Born: October. 12th 1875

Edward Aleister Crowley was born between 11p.m. and midnight in Leamington/Warwickshire. He's the son of Edward Crowley, a well-to-do brewer and amateur priest, and his wife Emily Bertha, birthname Bishop; both were members of the *Plymoth Brethren", an mormone-sect. Later he writes about himself, that he is born with three of the great signs of Buddha, and some of the small ones. His father already teaches him in the early infancy the visions of the revelation of John.

1886: His father dies.

1896 - 1987: Crowley starts to be interested in mysticism, magic and more, and starts reading books about alchemy and similar things. He studies in Malvern, Tombridge, and after that at the Trinity-College in Cambridge, which he leaves in 1898 without degree.

1898: 'Aceldama', his first book with poems, is written; 18th November he is introduced to the Golden Dawn Order. In December he receives the degree of the Zelators. His magician name is Perdurabo.

1900, January, 16th.: Adeptus Minor. Now his magic motto is Parzival. Crowley travels because of documents linked with this initiation to Paris, but the examination is not permitted to him by the order there. So he goes to Mexico.

1902: Journey to India, there in Burma he meets Allan Benett (=Bikkhu Ananda Metteya). He mounts together with others the K2 in the Himalaya. [not confirmed]

1903: Crowley begins with invocations after the magic of the Abremelin; he has rented a house to himself in Boleskine, Scotland, near the Loch Ness. However, the work is interrupted by the marriage to Rose Kelly, the sister of painter Gerald Kelly.

1904: He travels to Ceylon with his wife and returns over Cairo to London. Between April 8th and April 10th, between 12 and 13 o'clock, the Liber al vel Legis of Aiwaz is revealed to him through the psychic abilities of his wife. This also stands in connection with a column which he has seen in the Egyptian museum of Cairo, and which is called from now on "the Column of Revealing". As a result he accepts the degree of the Adeptus major.

1905 -1907: 'The Collected Works'.

1905: Expedition to the Kanchenjunga.

1906: Travelling through China, Invocation of Agoeides and end of the Abremalin work. Death of Lilith, Crowley's first daughter.

1907: Crowley founded the order " Argentum Astrum".

1909 - 1913: 'The Equinox, vol. 1-10' is published.

1909: Separation from Rose Kelley, who was sent into a mental hospital two years later. Crowley becomes Adeptus Exemptus. Between November 23rd and December 19th, he carries out the invocations after the Enochian system in North Africa. December: Master Templi.

1909 – 1910: 'The Holy Books' is published.

1911: Crowley and Mary d'Este Sturges are going out as a couple.

1912: He becomes the Head of the English O.T.O

1913: 'The Book of Lies' is published.

1914: He travels to the USA. September, 3rd.: He starts writing the 'Magic Diary' / 'Rex de Arte Regia' (printed in: 'The Magical Record of the Beast 666', published by J. Symonds 1972)

1915: October 12th.:Magus (The Great Beast)

1917: Crowleys' mother dies.

1918: Amalantrah appears to Roddi Minor, one of Crowley's love affairs, in New York; He meets Leah Hirsig (Alostreal). Mathers dies.

1919: 'The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1' is published. He returns to England.

1920: April 2nd.: Crowley arrives in Chefalu, Sicily; On October14th he founds the abbey "Thelema" (gr .: 'Will'); Anna Leah, his daughter with Leah Hirsig, dies.

1921: 'Ipsissimus'

1923: On May 1st he is expelled from Italy by Mussolini; He travels to Tunis. Here, Crowley's autobiography is assumed to come to an end.

1925: Crowley becomes the International Head of the O.T.O

1929: He and his friends are expelled from France; On the 16th of July he marries Maria Teresa de Miramar in Germany.

1930: The first issues of 'The Confessions' are published.

1944: After years of travelling around, Crowley withdraws from public life; He spends the rest of his life in Hastings where he dies in poverty on the December 1st, 1947.