Aleister Crowley, that brings back memories. I like reading non fiction, will read anything as long as its a fair true account. I got into Aleister many years ago from a book at the library. I ordered books from other libraries and even one from, if I recall correctly, the central library in London. I could only have it for 3 weeks as it was on order for someone else and there were only a few copies. I never finished it it was so large. I found his life fascinating. But then it took over, brushing my teeth one night I looked up into the bathroom mirror and saw him behind me. Drawing back the shower curtain, there again. It just went mad but only in my house. I stopped reading about him, it scared me so much. It did calm down after a long while but his image would pop up at odd moments. There would be dark shadows in corners I couldn't explain. I then went away for a weekend to Anglesey with a boyfriend and his son. I got up for the bathroom in the night, had to go from that room, through the sons room to get to the bathroom. Came back, through the sons room, into the next but the room was different and Aleister Crowley was in the bed on his front with his head turned toward me. I went back the way I came and entered the room again and it was back to normal. Yes I'd had a drink but not much we were in charge of a child. Having breakfast in the morning, the lady of the house said, rather apologetically, 'I'd rather you didn't come back here again, you are bringing evil, its on your back'.
Some years later I paid to spend a night in a haunted house with several other people, some from a ghost club. One claimed to be psychic, throughout the night he told each person things about them but coming to me he just said that I had things about me he was not going into, it was beyond what he could control and I had done something that would never rid me of it.
I can't comment on what or why he said that, whether he did see something or just spooking one person, I just don't know. What I saw, or thought I saw seemed very real to me. I would like to read more, there is more available than there was years ago but feel that I don't understand it enough to deal with anything more than I already did do. There is more to Aleister than we realise, I believe that anyway.