Who is Aleister Crowley

It must be admitted that even now, after his death, although more than 70 years have passed, the hype around his extraordinary personality has not subsided. All because he left us a legacy in the form of an amazing Tarot deck and many books on occult topics, as well as facts and speculation about his biography. It is worth noting that he himself loved to shock and personally created the ground either for his own weight in certain circles, or in order to bring fog and mysticism around his person, or simply because he was the kind of person for whom everything is unusual. We can only guess.

Edward Alexander Crowley - this is his real name, was born in England on October 12, 1875, in the family of a housewife and an engineer/owner of a private brewery "Crowley's Beer". Parents: father Edward Crowley and mother Emily Bishop were adherents of the Christian sect "Plymouth Brethren", and later his father became their preacher. Having spent his entire childhood preaching and reading chapters of the Bible, Aleister, who was not distinguished by exemplary behavior and a quiet disposition, was expelled from the private school of the "Plymouth Brethren". And also listening to dogmas, he drew attention to inconsistencies in some moments of the Bible, and did not share the general views of his father and mother. His father died of tongue cancer when Alistair was 11 years old, and his mother, in her anger, called him "the beast 666" for his teenage disobedience and denial of the Christian worldview, that is, a fiend from hell, the devil in the concept of her faith.

In essence, his childhood environment determined his further path in magic. After each interaction, during and after upbringing, we are left with memorable traces in our soul, sediment, and sometimes even trauma. And in adult life, this largely determines his life path, suffering, adaptation and preferences. As an adult, Alistair called himself "the beast 666" and in every way denied the Christian concept of faith, having begun to be interested in magic and the occult from a young age. As Alistair, married twice or four times later, and having had relationships with more than one and a half thousand women, said, he was looking for the "right" woman - such is the internal conflict of relationships with parental figures.

His famous expression "Do what thou wilt (act according to thy will), and that shall be the whole of the law" can be interpreted from different points of development. On the one hand, it is a complete lack of frameworks and rules, anarchy and lawlessness, on the other, more mature, it is inner freedom and alchemy of willpower in the conditions of society. The metaphorical language of the poet and writer Crowley is expressed in all his works, which makes them relevant beyond time. The main thing is to decipher the metaphors of the author's extraordinary mind.

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were followers of his teachings and financially protected him, but later Hitler decided to create his own direction and Crowley wrote with disappointment that "Adolf Hitler could never understand the true essence of the mystery of magic." As history has shown, he was probably right.

Having a strong external resemblance and views on the world, Aleister Crowley considered himself the incarnation of Eliphas Levi, who died on his birthday.

He knew several languages perfectly: German, French, Arabic, Hebrew and was less fluent in Chinese and Hindi. He tried to learn Russian, but without success; he visited Russia twice, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In his youth, he was fond of mountaineering and was close to conquering the second highest mountain in the world. He traveled a lot and for a long time, living for several years in different countries of the world.

Crowley's life is full of ups and downs. According to one version, he squandered all of his father's inheritance while still studying at university, according to another, he lost it due to litigation with one of his ex-wives. Having different financial

situations, he never worked as an employee for a single day in his life.

A bisexual and a drug addict or a person who really lived the way he wanted, not limited by attraction to one sex and sobriety of consciousness?

Stuck at a certain stage of psychosexual development and in an internal conflict or a person who consciously went beyond the norm? Whether he killed 150 children every year for sacrifice in magical rituals or was this a paranoid delirium of an inflamed imagination, we can only shrug our shoulders. The fact remains: Crowley sued several times with various publications regarding his scandalous reputation and sometimes won. He was definitely a wayward, original and extraordinary person, possessing a special magnetism. Ozzy Osbourne in his song about Crowley (although in the modern musical space he is not the only one to mention the magician and occultist) asks: "Mr. Crowley, what's in your head?" Named by British sociologists as the most vile person of the century and the devil incarnate, it can be said that he understood during his life what the essence of Magic is.

"Love is the law, love in accordance with one's will." He definitely loved what he did and left a great legacy to all of humanity, in particular, the Tarot deck of Thoth by Aleister Crowley!

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