This is embedded in the films we watch
"... Crowley perceived his aspirations as religious—certainly his preoccupation at the time with the origin of evil and the nature of Satan suggested they might be—but from the outset there was also the issue of power and control. Magic, like mountaineering, was in some respects the perfect answer to the desire for "mastery" of the forces (secret or otherwise) of nature .." [1]
[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/642011.htm