Aleister Crowley died on Monday, December 1, 1947.
 Biographer Lawrence Sutin noted that Crowley exhibited "courage, skill, dauntless energy, and remarkable focus of will" while at the same time showing a "blind arrogance, petty fits of bile, [and] contempt for the abilities of his fellow men"
 In February 1922, Crowley returned to Paris for a retreat in an unsuccessful attempt to kick his heroin addiction

