* 1890 – Dion Fortune, British occultist ( d. 1946 )

* 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, British writer and occultist ( d. 1951 )

* 1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer

His The Magician ( 1908 ) is based on British occultist Aleister Crowley.

* October 27 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer

* October 12 – Aleister Crowley, British occultist ( d. 1947 )

*" Mr Crowley ", a song by Ozzy Osbourne inspired by the books of the British occultist Aleister Crowley

Violet Mary Firth Evans ( 6 December 1890 – 8 January 1946 ), better known as Dion Fortune, was a British occultist and author.

The album features several musical guests, including Imani Coppola and Ruby Friedman, as well as spoken word contributions by British occultist Aleister Crowley and German psychologist Carl Jung

The group reportedly drew some inspiration for its teachings from British occultist Aleister Crowley, who headed the Order of Eastern Temple from 1923 until his death in 1947, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a 19th century Rosicrucian Order Crowley belonged to briefly.

The name Anton Crowley is taken from Aleister Crowley ( British occultist ) and Anton LaVey ( Founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan ).

* Dion Fortune ( 1890-1946 ), born Violet Mary Firth, British occultist and author

' Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light is a publication by British occultist Aleister Crowley, first published in 1907.

Philip M. Hine, more commonly known as Phil Hine, is a British writer, book reviewer, and occultist.

British neo-Theosophical occultist Alice Bailey, one of the founders of the so-called New Age movement, prophesied in 1940 the eventual victory of the Allies of World War II over the Axis powers ( which occurred in 1945 ) and the establishment by the Allies of a political and religious New World Order.

In 1897, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage was translated into English by the British occultist Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers.

The British occultist Aleister Crowley, at the time a young member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, started preparations for seeking the angel by following Abramelin's instructions, in Boleskine House, Scotland, but he abandoned this plan to assist Mathers during the Golden Dawn schism of 1901.

It was originally led by British occultist Kenneth Grant and his partner Steffi Grant, and is now believed to be led by their deputy Michael Staley.

* Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, British occultist

* Mabel Besant-Scott ( 1870 – 1952 ), British occultist

The novel features numerous real-life historical figures in its narrative, including a first person description of reality by scientist Albert Einstein and Irish author James Joyce, while the plot involves English author and occultist Aleister Crowley, British nobles, the Loch Ness Monster and mystical experiences.

Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, an interview with noted French comparative philologist Georges Dumézil, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers, besides translations of texts by " Traditionalist " author and occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns.

The English pamphlet, of which two copies exist ( one in the British Museum and one in the Lambeth Library ), was rediscovered by occultist Montague Summers in 1920.

According to his own claims, in September 1939, a British occultist named Gerald Gardner was initiated into the coven, and subsequently used its beliefs and practices as a basis from which he formed the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.

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.

* Aleister Crowley ( 1875 – 1947 ), British religious leader

British Occultist Aleister Crowley claimed to have invented the usage of a V-sign as a magical foil to the Nazis ' use of the Swastika in February 1941.

With this growing fame, Anger began to react to publicity in much the same way as his idol Aleister Crowley had done, for instance describing himself as " the most monstrous moviemaker in the underground ", a pun on the fact that Crowley had been labelled " the wickedest man in the world " by the British tabloids in the 1920s.

He also struck up an acquaintance with British Mage Aleister Crowley and his mistress Leah Hirsig who held high hopes for his discipleship, but later that year he returned to Buenos Aires, where he promptly became associated with the avant garde " Florida group " ( a. k. a. " Martín Fierro group "), a circle that also included Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he was to keep an association and close friendship.

The British poet and mystic Aleister Crowley, in his work " Energized Enthusiasm ," suggests that " wine, women, and song " may be utilised towards the development of genius in the individual or the attainment of mystical states.

Early in the 20th century, the British occultist Aleister Crowley created his own version of Abramelin Oil, which he called " Oil of Abramelin ," and sometimes referred to as the " Holy Oil of Aspiration.

* Crowley, the US title of 2008 British horror film Chemical Wedding

Spare would grow to dislike Crowley, with some rumours arising within the British esoteric community that Crowley had actually made sexual advances toward the young artist, something Spare had found repellent, although these have never been proven.

In 1547, Salesbury produced an English-Welsh dictionary called A dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe, and in 1550 his A briefe and a playne introduction, teachyng how to pronounce the letters in the British tong ( now commenly called Walsh )... was printed by Robert Crowley.

based on manuscripts from the British Museum, with additions by Crowley, including a Preliminary Invocation drawn from Goodwin's Fragment of a Graeco-Egyptian Work upon Magic, and the essay The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic.

The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, the Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality.

And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

The line the British chose to defend stretched between the sea and the Qattara Depression, which meant that Rommel could outflank it only by taking a significant detour to the south and crossing the Sahara Desert.

In addition, the fact that Ribbentrop chose to spend as little time as possible in London in order to stay close to Hitler irritated the British Foreign Office immensely, as Ribbentrop's frequent absences prevented the handling of many routine diplomatic matters.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

He chose to end his British commentary career, which spanned more than 42 years, when the rights to broadcast live Test match cricket were lost by Channel 4 to the subscription broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.

Thomas Jefferson, who felt that the procedure resembled the Speech from the Throne delivered by British monarchs, chose instead to send written messages to Congress for reading by clerks.

They were disappointed in this, since both the Dutch and the British chose to pursue a policy of neutrality.

He chose to join the service of the British East India Company and in 1802 at the age of 18 boarded the East Indiaman Brunswick.

This was also true of author and actress Fannie Flagg, who chose this pseudonym ; her real name, Patricia Neal, being the name of another well-known actress ; and British actor Stewart Granger, whose real name was James Stewart.

The captain of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Hans Langsdorff, believing that his damaged ship was faced with a superior British force, chose to scuttle his ship to spare the lives of his men.

He initially chose to use a voice with a British accent that he named " Lawrence ", but then switched to a high quality voice with an American accent included with Mac OS X named " Alex ".

When the colony was captured by the British in 1781, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kingston chose the mouth of the Demerara River for the establishment of a town which was situated between Plantations Werk-en-rust and Vlissengen.

At a meeting with Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, ( 1869 – November 1940 ), and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier chose diplomacy over war.

The British, however, on their arrival in the late eighteenth ( 18th ) century, chose to develop Calcutta, now the capital city of West Bengal, as their commercial and administrative center in South Asia.

When the British government eventually chose to centralise and regulate the system in 1872 the Scottish school system was initially placed under a " Scotch Education Department " with offices in London.

In 1937 the British Royal Air Force ( RAF ) chose a set of six essential flight instruments which would remain the standard panel used for flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions ( IMC ) for the next 20 years.

Chamberlain favoured a more belligerent stance, but Salisbury chose to tread tentatively, and even the Prime Minister's cautious reply to the American demand provoked President Grover Cleveland to imply in December 1895 that war might be the result of British non-compliance.

Arnold, whose business activities before the war had included sailing ships to Europe and the West Indies, carefully chose the site where he wanted to meet the British fleet.