People Educated at Eastbourne College - Aleister Crowley, Andrew Cowper, Bijan Daneshmand, Cecil Aldin, Charles Hedley, David Howell (Chess Player), Da (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Aleister Crowley, Andrew Cowper, Bijan Daneshmand, Cecil Aldin, Charles Hedley, David Howell (chess player), David Richards (British Army officer), Derek Empson, Donald Tytler, Eastbourne College, Eddie Izzard, Ed Giddins, Ed Speleers, Eric Crockford, Frederick Soddy, Glyn Gilbert, Godfrey Milton-Thompson, Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, H.B.D. Woodcock, Hanut Singh, Harry Simon Samuel, Henry Singleton Pennell, Hugh Anthony Prince, Hugh Casson, Hugo Southwell, Ian Forbes, Ian Gourlay, John Klyberg, John Wells (satirist), John Young (cricketer, born 1884), Lionel Rees, Mark Lock, Matt Hobden, Michael Fish, Michael Praed, Oliver W. F. Lodge, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Richard Lonsdale, Roger Holloway, Roland Beamont, Ruari McLean, Sam Kiley, William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby, Woodrow Wyatt. Excerpt: Aleister Crowley ( -lee; 12 October 1875 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast 666, was an English occultist, mystic, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer, who was responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century. Born into a wealthy upper-class family, as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Subsequently he claimed that he was contacted by his Holy Guardian Angel, an entity he named Aiwass, while staying in Egypt in 1904, and that he 'received' a text known as The Book of the Law from what he claimed was a divine source, and around which he would come to develop his new philosophy of Thelema. He would go on to found his own occult society, the A A and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), before founding a religious commune in Cefalu known as the Abbey of Thelema, which he led from 1920 through till 1923. After abandoning the Abbey amid widespread opposition, Crowley returned to Britain, where he continued to promote Thelema until his death. Crowley was also bisexual, a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. In many of these roles he "was in revolt against the moral and religious values of his time," espousing a form of libertinism based upon the rule of "Do What Thou Wilt." Because of this, he gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "the wickedest man in the world." Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time. In 2002, a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time. References to him can be found in the works of numerous wr