Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aleister Crowley in EnglandCondition: NewSubtitle: The Return of the Great BeastISBN-10: 1644112310EAN: 9781644112311ISBN: 9781644112311Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/17/2022Description: A detailed examination of the last 15 years of Crowley’s life• Reveals Crowley’s sex magick relations in London and his contacts with important figures, including Dion Fortune, Gerald Gardner, Jack Parsons, Dylan Thomas, and black equality activist Nancy Cunard • Explores Crowley’s nick-of-time escape from the Nazi takeover in Germany and offers extensive confirmation of Crowley’s work for British intelligence • Examines the development of Crowley’s later publications and his articles in reaction to the Nazi Gestapo actively persecuting his followers in Germany After an extraordinary life of magical workings, occult fame, and artistic pursuits around the globe, Aleister Crowley was forced to spend the last fifteen years of his life in his native England, nearly penniless. Much less examined than his early years, this final period of the Beast’s life was just as filled with sex magick, espionage, romance, transatlantic conflict, and extreme behavior. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed treatment of the final years of Crowley’s life, from 1932 to 1947. He opens with Crowley’s nick-of-time escape from the Nazi takeover in Germany and his return home to England, flat broke. Churton offers extensive confirmation of Crowley’s work as a secret operative for MI5 and explores how Crowley saw World War II as the turning point for the “New Aeon.” He examines Crowley’s notorious 1934 London trial, which resulted in his bankruptcy, and shares inside stories of Crowley’s relations with Californian O.T.O. followers, including rocket-fuel specialist Jack Parsons, and his attempt to take over H. Spencer Lewis’s Rosicrucian Order. The author reveals Crowley’s sex magick relations in London and his contacts with spiritual leaders of the time, including Dion Fortune and Wicca founder Gerald Gardner. He examines Crowley’s dealings with artists such as Dylan Thomas, Alfred Hitchcock, Augustus John, Peter Warlock, and Peter Brooks and dispels the accusations that Crowley was racist, exploring his work with lifelong friend, black equality activist Nancy Cunard. Churton also examines the development of Crowley’s later publications such as Magick without Tears as well as his articles in reaction to the Nazi Gestapo who was actively persecuting his remaining followers in Germany. Presenting an intimate and compelling study of Crowley in middle and old age, Churton shows how the Beast still wields a wand-like power to delight and astonish.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 755gAuthor: Tobias ChurtonGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Architecture & Antiques, Paranormal, Arts & Photography, Biography, Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Aleister Crowley in England
Title: Aleister Crowley in England
Subtitle: The Return of the Great Beast
ISBN-10: 1644112310
EAN: 9781644112311
ISBN: 9781644112311
Release Date: 02/17/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Aleister Crowley in England : the Return of the Great Beast
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Inner Traditions International, The Limited
Topic: General, Magick Studies, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Occultism
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Item Weight: 26.7 Oz
Author: Tobias Churton
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
