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((Short description|Wife of Aleister Crowley))
((for multi|the fictional television character|Rose Kelly (General Hospital)|the Waterloo Road character|Rose Kelly (Waterloo Road)))
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'''Rose Edith Kelly''' (23 July 1874 – 1932) was the wife of occult writer [[Aleister Crowley]], who she married in 1903. In 1904, she aided him in the Cairo Working that led to the reception of ''[[The Book of the Law]]'', on which Crowley based much of his philosophy and religion, [[Thelema]].

==Early life==
Rose Edith Kelly was born at 78 Cambridge Terrace, [[Paddington]], to Frederic Festus Kelly and Blanche (Bradford) Kelly. Her grandfather, also named [[Frederic Festus Kelly]], was the founder of [[Kelly's Directories Ltd.]]

The eldest of three children -- her siblings being Eleanor Constance Mary and [[Gerald Festus Kelly|Gerald Festus]] --  the family moved to the [[Camberwell]] [[vicarage]] in 1880. Her father served as the curate for the [[Parish]] of [[St. Giles]] for the next 35 years. 

In 1895, Kelly escorted her brother Gerald to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], where he convalesced from a liver ailment during the winter of 1895–96.

On 31 August 1897, she married Major Frederick Thomas Skerrett at St Giles' Church, Camberwell. He was a member of the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and about fifteen years older than she was. He died on 19 August 1899.

In 1901, she joined her brother Gerald in [[Paris]], France, where she stayed for six months.

==Marriage to Crowley and ''The Book of the Law''==
Kelly and Aleister Crowley eloped on 11 August and married on 12 August 1903, in order to save her from an arranged marriage. Their relationship, however, went beyond a marriage of convenience.<ref>Sutin pp. 111-113.</ref> The two went on an extended honeymoon that brought them to [[Cairo]], Egypt, in early 1904.<ref>Sutin pp. 114-116.</ref>

On 16 March 1904, "in an avowedly frivolous attempt to impress his wife", [[Aleister Crowley|Crowley]] tried to "shew the [[Sylph]]s"<ref>Sutin, p. 120. See following pages for the rest of the story.</ref> to her using the [[Bornless Ritual]]. Although she could see nothing, she did seem to enter into a light trance and repeatedly said, "They're waiting for you!"

This [[synchronicity]] and others caused him to pay closer attention to what Kelly told him. At her direction, on three successive days beginning 8 April 1904, he entered his room and starting at noon, and for exactly one hour, wrote down what he claimed he heard dictated from a shadowy presence behind him who identified himself as [[Aiwass]]. The results over the three days were the three chapters of verse known as ''[[The Book of the Law]]''. At one point Crowley failed to hear a sentence, which Kelly later amended to page 19 of the original manuscript 'The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red.'<ref>''[[The Equinox of the Gods]]'' Chapter 7, section VII.6. Quoted in ''The Holy Books of Thelema'', Preface, x-xi; manuscript image p. 149.</ref>

Kelly had two daughters with Crowley: Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith (1904–06) and Lola Zaza (1907–90). Kelly and Crowley divorced in 1909. Lola was eventually taken in by her uncle, Gerald. In 1911, Crowley had Rose committed to an [[Psychiatric hospital|asylum]] for [[alcohol dementia]].

Kelly married Dr Joseph Andrew Gormley (1849-1925) in 1912 and died in 1932.

==References==
((Reflist))

;Bibliography
*Crowley, Aleister. (1979). ''[[The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]]''. London;Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 
**''The Holy Books of Thelema''. (1983). York Beach: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
*Hudson, Derek. (1975). ''For Love of Painting - The Life of Sir Gerald Kelly''. London: Peter Davies.
*[[Martin Booth]]. (2000). ''A Magick Life - a biography of Aleister Crowley''. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
*Sutin, Lawrence. (2000). ''Do What Thou Wilt: A life of Aleister Crowley''. New York: St. Martin's Griffin 2002.

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