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[–] kestrel9 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Very well put! Okay, so I've restarted my response a few times it's so overwhelming on how to comment briefly without writing ending up writing volumes of info interspersed with serious rants lol. For now I'm just throwing this out there:

http://archive.is/PNK6I http://rense.com/general82/crowl.htm

"Secret Agent 666 - Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence And The Occult"

""The Great Beast" has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.   Using documents gleaned from British, American, French and Italian archives, Secret Agent 666 sensationally reveals that Crowley played a major role in the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, and the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess.  

Author Richard Spence argues that Crowley-in his own unconventional way-was a patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask his role as a secret agent.   The verification of the Great Beast's participation in the twentieth century's most astounding government plots will likely blow the minds of history as well as occult aficionados. "

And from Wikipedia the we read that Crowley rejected Christianity (however, it could be easily argues that he really never learned about it.) The overreaching theme of Crowley's life is wide travel, an unstable, perhaps borderline personality, obsession with sexuality, especially while exploring nearly occult practice one can imagine, yet adhering to none because it appears he a god complex. He experienced either hallucinations or demonic possession depending how one looks at it:

"According to Crowley's later statements, on 8 April he heard a disembodied voice that claimed to be that of Aiwass, the messenger of Horus, or Hoor-Paar-Kraat. Crowley said that he wrote down everything the voice told him over the course of the next three days, and titled it Liber L vel Legis or The Book of the Law.[58] The book proclaimed that humanity was entering a new Aeon, and that Crowley would serve as its prophet.

It stated that a supreme moral law was to be introduced in this Aeon, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," and that people should learn to live in tune with their Will. This book, and the philosophy that it espoused, became the cornerstone of Crowley's religion, Thelema.[59] Crowley said that at the time he had been unsure what to do with The Book of the Law. Often resenting it, he said that he ignored the instructions which the text commanded him to perform, which included (break here for emphasis):

  1. taking the Stele of Revealing from the museum,

  2. fortifying his own island, and translating the book into all the world's languages."

Yeah well those instructions really sucked /sacr So...

"According to his account, he instead sent typescripts of the work to several occultists he knew, putting the manuscript away and ignoring it.[60]" He simultaneously rejected and followed his own inane law!

But recall: "Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896.[22] Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognise his bisexuality.[23]" If Aiwass' instructions didn't include having an orgy island then screw it!

Of note of the themes of British Intelligence and Sexual obsession:

"In 1897, Crowley travelled to St Petersburg in Russia, later claiming that he was trying to learn Russian as he was considering a future diplomatic career there.[26] Biographers Richard Spence and Tobias Churton suggested that Crowley had done so as an intelligence agent under the employ of the British secret service, speculating that he had been enlisted while at Cambridge.[27]"

1907-1909 Victor Neuburg, whom Crowley met in February 1907, became his sexual partner and closest disciple; in 1908 the pair toured northern Spain before heading to Tangier, Morocco.[83] The following year Neuburg stayed at Boleskine, where he and Crowley engaged in sadomasochism.[84]

"Following a mountaintop sex magic ritual, Crowley also performed an invocation to the demon Choronzon involving blood sacrifice, considering the results to be a watershed in his magical career.[95]" 1909-1911

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley