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MR. ALEISTER CROWLEY

... MR. ALEISTER CROWLEY At birth I had three of the distinguishing marks of the Buddha, he wrote in 1933. Over the centre of my heart I had four hairs curling from left to right in the exact form of a swastika. In 1934 he lost a libel action against ...

Published: Tuesday 02 December 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 490 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

R. CROWLEY TO APPEAL

... R. CROWLEY TO APPEAL in appeal is being lodged on behalf Mr. Aleister Crowley against the rdict given for the defendant in recent action for alleged libel, in icti lie complained that in her book. Aughing Torso, Miss Nina Harlin said lie had had a temple ...

Published: Tuesday 24 April 1934
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 59 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Growing old gracefully . . . in three hours

... ABOVE RIGHT: Approaching 60, but still with years to go. BELOW RIGHT: Total hair loss and a disconcerting resemblance to Aleister Crowley. FAR RIGHT: Intimations of mortality as Edmonds reaches 85 or so. Pictures by cou of ATV. , Y,. ',.,,„ ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 66 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

By I FOR EVANS

... of the Theosophical Society, with a mixture of mediums and mystics, with, for a brief while, absolute rogues such as Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. Of the women whose support he found so necessary I knew only another life ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1976
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Golden Dawn and alt that sort of thing

... this manner Ithelt Colquhoun (ex-alumna of Cheltenham Ladies' College and the Slade) was trying to read an article on Aleister Crowley and his Abbey of Thelema in Sicily, while others in the household came rattling the handle. Such was the beginning of ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 428 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

MIDLAND-BORN

... EDWARD ALEXANDER (ALEISTER) CROWLEY, 72-yearold author, poet, explorer, magician, mystic and mountaineer, sometimes described as one of the mystery men of Europe, died suddenly yesterday at Netherwood, a guest house in Hastings. Mr. Crowley, whose last book ...

Published: Tuesday 02 December 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 217 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MAGIC ALLEGED

... promised to place the matter before the Cremation Council of Great Britain conference at Cheltenham on 24 and 25• June next. Aleister Crowley died on 1 December last. aged 72. During his life he had been accused of black magic, of celelbrating the Black Mass ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1948
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 289 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Journalist of many talents

... freak and it is shown in the short stories he includes. in the people whom he interviewed is 93-year-old ex-hurglar. Aleister Crowley. retired wrestler , . or in the subrets of his general pieces rats. Edwardian de-luxe tieing, being a Communist. ghost ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 312 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Doctor Dee ELIZABETHAN WIZARD-OR PIONEER SCIENTIST ? John Dee: Scientist, Geographer, Astrologer and Secret ..

... finds parallels between Dee and modern secret agents—very legitunately. It seems —and between Dee and such perverts as Aleister Crowley. most boring of modern mystery men. His book does not claim for his subject more than he can 'mitts% and makes him an ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 338 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WHAT NEXT?

... last night to be eddressed by Mr. Aleister Crowley on the subject of The Mediaeval Magician, but at the last minute the lecture was cancelled. The secretary of the society, Mr. H. Spealght, sent a letter to Mr. Crowley as follows: am writing to tell you ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1930
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

By DEREK STANFORD

... romp-loving monarch. Soon he was being hailed as Public Thriller Writer No. 1. and meeting those disreputable magi, Aleister Crowley and Montagu Summers. Two marriages, children, bringing out daughters in the London season and presentation at Court followed ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

By LESLIE WITHERS

... were too many aberrations in Fuller's character his pre-occupation with occultism I he became involed with the infamous Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast, at an early stage of his career and lived to regret it) and his avowed support for fascism do not ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 2 | Tags: none