The Tough Beast - Aleister Crowley
by Robert Anton Wilsonfrom Paul Krassner's The Practical person, issues 91-B, C, 92-A, B (1971-2)
"O - The Pretend
All ways are lawful to simplicity. Pure inanity is the key to initiation. - The Steal of Thoth
Crowley: Impressive with a crow so it rhymes with holy: Edward Alexander Crowley, b. 1875 d. 1947, established as Aleister Crowley, established overly as Sir Aleister Crowley, Saint Aleister Crowley (of the Gnostic Catholic Church), Frater Perdurabo, Frater Ou Mh, To Further Therion, Concern McGregor, Concern Vladimir Svareff, Chao Khan, Mahatma Mentor Sri Paramahansa Shivaji, Baphomet, and Ipsissimus; patently, a sleeve of the ontological fidgets - couldn't make up his personality who he really was; when you come right down to it established as The Beast 666 or The Tough Beast; friends and disciples heroic his entombment with a Black Mass: or so the newspapers assumed.
