THE BRADFORD DAILY TELEGRAPH

Bradford, Yorkshire, England

30 September 1910

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A New Prophet.

A new prophet has gone to town, and one of the glorious promises he holds out to the mundane-minded is hat he can transform the most mediocre of human being into geniuses. Mr. Aleister Crowley is an Irishman and a poet, and, more than that, has learnt the wisdom of the East so that he may teach it in a perfected form to his friends in the West. In the first place the leading spirit in “The Rites of Eleusis” movement wished to make it clear to the interviewer that a prophet’s life in this century is far from being all beer and skittles. Nineteen hours constitute an average working day for Mr. Crowley, and even the remaining five are often encroached upon. “The Rites of Eleusis,” he says, have no creed and are purely scientific. “We believe in the religious sense,” he added, “and think that it is the highest principle of man. And, moreover, we demand the satisfaction of real spiritual experience.