Who is Mr Crowley? from the songs by Cradle of Filth & Ozzy.?

Answer 1

His name is Aleister Crowley


Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley was born October 12, 1875 in Leamington Spa, England. His parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren. He grew up with a biblical education and an equally thorough hatred of Christianity.

He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, quitting just before completing his degree. Shortly thereafter he was introduced to George Cecil Jones, who was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was an occult society which taught magic, kabala, alchemy, tarot, astrology, and other hermetic subjects. It had many notable members including A. E. Waite, Dion Fortune, and W. B. Yeats. Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn in 1898. He advanced up rapidly through the grades. But in 1900 the order was shattered by schism, and Crowley left England to travel extensively throughout the East. There he learned and practiced the mental and physical disciplines of yoga, supplementing his knowledge of western-style ritual magick with the methods of Oriental mysticism.

In 1903, Crowley married Rose Kelly, and they went to Egypt on their honeymoon. After returning from Cairo in early 1904, Rose began entering trance states. She told him that the god Horus was trying to contact him. Crowley took Rose to the Boulak Museum and asked her to point out Horus to him. She passed several images of the god and led Aleister straight to a painted wooden funerary stele from the 26th dynasty, depicting Horus receiving a sacrifice from the deceased, a priest named Ankh-f-n-khonsu. Crowley was impressed by the fact that this piece was numbered 666 by the museum, the number which he had identified since childhood.
He began to listen to Rose, and at her direction, on three successive days beginning April 8, 1904, he entered his room and wrote down what he heard dictated from a shadowy presence behind him. The result was the three chapters of verse known as The Book of the Law.

In 1906 Crowley rejoined George Cecil Jones in England, and they set created a magical order to continue where the Golden Dawn had left off. They called this order the A.'. A.'. (Astrum Argentium or Silver Star).

In 1910 Crowley was contacted by Theodore Reuss, the head of an organization called the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). This group of high-ranking Freemasons claimed to have discovered the supreme secret of practical magick, which is taught in its highest degrees. Crowley joined, becoming a member of O.T.O. Crowley rewrote the rites of the O.T.O.

Crowley referred to himself as "The Beast" and indulged in every aspect of the occult and was obsessed with it. He was into every form of sexual perversion you can imagine. He also had various sexually transmitted diseases. Aleister Crowley died in Hastings, England on December 1, 1947. However, his teachings live on.

This is about Aleister Crowley, a British practitioner of black magic in the early 1900s. Known as "The Wickedest Man Alive," Jimmy Page based some of the Led Zeppelin album covers on his work.
The line "Won't you ride my white horse" is a drug reference. Crowley was a known user of opium.
When Crowley was born they scattered the afterbirth because he had a birthmark shaped like a swastika. Ozzy sings about it in the line "They scattered the afterbirth."
In the liner notes for The Ozzman Cometh, Ozzy wrote, "I'd read several books about Aleister Crowley. He was a very weird guy and I always wanted to write a song about him. While we were recording the Blizzard Of Ozz album there was a pack of tarot cards he had designed lying around the studio. Well one thing lead to another and the song 'Mr. Crowley' was born." (thanks, Matthew Daubert - Mequon, WI)
The single was backed with the song "You Said It All," which was not available on the album.
This featured Randy Rhoads on guitar, who co-wrote it with Ozzy. Rhoads died in 1982 when he went up in a small plane and the pilot started buzzing the tour bus. It hit the bus on the third pass and crashed into a house, killing Rhoads, the pilot, and the tour hairdresser.
Ozzy's album Diary Of A Madman is named after Crowley's autobiography.
This was included on Ozzy's 1987 album Tribute, which contained live tracks featuring Randy Rhoads.
Aleister Crowley was also the topic of the Bruce Dickinson (formerly and presently of Iron Maiden) song "Man of Sorrows" on the album Accident of Birth. The title of the song was a quote of Isaiah 53, supposedly a description of Jesus, whom Crowley hated; Dickinson is somewhat anti-Christian, and was not above assigning a title of Christ to the self-appointed antichrist.
Ion Vein covered this for the 1999 compilation Land of the Wizard: A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne.
Two Ozzy Osbourne tribute bands have the name Mr. Crowley. One is American, the other German. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for above 3)
Ozzy dedicated the album to Aleister Crowley, claiming that through him, he "Really learned to believe in the devil." Ozzy often played up his Satanic image for effect. (thanks, Greg - Calgary, United States)

Answer 2

Aleister Crowley, the beast 666, the great therion. Check out Thelema, Boleskin house, Jimmy page connection. Its all facinating stuff, this website is great to find out about him http://fearn5.wix.com/crowley

Answer 3

Mr. Crowley was one of the most famous satanist of all times. He had a castle in Scotland, I believe, and performed many satanic rituals and wrote many many books on the dark side there. I do believe that the guitar player for Led Zeppelin bought and is living in the home that once belonged to a one Mr. Alistar Crowley.

Answer 4

Probably Alistair Crowley...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_Crowley

Answer 5

Alistair Crowley. He was a mysticist who was popular in the early 20th century.

Answer 6

mr. crowley name is allistar crowley. He was into witch craft. jimmy page used to live in his house.

Answer 7

Allister Crowley was a supposed devil worshiper and mystical person

Answer 8

Try the Principle of Evil Made Flesh, and Dusk and Her Embrace. They're two of their greatest albums.

Answer 9

alistair crowley

Answer 10

At the end, a satanist and psycho. You can read about him here.