I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“It was at the direction of the head of the Order that I then went to Scotland, to my manor house of Boleskine, which is two or three miles from the Falls of Foyers.

My subsidiary object—the principal aim is too sacred to discuss—put into simple language was to gain control over the ‘four great princes’ of the evil of the world.” [via, also]

Consider also:

  1. Apparently a character named Arystar Krory appears in a manga series called D.Gray-man
  2. “Then the fun began. We saw–and my teacher was able to identify–hundreds of shapes, weird “half-formed faces” which were thronging the room, marching in fantastic dance about its confines. These were definitely malicious forces, demons, which one had to study and conquer.”
  3. “I had realized, by this time, that my path to power was to be immensely difficult and fraught with danger. But I did not look back.”
  4. “Steiner broke away from the Order, because he was terrified at one of the ordeals he had to go through. He was thus cut off from the true magic, but he became secret advisor to Von Moltke.”
  5. “In the congregational form of the Black Mass the priest, having finished his abominations–these are, quite frankly, indescribable–scatters the fragments of the Host on the floor, and the assistants scramble for the soiled fragments, the possession of which, they believe, will allow them to work their petty and malicious designs.”