Notable figures

Notable figures

• Aleister Crowley 1875–1947
  Founder; principal exponent

  English author, mountaineer, occultist, and self-described prophet of the new aeon. The bulk of the published Thelemic corpus — doctrinal, ritual, philosophical, and poetic — is his work.

• Rose Edith Crowley (Kelly) 1874–1932
  Participant in the Cairo events of 1904

  Crowley’s first wife. Her trance communications during their stay in Cairo in March and April 1904 were the proximate occasion of the reception of The Book of the Law; the founding texts of Thelema treat her presence as essential to the events.

• Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad) 1886–1950
  Magical son of Crowley; producer of key Qabalistic work

  English-Canadian Thelemite and Qabalist whom Crowley acknowledged as the “magical son” predicted in The Book of the Law. His Q.B.L., or The Bride’s Reception (1923) is a major Qabalistic work in the Thelemic line.