hmm..I find him interesting..I concider him to be more or less a chaos magician..the whole golden dawn thing was weird but I dont know enough about it to really comment on that..other than that they kicked him out and I think he went on with some of that tradition but did not fully understand what they were even about..I have not read most of Crowleys work.

My overall impression of crowley is that he was a chaos magician(he inspired much of what chaos magic is now) and led an interesting life..I think that a lot of Wiccan traditions and some other new age magical religions were influenced by him..and because of this I think often people assume that this is all traditional witchcraft or something-which it is not. Crowley was definatly a pioneer of the "new age" IMO and while be did help inspire a pagan revival I think he may have contributed to some misunderstandings surrounding traditional witchcraft practices..however it is becasue of him in part that many people returned to paganism and in turn were led back to traditional craft..so I think we(pagans anyway) owe him that much.

What I have found most interesting is how many people who get into witchcraft end up eventually distancing themselves from crowley influenced traditions of wicca etc and this has brought on a sort of "traditional craft" revival. I know for me crowley was an influence at one point and even though that is not where my main interest is at this point it was something that got me to this point.