No rock star was as publicly devoted to Crowley as Jimmy Page. When Page bought Crowley’s infamous Boleskine House on Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, it was assumed that he was communicating with the damned in order to write Houses of the Holy deep cuts. How else was Led Zeppelin able to poorly mimic a reggae shuffle on “D’Yer Mak’er” and still have it come out sounding awesome? Robert Plant was a great front man, but Jimmy’s true copilot had to be Satan. “I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century,” Page said in 1978. “Because his whole thing was liberation of
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