Gerald Suster was a British historian, occult writer, and novelist.
Background
Suster was born 2 August 1951 in Hampstead, London. Suster"s father, Ilya Suster, an entrepreneur in the egg products industry, was born Ilya Shusterovich in Harbin, Manchuria on 17 October 1914, grew up in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1938.
Career
He was best known for his biographies of Aleister Crowley (The Legacy of the Beast) and Israel Regardie (Crowley"s Apprentice). He prefaced every speech & comment with the words: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". The immediate source of the utterance is the Book of the Law.
In 1989 he became a tutor at Boarzell Tutorial College in Sussex.
However his teaching career came to an abrupt end when he was featured in an expose of his occult activities in the News of the World newspaper on 16 April 1989. Suster sued the paper for libel, citing extensive damage to his livelihood arising from the article and various lies by the reporter Chris Blythe.
News International paid £10,000 into court. Suster accepted the offer and got £80,000 of costs from them.
He called his new occupation "my most productive period of creative writing".
Suster died on 3 February 2001 in London.
Views
Quotations:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".