Valiente felt that the influence of Crowley on the Charge was too obvious, and she did not want the Craft associated with Crowley.

Ruickbie, Hutton, and others further argue that much of what has been published of Gardnerian Wicca, as Gardner's practice came to be known by, was written by Blake, Yeats, Valiente and Crowley and contains borrowings from other identifiable sources.

Crowley was refused initiation into the Adeptus Minor grade by the London officials.

Upon his return to the London temple, Crowley requested the grade papers to which he was now entitled from Miss Cracknell, the acting secretary.

For Crowley, the single most important invocation, or any act of magick for that matter, was the invocation of one's Holy Guardian Angel, or " secret self ", which allows the adept to know his or her True Will.

Crowley believed that the most effective form of evocation was found in the grimoire on Goetia ( see below ), which instructs the magician in how to safely summon forth and command 72 infernal spirits.

Crowley was highly insistent upon the importance of this practice.

This was a basic aspect of magical training for Crowley, who described it in " Liber O.

The Order was reworked by Aleister Crowley after he took control of the Order in the early 1920s.

The A ∴ A ∴ was created in 1907 by Aleister Crowley and also teaches magick and Thelema.

In 1904 the vernal equinox was on a 21st and it was the day after Aleister Crowley ended his Horus Invocation that brought on the new Æon and Thelemic New Year.

She was a sculptor, socialite and cosmopolitan who had studied under Auguste Rodin and whose circle included Isadora Duncan, Pablo Picasso and Aleister Crowley.

Thelema is a spiritual philosophy ( referred to by some as a religion ) that was developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician, Aleister Crowley.

Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley, who claimed it was dictated to him by a discarnate entity named " Aiwass ".

Crowley says that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel ( analogous to but not identical with " Higher Self ").

Occultist and former student of Crowley, Israel Regardie argued that Aiwass was an unconscious expression of Crowley's personality and that the book reflected Crowley's moral and religious values.

The club motto was Fais ce que tu voudras ( Do what thou wilt ), a philosophy of life associated with François Rabelais ' fictional abbey at Thélème and later used by Aleister Crowley.

He was involved in the Order's power struggles, both with Farr and Macgregor Mathers, but was most notably involved when Mathers sent Aleister Crowley to repossess Golden Dawn paraphernalia during the " Battle of Blythe Road ".

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

Lauchlin Currie, formerly of the Federal Reserve Board staff, was the deputy administrator to Leo Crowley.

In September 1943, he was promoted to Undersecretary of State, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation director Leo Crowley became head of the Foreign Economic Administration which absorbed responsibility for Lend-Lease.

Fuller was an early disciple of English poet and magician Aleister Crowley and was very familiar with his, and other forms of, magick and mysticism.

In correspondence with one of Reuss's officers, Crowley expressed doubts about Reuss's competence to remain in office.

Reuss died on October 28, 1923 without designating a successor, though Crowley claimed in later correspondence that Reuss had designated him.

Students of the occult are also attracted to his works, due to his longtime friendship and correspondence with Aleister Crowley.

It would appear that Reuss discovered the correspondence ; he wrote Crowley an angry, defensive response on November 9, 1921, in which he appeared to distance himself and O. T. O.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

The third paragraph is largely written by Doreen Valiente, with some phrases adapted from The Book of the Law and The Gnostic Mass by Aleister Crowley.

The writer Aleister Crowley distinguished between two main types of egolessness, for which he used the Sanskrit terms Dhyana ( which means " meditation ") and Samadhi ( which he associated with the Nothing, or in Hebrew Ain ).

He knew and worked with many famous occultists, including Aleister Crowley.

Erroneously believing the coven to be a survival of the pre-Christian Witch-Cult discussed in the works of Margaret Murray, he decided to revive the faith, supplementing the coven's rituals with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic and the writings of Aleister Crowley to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.

Towards the end of 1899, the Adepts of the Isis-Urania and Amen-Ra temples had become dissatisfied with Mathers ' leadership as well as his growing friendship with Crowley.

The British occultist Aleister Crowley chose the spelling to differentiate the occult from stage magic and defined it as " the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will ", including both " mundane " acts of will as well as ritual magic.

Crowley defined Magick as " the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

Among those who do believe in it, there are a variety of different views as to what magic is, but many Pagans adhere to the definition of magic provided by the founder of Thelema, Aleister Crowley, who defined it as " the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

Reservoir temperatures in the volcanic fill decline from near the Inyo Craters to near Crowley Lake due to a combination of heat loss and mixing with cold water.

Allegedly for gematric reasons Aleister Crowley preferred the spelling magick, defining it as " the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will.

Wicca is one of the more publicly known traditions within Neopaganism, a magical religion inspired by medieval witchcraft, with influences including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Crowley.

Crowley also made claims for the paranormal effects of magick, suggesting a connection with the first principle in this list.

It is home to a few strip malls with eateries and convenience stores and the Crowley Food's Corporation.

After the Jones vs The Looking Glass case, in which a great deal was made of Aleister Crowley's bisexuality ( although Crowley himself was not a party to the case ), Fuller became worried that his association with Crowley might be a hindrance to his career.

Bill's latest Celtic / Orchestral release The Connemara Suite, features the Irish Chamber Orchestra along with soloists Zoë Conway, Morgan Crowley, Colin Dunne ( Dance Percussion ) and Fionnuala Hunt.