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Diary of a Witch by Sybil Leek5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() and they’ll say the same about you.” In later years, she would recall Crowley’s words, when tempted to compromise her beliefs. “Every damning word that can be used has been used against you, “ she told Crowley, “and you let it happen.” Crowley shrugged off her accusation believing that she would someday take up the burden of public occultism, he warned her, “. By the time she met up with him again in Paris, Sybil was older and wiser. She didn’t know, at the time, of Crowley's reputation Sybil knew him more as a poet and an expert mountaineer. Lawrence (“ Lawrence of Arabia”), and the notorious Aleister Crowley. Unusual, too, were the visitors to her family home. On mountain walks, her father taught her basic philosophy and mental exercises. She recalled, for example, how her grandmother taught her astrology with just basic things at hand, such as drawing symbols on pastries and cookies. From early childhood, each instructed Sybil in his or her area of interest. Sybil’s mother and aunt, for example, were psychics and her grandmother was a folk witch and expert astrologer. ![]() Her family was an interesting one: though outwardly typical English gentry, many members of her immediate family were well versed in the occult arts. She claimed descent from the Imperial Court of Russia through her father, and her mother was of Irish ancestry. ![]() One of the best-known Witches of the twentieth century, Sybil Leek was born on 22 February 1922 in Staffordshire, England. ![]()
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