Who was/is Alastair Crowley?

Question

and did he really try to summon the Loch Ness Monster? lol

Answer 1

He was this goofball that was part of the resurgence of Wicca and all of the esoteric stuff back at the beginning of the 1900s. Crowley was really intelligent, but was a total drug addict as well... he did both cocaine and heroine at the same time, and his behavior would swing according to whatever was holding sway at the time.
He believed that "the bigger the taboo, the bigger the magic", so his little ceremonies would include orgies with everything including farm animals (ew!). He apparently didn't believe in karma or the Rede. Basically he was a party-pervert.
I don't know about the Loch Ness Monster, though.

Answer 2

Crowley was a ceremonial magician, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templis Orientis, and founder of the religion of Thelema. He died in 1947. His books made magical theory available to a large number of readers, which cheesed off a lot of occultists at the time.

He is not a Satanist. He most certainly did not found the Church of Satan (that was Anton leVey in the 1960s!). He did brag of working with some pretty dark stuff such as summoning demons. However, the goal was to bind them and control them, not worship them.

Crowley's works were one of many influences on Gerald Gardner, who founded Wicca. The two men appear to have met once or twice in the last year of Crowley's life. Gardner borrowed some of Crowley's verbage in Wiccan rituals, although quite a bit was stripped out by his high priestess Doreen Valiente.

Crowley's Law of Thelema states "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law. Love is the Law. Love under Will. Every man and woman is a star." Will here is one's True Will, your ultimate purpose in life. Crowley believed you should follow it unflinching through life, but you also needed to seek out what that ultimate purpose was. Working in accordance with that purpose brought you into greater harmony with the universe.

Crowley loved being controversial. He despised Christianity and was very public about it. He also had a pretty scandalous private life. He was a longtime drug addict, and he rather mercilessly mentally abused various people he was in contact with.

He lived in the vincinity of Loch Ness. I don't know of any stories concerning him the and monster.

Answer 3

Alastair Crowley was a Satanist.He lived from 1875-1947. He was a member of the theosophical society Order of The Golden Dawn. He practised Black Magic. He designed a Tarot pack which bears his name. I doubt he would have bothered with something fictious like the Loch Ness monster. He would have been more interested in raising Beeelzebub.

Answer 4

Aleister Crowley was an occultist born in England in 1875, and died in 1947. He is best known, in some circles, for redesigning the tarot deck. He once used a house he rented on the shores of Loch Ness for certain occult rituals, but no those rituals had nothing to do with ol' Nessy.

Answer 5

Aleister Crowley - there is an absolute mass of information about him on the Internet - here are just a few to be going on with. The final link treat as tongue in cheek : -

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aleister Crowley fulfilled these conditions and Aleister is the Gaelic form of Alexander. To adopt it would satisfy my romantic ideals. ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

Aleister Crowley - Crystalinks Aleister Crowley died in Hastings, England on December 1, 1947. However, his legacy lives on in the Law of Thelema which he brought to mankind (along with ...
http://www.crystalinks.com/crowley.html

Aleister Crowley's Lam & the Little Grey Men The first picture is a drawing made by occultist Alistair Crowley of an entity he had invoked repeatedly in 1918 and called "Lam." The second picture is a ...
http://www.boudillion.com/lam/lam.htm

The Libri of Aleister Crowley A resource list of Crowley's numbered Libri written for the occult order A.'. A.'.
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley

US Grand Lodge, OTO: Aleister Crowley These were collected with revisions and a few retitlings in The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (3 vol., 1905-7), which omitted The Book of the Goetia ...
http://www.oto-usa.org/crowley.html

Cannonfire At this time, Aleister Crowley inhabited what must have seemed a very different world .... It's possible that George W. Bush is related to Aleister Crowley, ...
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html

Wiccan is a major religion both here in UK and the USA.

Answer 6

He was an occultist and the author of many occult books.

Some authorities mention his attempts to summon the Loch Ness Monster whereas others don't.

Answer 7

Crowley was the leader of his own black magic cult, his own version of satanism, he even had an "Abby" in Italy, was even a big deal in Italy for a while until some one major high up in politics died, or rather their son i think, and he was booted out of the country by Mussolini himself, wandered around the world trying to be some dark lord but he was just a pathetic man

Answer 8

I was going to answer but I think Dragoner pretty much covered it, just don't want to be left out..

Answer 9

I thought he had been the head of the Satanic Church &/or wrote the Satanic Bible. I think he's dead now.

Answer 10

you said he was not a satanist, but you also said that he despised christianity. so by despising christianity that does make him a satanist.