Looking at the life of reviled poet and occultist

IN HIS lifetime Aleister Crowley was revered, slandered, celebrated as a great poet and reviled as a thoroughly wicked person.

He was a mystic, a poet, a chess master, a scholar, an accomplished rock climber and mountaineer, a magician and occultist, a novelist and author of more than two million words.

Of his days in Eastbourne Crowley wrote: “In my playtime I was either hunting flappers on the front, playing chess or climbing Beachy Head.”

In July 1894, he and his cousin Gregor Grant scaled the towering pinnacle of the Devil’s Chimney at Beachy Head. The climbs were recorded and featured in the press and in the “Scottish Mountaineering Club journal”.

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