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Not sure about this, but certainly Crowley must have believed in after life and reincarnation. In Book Four, it says Crowley used to believe that his previous life was Elifas Levi, who died in the year Crowley was born, the year of 1875.
Yes, he did . Also he was Buddhist ar times (old school, that has nothing to do with reincarnation as seen nowadays. To understand what this means, AC's one time teacher, Allan Bennett, (who himself became a Buddhist and retired to a monastery in Ceylon), who AC much admired, wrote an excellent paper on transmigration from this perspective, no doubt it was highly influential in the development of AC's ideas on this subject.
But overall in later life, Crowley seems to have been open for a whole range of afterlife options and possibilities:
From his Gnostic Mass :
The DEACON: " Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any Star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomplishment of their wills. "
Death is, I think, unknown realm, and belongs to the area of faith,
I totally agree with you here .
i.e. you either believe that you will come back as another life, or be freed from this worldly profanity as a freely wandering spirit in the space, or it is the end, there is no such a thing. It is up to your faith.
Well, that's 3 options
... how do you feel about 'absorption into the infinite' ? That's very Buddhist, and very 'Nuity' IMO .