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...other score resulted from a reverse pass, with Clasby at wingback in a left formation flipping to end Paul Crowley...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Crimson Smothers Washington, 42-0 | 10/14/1952 | See Source »

Dirty Snowdrops. Crowley insisted that in all his acts he was directed by "The Secret Chiefs," i.e., the top brass of the spirit world. These chummy spooks now informed him that "a New Epoch had begun for mankind and that Aleister Crowley had been chosen to initiate it." Crowley took orders from the Egyptian god Horus, with his wife (now known as Ouarda the Seer) acting as interpreter. The Book of the Law (the bible of the New Epoch) was then dictated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Book's first rule is: "There is no law beyond Do What Thou Wilt"-and this Crowley proceeded to do. One of his first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Final Hymn. Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Chinese oracle" ordered Crowley and his handful of disciples to Sicily. Here, Crowley, his ears pierced and hung with rings, "painted and wrote . . . smoked opium, sniffed snow . . . ate grass (hashish), and [took] laudanum, veronal, and anhalonium." He also tried to referee the frequent battles which took place among his concubines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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