The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Crowley was also bisexual a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. Born into a wealthy upper-class family as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. O.

O. In 2002 a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time. Born into a wealthy upper-class family as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.