“The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority the resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists at an abstraction.” Aleister Crowley19872005Marquis De SadeAnti AuthoritarianismThe Reluctant Christian Book:Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast Source: Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast