I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

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.