Aleister CrowleyWhen the mystic, occult magician, poet, and founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema, Aleister Crowley died in an obscure boarding house in Hastings, England, on December 5, 1947, at the age of 72, few knew he was to become one of the most enduring pop culture figures of the next hundred years. In this definitive work, Gary Lachman traces both the arc of the occultist's strange and controversial life, and his influence on rock and roll giants