10. Crowley, Confessions, 77, 762.
11. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 60–61.
12. Crowley, Confessions, 763.
13. Ibid., 765.
14. Ibid., 766.
15. See Crowley, The Revival of Magick and Other Essays, 56 (titled “A Hindu at the Polo Grounds,” the setting is obviously baseball).
16. YC, OS20.
17. See Crowley, Neuburg, and Desti, The Vision and the Voice, with Commentary and Other Papers.
18. Ibid., 27 (“The Call or Key of the Thirty Aethyrs”).
19. For further background on Lewis and Vorticism, see Richard Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, G. Fraser, 1976.
20. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 8, June 4, 1914–January 5, 1915; 934–35, second page of letter from JQ to James Huneker, Westminster, Ct., 1616 Beverly Rd. Brooklyn, N.Y., December 26, 1914.
21. Ibid., JQ to AC (40 West 36th Street), December 28, 1914.
22. Ibid., 955, JQ to Jack Yeats (1871–1957), painter, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland; December 31, 1914.
23. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; T Copy 909, W. B. Yeats to J. B. Yeats, January 18, 1915.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. TOWARD THE FATHERLAND
1. See Crowley, Magick, Book Four, Liber Aba, 149–50.
2. Crowley, Confessions, 797–98.
3. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 9, January 4, 1915–July 9, 1915; no. 995, JQ to AC, 40 West 36th Street, January 5, 1915.
4. Ibid., 25–31, JQ to AC, 40 West 36th Street, January 8, 1915.
5. Crowley, “Honesty Is the Best Policy,” Fatherland 1, no. 23 (January 13, 1915): 11. https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:146090#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=10&z=-0.0721%2C0.3158%2C1.0571% 2C0.3517 (accessed March 18, 2017).
6. Open Court 29, no. 711, 499–502.
7. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 9, January 4, 1915–July 9, 1915; 51–52, JQ to W. B. Yeats, January 13, 1915.
8. Rethy, The Song of the Scarlet Host, and Other Poems, dedicated to G. S. Viereck. The collection includes a poem about revivalist “Billy Sunday,” who is treated much more roughly than Crowley did in his article for Viereck of the same name.
9. Crowley, Confessions, 747.
10. Ibid., 739.
11. Ibid., 748–49.
12. Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography, 428.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. GETTING HOTTER
1. YC, D1, letter 64, AC to Aimée Gouraud, October 1, 1923.
2. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, entry for February 14, 1915.
3. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 9, January 4, 1915–July 9, 1915; 295, JQ to John Butler Yeats, February 24, 1915.
4. Ibid., 306, JQ to J. B. Yeats, 317 West 29th Street, NYC, February 25, 1915.
5. Ibid., 309–12, JQ to W. B. Yeats, February 25, 1915.
6. New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; John Quinn Papers, W. B. Yeats (“Stephen’s Green Club, Dublin”) to JQ, March 21, 1915. I am grateful to William Breeze for bringing this letter to my attention.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., 821–25, JQ to W. B. Yeats (extract: page four of letter), April 24, 1915.
9. Ibid., February 13, 1915: “I think good; people at Invocations have been very impressed.”
10. Dorsett, Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America, 92.
11. From the “dedication” to Crowley’s collection of poetry, drama, fiction, and philosophy, Konx Om Pax, 1908.
12. See Churton, Gnostic Mysteries of Sex, Sophia the Wild One and Erotic Christianity, chapter “In Search of Prunikos and Barbelo in Alexandria.”
13. Crowley, Confessions, 767.
14. YC, EE1, “In Search with Doris Gomez for Cocaine in New York.”
15. Crowley, Confessions, 768.
16. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, March 31, 1915.
17. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 98–100.
18. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, Opus XLVII, April 29, 1915.
19. National Museums Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum, “People’s Stories,” www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/lusitania/people /peoples-stories.aspx?id=14136 (accessed March 18, 2017).
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. JEANNE
1. Crowley, Confessions, 798–99.
2. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 91.
3. Ibid.
4. Murphy, Prodigal Father, 431.
5. Ibid., 438.
6. Jeanne Robert Foster to Richard Londraville, from 1762 Albany Street, Schenectady, New York 12304, January 13, 1968; Foster-Murphy Collection, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Jeanne Robert Foster to Richard Londraville, from 1762 Albany Street, Schenectady, New York 12304, November 15, 1968; Foster-Murphy Collection, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.
10. Ibid.
11. Murphy, Prodigal Father, 431, also 628n 126, Quinn to W. B. Yeats, April 24, 1915.
12. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; W. B. Yeats to JQ, June 24, 1915. I am grateful to William Breeze for drawing this letter to my attention.
13. Crowley, Confessions, 798–99.
14. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, June 13, 1915.
15. See Churton, Aleister Crowley, The Beast in Berlin, Art, Sex and Magick in the Weimar Republic, the portrait is plate 7.
16. Crowley, Confessions, 767.
17. Ibid., 752–53.
18. Crowley, Confessions, 798.
19. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, June 30, 1915, Opus LXXII, 12:18 a.m.
20. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, July 2, 1915, Opus LXXIII.
21. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 100.
22. Murphy, Prodigal Father, 438–40; 629n131; Foster-Murphy Collection, JRF, July 4, 1915.
23. Crowley, Confessions, 799.
24. Ibid.
25. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, July 13, 1915.
26. Crowley, Confessions, 799.
27. I am grateful to Cynthia Crosse of Avondale, New Zealand, for sending me aspects of her researches into Leila Waddell, and for the information about Jack’s restaurant, for which the source is: http://wikivisually.com/wiki/User:Davenichmd/Jack’s_New_York_City_Restaurant.
28. YC, OSD10, Mudd to Feilding.
29. YC, EE1, General Scrapbook, v. 1, “Vindication,” dictated to Lea Hirsig (circa 1924).
30. YC, EE1, letter from the Hon. Everard Feilding to Norman Mudd, 1924 (month obscure).
31. YC, EE1, General Scrapbook, v. 1, letter Everard Feilding to Gerald Yorke, May 1, 1929.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. THE WRONG THING AT THE RIGHT TIME
1. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, July 23, 1915, LXXXIII (6), 10:30 p.m. approx.
2. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 97.
3. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, July 23, 1915, LXXXVII, August 2, 1915, 9:15 a.m. with Helen Westley.
4. Foster, Wild Apples, 32.
5. Ibid., 31.
6. Ibid., 34.
7. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, LXXXVIII (7), August 9, 1915, 10:27 p.m.
8. Ibid., XC (9), August 12, 1915, 9:40 p.m.
9. Ibid., XCIII, August 21, 1915, 11:15 a.m., “Assistant”: Helen Westley.
10. Ibid., XCV, August 23, 1915, 4:32 p.m. with Helen Westley.
11. Ibid., XCVI, August 24, 1915, 1:35 a.m. with Helen Westley.
12. Crowley, The Golden Rose.
13. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, XCIX (13), September 8, 1915, 10:15 p.m.
14. Ibid., CV (19), September 19, 1915, 12:20 a.m. “Note on Human Nature.”
15. Ibid., CXI, October 3, 1915, 3:27 p.m., with Odette Colcock.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. THE WAY WEST
1. Crow
ley, “The Future of the Submarine,” Fatherland 3, no. 9 (October 6, 1916): 152–53, https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:146830#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-1.0904%2C-0.0783%2C3.1809%2C1.5648 (accessed March 18, 2017).
2. YC, EE1, General Scrapbook, v. 1; “Vindication,” dictated to Lea Hirsig (circa 1924).
3. Crowley, Confessions, 768.
4. Ibid.
5. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 108–9.
6. Crowley, Confessions, 769.
7. Ibid.
8. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 112.
9. Crowley, Confessions, 769.
10. Text incorporated in Crowley’s diary, The Urn (Liber LXXIII), part 3 (1915), O.T.O. Archive, edited by William Breeze. The original notebook (HRHRC) also included Crowley’s “Holy Hymns to the Great Gods of Heaven.”
11. Luff, Commonsense Anticommunism, 55–56; Jennifer Luff describes Harré as a “dime novelist.”
12. YC, EE1, General Scrapbook, v. 1; MS, “For the private information of the New York Times,” assembled by Gerald Yorke.
13. See Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, 532–33; for the Simon Iff story where Raynes appears as “Wimble,” see 133.
14. Crowley, Confessions, 769.
15. Ibid.
16. Those interested in the historical background to the Vancouver O.T.O. lodge, and of the activities of W. T. Smith and C. S. Jones in Canada and the United States should consult Martin P. Starr’s excellent study The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites, which contains many fascinating details, fully documented, of their activities on behalf of Crowley’s religious and occult doc-trines, as well as their numerous, and no less interesting associates.
17. Starr, The Unknown God, 37.
18. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXIV (26), October 11, 1915.
19. Starr, The Unknown God, 38.
20. Ibid., 39; cites Crowley to Jones, undated (circa October 1915, CSJ Papers).
21. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXVI (28), October 20, 1915, 1:10 p.m., with Jeanne Robert Foster.
22. Starr, The Unknown God, 39.
23. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 94–95; 1915 Diary of Jeanne Robert Foster, Londraville Collection.
24. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXVII (29), Portland, Oregon, October 25, 1915, 11:40 a.m.
CHAPTER NINETEEN. CALIFORNIA WELCOMES THE WORLD
1. Crowley, Confessions, 770.
2. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; b.10.f.3., JQ to AC, November 22, 1915. I am grateful to William Breeze for drawing this letter to my attention.
3. Ibid. JQ to AC, December 9, 1915. I am grateful to William Breeze for drawing this letter to my attention.
4. Crowley, Confessions, 803.
5. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 112–13.
6. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXVIII, October 27, 1915, 3:27 p.m.
7. Ibid., CXIX (30), October 30, 1915, circa 3:15 p.m.
8. Ibid., CXX (31), November 1, 1915, 7:00 p.m.
9. Ibid., CXXI, November 5, 1915, 2:12 a.m., San Francisco, with Myriam Deroxe.
10. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 93–94; 1915 Diary of Jeanne Robert Foster, Londraville Collection.
11. Ibid., 94.
12. Crowley, Confessions, 770–71.
13. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXXII (32), November 8, 1915, 11:27 a.m., Los Angeles.
14. Crowley, Confessions, 771.
15. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXXIII (33), November 11, 1915, San Diego, with Jeanne Robert Foster.
16. Ibid., CXXII (32), note on November 13, after November 8, 1915, record.
17. Ibid., CXXIV, November 19, 1915, 10:03 p.m., Kansas City.
18. Ibid., CXXVI (35), November 23, about 11:30 p.m., Buffalo.
19. “The Chute,” International 9 (2), 347.
20. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXXXII (37), December 13, 1915, 3:40 p.m. approx.
21. Ibid., CXXXIV, December 17, 1915, 10:00 p.m.
22. Ibid., CXXXV (38), December 18, 1915, 10:40 p.m.
23. Ibid., CXXXVI, December 21, 1915, 1:50 a.m.
24. Ibid., CXXXVII (39), December 22, 1915, 9:46 p.m.
25. Ibid.
26. Crowley, Confessions, 805.
27. Foster-Murphy Collection, JBY to Quinn, March 14, 1916; Murphy, Prodigal Father, 440, 629n133, referring to “curious looking knife.” Letter JBY to Quinn, and “knife” story cited in Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 97.
28. Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford, 96n10: “JRF interviewed by RL, July 31, 1969.”
29. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CCXXXVIII, December 26, 1915, 5:40 p.m.
CHAPTER TWENTY. REPLACEMENT THERAPY
1. Collman, “Is Wall Street using Savings Bank Deposits in Secret Loans to Russia, France and England?” Fatherland 3, no 14 (November 10, 1915): 235.
2. Crowley, “Behind the Front,” Fatherland 3, no. 21 (December 29, 1915): 365.
3. Ibid., no. 22 (January 5, 1916), 383.
4. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXLIII (41), January 12, 1916.
5. Ibid., CXLIV (42), January 17, 1916.
6. Ibid., CXLIX, January 24, 1916.
7. Ibid., CXLVI, January 21, 1916.
8. Ibid., CL (43), January 28, 1916, 6:15 p.m.
9. Reprinted in Crowley, The Revival of Magick and Other Essays, 58.
10. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXLV, January 8, 1916, 4:12 a.m. Comment on a rite with Rita Gonzales for money.
11. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, CXLI, January 7, 1916, 10:28 p.m.
12. Ibid., CXLVIII, January 23, 1916, 1:48 p.m.
13. Ibid., CLII, February 1, 1916, 12:04 a.m.
14. Ibid., CLIII, February 4, 1916, 12:14 a.m.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., book 3, 1, February 25, 1916, 5:25 p.m.
17. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v.12; no.11, JQ to AC, 25, West 44th Street, March 10, 1916.
18. Ibid., no.45, JQ to AC, 25 West 44th Street, March 16, 1916.
19. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, VIII, March 29, 1916, 12:35 p.m.
20. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook v. 12, no. 379, JQ to AC, 224 West 52nd Street, April 17, 1916.
21. For reports on Crowley’s activities sent to the foreign office in 1915, see Hutchinson, Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified, 138–39. Hutchinson’s account is convinced of Crowley’s treachery, attributing it to self-serving, self-deceiving, perverse cynicism, i.e., he was laughing from a perceived high place on all human folly, and never took anything (including writing pro-German propaganda) or anyone really seriously. This picture is only won by avoiding considerable evidence to the contrary.
22. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 121; for details of Crowley’s activities in Moscow in 1913 regarding Bailey and trade attaché R Bruce Lockhart, see Churton, Aleister Crowley, The Biography.
23. Crowley, “AFFIDAVIT Memorandum of my Political Attitude since August 1914,” 2–3; typescript, some time after March 8, 1917; Y.C. OS F2/17.
24. Ibid., 2.
25. See Symonds,The Great Beast, The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley, Mayflower, 1973, 232–33. Symonds inquired of (now) Admiral Guy Gaunt regarding Crowley’s alleged treachery thirty-four years after the events con-cerned. Gaunt dismissed Crowley as a “small-time traitor” who would do practically anything for publicity. Spence considers Gaunt suffering from sour grapes, or a confused memory.
26. Fatherland 4, no. 16 (May 24, 1916).
27. Hone, Letters of JB Yeats, 159.
28. Fatherland 4, no. 17 (May 31, 1916).
29. Crowley, Confessions, 805.
30. Ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. THE OWL AND THE MONKEY WENT TO SEA
1. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 126.
2. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook, v. 12, no. 29, JQ to A. Coomaraswamy, Hotel Seville, New York City
, March 13, 1916.
3. John Quinn Papers, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Letterbook, v. 12, no. 7, JQ to W. B. Yeats, February 26, 1916.
4. John Quinn Papers, v. 12, no. 22, JQ to Robert W. DeForest (1848–1931), 30 Broad Street, NYC, March 9, 1916.
5. Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, Wordsworth 2012, Notes and Sources by William Breeze, 530.
6. Ibid., 531.
7. Spence, Secret Agent 666, 125.
8. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, book 3. Op. XIII, April 15–16.
9. Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, 302.
10. Crowley, Confessions, 776.
11. Newman, The Tregerthen Horror, 50.
12. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, book 3, May 25, 1916.
13. Crowley, Confessions, vol. 3, 59.
14. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, book 3, 32, June 18, 1916, 1:00 a.m.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. ALEISTER CROWLEY’ SPSYCHEDELIC SUMMER
1. Crowley, The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, 193–94.
2. Email from Colin Campbell to author, March 27, 2016: “The cottage is still there and just fine, sitting right on 113 West Shore Road, Bristol, NH. It by and large matches the description and layout, accounting for changes over time and with the obvious later addition of a second story, which seals the deal given the deed evidence. Especially convincing is a small ‘bump’ section of the house, noted by Crowley in the Thompson drawing, that still remains—and equally remains a kitchen area as Crowley described it!”
3. Crowley, Confessions, 775.
4. Ibid., 806.
5. Ibid., 807.
6. Ibid., 808.
7. Crowley, Rex de Arte Regia, book 3, 37, June 25, 1916; “Note” dated July 6, 1916.
8. Crowley, The Urn, Liber LXXIII, June 28, 1916, unpublished typescript of the diary describing the assumption of the grade of Magus, as it happened, edited by William Breeze.
9. James Douglas Morrison, from the song, “An American Prayer,” 1971.
10. Crowley, The Urn, Liber LXXIII, Thursday, June 29, 1916.
11. Hutchinson, Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified, 145–59. Author and journalist Roger Hutchinson clearly had access to home or foreign office files regarding Crowley, though the book neither acknowledges nor cites its sources.
12. Symonds, The Great Beast, 232.
13. Crowley, The Urn, July 3, 1916.
14. Crowley, Neuburg, and Desti, The Vision and the Voice, including Liber 418, 191–97.
Aleister Crowley in America Page 79
