A third of the letters were written by Aleister Crowley. Like the rest of the correspondence, these focus largely on the efforts that he and his followers were making to promote his occult fraternities, the A.'. A.'. and the O.T.O. As such they offer valuable first-hand accounts of ...
Following the death of Harry Houdini, Minky is approached by the occultist and writer Aleister Crowley to help vindicate him from an accusation of murder. This throws Minky into an occult underworld and leads to a much bigger investigation involving a missing man and Britain's secret service. ...
But his other passion was being a local gang member who would also be a leader of sorts. That was why Keith was given the mission of God that he was given, aided by the fact that he was part-Afro on his mother’s side. After all, many street gangs then and now have black members...
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. It is one of Somerset’s most complex and perceptive novels. Also available in Ebook here: [su_...
HarperCollins & Simon&Schuster-published, Kirkus-starred novelist. Books on Aleister Crowley, Johan Thoms, Count Dracula and Marcelo Bielsa. What a midfield
These words byAleister Crowleygreatly inspiredKenneth Grantwhen young. He later wrote: “I soon discovered that for some reason I have not been able to fathom it was the god Set that I was being called upon to honour . . .” With his ‘Typhonian Trilogies’, Grant would both take his ...
the religion established by EnglishoccultistAleister Crowleyin 1904, whilevölkisch(“folkish”) groups claiming to revive the pre-Christian religion of theGermanic peoplesappeared in Germany and Austria during the 1910s. German esotericist Franz Sättler venerated various pre-Christian deities through...
that Eliphas Levi said in his Key of the Mysteries, as translated by Aleister Crowley, that it is before charity that “faith prostrates itself, and conquered science bows. There is here evidently something greater than humanity; charity proves by its works that it is not a dream.” 2. ...
And there is much more available at The Libri of Aleister Crowley BooksThese libri appear in several published works, including Thelema If you have found this material useful or enlightening, you may also be interested in Thelema Liber Legis, The Book of the Law Ordo Templi Orientis A∴...
Admittedly the topic is vast - a whole book could be written on this alone - but I would have liked more than a namecheck for Iain Sinclair and Robert Irwin (whose novel Satan Wants Me - Aleister Crowley meets Withnail and I - is for my money one of the finest weird fictions of ...