposition to his Plymouth Brethren upbringing. Educated at Cambridge, he climbs in the Himalayas (K2, 1902), joins the Golden Dawn (1898), is expelled after factional wars. In Cairo (1904), through his wife Rose as medium, he receives The Book of the Law from Aiwass, declaring the Aeon of Horus. This text founds Thelema, the religion he builds for the rest of his life. He is a serious magician, yoga student, poet, mountaineer, a casual rapist (by some accounts), a generous teacher, a vicious feuder, and one of history’s most influential occultists. His shadow dominates virtually every English-language magical tradition that follows — Thelema, Wicca (Gardner uses his rituals heavily), modern ceremonial magic, chaos magick. He dies in Hastings in 1947 from bronchitis worsened by heroin addiction.
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Crowley, *Liber AL vel Legis* (1904); *Magick in Theory and Practice* (1929); *Confessions* (1929); *Book of Thoth* (1944)
