The vast influence of occultist Aleister Crowley in heavy metal is undeniable. You can throw a stone and hit a band that heavily employs themes of the occult, Satanism, and Thelema, the spiritual ...

Crowley (1875-1947) is known for founding a religion called Thelema and popularizing the term "magick" to describe supernatural acts of the occult.

Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875 – December 1, 1947), was an English mountaineer, more commonly known as an occultist and the founder of the Thelema religious movement. He was also a prolific ...

Sutin leaves no doubt that Crowley believed wholeheartedly in Thelema, but his efforts to make sense of the Beast's drug-addled rantings are in vain.

Ozzy Osbourne wrote a song called "Mr. Crowley." During an interview, Osbourne said the song created misconceptions about him.

It ended, as magic duels often do, with someone being kicked down a flight of stairs. In 1900, the rivalry between poets and self-proclaimed magicians William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley had ...

From there, he becomes sexually entangled with a few of his models that he used for his paintings. One of them, Leah, becomes pregnant with Crowley’s child. The other, Ninette, becomes possessive over ...

Crowley, who founded his own dark religion, Thelema, was so evil he was branded the "Master of Darkness" and "Wickedest Man in the World" by the press.

Strange Angel has found its Aleister Crowley. Turn alum Angus Macfadyen has been tapped to play the founder of Thelema opposite Jack Reynor in the second season of the CBS All Access series.

Campbell writes that Thelema, the partly Kabbalah-inspired “spiritual and social philosophy that Crowley spent his life defining and manifesting,” is bigger than philosophy or religion; its ...