THE SUN AND GUARDIAN

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

7 December 1947

(page 3)

Strange Rites

At Funeral.

London, Saturday—So-called “magick” rites were performed at the Brighton funeral today of poet-author and alleged black-magician Aleister Crowley.

An oddly assorted group of Crowley’s “Magick Arts and Sciences” adherents assembled to hear extracts read from Crowley’s “The Book of the Law.”

After the ceremony one mourner warned a reporter: “You had better be careful what you write—Crowley might strike at you.”