“They would laugh…” Lawrence Sutin, interview with Daphne Harris, March 1990.
“I treated him…” Ibid.
“He stole sugar…” Ibid.
“this house will…” Rod Davies, “Crowley in Hastings: Last Days of the Great Beast,” Warburg Collection.
“Then out of the blue…” Ibid.
“dressed in a magnificent…” Ibid.
“I was eight…” Oliver Wilkinson, “Aleister Crowley Rest In?”, in Colin Wilson, ed. Men of Mystery: A Celebration of the Occult (London: Star Books, 1977), p. 95.
“Aleister Crowley has…” Ibid., p. 94.
“Crowley’s belief in…” Ibid., p. 99.
“in return for magical…” Quoted in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 578.
“The paunchy, seedy…” Kenneth Grant, Remembering Aleister Crowley (London: Skoob Books, 1991), pp. 61–62.
“He would draw a…” Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (New York: Weiser, 1972), p. 93.
“Crowley told me…” Kenneth Grant, Remembering Aleister Crowley, p. 47.
“exoteric”, “esoteric” Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival, pp. 2–3.
“I was beginning…” Kenneth Grant, Remembering Aleister Crowley, p. 41.
“Dion Fortune—Public Bat…” Crowley, March 30, 1939, diary entry, 1939 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“My mentality always…” Dion Fortune, letter to Crowley, January 8, 1942, quoted in Janine Chapman, Quest for Dion Fortune (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1993), p. 153.
“Crowley was sixteen…” Ibid., p. 156.
“With her I had…” Crowley, letter to Frederic Mellinger, n.d. [c. March 1946], O.T.O. Archives.
“Probably the best way…” The Story of Dion Fortune as told to Charles Fielding and Carr Collins (Star & Cross Publication, distributed by Weiser, 1985), p. 157.
“The acknowledgment…” Dion Fortune, letter to Crowley, March 14, 1945, quoted in Kenneth Grant, Remembering Aleister Crowley, pp. 33–4.
“The only man…” Gerald B. Gardner, Witchcraft Today (New York: Magical Childe, 1982), p. 47.
“I accepted the challenge…” Doreen Valiente, The Rebirth of Witchcraft (London: Robert Hale, 1989), p. 61.
“borrowed wholesale…” Aidan A. Kelly, Crafting the Art of Magic, Book 1: A History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939–1964 (Saint Paul: Llewellyn, 1991), p. 174.
“he had been inside…” Gerald B. Gardner, Witchcraft Today, p. 47.
“refused to be bossed…” J. L. Bracelin, Gerald Gardner: Witch (London: Octagon Press, 1960), p. 174.
“a dirty-minded…” Quoted in Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale, 1983), p. 17.
“I tried to steady…” E. M. Butler, Paper Boats: An Autobiography (London: Collins, 1959), pp. 167–8.
“and his voice…” Ibid., p. 168.
“it would need a Kafka…” Ibid., p. 169.
“Yet there he sat…” Ibid., p. 171.
“‘It was a revelation…” Ibid., p. 173.
“Hubbard broke up black magic…” The Church of Scientology, letter to London Sunday Times, December 28, 1969.
“methods for evoking…” Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival, p. 164.
“I have my elemental!” Jack Parsons, letter to Crowley, February 23, 1946, O.T.O. Archives.
“I am particularly…” Crowley, letter to Jack Parsons, March 27, 1946, O.T.O. Archives.
“direct touch with One…” Jack Parsons, letter to Crowley, March 6, 1946, O.T.O. Archives.
“You have got me…” Crowley, letter to Jack Parsons, April 19, 1946, O.T.O. Archives. Note that “the idiocy of these goats” is the correct transcription of Crowley’s language here, rather than “the idiocy of these louts” as stated in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 572.
“I doubt whether anyone…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Yorke, March 27, 1946, O.T.O. Archives.
“Hardly pausing in his…” James Laver, Museum Piece, p. 228.
“something we do…” Ibid.
“very important and you…” Crowley, letter to Aleister Ataturk, May 30, 1947.
“The best models…” Ibid.
“This is a good world…” Quoted in Clifford Bax, Some I Knew Well (London: Phoenix House, 1951), p. 54.
“I had always felt…” Louis Wilkinson [pseud. Louis Marlow], Seven Friends, p. 53.
“Freida Harris told me…” Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 585.
“Crowley is alleged…” Gerald Suster, The Legacy of the Beast: The Life, Work and Influence of Aleister Crowley (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1989), p. 75.
“Crowley used to pace…” Ibid., p. 76.
“It was the gods…” Snoo Wilson, videotaped interview with Patricia MacAlpine, O.T.O. Archives.
“Crowley tried to get…” London Sunday Express, December 1947, O.T.O. Archives.
“Here rests beneath…” Crowley, May 1, 1944, diary entry, 1944 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The reader interested in a broader listing of books and other publications by and about Aleister Crowley may consult the endnotes hereto, as well as the extensive bibliographical references in Magick (listed below). The purpose of the present bibliography is to provide a basic (and necessarily subjective) guide to further reading in the key texts of a most prolific author.
The fundamental works of Aleister Crowley include:
The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King, trans. S. L. Mathers, ed. Aleister Crowley, Foyers, UK: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904; illustrated second revised edition, ed. Hymenaeus Beta, York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1995, 1997. Contained herein is one of Crowley’s finest essays, “The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic.”
The Book of the Law. (See Magick below.)
The Book of Lies which is also falsely called Breaks. Frater Perdurabo [pseud.]. London: Wieland, 1913, rpt. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1993.
The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, The Master Therion [pseud.]. London: O.T.O., 1944, rpt. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1993.
The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, Foyers, UK: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 3 vols., 1905–7, rpt. Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society [c. 1974]. Despite its grand title, readers should note that these volumes are principally devoted to Crowley’s early poetical works (through 1907) and, even within that period, exclude his most erotically charged verse.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. London: Mandrake, 1929 (only two of the projected six volumes issued); one-volume edition, ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, London: Jonathan Cape, 1969 and New York: Hill and Wang, 1970, rpt. London and New York: Arkana, 1989.
Diary of a Drug Fiend. London: Collins, 1922; rpt. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1994.
Eight Lectures on Yoga, Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Sivaji [pseud.]. London: O.T.O., 1939; rev. second edition ed. Hymenaeus Beta, Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon, 1991.
Gems from the Equinox, ed. Israel Regardie, St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1974; rpt. Las Vegas: Falcon, 1989.
Liber Aleph vel CXI. The Book of Wisdom or Folly, ed. Karl Germer and Marcelo Motta, The Equinox III (6), Barstow, CA: Thelema Publishing Co., 1961; revised second edition, ed. Hymenaeus Beta, York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1991.
Little Essays Toward Truth. London: O.T.O., 1938; rev. second edition, ed. Hymenaeus Beta and A. W. Iannotti, Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon, 1996.
Magick. Book 4, Parts I-IV (coauthors: Mary Desti and Leila Waddell), second revised edition, ed. Hymenaeus Beta, York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1997. This most useful volume contains Book 4 (1912–3); Magick in Theory and Practice (1930); The Equinox of the Gods (1936) and The Book of the Law. A scholarly introduction and extensive notes and bibliography by Hymenaeus Beta are also included.
Moonchild. London: Mandrake, 1929; rpt. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1992.
The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz (Bagh-i-muattar). London: privately printed, 1910; facsimile reprint with introduction by Martin
Starr, Chicago: Teitan Press, 1991.
The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O., ed. with introduction by Francis King. New York: Weiser, 1973.
777 and Other Qabalistic Writings, ed. Israel Regardie. York Beach, ME: Weiser: 1993.
Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema, ed. Hymenaeus Alpha and Hymenaeus Beta, corrected second printing, York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1990, 1997.
White Stains, London, 1898; second edition, ed. John Symonds, London: Duckworth, 1973, 1993.
INDEX
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Abbey of Thelema
abortion
Abra-Melin Operation; in China; completion of; Holy Guardian Angel and
Abra-Melin text
Abuldiz (spirit)
Aceldama (Crowley)
Acton, William
Adams, Evangeline
Agrippa, Cornelius
Ahab and Other Poems (Crowley)
Ahitha, Soror. See Minor, Roddie
Aiwass (spirit)
alchemists/alchemy
Alexander VI, Pope
Alice: An Adultery (Crowley)
Allied Enterprises
Alolstrael’s Visions (Hirsig)
Amalantrah Working
Ambergris (Crowley)
Ananda, Swami Vive. See Sprengel, Anna
Anatomy of the Body of God, The (Achad)
Ancient Order of Oriental Templars. See Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.)
Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)
androgyny
Anger, Kenneth
Anglicanism (Church of England). See also Christianity
anhalonium. See peyote
animal sacrifices
Anu
Ape of Thoth
Apollonius of Tyre
Appeal to the American Republic, An (Crowley)
“Arabella, red-headed”
Archer, Ethel
archetypes
Argenteum Astrum; Crowley’s degrees in; Crowley’s desire for new students; disarray within; Norman Mudd as Probationer in; Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.) and; Samadhi (yogic state) and; training of students and
asceticism
Aschaetzsch, Louise
astral travel/visions
astrology
“At the Fork of the Roads” (Crowley)
atheism
Augoeides Invocations; hashish and; Holy Guardian Angel and
Augustine, Saint
automatic writing
Babalon Working
Back, Ivor
Bagh-i-Muattar. See Scented Garden, The (Crowley)
Baker, Julian
Ballad of Reading Gaol, The (Wilde)
Banks, Viola
Banned Lecture, The. Gilles de Rais (Crowley)
Baphomet tradition
Barron, William George
Barron-Hirsig, Alexander
Barth, Otto Wilhelm
Bartlett, Paul Wayland
Barton, Blanche
Bass, Kasimira
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beast, The (play)
Beast of Revelation
Beaton, Mary
Beaverbrook, Lord
Bell, Clive
Ben Brahim, Mohammed
Ben Mohammed, Dridi Salah
Bennett, Allan; Bornless Ritual and; break with Crowley; Buddhism and; in Burma; critics of; in Crowley’s literary work; Crowley’s studies under; move to India; Shiva worship and; witchcraft and
Bennett, Arnold
Bennett, Frank
Bergson, Mina
Bernard, Pierre
Berridge, Edward
Besant, Annie
bestiality
Beta, Hymenaeus
Bible
Bickers, Betty
bisexuality; Crowley’s relationship with Neuberg and; poetry and; pseudonyms and; shame and
Bishop, Anne
Bishop, Emily Bertha. See Crowley, Emily (mother of A.C.)
Bishop, Tom Bond (uncle of A.C.)
black magic; as an accusation; compared to revival meetings; Crowley’s disavowal of; L. Ron Hubbard and; libel trial and; likened to mortal sin. See also magic
Black Mass
Blackwood, Algernon
Blakeney, T.S.
blasphemy
Blavatsky, H.P.; Crowley’s painted portrait of; as inspiration for W. B. Yeats; Jack the Ripper and
blood sacrifice
Bloomsbury circle
Boleskine House; Abra-Melin Operation and; Crowley’s purchase of; mortgaging of; New Aeon and; purchased by Jimmy Page
Book Four (Crowley and Desti)
Book of Antichrist, The (Parsons)
Book of Babalon (Parsons)
Book of Black Magic and Pacts, The (Waite, ed.)
Book of Correspondences (Crowley and Mathers)
Book of Lies, The (Crowley)
Book of Results, The (Crowley)
Book of Shadows (Gardner)
Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, The (Crowley)
Book of the Law, The (Crowley); Adolf Hitler and; Book Four and; Cakes of Light and; in Cefalù retreat; commentary on; Crowley’s subconscious and; on drug use; Grant on; kabbalism and; key salutations of; moonchild and; New Aeon and; original manuscript found; puritanism and; reception of; on Scarlet Woman
Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, The. See Abra-Melin text
Book of Thoth, The (Crowley)
Borgia, Alexander
Bornless Ritual
Bracelin, J.L.
British Alpine Club
British Empire
Brook, Peter
Brooksmith, Pearl
Bruno, Giordano
Buddha (Gautama)
Buddhism; Allan Bennett and; Crowley as early Western student of; Crowley’s commitment to; Four Noble Truths of; in Japan; loss of appeal of; “orthodox”; phenomenal existence and; sexual magic and; Theravada
Burnett-Rae, Alan
Burton, Sir Richard
Busch, Bertha
Butler, E. M.
Butterfly Net, The (Crowley). See Moonchild (Crowley)
Butts, Mary
Byron, Lord
Cabell, James Branch
Cagliostro, Count
Cakes of Light
Calder-Marshall, Arthur
Cambridge University
Camel, The
Cameron, Marjorie
Cammell, Charles R.
cannabis
Carter, Colonel (Scotland Yard detective)
Casino Royale (Fleming)
Cat, the
Cavendish, Richard
Cayenne, Louis Eugène de
Cecil, Robert
Cefalù (Sicily), Abbey of Thelema at; failure of; Kenneth Anger’s pilgrimage to; libel trial and
Cephaloedium Working
Chamberlain, Neville
Chambre des Cauchemars
Champney, Rev. H. d’Arcy
Chapman, Jeanne
Chat Blanc, Le (cafe)
Chat Blanc (cafe)
Chéron, Jane
chess; Crowley’s recommendation of to his son; Crowley’s renunciation of
Chesterton, G.K.
Chioa Khan (Crowley pseudonym)
Choronzon
Christianity; Christ and; continuing hold on Crowley; Crowley’s literary assault on; gender and; lingering outlook of; magic and; moral meaning and; redemption and grace; rejection of; release from; Yeats on. See also Anglicanism; Roman Catholicism
Church of England. See Anglicanism
Church of Scientology
Churchill, Winston
City of Dreadful Night, The (Thompson)
“City of God, The” (Crowley)
clairvoyance
Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, The (Von Eckartshausen)
Clouds Without Water (Crowley)
cocaine; Crowley’s addiction to; legality of; withdrawal from
Collected Works (Crowley)
Collegium Pansophicum
Collie, Norman
Confessions (Crowley); on Abra-Melin Operation; on astrology; Beast of Revelation and; on birth of Lola Zaza; on black magic; on Book of the Law; on Cambridge years; on Crowley’s father; Crowley’s temple in; on dealing with natives; on death of daughter Anne Léa (Poupée); on death of daughter Nuit; on Earl of Tankerville; on Esopus Island retirement; on Golden Dawn power struggle; on hashish; on invisibility; on Kanchenjunga expedition; Leah Hirsig and; on lineage of magi; on Looking Glass libel case; on Loveday incident (Cefalù); on magic; on marriage to Rose Kelly; on Mathers; on patriotism; publication of; on relationship with Pollitt; review of (1970); on Rose Kelly; on sexual magic; on spiritual sex; on spiritual wandering; on the Thirty Aethyrs; on Viereck; on women; writing of
Confessions of a Barbarian (Viereck)
Constant, Alphonse Louis
Conway, Sir Martin
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
Court de Gebelin, Antoine
Cowie, George M.
Cremers, Victoria
“Crime of Edith Cavell, The” (Crowley)
Crowley, Aleister: as artist; attempt to contact Adolf Hitler; as the “Beast”; in Berlin; birth and childhood of; birth of first child; bisexuality of; British Intelligence involvement of; in Ceylon; as chess player; in China and Japan; class status of; critics of; cultural legacy of; death of; death of daughter Nuit; deported from France; diplomatic career ambitions; education; in Egypt; extravagance of; fascism and; feigned suicide of; financial bankruptcy; Golden Dawn and; health problems of; heroin and cocaine addiction of; homosexuality and; in India and Burma; inherited fortune of; legal cases involving; legend and rumors concerning; love affairs of; magic (“magick”) and; marriage to Maria Teresa de Miramar; marriage to Rose Kelly; Mathers and; in Mexico; as mountain climber; in New York; in North Africa; Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.) and; in Paris; past lives of; patriotism and; poetry of; pseudonyms of; public image of; racial views of; relationship with Neuberg; in Russia; views on women; voice recordings of; W. B. Yeats and; will and testament of; witchcraft and; World War One activities of; World War Two activities of; W.S. Maugham and; yoga and
Crowley, Aleister Ataturk (son of A.C.)
Crowley, Anne Léa (Poupée) (daughter of A.C.); death of
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