"Groundbreaking poet, world-class mountaineer, bisexual adventurer and drug experimenter before his time, Aleister Crowley would have been famous even if he never taken an interest in the occult. By treating Crowley as a cultural phenomenon, not simply a sorcerer or charlatan, this new biography portrays the self-styled "Great Beast" of Victorian England as a man who devoted his life to subverting the dominant moral and religious values of his time. With 8 pages of b/w photos."