Did Aleister Crowley and MacGregor Mathers (founder of the Golden Dawn) ever do the deed?
Mathers, to all reliable accounts, was very, very heterosexual. Until his death in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919, he was married to Mina Bergson, sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson, so it is extremely unlikely that Mathers and Crowley would have engaged in any type of sexual activities. Mathers was brilliantly creative magically, but also, unfortunately, equally grandiose and gullible. Crowley was extremely erudite, and could, when it served his purposes, also be very charming. Mathers saw Crowley as his Magickal Heir Apparent, and for a time was very fond of him in a fatherly way, much the same way Freud was of Jung before their breakup. After their estrangement, Crowley vilified Mathers in his writings; the head of the Black Lodge in Crowley’s novel “Moonchild” was a thinly disguised version of his former friend and mentor. Back to the top. What does “skyclad” mean? The term “skyclad” comes “from India’s sunny clime” and originated among the Jains, a sect of Hinduism that pra
