THE MIRROR

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

3 November 1951

(page 6)

DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO EVIL AND SEX.

London, Today: A book just published here and causing great discussion lifts the lid for the first time on the horrible activities of real-life figure Aleister Crowley, who styled himself Beast 666 and dedicated his whole life to evil, sex and back magic.

Book, “The Great Beast,” is the first complete study of this weird figure.

To black magic he linked a sex life which makes Casanova look like a school kid. It began at 14 when he seduced a servant in his mother's bedroom, went on unabated until* he died 60 years later.

To the women with whom he associated he brought ruin. Both his wives became insane; at least 5 of his mistresses suicided.

He called his mistresses Scarlet Women and branded them on the breast with the mark of the Beast—a cross within a circle.

Yet he held a strange Fascination for women.

At the age of 60 he was leaving a court after losing a sensational libel action when a girl of 19, who had heard the case, ran after him and begged to become the mother of his child. She got her wish.

Introduced to a woman in Paris he raised her wrist to his mouth and bit her until blood flowed. He called it the Serpent's Kiss, had 2 teeth specially filed for the purpose.

In a letter to his second wife on Sept. 20, 1930, he wrote:

“You had better get a divorce. I admit what some dithering nincompoops are still imbecile enough to call ‘misconduct’ on 47 occasions since August 3—the fatigues of constant travel must excuse the smallness of the number.”

He lived out his last years in Hastings, Eng land, peddling sex pills and a “sex appeal” ointment which he claimed made men irresistible to women.

He died in 1947 and his last recorded words were:

“I am perplexed.”