Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism write by Henrik Bogdan. This book was released on 2012-09-05. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a study in contradictions. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family and educated at Cambridge, he was vilified as a traitor, drug addict, and debaucher, yet revered as perhaps the most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. Moving beyond the influence of contemporary psychology and the modernist understanding of the occult, Crowley declared himself the revelator of a new age of individualism. Crowley's occult bricolage, Magick, was an eclectic combination of spiritual exercises drawn from Western European magical ceremonies and Indic sources for meditation and yoga. This journey of self-liberation culminated in harnessing sexual power as a magical discipline, a "sacrilization of the self" as practiced in Crowley's mixed masonic group, the Ordo Templi Orientis. The religion Crowley created, Thelema, legitimated his role as a charismatic revelator and herald of a new age of freedom. Aleister Crowley's lasting influence can be seen in the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and in many forms of alternative spirituality and popular culture. The essays in this volume offer crucial insight into Crowley's foundational role in the study of Western esotericism, new religious movements, and sexuality.
The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley write by Aleister Crowley. This book was released on 2023-11-20. The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This carefully created collection presents the most important Aleister Crowley's works on Thelema and magick. This book has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Thelema Texts The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) The Law of Liberty (Liber DCCCXXXVII) Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Creed Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici Liber B vel Magi Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita Liber III vel Jugorum Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli Liber Librae Liber LXI vel Causæ Liber Porta Lucis Liber Resh vel Helios Liber Stellae Rubeae Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus Mysticism & Magick The Book Of Lies The Blue Equinox The Lesser Key of Solomon The Psychology of Hashish White Stains The Diary of a Drug Fiend
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics
Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics write by Marco Pasi. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism. Crowley has been long ignored by scholars of religion whilst the stories of magical and sexual practice which circulate about him continue to attract popular interest. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" looks at the man behind the myth - by setting him firmly within the politics of his time - and the development of his ideas through his extensive and extraordinarily varied writings. Crowley was a rationalist, sympathetic to the values of the Enlightenment, but also a romantic and a reactionary. His search for an alternative way to express his religious feelings led him to elaborate his own vision of social and political change. Crowley's complex politics led to his involvement with many key individuals, organisations and groups of his day - the secret service of various countries, the German Nazi party, Russian political activists, journalists and politicians of various persuasions, as well as other writers - both in Europe and America. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" presents a life of ideas, an examination of a man shaped by and shaping the politics of his times.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aleister Crowley write by Tobias Churton. This book was released on 2014-05-20. Aleister Crowley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At last, the unexpurgated, true story of the amazing Aleister Crowley—philosopher, poet, artists, writer, magus, explorer, parapsychology—and spy. Packed with fresh research and previously unpublished ‘Crowleyana.’ For 100 years, Aleister Crowley’s true achievements have been suppressed and his true character defaced in a campaign of vilification unparalleled in British history. Until now, Crowley’s life has not been written—it has been written over. Tobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. In writing Aleister Crowley, he enjoyed complete access to all Crowley’s restricted papers, unpublished letters and personal diaries kept in a trust at London’s Warburg Institute and in the Ordo Templi Orientis archives. Ninety percent of the authentic material here has never before been published.
The Aleister Crowley Collection
The Aleister Crowley Collection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aleister Crowley Collection write by Aleister Crowley. This book was released on 2019-09-07. The Aleister Crowley Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Aleister Crowley Collection includes Crowley's seminal works The Book of the Law and The Book of Lies, as well as his esoteric, entertaining drug memoir, Diary of a Drug Fiend.
