About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Roger Bacon, Aleister Crowley, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alcuin, Ted Hughes, Adelard of Bath, Robert Fludd, William Lilly, Alice Bailey, John Dee, Elias Ashmole, Nicholas Culpeper, Thomas Harriot, Murry Hope, Kenelm Digby, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Simon Forman, Christopher Heydon, John Addey, Richard Mead, Walter Berg, Russell Grant, Sybil Leek, John Lambe, Richard of Wallingford, John Holwell, Clifford Bax, Frank Clifford, John Varley, John Partridge, Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, Ebenezer Sibly, Nathaniel Torporley, Sepharial, Deborah Houlding, Humphrey Baker, Nicholas Campion, Mystic Meg, Walcher of Malvern, Vincent Wing, Richard Forster, Robert Thomas Cross, Olivia Barclay, Thomas Allen, Charles E. O. Carter, Pauline Moran, Richard Napier, Julia Parker, Jeff Mayo, Robert Cross Smith, John Harvey, Maurice Woodruff, Melanie Reinhart, Dennis Elwell, John Booker, Douglas Baker, Anthony Ascham, Richard James Morrison, William Backhouse, Margaret Hone, John Gadbury, William of Marseille, John of Eschenden, Francis Moore, John Case. Excerpt: Aleister Crowley (; 12 October 1875 - 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other fields, including mountaineering, chess and poetry. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early twentieth century. Born into a wealthy upper class family, as a young man he became an influential member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after befriending the order's leader, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Ma...
