[Source] Aleister Crowley, the Beast 666, the most wicked man alive. Many know him, or know of him: sex magician, astrologer and cult leader. He was the architect of the OTO, and was involved with the source material for most of the magical techniques used by real-life ritual magicians today.
He was born in 1875, in a strict sub-group of the already pretty strict religious order, the Plymouth Brethren. Crowley always said that his mother despised him, calling him ‘The Beast.’ Crowley’s… Crowley-ness very quickly saw him part company with the Brethren, especially after using all of his considerable intelligence to question Christian doctrine, culminating in an explosion of sexual deviancy which left him with Gonorrhoea.
Afterwards, he started travelling in Europe, mostly because of his great interest in Mountaineering (in fact in later life he would mount an unsuccessful but valiant attempt on K2,) which led him to the Golden Dawn, and infamy.
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