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Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but also on philosophy, politics, and culture.He was a published poet and playwright and left behind many personal letters and daily journal entries.
Pages in category "Works by Aleister Crowley" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Crowley's comments on women's role varied dramatically within his written work, even that produced in similar periods. [289] Crowley described women as "moral inferiors" who had to be treated with "firmness, kindness and justice", [ 290 ] while also arguing that Thelema was essential to women's emancipation.
The final volume of Aleister Crowley's collected works have a flamboyancy of style which will be seen in the following period of his editorial The Equinox. It collects his writings from 1904 to 1907. The contents appear less than the others only because the final work Orpheus was substantially long, taking up maybe 40% of the book. Contents
Mandrake Press also published The Confessions of Aleister Crowley volumes I and II, and Moonchild. Crowley published few collections of short stories, but the title story received such a good review from British novelist Joseph Conrad when he published it in The English Review that he thought it was a possible calling to conventional fame.
The first appearance of 777 was published anonymously in 1909 after Crowley had written it from memory in just a week. An introduction to one edition by "Frater N∴" states that Crowley may have published it anonymously because it was taken from a Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn manuscript that was obligatory for initiates to memorise.
A conspiracy theory claims former first lady Barbara Bush is the daughter of famous British occultist Aleister Crowley. This is false.
Liber Aleph vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly is the title of The Equinox, volume III, number VI, by Aleister Crowley.The book is written in the form of an epistle to his magical son, Charles Stansfeld Jones, Frater Achad, whom Crowley later doubted as being his true magical son, asserting that Achad had in fact gone insane, citing as evidence Achad's "upending the tree of life" in his Q.B ...