text: Oh, rather than name a whole line of them, let me just give you one. I think he would agree to both titles - Immoral (or perhaps amoral) and Genius - Alister Crowley (October 12, 1875 - Dec 1, 1947) He was self-proclaimed "the wickedest man on earth." His mother called him "666, the Beast from Revelations."\n\nCrowley was a chess master, a yoga adept, a mountaineer, an occultist, a sex magick experimenter (one might call him a pervert and he would agree) and one who took large amounts of drugs (laudanum, opium, hashish, cocaine, alcohol, ether).\n\nHe wrote copiously about the alchemy of contacting one's Guardian Angel. Designed his own tarot deck (wherein he reversed the order of some of the major arcana). He compiled a huge work of gemetria (correspondence of numbers and the values of words) called _777_. \n\nThere is no doubt of his genius; likewise there is no doubt that he died penniless, sick, addicted, and alone.