Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

At last, the unexpurgated, true story of the amazing Aleister Crowley—philosopher, poet, artists, writer, magus, explorer, parapsychology—and spy. Packed with fresh research and previously unpublished ‘Crowleyana.’
 
For 100 years, Aleister Crowley’s true achievements have been suppressed and his true character defaced in a campaign of vilification unparalleled in British history. Until now, Crowley’s life has not been written—it has been written over.
 
Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. In writing Aleister Crowley, he enjoyed complete access to all Crowley’s restricted papers, unpublished letters and personal diaries kept in a trust at London’s Warburg Institute and in the Ordo Templi Orientis archives. Ninety percent of the authentic material here has never before been published.

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Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

At last, the unexpurgated, true story of the amazing Aleister Crowley—philosopher, poet, artists, writer, magus, explorer, parapsychology—and spy. Packed with fresh research and previously unpublished ‘Crowleyana.’
 
For 100 years, Aleister Crowley’s true achievements have been suppressed and his true character defaced in a campaign of vilification unparalleled in British history. Until now, Crowley’s life has not been written—it has been written over.
 
Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. In writing Aleister Crowley, he enjoyed complete access to all Crowley’s restricted papers, unpublished letters and personal diaries kept in a trust at London’s Warburg Institute and in the Ordo Templi Orientis archives. Ninety percent of the authentic material here has never before been published.

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Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

by Tobias Churton
Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

Aleister Crowley: The Biography: Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy

by Tobias Churton

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At last, the unexpurgated, true story of the amazing Aleister Crowley—philosopher, poet, artists, writer, magus, explorer, parapsychology—and spy. Packed with fresh research and previously unpublished ‘Crowleyana.’
 
For 100 years, Aleister Crowley’s true achievements have been suppressed and his true character defaced in a campaign of vilification unparalleled in British history. Until now, Crowley’s life has not been written—it has been written over.
 
Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. In writing Aleister Crowley, he enjoyed complete access to all Crowley’s restricted papers, unpublished letters and personal diaries kept in a trust at London’s Warburg Institute and in the Ordo Templi Orientis archives. Ninety percent of the authentic material here has never before been published.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780283845
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 05/20/2014
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism. Holding a Masters degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, Tobias is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University and Faculty Lecturer in Western Esotericism. An accomplished filmmaker and composer and the writer of the award-winning drama documentary series The Gnostics, for the UK's Channel 4, Tobias has also written a now standard biography on Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Please consult www.tobiaschurton.com for more information. The author lives in UK.

Table of Contents

List of Plates xiii

Crowley Family Trees xvi

Foreword Christopher McIntosh xix

1 The Legend 1

2 The Magnificent Crowleys 12

3 The Best 1875-98 21

4 Crowley and the Carlists 1898-99 36

5 Revolt in the Golden Dawn 1899-1900 47

6 I was born Fighter 1900-01 61

7 Son of Man 1901-03 75

8 The Lesion 1904 91

9 The Dawning 1905-06 111

10 Teaching Tankerville 1907 126

11 A Licence to Live 1908-09 140

12 Sex on Trial 1909-12 153

13 To Russia with Lust 1913 170

14 Spying in the USA 1914-18 186

15 The Peacock Angel 1918 216

16 Sex Magick 1914-19 230

17 The Abbey of Thelema 1920-22 246

18 Persecution 1923 261

19 Rebirth 1924 275

20 The World Teacher 1925-27 289

21 Four Red Monks carrying a Black Goat across the Snow to Nowhere 1928-30 297

22 Shitland 1927-30 307

23 One Part a Knave 1926-30 322

24 Berlin 1930-32 332

25 All great Saviours have been bastards 1932-38 356

26 V 1939-43 375

27 A City of Refuge 1943-47 400

28 Aleister Crowley Remembered 419

Endnotes 431

Bibliography 460

Index 463

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