Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley      (Occultist, poet, novelist, mountaineer)
Born	Edward Alexander Crowley 1875-10-12 Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	1947-12-01 (Age 72) Hastings, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater	Trinity College (Cambridge)
Children	5
Spouse	Rose Edith Kelly
Interest of	William Ramsey

Aleister Crowley was an occultist and a friend of R. H. Bruce Lockhart‎. He worked in some capacity for MI5 and/or MI6 during WW2.

The Man Who Was M

From Anthony Masters book "The Man Who Was M: The Real-Life Spymaster Who Inspired Ian Fleming" the following detail is related about Crowley:

"Crowley had come to dinner with the Wheatleys many times and provided Dennis with occult information for his books. Wheatley’s first opinion had been that Crowley was interesting but harmless. Driberg, however, warned him that Crowley had been responsible for running a community in Northern Sicily where a number of children had been rumored to have disappeared in connection with Satanic masses. He also told Wheatley that there had been another alarming episode, this time in Paris, which was better documented. In an attempt to raise the pagan god Pan, Crowley had spent a night in an empty hotel room on the Left Bank, in company with one of his followers, a man named MacAleister. In the morning they were both found naked. MacAleister was dead and Crowley was crouched howling in a corner, from where he was taken to an asylum. Four months later he was released, but the cause of MacAleister’s death was never discovered. This, anyway, was Driberg’s story and it fascinated both the Wheatleys and Knight, although Crowley in the flesh remained a disappointment."

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler - The Ideology of Evil	Article	21 December 2010	William Ramsey

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