Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World
Aleister Crowley was born on the 12th of October 1875 in Warwickshire, England, and was originally named Edward Alexander Crowley. He was the son of Emily Bishop and Edward Crowley, two people who had quite a bit of wealth from the family brewery and so young Edward (later Aleister) was no stranger to luxury. His dad was an evangelist for a fundamentalist Christian sect called 'The Plymouth Brethren', which his wife also joined. Young Edward went along with these Christian beliefs out of respect for his dad, but once his dad died in 1887, when the young Edward was only 11 years of age, he became hostile to the Christian concepts. He would often point out inconsistencies in the Bible's teachings and defied Christian morals throughout his schooldays. Alledgedly he killed the family cat to see if it really did have nine lives, and his mum would call him 'the great beast'. He would go on to learn about 'magick', set up his own religion, and would eve