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devastating and perhaps it was this that drove Crowley to write his Diary of Drug Fiend . Certainly he was in need of money, but just as when he staged The Rites of Eleusis , the press ripped the novel apart. In particular a critic by the name of James Douglas who worked for the Sunday Express wrote an article entitled ‘A Book for Burning’ in which he said, ‘Although there is an attempt to pretend that the book is merely a study of the deprivation caused by cocaine, in reality it is an ecstatic eulogy of the drug and of its effects upon the body and the mind.’ 12
    Following on from this article, press coverage of Crowley and the fun and games at the villa grew even worse. The Sunday Express printed another article entitled, ‘Aleister Crowley’s Orgies in Sicily’ with the subtitle, ‘The Beast 666.’ With all the bad publicity, one might have thought, new disciples would have been sparse on the ground, but nothing was further from the truth. One of them, Frederick Charles Loveday (better known as Raoul) showed up at the villa with his wife, May, in late 1922. May was never happy in Crowley’s company and constantly begged her husband to leave, particularly when Crowley gave them both razors with which to cut themselves every time they lapsed into using the word ‘I’ – a pronoun only Crowley was allowed to utter.

    Aleister Crowley had many articles, essays and books published, both fictional novels and supposedly nonfiction books about ‘magick’ and the occult but his first published work was a poem, Aceldama , in 1898.
    By 1923 things had grown even worse, with Raoul falling seriously ill. May put this event down to a combination of factors amongst which was the large quantity of drugs that her husband had begun to take at Crowley’s instigation, alongside the drinking of a cat’s blood as part of a ritual over which Crowley presided. Despite these two health-defying acts however, it was almost certainly the consumption of contaminated water that caused Raoul’s illness. He died on February 16, 1923, three days after which May returned to England where she gave an interview to the Sunday Express who promptly labeled Crowley a ‘drug fiend’ and ‘the spreader of obscene practices.’
    Back in Italy, Crowley was handed an expulsion order, an event which prompted him to spend many years wandering the world, forever plagued by his reputation as ‘the wickedest man in the world.’ These were desperate times, with Crowley constantly trying to feed his heroine habit, whilst at the same time in search of more money and disciples. The heydays of the Golden Dawn and Argenteum Astrum were over, and now all that lay ahead were years of isolation without even a publisher willing to print his work.
    Aleister Crowley died on December 1, 1947 from myocardial degeneration combined with acute bronchitis. He was seventy-two-years old. There are various accounts of his last words – a Mr. Rowe recorded that they were ‘Sometimes I hate myself’, whilst someone else insisted that, ‘I am perplexed,’ was the last thing he uttered. The truth is however, that at the time of Crowley’s passing, no one else was present in the room, therefore whatever it was he said before he died, fittingly remains secret.

THE THULE SOCIETY – NAZISM’S PRECURSORS
    The Thule people died as the first sacrifices for the Swastika. The Thule people were those to whom Hitler first came, and the Thule People were those with whom Hitler first allied himself.
    R UDOLF VON S EBOTTENDORFF , Before Hitler Came , 1933
    W orld War I was supposed to be the ‘war to end all wars’. Millions of men, women and children had died during its progress, but while the soldiers who limped home to Britain were at least safe in the knowledge that they had won the war, Germany’s fighting men were afforded no such comfort. Prior to the outbreak of