Aleister Crowleys primære fokus: love, sex, exuberance, insights. Fokus etterhvert: forsvar av dette, temptations of politics, battle.
Crowleys «radical rejection of Victorian morality and his emphasis on sex as the supreme source of magical power» (Urban 2006:110-111).
«(H)e hoped to usher in his own new aeon by tearing down the entire social-moral structure of the world in which he was raised» (Urban 2006:122).
«The battle will rage most fiercely around the question of sex. (..) Mankind must learn that the sexual instinct is in its true nature ennobling» (Crowley 1969:851).
Aleister ville free the world. Han ville kjempe for kjærligheten og den tøylesløse seksuelle begeistring som han trodde kunne gi ham spirituell innsikt oppå det hele. Han gjorde og sa kanskje en del rare ting, but still: salute!