*194 This was William Elby Allen (1882–1951), appointed acting chief on January 1, 1919.
*195 In the novel, Isabelle Goudie, bored by dull, sexless marriage to farmer John Gilbert, dreams of love and excitement. The Devil appears, and she falls in love with him and he with her. But Isabelle must choose between good and evil. Brodie-Innes (1848–1923) poured into the novel his knowledge of seventeenth-century Scotland, anti-Catholicism, and the witch cults and trials.
†196 re “Hugo de Larens”: there did exist, however, a Hugues de Laurens, recorded in fourteenth-century history in France’s l’Hérault region; the origins of this Tuscan aristocratic family are obscure.
*197 See the author’s Deconstructing Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician, Inner Traditions, 2017.
*198 Crowley’s speculation has analogy with speculations in nuclear physics where electrons under particular heat and magnetic stresses may cause their matter to lose mass, the mass being speculated to be in some parallel dimension, capable of “return” and measurement under changed conditions.
*199 Hebrew for psyche, or “breath of life.”
*200 Referring to Crowley’s “Autohagiography,” which he was writing at the time.
*201 See Tobias Churton, Occult Paris, on the Vicomte de Lapasse and the genuine Rose-Croix of Toulouse, pages 166–86. The whole issue makes for a fascinating substory but this is not the place to tell it.
†202 The full story to Crowley’s invention of the V-sign is told in Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography, chapter 26.
*203 There is one intriguing speculation as to nomenclature that Urban reflects upon, that being the possible origin of Hubbard’s term thetan, which has always had the ring of a science-fiction-derived name about it; one naturally thinks of “titans” and the like. It is posited that when Hubbard coined the word, he possibly derived it from the Greek letter theta, and theta is not only the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet but of course the primary letter of Thelema, the essential Will, without which one cannot will change, or escape from the constraints of materiality, in magical theory. Crowley even put a dominant, yonilike theta (θ) at the center of his “sigil of Babalon.” In his Book of Lies, Crowley explained that the Greek letter was originally written as , not only the astrological symbol for the sun, of course, but also, with the familiar solar-phallic correspondence, the symbol of the union of lingam and yoni: the creative act.21
The mark of the beast is the sun-moon conjoined.
*204 A pun on the phoenix, the symbolic bird that rises from the ashes in alchemy.
*205 The U.K.’s Defense of the Realm Act, 1914, which introduced authoritarian social control mechanisms, such as censorship, imprisonment of antiwar activists, while even trivial peacetime activities were banned, such as kite flying, starting bonfires, buying binoculars, feeding bread to wild animals, discussion of naval and military matters, or buying alcohol on public transport. Alcoholic drinks were diluted, and pub opening times were restricted (until 1988!).
Endnotes
NOTE to Reader: The following abbreviations appear in the references.
Yorke Collection = YC followed by D, EE, NS, OS, or OSD and the number of the item to distinguish the various files in the collection.
CHAPTER ONE. A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
1. Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 69.
2. Spence, Secret Agent 666. This book is based on Spence’s earlier research published in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 13, no. 3 (fall 2000): 359–71.
3. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 7, including n6, “MI5, T. Denham to author, Jan. 20, 2003”; n7, “Ibid., April 8, 2005”; and n8, “Ibid., Oct. 18, 2005.”
4. Balfour, The End of the Spanish Empire, 25n48: “Drummond-Wolff to Salisbury, June 10, 1898, FO [Foreign Office Correspondence] 72/2064.”
5. Von Holstein, The Holstein Papers, 3:109–10.
6. Crowley, Confessions, 121.
7. YC, OSD6, undated letter from Crowley to Gerald Kelly, but the letter is on gold embossed Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness notepaper. Crowley moved into Boleskine in November 1899, while the Green Alps sheets deposited with Smithers referred to were destroyed in a fire at the printers, Ballantyne & Co., on December 9, 1899.
8. YC, OSD6.
9. Crowley, Confessions, 123n.
10. Payton (ed.), Cornish Studies 12, 66, 68; cited by Spence, Secret Agent 666, 24–26, endnote 29.
11. Rayne, “Henry Jenner and the Celtic Revival in Cornwall,” 154.
12. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Westwater Hotel, Gosforth, Cumberland, 1900(?).
13. YC, OSD6, undated letter AC to G. Kelly, Nov.–Dec. 1899.
14. Lewes Public Record Office, Sussex, Ashburnham Correspondence, ASH/2908, 1887–1891.
15. Vincent John English, a Royal Navy lieutenant, was mentioned more than a year later as one of “the Carlists of Today” in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette (October 10, 1901, 1–2; October 19, 4; October 23, 11).
16. Lewes Record Office, ASH/2909, 1899–1904; ASH/2910, 1899–1901; ASH/2911–2913, 1899.
17. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Foyers, August 15, 1903 or 1904.
18. Crowley, The Works of Aleister Crowley, 1:129n (footnote to “Jezebel and Other Tragic Poems”).
19. Crowley, Early Diaries, 5.
20. Ibid., 5.
21. For a more detailed account of these events, please consult Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography, 36–60.
22. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 27.
23. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, circa Nov.–Dec. 1899.
24. Ibid., AC to G. Kelly, circa Jan.–Mar. 1900.
25. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Monday (letter undated) from Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, circa 1900.
26. Ibid., AC to G. Kelly, May 1900.
27. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Calcutta, Dec. 13, 1901.
28. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Cairo, Oct. 22, 1902.
29. Ibid., Oct. 25, 1902.
30. Ibid., autumn 1904.
31. Vincey [Crowley], The Rosicrucian Scandal, reprinted in Sandy Robertson’s Aleister Crowley Scrapbook, 63–81.
32. “My Wanderings in Search of the Absolute,” Referee, March 10, 1935; cited in Stephensen and Crowley, The Legend of Aleister Crowley, 161.
33. Ibid.
34. Crowley, Confessions, 34.
35. From “The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life, Part 1: The Worst Man in the World,” Sunday Dispatch, June 18, 1933; cited in Stephensen and Crowley, The Legend of Aleister Crowley, 175.
36. Cammell, Aleister Crowley: The Black Magician, 60.
CHAPTER TWO. THE SONG OF THE SEA
1. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, from Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, March 29, 1903.
2. Crowley, Confessions, 189.
3. See Churton, Occult Paris, chapter 16.
4. Crowley, The Works of Aleister Crowley, 1:214.
5. “Perils of Mountaineering,” Lichfield Mercury, September 15, 1905.
6. Crowley,The Works of Aleister Crowley (S.P.R.T., Foyers, 1905), vol. 1, “Carmen Saeculare” (pt. 2 of poem), v. 4, 215.
7. Ibid., v. 5.
8. Ibid., v. 6.
9. Ibid., v. 7.
10. Ibid., v. 8, 216.
11. Ibid., v. 17.
12. Ibid., v. 21, 217.
13. Ibid., v. 23.
14. Ibid., v. 27.
15. Ibid., v. 33, 218.
16. Ibid., pt. 3, “In the Hour Before Revolt,” v. 4, 218–19.
17. Ibid., pt. 4, “Epilogue: To the American People on the Anniversary of their Independence,” v. 1–2, 220.
CHAPTER THREE. OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO NEW YORK
1. Crowley, Confessions, 201.
2. Ibid.
3. Hibben, The Peerless Leader: William Jennings Bryan, 220.
4. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly; astrological symbol for Tuesday, May 29, 1900.
5. Wearing, The London Stage 1900–1909, 17.
6. Crowley, Confessions, 201.
7. New York Daily Tribune, July 7, 1900, “An American in England” (“from the Pall Mall Gazette”), col. 5, 10.
8. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, undated 1900.
CHAPTER FOUR. THE EAGLE AND THE SNAKE: MEXICO CITY
1. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, from Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, August 15, 1904.
2. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Calcutta, October 31, 1905.
3. Crowley, Confessions, 209.
4. Churchill Archive Reference: CHAR 13/21/31 www.churchillarchive.com/explore/catalogue?id=CHAR%2013%2F21&showDetailsId=CHAR%2013/21/90 (accessed March 18, 2017).
5. Parkinson, Dreadnought: The Ship That Changed the World, 157.
6. Navarro, 7 Vistas de Cuba, 145n 26; “La Cuestión Cubana. El Rito Reformado y la Guerra de Cuba,” Diario del Hogar, July 1, 1898.
7. Frierman, Andrew, Godley, and Wale, “Weetman Pearson in Mexico and the Emergence of a British Oil Major,” 12.
8. YC, OSD6, envelope AC to G. Kelly, Mexico City, September 4, 1900.
9. YC, OS22, Red Notebook Diary, Mexico/Fortune Wong Gong.
10. Crowley, Early Diaries, 1901, 7.
11. Ibid., 8.
12. Crowley, Confessions, 123.
13. Crowley, “Instructions from Paris,” in Early Diaries 1900, 28.
14. For details on “Mrs Horos” and her scam, consult R. A. Gilbert, The Golden Dawn Companion.
15. Crowley, Confessions, 202.
16. El Boazeo, Impreso Francmason, Ano I, Mexico, Tomo I, Decembre de 1894, Numero 1, “Circulo Inquisitorial,” col. 2, 1.
CHAPTER FIVE. CHEVALIER O’ROURKE AND THE MEXICAN HERALD
1. See Salyer’s excellent thesis: “A Community of Modern Nations: The Mexican Herald at the Height of the Porfiriato, 1895–1910.”
2. Ibid., 15.
3. Alpine Journal (vol. LXV, no. CCC), (1959), 69–71; David Dean, T.S. Blakeney, D.F.O. Danger, Obituary [belated] Oscar Eckenstein (1859–1921).
4. Crowley, Confessions, 216.
5. Alpine Journal, 69–71.
6. Crowley, Early Diaries, Sunday, March 3, 1901.
7. Hovey, “Mountain Climbing in Mexico,” 85–94.
8. YC, OS22, Red Notebook Diary, Mexico, April 3–9, 1901.
9. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 17; deleted extract in unabridged Confessions, vol. 1, ed. William Breeze, awaiting publication.
10. Crowley, The Book of the Operation of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage Being the Account of the Events of My Life, with Notes on This Operation, by Perdurabo, an Humble Aspirant Thereto, Part II, The Operation; points of the long oath numbered 3–5, 7–10; 10. Unpublished 1900 diary, “Early Diaries,” partially edited by William Breeze.
CHAPTER SIX. THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY
1. YC, OS22, Red Notebook Diary, Mexico, Fortune by Wong Gong.
2. Crowley, Confessions, 223.
3. See www.wrightanddavis.co.uk/GD/SIMPSONALICEI.htm (accesssed March 18, 2017).
4. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, San Francisco, April 26, 1901.
5. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, San Francisco, undated, 1901.
6. Indianapolis Journal 51, no. 115, Marion County, April 25, 1901. “Edward G. Cooke, Jeffrie’s Manager, Talks About Prize Fighting as a Sport,” col. 3, p. 5.
7. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, San Francisco, undated, 1901.
8. Crowley, Early Diaries, Tuesday, May 7, 1901.
9. Ibid., Tuesday, June 4, 1901.
10. Ibid., Wednesday, June 5, 1901.
11. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Yokohama, undated.
12. YC, OSD6, AC to G. Kelly, Kandy, Ceylon, August 2, 1901.
13. Ibid., undated.
14. Crowley, Early Diaries, August 18, 1901, “The Writings of Truth,” 28.
CHAPTER SEVEN. RETURN TO NEW YORK 1906
1. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 31.
2. Crowley, Art in America (pages unnumbered).
3. Foster-Murphy Collection, 1962; cited in Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 88.
4. Foster-Murphy Collection, letter JRF to Aline Saarinen, circa 1962; cited in Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 89.
5. Crowley, Early Diaries, May 10, 1906.
6. Crowley, Confessions, 503.
7. Ibid.
CHAPTER EIGHT. ART IN AMERICA
1. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 40–41; Richard Londraville Private Collection, JRF Diary, August 8, 1914; August 15, 1914.
2. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 64.
3. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 73; Foster-Murphy Collection, letter John Butler Yeats to Jeanne Robert Foster, February 28, 1921.
4. Foster, “Art Revolutionists on Exhibition in America,” 441–48.
5. Ibid., 444–45.
6. Ibid., 448.
7. Ibid.
8. YC, NS12.
9. YC OS.D7, Nov. 20, 1913, AC to G. M. Cowie.
10. See Churton, Aleister Crowley, The Biography.
11. YC, OS29 35a, E. J. Wieland to John Quinn, 1913.
12. YC, OS5, next to Crowley’s MS for his International article on Sinn Fein, attributed to Sheamus O’Brien.
13. YC, OS29, draft letters to various people.
CHAPTER NINE. 1914
1. Murphy, Prodigal Father, 416.
2. Ibid., 348.
3. Ibid., 431.
4. Ibid.
5. Hone, John Butler Yeats: Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats, 259.
6. Crowley, “AFFIDAVIT Memorandum of My Political Attitude since August 1914” [with additional Memorandum]. O.T.O. property. Typescript copied and sent to author by William Breeze.
7. Londraville, “JRF to Richard Londraville,” in Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 54.
8. Ibid., 55.
9. Ibid., 56.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 57.
CHAPTER TEN. THE SINEWS OF WAR
1. Thwaites, Velvet & Vinegar, 255.
2. Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories & Other Works, 249.
3. Arthur Willert, Times correspondent in Washington; organized with senior SIS officer William Wiseman coordination of British propaganda in the United States. See Rodney Carlisle, Encyclopaedia of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 353.
4. Crowley, “AFFIDAVIT Memorandum of my Political Attitude since August 1914.” O.T.O. archive. Typescript copied and sent to author by William Breeze.
5. Crowley, Confessions, 894.
6. YC D1, letter from AC at 50 Rue Vavin, VIme arr. Paris, 1923, to Leon Engers Kennedy, Deutsch Bank, Hamburg; returned as badly addressed.
7. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 52.
8. Crowley, “The Last Straw” (1920), reproduced in Confessions, 741–42.
9. YC, OS4 (c) MS Ten Poems, including “Chants before Battle” and three published in the English Review.
10. Obituary the Hon. FHEJ Feilding, The Times (London), February 10, 1936.
11. Crowley, Confessions, 744.
12. Ibid., 744–45.
13. Ibid., 765–66.
14. Ibid., 742.
15. Einhaus, The Short Story and the First World War, 49–50.
16. Radclyffe, The War and Finance, 54.
17. YC, OSD6, Six cards and one letter AC to Raymond Radclyffe.
18. YC, OS29, Draft letter to Cowie, October 17, 1914.
19. YC, OSD7, AC to Cowie, October 23, 1914.
CHAPTER ELEVEN. MY EGG WAS ADDLED
1. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 53.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Crowley, Confessions, 745.
5. Crowley, Early Diaries, ed. William Breeze, unpublished proofs, December 15, 1914.
6. See Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, 532–33. Raynes’s appearance as “Wimble” in “What’s in a Name?” 133–34.
7. Viereck, Spreading Germs of Hate, 51–52.
8. Review of The War and America, by Hugo Münsterberg (“The New Books: Discussions
Relating to the War”), November 1914, The American Reviews of Reviews, edited by Albert Shaw, volume L, July–December, 1914, The Review of Reviews Company, New York, 30 Irving Place, 633.
9. Jones, John Forbes, JP Morgan Jr., 89–90; cited in Spence, Secret Agent 666, 62.
10. Lamont, Henry P. Davison: The Record of a Useful Life, 172–85, 186–200, 201–16.
11. Ibid., 187.
12. Troy, “The Gaunt-Wiseman Affair,” 448.
13. Willert, The Road to Safety, 75–76.
14. Yale University, Sterling Library, Special Collections, Sir William Wiseman Papers, Box 5, File 140 [JQuinn], “In the Matter of Sr Roger Casement and the Irish Situation in America,” June 2, 1916, 7; cited in Spence, Secret Agent 666, 62.
CHAPTER TWELVE. LOWER INTO THE WATER
1. United Kingdom National Archives, FO [Foreign Office] 371./2570 Spring-Rice cover letter to article 14/3/15.
2. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 9, January 4, 1915–July 9, 1915; 309–12, John Quinn to W. B. Yeats, February 25, 1915.
3. Crowley, Confessions, 765.
4. Ibid., 766.
5. Ibid., 797–98.
6. YC, OS5, under heading “Phrases,” pencil note, 1917(?).
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE MAGICK OF A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS: WORLD WAR I STYLE
1. Crowley, Liber Agape, September 1914. Unpublished MS.
2. YC, D1, AC (in Tunis) to Blanche Conn, October 1, 1923.
3. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 8, June 4, 1914–January 5, 1915, JQ to AC, December 1, 1914.
4. Ibid., 400, John Watson to AC, December 18, 1914.
5. Ibid., JQ to the Globe Wernicke Co. 380 Broadway, NYC, December 4, 1914.
6. Crowley and Adams, The General Principles of Astrology, xviii–xix, sources cited in editor’s introduction include “33 N.Y. Crim. Rep. 326 (1914), reproduced in Walter Coleman, Astrology and the Law (1977)”; “copy of court record was kindly provided to Editor by Dr. Bradford Verter”; regarding David Seabury, the source cited is “Allison Gray, ‘People who try to get tips from the Stars,’ American Magazine, Dec. 1921, quoted in Karen Christino, Forseeing the Future: Evangeline Adams and Astrology in America (2001).”
7. Crowley, Confessions, 762.
8. Hall and Bach, The Fourth Division, 12.
9. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, Jan. 28, 1916, Unpublished proofs, ed. William Breeze.
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