I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

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.