“The only thing…” Confessions, c. 39.
“I hope I may…” Ibid., c. 40.
“Never anywhere…” Oscar Eckenstein, July 27, 1902, letter to D. W. Freshfield, subsequently printed in Alpine Journal.
“There we found…” Confessions, c. 40.
“I have business also…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Kelly, October 25, 1902, O.T.O. Archives.
“middle-aged woman…” “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I(4) (London: 1910), p. 175. Crowley’s handwritten annotations to his personal copies of the Equinox often identify the real names of persons alluded to in the published works.
“who would later dismiss…” See Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 56.
“Crowley was widely…” Alpine Journal, (Vol. 65, 1960), p. 68.
“It had already…” Confessions, c. 42.
“I took an immediate…” W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician (London: Heinemann, 1908), reprinted with “A Fragment of Autobiography” (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986), p. 7.
“more striking…” Ibid. p. 9.
“The hero’s witty…” Confessions, c. 63.
“He was clearly…” Maugham, The Magician, p. 33.
“D…’s cold acumen…” Crowley, Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden (1904), revised and enlarged edition, ed. with a “Prolegomenon” by Martin P. Starr (Chicago: Teitan Press, 1986). Starr posits the respective identities of “D…” (Crowley) and “L…” (Kelly). Ibid., p. 191, n. 10.
“its unexpected flower…” Quoted in Frederic V. Grunfeld, Rodin: A Biography (New York: Henry Holt, 1987), pp. 455–6.
“from the fatal mischief…” “New Year, 1903,” Crowley, Collected Works, vol. 2, p. 127.
“If Science is never…” Crowley, “Science and Buddhism,” ibid., p. 261.
“It is strange…” Confessions, c. 45.
“I cannot deny…” “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I(4) (London: 1910), p. 177.
“For me these…” The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, trans. S. L. MacGregror Mathers, ed. with introductory essay (“The Initiate Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic”) by Aleister Crowley, illus. second edition ed. Hymenaeus Beta (York Beach: Weiser, 1995), p. 18.
“ye Wise…” Ibid., p. 95.
“The spirits of…” Ibid., p. 17.
“My interpretation…” Confessions, c. 45.
“I never thought…” Ibid., c. 46.
“I am ashamed…” Ibid.
“I may have…” Crowley, August 12, 1903, letter to Gerald Kelly, O.T.O. Archives.
“From her mother…” Crowley, Magick, pp. 432–3.
“Rose on the breast…” This poem (numbered “XIX.”) appears in Rosa Mundi and Other Love Songs (1905), in Crowley, Collected Works, vol. 3, p. 64.
“The error here…” and “Hats off…” Crowley’s annotated copy of Shelley’s poetical works forms part of the Yorks Collection, Warburg Institute, University of London.
“Physically and morally…” Confessions, c. 47.
“Once, in the…” Ibid., c. 46.
“Bornless Ritual” The ritual text employed by Crowley appears, with useful editorial annotations, in The Goetia, pp. 5–12.
“The King’s Chamber…” Confessions, c. 46.
“Rose of the World!” “Rosa Mundi,” Crowley, Collected Works, vol. III,. p. 51.
CHAPTER FOUR
“at the outset…” Crowley, Magick, p. 443.
“with a Being…” Ibid, p. 427.
“I, Aleister Crowley…” Ibid.
“I was not for…” Confessions, c. 48.
“many of the secrets…” Ibid.
“They’re waiting…” Crowley, Magick, p. 410.
“all about the child” Ibid.
“I am to formulate…” Ibid., p. 414.
“the Secret Chiefs…” Confessions, c. 49.
“G.D. to be…” Crowley diary entry quoted in Crowley, Magick, p. xxxviii (footnote).
“A glass case…” Ibid., p. 412.
“quite obscure…” Confessions, c. 49.
“Any questions…” Crowley, Magick, p. 434.
“to enter the ‘temple’…” Ibid.
“a rich tenor…” Ibid., p. 435.
“a body of ’fine…” Ibid.
“a man as I am…” Ibid.
“a Being whose nature…” Ibid., p. 291.
“pushed hard…” Ibid., p. 435.
“I remember clearly…” Crowley, The Law is for All, ed. Israel Regardie, (Phoenix: Falcon Press, 1986), p. 170.
“As is well known…” Ibid.
“I lay claim…” Magick, p. 440.
“The first period…” Ibid., p. 444.
“The Antecedents of Thelema” This essay, written in 1926, was first published in Crowley, The Revival of Magick and Other Essays (Oriflamme 2) ed. Hymenaeus Beta and Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D. (Tempe: New Falcon, 1998), pp. 162–9.
“St. Augustine’s…” Ibid., p. 162.
“Everyone should…” Crowley, The Law is for All, p. 111.
“Why can’t they…” Ibid., p. 112.
“Nature’s way…” Ibid., p. 177.
“could never bring himself” Gerald Yorke, “Notes from G. Y. Regarding Book of the Law,” O.T.O. Archives.
“inhuman cruelty…” Crowley, Magick, p. 422.
“I, the Beast…” Crowley, Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law, ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant (Montreal: 93 Publishing, 1974), p. 307.
“I and my woman…” Ibid.
“the attraction should…” Crowley, The Law is for All, pp. 126, 132.
“women are nearly…” Ibid., p. 133.
“The best women…” Ibid., p. 311.
“Sexual disease…” Ibid.
“Prostitution (with its…” Ibid.
“It is we of Thelema…” Ibid., pp. 307–8.
“It really makes…” Israel Regardie, “Introduction” to The Law is for All, pp. 40–1. See also, Kenneth Grant, “Introduction” to Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law, p. xvii, where Grant writes: “Should The Book of the Law prove to be wholly the brain child of a human being—Aleister Crowley—this would be no indictment of its truth. Rather would it prove that Crowley the man had somehow gained access to knowledge of a superhuman order, the very existence of which is only now beginning to be suspected by the most brilliant minds of our age.”
“a reason for this…” Crowley, Magick, pp. 423–4.
“the law of Parsimony…” Ibid.
“a sin of his youth…” and “for the sake…” C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffe (New York: Vintage, 1965), p. 378.
“Archetypes speak…” Ibid., p. 178.
“I called him…” Ibid., p. 182.
“the crucial insight…” Ibid., p. 183.
“Psychologically, Philemon…” Ibid.
“I was compelled…” Ibid., p. 190.
“attempting automatic…” William Butler Yeats, A Vision, reissue with the author’s final revisions (New York: Collier Books, 1973), p. 8.
“gained in…” Ibid.
“But Muses resemble…” Ibid., p. 24.
“My teachers did not…” Ibid., p. 10.
“A primary dispensation…” Ibid., p. 263.
“Why should we…” Quoted in Helen Vendler, Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), p. 102.
“The reader must…” Crowley, Magick, p. 443.
“my own ‘conversion’…” Ibid., p. 423.
“My sincerity…” Ibid., p. 428.
“powers of clairvoyance” Confessions, c. 50.
“A large red…” Crowley [pseud. as given in title], The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz (Bagh-i-Muattar), facsimile of 1910 privately printed (in London) first edition with “Introduction” by Martin P. Starr (Chicago: Teitan Press, 1991), p. 39.
“But for private…” Gerald
Yorke, “Notes from G. Y. Regarding Book of the Law,” O.T.O. Archives.
“the printing bill…” d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast, p. 36.
“a deliberate mimicry…” Ibid., p. 37.
“Nuit was given…” Confessions, c. 50.
“arouse every instinct…” Ibid.
“to clean all…” Crowley, letter to Norman Mudd [c. 1925], quoted in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 78.
“I used to experiment…” Confessions, c. 50.
“There was a young lady…” Crowley, Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden, p. 150.
“Rose, that you…” Ibid., p. 160.
“I see below…” “Rosa Inferni” is included in Crowley, Selected Poems, ed. Martin Booth (Great Britain: Aquarian Press, 1986), pp. 139–44.
“My marriage taught…” Confessions, c. 50.
CHAPTER FIVE
“as keen as ever…” Confessions, c. 50.
“Perdurabo” Quoted in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 81.
“his character was mean…” Confessions, c. 51.
On Pache, Reymond, Guillarmod Ibid.
“sole and supreme” Ibid.
“I gave a prize…” Ibid., c. 52.
“A moment’s hesitation…” Ibid.
“crumbling moraine…” Crowley, written response to Dr. J. Jacot Guillarmod, “Au Kanchenjunga: Voyage et explorations dans l’Himalaya du Sikkim et du Nepal,” (serialized in Echo des Alpes, (Nos. 8–9, 1914)), typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“In matter of fact…” Ibid.
“I took pains…” Confessions, c. 52.
“The economical…” Crowley, written response to Guillarmod, O.T.O. Archives.
“I cannot think…” Ibid.
“The root of the…” Confessions, c. 52.
“There was only one…” Ibid.
“Their imaginations…” Ibid.
“There was no suggestion…” Ibid.
“After our 1954…” John Tucker, Kanchenjunga (London: Panther, 1957), p. 42.
“To my horror…” Confessions, c. 52.
“As it was…” Crowley, letter to Pioneer of India, September 11, 1905.
“The following day…” Crowley, written response to Guillarmod, O.T.O. Archives.
“In consequence…” Crowley, letter to London Daily Mail, September 11, 1905.
“I have very much…” Crowley, written response to Guillarmod, O.T.O. Archives.
“I tell thee, man…” Crowley, Scented Garden, p. 27.
“With sodomy…” Ibid., pp. 27–8.
“I realize in myself…” “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I(8) (London: 1912), p. 11.
“After five years…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Kelly, n.d. [c. October, 1905], O.T.O. Archives.
“And then I saw…” Confessions, c. 53.
“I had fired…” Ibid.
“There is a peculiar…” Ibid.
“I embrace hardship…” Ibid., c. 54.
“It was from him…” “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I(8) (London: 1912), p. 10.
“I knew as I know…” Confessions, 54.
“He had repeatedly…” “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I(8) (London: 1912), p. 13.
“[N]aturally he had…” Confessions, c. 55.
“For the first time…” Ibid., c. 58.
“Made many resolutions…” Crowley, 1906 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Thee I invoke…” The ritual text employed by Crowley appears, with useful editorial annotations, in The Goetia, pp. 5–12.
“Let the muscles…” Crowley, Magick, p. 538.
“My plan was…” Confessions, c. 58.
“Having got everything…” Ibid., c. 56.
“it is the puritan A.C.…” Crowley, 1906 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“Go with the S.W.…” Ibid.
“Having won me…” Ibid.
“I offered all…” Ibid. The diary entry quoted here differs from the polished and edited version offered by Crowley in his Confessions, c. 59.
“Master, how subtly…” Crowley, Aha! (Phoenix: Falcon Press, 1987), p. 80.
“The great sight…” Ibid., p. 59.
“Remember how close…” Crowley, 1906 Diary.
“Once again I…” Ibid.
“The ‘millions of worlds’…” Ibid.
“Hashish at least…” Crowley, “The Psychology of Hashish,” in Equinox I(2) (London: 1909), p. 53.
“One may doubt…” Ibid., p. 80.
“and the truth of it…” Crowley, “John St. John,” in Equinox I(1) (London: 1909), p. 45.
“There are only two…” Ibid., p. 85.
“He has drunk…” Ibid., p. 107.
“a true example…” Quoted in Brian Holden Reid, J.F.C. Fuller: Military Thinker (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), p. 2.
“if it be necessary…” Fuller, The Star in the West: A Critical Essay Upon the Works of Aleister Crowley (London: Walter Scott, 1907), p. 172.
“Unblushing, the old…” Crowley, Clouds Without Water (Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, n.d.), p. x.
“Our love is like…” Ibid., p. 6.
“My readers, too…” Crowley, The World’s Tragedy, p. xxxiv.
“I can only say…” Crowley, Confessions, c. 62.
“that dust which…” Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings, ed. Israel Regardie (New York: Weiser, 1977), p. 102.
“I am the heart…” Crowley, The Holy Books of Thelema, ed. Hymenaeus Alpha and Hymenaeus Beta (Yorke Beach: Weiser, 1983), p. 53.
“in truth there seems…” Crowley, The World’s Tragedy, p. xxvii.
“I do not wish…” Ibid., p. xxiv.
“One thing I must…” Ibid., p. xxv.
“Life with Rose…” Crowley, letter to Fuller, June 8, 1908, O.T.O. Archives.
“I don’t think we…” Crowley, letter to Fuller, May 23, 1908, O.T.O. Archives.
“unadorned, smoking…” Confessions, c. 63.
“My spiritual self…” Ibid., c. 64.
“a point of honesty…” Ibid.
“O thou who hast…” Quoted in Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, rev. ed. (Oxford: Mandrake, 1990), p. 126.
“I believe that all…” Crowley, “John St. John,” pp. 128–9.
“I am so far…” Ibid., pp. 29–30.
“Then subtly…” Ibid., pp. 133–4.
“I not only achieved…” Confessions, c. 65.
“Maugham had taken…” Ibid., c. 63.
“he merely remarked…” Ibid.
“was all moonshine…” Quoted in Robert Calder, Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (London: Heinemann, 1989), p. 99.
CHAPTER SIX
“In this way…” Confessions, c. 65.
“like so many…” J. F. C. Fuller, “Introductory Essay” to Keith Hogg, 666-Bibliotheca Crowleyana (catalog of Fuller’s collection of Crowley writings and manuscripts) (Kent, UK: 1966), p. 5.
“No Buddhist…” Quoted in P. R. Stephensen and Israel Regardie, The Legend of Aleister Crowley (Saint Paul: Llewellyn, 1970), p. 70.
“I hope you’re sitting…” Crowley, letter to Fuller, May 23, 1908, O.T.O. Archives.
“For three years…” Crowley, letter to Parry, January 28, 1910, O.T.O. Archives.
“Glory be…” This diary entry is quoted in Confessions, c. 65.
“For the first time…” Ibid.
“I had always…” Neuburg (Omnia Vincam), 1909 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“My worthy Guru…” Ibid.
“apparently a homosexual…” Ibid.
“I admit that…” Crowley (with Victor B. Neuburg & Mary Desti), The Vision and the Voice with Commentary and Other Papers (York Beach: Weiser, 1998), p. 18.
“I realized that space…” Confessions, c. 66.
“a great golden topaz…” Ibid.
“Depart! For thou…” Crowley, The Vision and the Voice, p. 139.
/> “The first of the…” Confessions, c. 66.
“Verily is the Pyramid…” Crowley, The Vision and the Voice, p. 141. Crowley’s own note to this passage reads: “It is also a Phallus, which dies itself to communicate Life to Others.” Ibid.
“I had astrally…” Confessions, c. 66.
“There is no being…” Crowley, The Vision and the Voice, p. 163.
“leaped upon the Scribe…” Ibid., pp. 168–9.
“Choronzon, in the form…” Confessions, c. 66.
“a materializing medium…” Ibid., c. 64.
“successive phantoms…” Ibid., c. 66.
“we have the Apocalypse…” Crowley, letter to Fuller, December 5, 1909, O.T.O. Archives.
“Part of the effect…” Confessions, c. 67.
“The revelations of Mr. Crowley…” London Evening News, March 23, 1910.
“The argument…” Confessions, c. 67.
“I do not know…” Special Law Reports transcript of March 22, 1910, hearing.
“The girl was…” Crowley, “The Vixen,” in Equinox I(4) London, 1910), p. 277.
“I.C. wants me…” Quoted in James Laver, Museum Piece (London: Andre Deutsch, 1963), p. 117.
“This is a most…” Crowley, book review, Equinox I(5) (London, 1911), p. 146.
“His powerful neck…” Archer, The Hieroglyph, p. 100.
“Genius is another…” Ibid., p. 131.
“[T]hen the brothers…” Quoted in Crowley, The Rites of Eleusis (Thame, UK: Mandrake Press, 1990), pp. 24–5. The “Introduction” to this volume by Keith Richmond provides a useful overview and assessment of the staging and impact of the Rites.
“I throw myself…” Confessions, c. 67.
“The Elusive Rites…” The Sketch, October 26, 1910.
“Remember the doctrine…” The Looking Glass, October 29, 1910.
“In every sense…” J. F. C. Fuller, “Introductory Essay” to Bibliotheca Crowleyana, p. 7.
“every incident…” Confessions, c. 68.
“quite a lot…” Letter, Crowley to Fuller, October 20, 1911, O.T.O. Archives.
“Send £500…” Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, p. 174.
“because he was afraid…” Confessions, c. 67.
“hinted that he…” Ibid.
“At night, when drunk…” Quoted in Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, p. 176.
“Rats leave…” Crowley, “X-Rays on Ex-Probationers,” in Equinox I(5) (London: 1911), p. 142.
“I personally believe…” Confessions, c. 72.
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