Holly Frey suggests that Aleister Crowley's perspective on Eastern disciplines was distorted by his specific Western lens.

“Crowley's understanding of all this was definitely skewed through his very specific lens, that unfortunately means that his perspective on some of this has become pretty entrenched in the western understanding of these disciplines, even when it does not represent them accurately at all.”

Tracy Wilson claims that Aleister Crowley's life and work were so varied and prolific that they can only be summarized broadly.

“I feel like his life and his work were just so prolific and so varied that it just really scratches the surface.”