From The Alan Moore Interview: Aleister Crowley the man, about how most people who get into Crowley are retards.

Yeah, Crowley’s an interesting guy. I think that one of the problems with Crowley is the people who are interested in him, that you’ll get a lot of these little fucking middle class Satanists who are just trying to shock their mum and dad. They’ve heard that Aleister Crowley was “the wickedest man in the world” and so they say “Oh yeah, well I’m really into Crowley and I’m really into the philosophy of Charles Manson and I really like William Burroughs.” They don’t like William Burroughs because he was a brilliant writer, they like him because he shot his wife and did a lot of junk. It’s this kind of “Look at me, I’m being bad.”

I don’t know much of anything about Crowley myself, but what I do know has been definitely given a negative cast because of all the fucking irritating twits who seem to be interested in him.

From the same interview, but the next page:

Well, I’ve done some bits of artwork purely for my own consumption of some of the things that I’ve seen during magical rituals. Interesting. I’ve got a picture of a demon that I saw and that I drew, which actually, yeah, it’s kind of interesting because I was reading a book about the fourth dimension, this mathematical book about the fourth dimension, where the mathematician concerned gets a bit frisky at one point and decides to be a bit playful and describe what a fourth dimensional being might actually look like and he says that his best guess is that it’d look like a shimmering lattice-work of multiple copies of itself at different scales, which is pretty well an exact description of this demon picture that I put together out of multiple photocopies of an original drawing at different scales and arranged them into this lattice-work, to suggest the creature that I’d seen, which also has a lot of other connections with the fourth dimension. Now, this is mad complex stuff that probably wouldn’t mean anything to anybody unless they’d seen the picture, encountered the demon.

And some more stuff about ideas, archetypes and demons…

I think that the archetypes are in some ways what I’m talking about when I say “living ideas”.

[Interviewer] You don’t think they’re socio-cultural, or - ?

Um, well, I think they could be a bit of both. There’s the initial living idea form that can suddenly emerge unannounced in any human mind but how that is dressed might well be socio-cultural. You can get very similar ideas that are dressed up in a huge variety of different cultural forms. I think that to some degree, these entities, which I do believe are kind of independent of us at least in some ways, although yeah, they could also be part of us. I think they’re kind of inside us and outside us at the same time, that yes they’re part of us, yes they’re something separate to us. In a way they are reflective. They gather their form or their specific attributes, they somehow - they’re what we make them, they’re what we dress them as, to a degree. I don’t know, there is something very reflective about these creatures. For example, this demon that I at least believed I’d encountered. When I first encountered it, I was scared shitless and it was scary, very scary. Then later, after I’d got it to a kind of safe enough distance so that I could talk to it without being threatened by it, we had a conversation and it was charming. It was not scary at all. If it had been a human being, I’d have wanted to go for a drink with it. It was sardonic, funny, intelligent. And I kind of thing that it depends upon what you expect to see. I think that if you greet these thing s with fear, then they’ll be fearsome.