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A stamped and addressed envelope it was mentioned was enclosed for Crowley's reply. His reply, if he did reply, was bound to be disappointing, for he was not at that time — May — putting on any more Black Masses or attending any sabbaths.
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In point of fact, he never attended sabbaths — he was not a witch — and the Masses that he performed were not, technically speaking, Black Masses, [1] but that kind of thing was expected of him by the public at large. In he died, aged seventy-two. And recently those gifted young men, the Beatles, have added him to their escutcheon: Crowley stands between an Indian holy man unnamed and Mae West in a composite photograph of People we like' which decorates the sleeve of the Beatles' long-playing record, 'Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He was born Drsolation Two other events of significance to occultists happened in that year: the Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and others, and Eliphas Levi, the Cabbalist and mage, died.
Crowley made out that he was descended from Norman aristocrats, and mentioned the Breton family, de Querouaille, as if the name Crowley were a corruption of that name. He claimed Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, as one of his ancestors; Tge the sixteenth-century poet and preacher, Robert Crowley, on no evidence at all. It would have been more pertinent to tell here something of his grandparents, whom he studiously ignored.
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It so happened that his father, Edward Crowley, whom he called an engineer, was a brewer, and the family fortune came from 'Crowley ales', a fact which creeps into his autobiography in an oblique way. By the time Aleister was born, his father was well advanced in middle age, and spent his time travelling about the countryside, preaching Plymouthism to anyone who would listen to him. The Plymouth Brethren sect was founded about by John Nelson Darby, an Irish clergyman who was barrister before he went into the Church.
The Brethren believed that they ey were the only true Christians; they considered the idea of ordained ministers contrary to the teaching of Scripture; the Bible was literally true; Christ's Second Coming was imminent; the Elect would inherit the Kingdom of God. Out of this background emerged Aleister Crowley, the Beast At first, he was a devout little Plymouth Brother, taking turns with his parents and the servants in reading passages from the Bible.]
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