Aleister Crowley

The Great Beast. Poet, mountaineer, magician — and, the files hint, British intelligence.

The Great Beast's file is genuinely mixed: mountaineer of real accomplishment, British intelligence asset (the archives now confirm wartime work), and the century's most efficient generator of occult infrastructure. The Book of the Law arrived, he insisted, by dictation in Cairo from a voice named Aiwass. He spent his life alternately obeying and testing it. LAM, the gray face he drew in 1919, waits in the margins of every UFO archive since.