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- proper noun A male
given name , a rare variant ofAlastair , from Scottish GaelicAlasdair , cognate with EnglishAlexander .
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One of the first persons to try to scale it was an Englishman by the name of Aleister Crowley, a man enamored of the occult.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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One of the first persons to try to scale it was an Englishman by the name of Aleister Crowley, a man enamored of the occult.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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One of the first persons to try to scale it was an Englishman by the name of Aleister Crowley, a man enamored of the occult.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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The manager, Peter Crowley, whom I privately dub "Aleister" (Aleister Crowley, the celebrated twentieth-century satanist and occult philosopher, wrote Diary of a Drug Fiend), looks like an aging Jet from an amateur production of West Side Story.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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Moore’s magicking has entered his writing most didactically in the comic Promethea: Book Four of the series gives readers a guided tour of the kabbalistic Tree of Life, roosting in whose branches we find 20th-century magi such as Aleister Crowley (in drag) and the late artist Austin Osman Spare.
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Moore’s magicking has entered his writing most didactically in the comic Promethea: Book Four of the series gives readers a guided tour of the kabbalistic Tree of Life, roosting in whose branches we find 20th-century magi such as Aleister Crowley (in drag) and the late artist Austin Osman Spare.
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Aleister Crowley almost begged her and the Father to come back to the Ashwood Abbey to help them fix this whole FoxNews scandal.
Hunter campaign continued nathreee 2010
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Does anyone know the name of the island on the Hudson River where Aleister Crowley sequestered himself in 1918?
Deceit, Blood, and Opera greygirlbeast 2009
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Also, I think I'm about to go on an Aleister Crowley binge.
I haven't done one of these WoW things in a while... sovay 2009
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When Aleister Crowley called the good father de Vries and asked him to negotiate with the Children of the Seventh Generation (7G), but the Father refused; he was an exorcist, he would not have dealings with people who worshipped that which he had vowed to destroy.
Hunter nathreee 2010
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