Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light by Tobias C

Description: Aleister Crowley in Paris by Tobias Churton Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowleys longstanding and intimate association with Paris. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Examines Aleister Crowleys 30-year-long intimate association with Paris• Investigates the tales of Crowley "raising Pan," going mad, and working gay sex magick in Paris• Uncovers Crowleys involvement in the Belle Époque with sculptor Auguste Rodin and other artists and in the 1920s with Berenice Abbott, Nancy Cunard, Man Ray, André Gide, and Aimée Crocker• Reveals Crowleys "expulsion" from Paris in 1929 as a high-level conspiracy against CrowleyExploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowleys longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowleys activities in the City of Light.Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, Churton explores how Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawns Inner Order in Paris in 1900 and how, in 1902, he relocated to Montparnasse. Soon engaged to Anglo-Irish artist Eileen Gray, Crowley pontificates and parties with English, American, and French artists gathered around sculptor Auguste Rodin: all keen to exhibit at Pariss famed Salon dAutomne. In 1904—still dressed as "Prince Chioa Khan" and recently returned from his Book of the Law experience in Cairo—Crowleydines with novelist Arnold Bennett at Paillards. In 1908 Crowley is back in Paris to prove its possible to attain Samadhi (or "knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel") while living a modern life in a busy metropolis. In 1913 he organizes a demonstration for artistic and sexual freedom at Oscar Wildes tomb. Until war spoils all in 1914, Paris is Crowleys playground.The author details how, after returning from America in 1920, and though based at his "Abbey of Thelema" in Sicily, Crowley cant leave Paris alone. When Mussolini expels him from Italy, Paris becomes his home from 1924 until 1929. Churton reveals Crowleys part in the jazz-age explosion of modernism, as the lover of photographer Berenice Abbott and many others, and how he enjoyed camaraderie with Man Ray, Nancy Cunard, André Gide, and Aimée Crocker. The author explores Crowleys adventures in Tunisia, Algeria, the Riviera,his battle with heroin addiction, his relationship with daughter Astarte Lulu—raised at CefalÙ—and finally, a high-level ministerial conspiracy to get him out of Paris.Reconstructing Crowleys heyday in the last decade and a half of Frances Belle Époque and the "roaring Twenties," this book illuminates Crowleys place within the artistic, literary, and spiritual ferment of the great City of Light. Author Biography Tobias Churton is an authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005, he is the author of many books, including Aleister Crowley in England and Aleister Crowley in America. He lives in the heart of England. Table of Contents FOREWORD by Frank van Lamoen ACKNOWLEDGMENTSONE Sir Aleister Crowley Will Be Expelled from France Tomorrow TWO One Flame 1883-1898 Mathers in Paris Mina Mathers and Annie Horniman THREE The Road to Auteuil 1898-1900 FOUR Toward the City of LightGerald Kelly FIVE Paris, November 1902 SIX Old Threads and New 1902-1903 Eileen Gray and Friends The Star and the Garter Nina Olivier SEVEN Where Soul and Spirit Slip 1903 To Nice EIGHTRodin NINE Le Chat Blanc The Upper Room Maugham on Crowley TEN I Piped When You Danced A Khan in the City of Light Return to Paris-AloneELEVEN Adonai 1907-1908 Paris, 1908TWELVE John St. John, or Aleister Crowleys Great Magical Retirement, 1908 The Thirteen Days THIRTEENRagged and Wilde 1909-1913Covering Embarrassment FOURTEEN Fiery Arrows 1914 Dennis Wheatley and the Legend of Raising Pan in Paris FIFTEEN The Fool Is a Card 1920SIXTEENSpiritual Poison 1921-1923SEVENTEEN I Died 1924 EIGHTEENMan Is a Gambler 1925-1927 284NINETEEN The Mortal Kiss 1928 Retirement--May 24-August 29, 1928 TWENTYRefus de séjour 1929 TWENTY-ONE The Last Time He Saw Paris 1929-1930The Last Dash NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Review "This final installment of Churtons expansive and detailed exposition on Aleister Crowleys life, work, and milieu is a treasure trove of new information and startling revelations. Scrupulously researched and exquisitely written, Churtons complete six-volume biography of Crowley confirms his position as one of the most insightful, respected, and eloquent scholars on Frater Perdurabo to ever put pen to paper. Aleister Crowley in Paris is a delight." * John Zorn, composer *"The young Crowley was in with the in crowd in Paris and knew everyone it seems, who then, like him, became one of the characters that creatively shaped the last century. He was engaged to the great Eileen Gray, and lots of other notable women come to life in this very accomplished biography. Tobias Churton is to be applauded for once again getting rid of the gossip and giving us the facts, this time in gay Paree, of the life and aspirations of the greatest magician of the twentieth century." * Geraldine Beskin, co-owner of the Atlantis Bookshop, London *"Tobias Churtons multivolume work examining Crowleys life and work in key geographical locations is nothing less than brilliant. This time Churton takes us to Paris, an extremely important place for Crowley. Its a pure joy to travel alongside both Crowley and Churton to the City of Light and Romance and to indulge in both the scandals and miracles of the Great Beast 666." * Carl Abrahamsson, author of Source Magic, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, Occulture, and Reason *"Aleister Crowley in Paris recasts the Beasts biography through the lens of Belle Époque Paris, where its expat embrace of freedom, art, publishing, magick, and romance captured Crowleys heart. We find the mage returning over the years, seeking fresh inspiration or a safe haven from his woes, whether personal or magical. Throughout this engaging narrative, Churton proves that we cannot understand Crowley without understanding his relationship to Paris." * Richard Kaczynski author of Perdurabo and editor of Crowleys The Sword of Song * Review Quote "This final installment of Churtons expansive and detailed exposition on Aleister Crowleys life, work, and milieu is a treasure trove of new information and startling revelations. Scrupulously researched and exquisitely written, Churtons complete six-volume biography of Crowley confirms his position as one of the most insightful, respected, and eloquent scholars on Frater Perdurabo to ever put pen to paper . Aleister Crowley in Paris is a delight." Excerpt from Book From Chapter Six: Old Threads and New 1902-1903 Samuel and Moina Mathers were busy moving from avenue Mozart to new (cheaper) accommodation in Montmartre when Crowley reappeared in November 1902. By that time the Isis performances probably felt to Mathers like a lost paradise. Since then, his world had fallen about his ears; Crowleys, despite despairs, had grown. According to Crowleys Confessions , Mathers still commanded allegiance as "representative of the Secret Chiefs,"1 but having mulled over Bennetts doubts over "integrity," with added suspicion that Mathers was either temporarily "obsessed" by forces emanating from the book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, or had permanently "fallen," Crowleys Order commitment was inertial, partially compensated for by an intellectual Buddhism. Still, having consulted with Mathers last time hed been in Paris, it seemed logical to rejoin the thread, and so he went, ostensibly to recover bags and books left when leaving for America two and half years before. Surrounded by turmoil, Mathers appeared reticent, which Crowley attributed to embarrassment. Mathers had almost certainly sold Crowleys bags, including an "almost new fifty-guinea dressing case."2 Mathers handed over the books but said the bags hed have to search for. Crowley watched as Mathers did to him what he knew hed done to others: taken and not returned. But if the Chiefs had discarded Mathers, Crowley (he says) knew no replacement; the issue rankled. It was probably Gerald Kelly who introduced Crowley to former Peterhouse, Cambridge student, Hugh Stephen Haweis (1878-1969), son of Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis (author of Music and Morals , 1871) and artist Mary Eliza Haweis. Ensconced in Montparnasses English artist colony, Haweis, like Moina Mathers nearly a decade earlier, attended the Acad Details ISBN1644114798 Author Tobias Churton Short Title Aleister Crowley in Paris Pages 384 Language English ISBN-10 1644114798 ISBN-13 9781644114797 Format Hardcover Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and Company Place of Publication Rochester Country of Publication United States Illustrations 161 b&w illustrations NZ Release Date 2023-01-19 UK Release Date 2023-01-19 Subtitle Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light AU Release Date 2023-02-14 DEWEY 130.92 Audience General Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-01-19 US Release Date 2023-01-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142379322;

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