I, Crowley: Almost the Last Confession of the Beast

by Snoo Wilson

"I never killed Raoul Loveday with a magical spell."

Aleister Crowley, otherwise known as the Beast 666, shared membership of the Golden Dawn with W.B. Yeats, and publishers with D.H. Lawrence. Now in a beyond-the-grave autobiography, he recounts his own vocation, his practice of sex magic, and his bruising encounters with his contemporaries.

The great magus, whose own world-conquering creed, The Book of the Law, was written in Cairo in 1904, was according to him, no murderer, but a prophet and practitioner of all kinds of sexual freedom and new magical systems.

"I shall continue to protest my innocence as long as I have a hole in my bottom."

The Wickedest Man in the World? Or Post-Christian Messiah? Read this book and judge for yourself.

Genres: Fiction

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Snoo Wilson (born Andrew James Wilson) was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist and director who presented an apologia for Aleister Crowley in the TV series 'Without Walls.' He was a founder of the experimental Portable Theatre Company, and served as dramaturge to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Reviews

[James Stewart]

Snoo Wilson was known for his wild flights of imagination alongside his esoteric erudition. Coming out of Sixties counterculture, his theatrical offerings somewhat mirrored Sam Shepherd's plays on the other side of the pond. Being fully aware of the fine line between a magician and a charlatan, he is the perfect "ghost voice" for the Great Beast himself.
I had the dubious pleasure of once wading through Crowley's interminable self-inflated "Autohagiography", and can assuredly state that Wilson's abbreviated comic version is the preferable of the two !