Do What I Wilt.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Published | 2001-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
| Reviewee | n/a | Lawrence Sutin |
The individualist authoritarianism of Aleister Crowley
The British author, mountain climber, and mystic Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is long dead. But his afterlife as a pop icon continues. Crowley is beloved by subcultures ranging from heavy metal devotees (Ozzy Osbourne wrote a song about him, Jimmy Page bought his old house) to magicians (Crowley designed a popular Tarot deck, and wrote some of the more enduring modern instructional and philosophical manuals on ritual magic, or "magick" in his pet spelling).
He was the inspiration for W. Somerset Maugham's 1906...
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