I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“The success of these private rituals induced me to take the Caxton Hall for seven performances, which were open to the public. Bottomley attacked the rituals as obscene and blasphemous. He was merely reflecting in print the depravity of his own mind.” [via, also], [see]

Consider also:

  1. “I have been shot at with broad arrows. They have called me the ‘worst man in the world.’ They have accused me of doing everything from murdering women and throwing their bodies into the Seine to drug peddling. Some well-known journalists have delighted in attacking me in print. James Douglas described me as ‘a monster of wickedness.’ Horatio Bottomley branded me as a ‘dirty degenerate’ cannibal–everything he could think of. Some have been more precise.”
  2. “I constructed a private temple in a flat in Chancery Lane. It was a hall of mirrors, the function of which was to concentrate the invoked forces. It contained an altar of acacia topped with gold and certain secret symbols and regalia of the Order.”
  3. Rodney Orpheus’ Grimoire of Aleister Crowley: Group Rituals in the Age of Thelema
  4. “My success with Yoga was so great that it became dangerous. For my own good I left it alone for two years, departing from Ceylon and going to India.”
  5. “It never disappeared completely. In fact, that experiment showed me that I was on the wrong track. Success lay not in an optical disappearance, but in the power of fascination. ‘Having eyes, they see not.'”