Why Great Beasts prefer tweed...
"Crowley...was a practising bi-sexual and this shocked the leaders of the [Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn] so greatly that they refused to create him Adeptus Minor, even though he had completed the necessary studies. Crowley asserted that in the fierce dispute that ensued, astral attack methods were used on him, causing his rubber raincoat to burst into flames. Crowley was expelled from the Golden Dawn in 1900."
- Karen Hurrell & Brenda Ralph Lewis, The Unexplained - A Source Book, 2003, Flame Tree Publishing, London, p.257.