Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) : Occultist, poet, novelist, mountaineer and ceremonial magician,the man who called himself "the beast 666"...
"I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise; I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong. I want men behind me, or before me if they can surpass me"
“I had arrived at the conclusion that the Plymouth Brethren were an exceptionally detestable crew. I wanted sin. A supreme spiritual sin. But hadn’t the slightest idea how to go about it"
In August 1898, Crowley was in Zermatt, Switzerland, where he met the chemist Julian L. Baker, and the two began discussing their common interest in alchemy.at that point he became fascinated with magic and occult,he he heard about secret societies that practice dark and forbidding rituals, at the age of 23 Crowley was initiated into the Outer Order of the Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898 by the group's leader.
the Golden Dawn was an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He rapidly raised and grown in the magical world like nobody before,after awhile the golden dawn turn to be a disappointment for him,He thought they were playing with magic, and that was the major step for him,living the golden dawn and willing to take black magic.
he was willing to use any forces that he could harness and control,he took the "abra-melin ritual",a magical ritual no magician dare to perform for centuries,Abra-Melin is an Egyptian mage lived from c.1362–c.1458,it was believed that very dangerous the ritual,and it is based on the principle that the material world is the creation of evil spirits which can be controlled by the magician,a being taken by practitioners of the system to be the magician's true self. Once he has achieved this, he can use the spirits (which can again be interpreted as factors within himself) as his servants.
I personally have a healthy respect for the occult, and what it can do, influencing the mind and making-up your life,when you do that kind of things,you get possessed,one way or another.
in August,1903,Crowley wed Rose Edith Kelly,he fell in love with her,wrote her a series of love poems on their honeymoon in Egypt,they've spent a night the king's chamber in the pyramid of giza,and it's just about crowley showing out his wife what a great magician he is,when he preliminary perform another ritual, "Bornless Ritual"
that had an unexpected results, that were even a great influence on crowley,
I wanted my wife to see what a great magician I was. We went accordingly after dinner with candles, I had with me a small notebook in which was written, The preliminary invocation of the Goetia(...)Rose got into a strange state of mind. I had never seen anything like it before. She kept on repeating dreamily yet intensely, ‘THEY ARE WATING FOR YOU.’ when i asked, Rose, “who is waiting?” she repeatedly replied, “Horus,”His wife knew nothing about magic and Egyptology and he sure as hell didn’t believe her so… what did he do? He took her to the Egyptian museum in Cairo to test her. As they got there Rose quickly rushed from room to room until she found the room dedicated to Horus.“There, There he is.” She stood still and pointed at the seventh-century BCE mortuary stele of Horus, later to be named, "Stele of Revealing" by Crowley himself.
days later,what he dreamed about all his life happend,Crowly achieved his first contact with beings from other worlds...for three days,a voice dictated to him Liber AL vel Legis or Book of the Law, the book that would become the bible of crowley's new religion.
"I have exposed myself to every form of disease,accident, and violence. I am dainty and delicate, but I have driven myself to delight in dirty and discusting debauches, and to devour human excrements and human flesh...i have mastered every mode of my mind,and made myself a morality more severe than one other in the world,In a thousand years from this moment, the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crowleyanity"Although the "messenger" of Liber AL was Aiwass, each chapter is presented as an expression of one of three god-forms: Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
The book of the law states "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law",in other words,people shall have the right to determine exactly how to live their life regardless of anything else...