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.
Source: Looking at the life of reviled poet and occultist (From The Argus)