THE DES MOINES REGISTER

Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A.

2 December 1947

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Drank Eternal Life Potion; Dies at 72.

HASTINGS, England, Dec. 1.—Aleister Crowley, magician and mystic who claimed that when he was 40 he had distilled and drunk the true elixir of life supposed to prolong life forever, died at 72.