What was Aleister Crowley without his women?

This isn't a heavily researched blog about Crowley's women, but more of an epiphany.  None of my three favorite creations of Crowley would exist without the women in his life:

There would be no Book of Lies without Leila Waddell, his sexy violinist, whom he was pining over while he waxed philosophical in this book of poetry and Qabalistic puzzles.

    

 

There would be no Liber AL:  Book of the Law, centerpiece of Crowley's entire system of magick, without his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, who was there to "receive" it.

  

 

And without his amazing artist Frida Harris, there would be no Book of Thoth tarot deck!

 

 

Then there is The Vision and the Voice...oh wait...you say his seer was a man for that one?   Ok, well never mind that then :)

Some of Aleister Crowley's other Scarlet Women:

Mary d'Este Sturges . —"Put me in touch with Abuldiz; hence helped with Book 4." Jeanne Robert Foster . —His Scarlet Women when he took the grade of Magus. Roddie Minor —"Brought me in touch with Amalantrah." Marie Rohling . —"Helped to inspire Liber CXI. " Leah Hirsig —"Assisted me in actual initiation; still at my side, An XVII, Sol in Sagittarius."

That's all I really had to say.  The Beast isn't much of a Beast without a Scarlet Woman astride him.

xoxo,

Izabael

Comments

[Don Kædmon]

"Behind every great man there's a great woman" -which is so true. I wonder whatever became of Leila (L.A.Y.L.A.H)?