THE DAILY EXPRESS

London, England

6 December 1947

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'Black Magic' Farewell.

Aleister Crowley, black magician calling himself "the wickedest man in the world," was cremated at Brighton yesterday.

Twenty people, including smartly dressed women, stood by as a friend read from Crowley's own "Hymn to Pan" and "Collects from the Gnostic Mass," ending: "There is no law beyond do what thou wilt."

A woman laid carnations on the coffin as it moved to the furnace.