Michael James Crowley

Michael J. Crowley is currently Frater Superior Chief and Greatly Honored Hierophant of the Mountain Temple Order of the Golden Dawn, in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as continuing to serve as Director of its umbrella organization, Mountain Temple Center, and Co-Founder/Regent of the (non-accredited) Arizona University of Magick.

Crowley became an Adeptus Minor in the Order of the Golden Dawn in 1994, and an Exempt Adept in 1999. He was initiated into the grade of Magister Templi on 8 May 2001 by Visible and Invisible Chiefs in the direct lineage of Mathers, A. Crowley, Regardie, and their living successors. He also holds the IVth Degree, Knight of the East and West in the Ordo Templi Orientis (Caliphate) and is a Priest of the Ecclesia Gnosticae Catholicae. He has been involved with the O.T.O. for eight years.  Crowley is also a Third Degree Lord High Priest and Magus of Gardnerian Wicca, having been involved with that tradition for over twenty years. He is also a licensed Minister of the Universal Life Church. Crowley is a descendent of the bards and wise ones of old Eire, and is rumored to be a distant cousin of the notorious Aleister Crowley, from whom he claims to have received teachings and communications in the Astral plane.

Crowley on his newly-restored white chariot (Feb 2002)