About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 105. Chapters: English occult writers, Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Gerald Gardner, Arthur Edward Waite, Peter J. Carroll, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Robert Fludd, Colin Wilson, William Lilly, Thomas Browne, Alice Bailey, Alan Moore, David Icke, John Dee, Annie Besant, Austin Osman Spare, Elias Ashmole, Stewart Farrar, Andrew D. Chumbley, Doreen Valiente, Murry Hope, Edward Kelley, Simon Forman, Erika Cheetham, Thomas Lake Harris, Phil Hine, Alexander Cannon, Israel Regardie, Sybil Leek, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, John Symonds, Frederic Lamond, Kenneth Grant, Philip Heselton, Charles Henry Allan Bennett, Sally Morningstar, Nigel Pennick, Meredith Starr, Frank Clifford, Isabelle de Steiger, Ramsey Dukes, Marian Green, Thomas Charnock, Francis Barrett, Ian Read, Amado Crowley, Nicholas Mann, William Robert Woodman, Vivianne Crowley, Gavin Bone, Ann-Marie Gallagher, William Wynn Westcott, John Yarker, Ithell Colquhoun, Cassandra Eason, Francis X. King, Ray Sherwin. 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 Mathers. Subsequently believing that he was being con...
