| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 90 DEF 70 SPR 92 SPD 85 INT 96 |
| Rank | Magus / Founder of Thelema / Head of the OTO / Prophet of the Aeon of Horus |
| Domain | Ceremonial magic, Thelema, the Thoth Tarot, the integration of Eastern yoga with Western ritual, deliberate self-mythologizing |
| Alignment | Esoteric / Thelemic / cheerfully scandalous |
| Weakness | 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 |
| Key Act | Received *The Book of the Law* in Cairo, April 8-10, 1904, declaring the Aeon of Horus and the law *"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."* Wrote *Magick in Theory and Practice* (1929). Took over the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) in the 1920s. Designed the Thoth Tarot deck with Lady Frieda Harris (1944, published posthumously 1969). Defined modern ceremonial magic |
| Source | Crowley, *Liber AL vel Legis* (1904); *Magick in Theory and Practice* (1929); *Confessions* (1929); *Book of Thoth* (1944) |
“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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