He offered a libertine education for the children, allowing them to play all day and witness acts of sex magic. was reactivated in California under the leadership of Grady Louis McMurtry; [312] in 1985 its right to the title was unsuccessfully challenged in court by a rival group, the Society Ordo Templi Orientis, led by Brazilian Thelemite Marcelo Ramos Motta.

Crowley originally intended the Thoth deck to be a six-month project aimed at updating the traditional pictorial symbolism of the tarot. The rich symbolism in the Thoth deck, and comparisons of Crowley’s archetypes to their corresponding major arcana cards, has been accomplished in Duquette’s book . On the way, he spent much time on spiritual and magical work, reciting the "Bornless Ritual", an invocation to his Holy Guardian Angel, on a daily basis. Crowley's final publication during his lifetime was a book of poetry, Olla: An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song. It was here that Crowley also published one of his most significant works, Magick in Theory and Practice, which received little attention at the time.Crowley moved into his own luxury flat at 67–69 Chancery Lane and soon invited a senior Golden Dawn member, Allan Bennett, to live with him as his personal magical tutor. The moral code of "Do What Thou Wilt" is believed by Thelemites to be the religion's ethical law, although the historian of religion Marco Pasi noted that this was not anarchistic or libertarian in structure, as Crowley saw individuals as part of a wider societal organism. The tarot fool is traditionally interpreted an indication of new beginnings, spontaneous action, leaps of faith, and innocence or naivete. Another American Thelemite is the filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who had been influenced by Crowley's writings from a young age.

There, he made heavy use of drugs and undertook a ritual after which he proclaimed himself "Master Therion". In November 1909, Crowley and Neuburg travelled to Algeria, touring the desert from El Arba to Aumale, Bou Saâda, and then Dā'leh Addin, with Crowley reciting the Quran on a daily basis. The Thelemite Lon Milo DuQuette noted that Crowley "was by no means perfect" and "often alienated those who loved him dearest. This book describes the philosophy and the use of Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, a deck of Tarot cards designed by Crowley himself and co-designed and painted by Lady Frieda Harris.Specially since he changed the structure of the court cards, while each of the places retains much of the original meanings, there are subtle differences. Fenton's articles suggested that Crowley and Jones were involved in homosexual activity; Crowley did not mind, but Jones unsuccessfully sued for libel. Crowley described women as "moral inferiors" who had to be treated with "firmness, kindness and justice", [293] while also arguing that Thelema was essential to women's emancipation. In the "New Commentary" and The Book of Thoth, Crowley demonstrates that his trump arrangement forms a double loop in the zodiac-number and letter-number correspondences compared to the Golden Dawn deck, where there is no loop. Loveday drank from a local polluted stream, soon developing a liver infection resulting in his death in February 1923.