Famously Crowley’s own mother called him the Beast, not "a" but "the" … meaning the one from final book of the Christian Bible. An archetype he seemed to embrace … He was brought up in a Christian fundamentalist sect, viz the Plymouth Brethren Which despite their restrictive philosophy, rather than because of, the alma mata of several well, significant intellectuals or eccentrics, Crowley being just one of a parade of celebrities that come out of that sect. Though Crowley created or channeled his own religious or spiritual path, that of Thelema, many detect radical Christian undercurrent in much of his musings, and indeed he wrote at least one book directly on the topic of Christianity, this is "Crowley on Christ", originally “The Gospel of GBS” The Christian book that figures most in Crowley’s philosophy would be the New Testament "Book of Revelation". No surprise there. You could almost say he developed an entire magical philosophy from that one book. Thus in Thelema the Beast 666 and the figure of Babalon .. (Spelt Babalon rather than Babylon) have a big walk on role Was she a goddess? Apocalyptic literature : Revelation not unique and the compilers could well have chosen from an number of a similar class of literature. And this this book has several roads that lead directly to Egypt

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