Do what thou wilt
Subtitle: a life of Aleister Crowley
By: Lawrence Sutin.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Occultists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Aleister Crowley was a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural legacies extend far beyond the limits of his notoriety as a practitioner of the occult arts.".

"Like many self-styled illuminati of his class and generation, the hedonistic Crowley gravitated toward the occult. An aspiring poet and a pampered wastrel - obsessed with reconciling his quest for spiritual perfection and his inclination to do exactly as he liked in the earthly realm - Crowley developed his own school of mysticism. Magick, as he called it, summoned its users to embrace the imagination and to glorify the will.

Crowley often explored his spiritual yearnings through drug-saturated vision quests and rampant sexual adventurism, but at other times he embraced Eastern philosophies and sought enlightenment on ascetic sojourns into the wilderness."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-466) and index.