There stands that noble beast, that wicked fixture of the improprieties of religion and faith, he who ponders the realms of occultism of magick, there he stands, giant of man, there stands Aleister Crowley. Film-maker and photographer Maximilla Lukacs provides for us a chariot in which to escort us through the life of the Wickedest Man in the World, to sift through his ashes through gold tinted specters, to live the birth of Thelema and the nobility of self-indulgence. - Jeremy Tarr.

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." Crowley is expelled from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

(from left): shirt by Hodgepodge Haberdashery; trousers by Sisley; vintage jacket, pin and head scarf; vintage ascot and jacket from Everything's Jake; shirt and waistcoat by English Laundry; vintage top hat; jacket, trousers and cravat by Hodgepodge Haberdashery; vintage shirt and hat; vintage ascot and Oscar de la Renta suit from Everything's Jake; shirt by English Laundry; scarf by Tolani.

Love Under Will... Crowley begins his search for his Scarlet Woman.

Vintage sparkle shorts, feathered hat and bow-tie jewel; knee-highs by Gerbe at tangabygail.com.

Crowley begins his experiment in sexual magick.

(from left) vintage dress; knee-highs by Gerbe at tangabygail.com; vintage robe from Everything's Jake; vintage shirt; waistcoat and trousers by Hodgepodge Haberdashery; vintage shoes; vintage dress by the Way We Wore; knee-highs by Gerbe at tangabygail.com.

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