Career
During a period of over thirty years, from the early 1970s through 2000s, he published and self-published many books and recordings. Amado Crowley initially announced himself to the occult world via his adopted name, Amado Crowley, in 1971, when he was past the age of forty, through a statement sent to the publishers of the encyclopedia on the subject, Manitoba, Myth & Magic. However it would later be inferred from his 1991 book, The Secrets of Aleister Crowley, that his name was registered at birth as Andrew Standish.
The book has yet to be published and has only been seen by one other person other than Crowley, the writer and antique bookseller, Jason Brett Serle.
Crowley"s biographers have found no documentary evidence regarding Amado"s claim of descent from Aleister Crowley, and the claim is universally dismissed as bogus by Crowley scholars. Gerald Suster wrote:
"Amado claims in his book that Aleister taught him between the ages of 7 and 14: i.e.1937–1944.
If so, why isn"t there a single mention of this vital matter in Crowley"s Diaries? There he records matters as trivial as the breaking of a tooth or the quality of his dinner: but he does not see fit to record meetings with an initiation of a son destined to be his successor."
He died in February 2010.
