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His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop (1848–1917), came from a Devonshire-Somerset family and had a strained relationship with her son; she described him as "the Beast", a name that he revelled in. [3] The couple had been married at London's Kensington Registry Office in November 1874, [4] and were evangelical Christians.
Three years later she gave birth to the boy Crowley considered his son and heir, Randall Gair Doherty, who was nicknamed Aleister Ataturk. Aleister Crowley pictured with young Randall /...
The Crowley family were Christian; Crowley's father had been born a Quaker, but had converted to the Exclusive Brethren, a more conservative faction of a denomination known as the Plymouth Brethren. Upon marriage, Emily had also converted to the Exclusive Brethren.
On July 28, 1905, Aleister Crowley and Rose Edith Kelly had their first child, Lilith — or, as Crowley had named her, according to Lawrence Sutin, Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith, names derived from the kernels of the new religion found in Crowley's own Book of the Law.
Despite the illness, Crowley still blamed her death on Rose’s inability to get a grip on the world around her. Despite her apparent failure to remain sober, Rose and Aleister had another daughter, Lola, who was entrusted solely to Rose’s care upon the pair’s divorce in 1909.
Aleister Crowley, British occultist, writer, and mountaineer, who was a practitioner of ‘magick’ (as he spelled it) and called himself the Beast 666. He was denounced in his own time for his decadent lifestyle and had few followers, but he became a cult figure after his death.
More broadly, as we’ll examine, pop culture helped to make Crowley’s philosophy of unfettered egotism - do what thou wilt - the ruling philosophy of western society. We are all Crowley’s children. Who was Crowley? Crowley’s parents were Plymouth Brethren - a rigidly puritanical Christian sect.