The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley was also bisexual a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. Born into a wealthy upper-class family as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. O.

O. In 2002 a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time. Born into a wealthy upper-class family as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.