THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

3 December 1947

(page 27)

Aleister Crowley Dies;

Once the “Invisible” Man.

LONDON, Dec. 2—Edward Alexander Crowley, better known as Aleister Crowley, author, poet and alleged practitioner of “black magic” and blood sacrifice, is dead in Hastings. Educated at Cambridge, Crowley travelled in China and Tibet. He claimed he could make himself invisible and had walked in a scarlet and gold robe with a jeweled crown, unseen by anyone.