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Author:   Tobias Churton
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.173kg
ISBN:  

9781620556306

ISBN 10:   1620556308
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   11 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments PART ONE The Adventure ONE A Special Relationship 1898: A Diplomat Manqué Recruited at Cambridge? Crowley and the Carlists Crowley and “MacGregor” Mathers TWO The Song of the Sea THREE Out of the Frying Pan, into New York FOUR The Eagle and the Snake: Mexico City The Two Republics FIVE Chevalier O’Rourke and The Mexican Herald SIX The Mother’s Tragedy Post Script: The Last Laugh SEVEN Return to New York 1906 EIGHT Art in America John Quinn PART TWO The Furnace NINE 1914 TEN The Sinews of War Germans Come Shopping Meanwhile in London . . . Cap in Hand, to the Savages for Cowries ELEVEN My Egg Was Addled What the Papers Said TWELVE Lower into the Water THIRTEEN The Magick of a New York Christmas: World War I Style John O’Hara Cosgrave, Evangeline Adams, and Frank Crowninshield FOURTEEN Toward the Fatherland Into the Dark Lair Getting In with the Germans Münsterberg FIFTEEN Getting Hotter Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love The Lusitania SIXTEEN Jeanne The Statue of Liberty Stunt Normal Service Resumes SEVENTEEN The Wrong Thing at the Right Time EIGHTEEN The Way West Vancouver NINETEEN California Welcomes the World San Francisco Create in Me a Clean Beast, O God TWENTY Replacement Therapy The Spying Game TWENTY-ONE The Owl and the Monkey Went to Sea Philadelphia The Elixir of Life TWENTY-TWO Aleister Crowley’s Psychedelic Summer Dr. Crowley the Night-Tripper Another Crowley, Another Place The Book T The Ball of Fire Stauros Batrachou TWENTY-THREE Crowley on Christ Shaw Takes a Pasting TWENTY-FOUR Nothingness with Twinkles The Star Sponge Vision TWENTY-FIVE New Orleans--and Bust TWENTY-SIX The Butterfly Net TWENTY-SEVEN Suffer the Little Children The Affidavit TWENTY-EIGHT The International Secret Service Interview TWENTY-NINE Enter the Camel THIRTY It’s All in the Egg Amalantrah Enter Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs THIRTY-ONE Unholy Holiness at 64a West Ninth Street Meeting Leah Hirsig Eva Tanguay THIRTY-TWO Island The Redhead Strikes Visions The Blue Equinox PART THREE Escape THIRTY-THREE Genius Row Thelema in Detroit THIRTY-FOUR Summer in Montauk-- and a Thousand Years Ago THIRTY-FIVE End Game THIRTY-SIX Legacy The O.T.O. in America The Church of Thelema Jack Parsons: Rocket Man L. Ron Hubbard Whatever Happened to the Beast in America? EK-STASIS APPENDIX ONE (Simeon) Leon Engers (Kennedy) (1891–1970) by Frank van Lamoen, Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam APPENDIX TWO Sale Catalog from the Auction of the John Quinn Collection A Note by John Quinn Aleister Crowley Notes Bibliography Index

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Crowley had a great hunger for almost everything he ever thought of or saw. He was economical with the truth, with his own money, and with his loyalties, but--and it is a big but--the scope and scale of America thrilled him. The vitality of the big cities, the newness and esoteric searching of the West Coast made him delirious with a big, greedy joy. He loved the States for nearly thirty years, as it gave him a dedicated group of very clever people, like Jack Parsons, who practiced what he preached. Tobias Churton has uncovered fresh material on Crowley in biographically fresh territory and has once again written a very fine book. * Geraldine Beskin and Bali Beskin, owners of the Atlantis Bookshop, London * Magician Tobias Churton has successfully cast a spell, transforming his 750-page comprehensive scholarly tome into a gripping and obsessive page turner, leaving one wishing for more. Replete with new and exciting details and interpretations of Crowley's time in the New World--and of the multiple denizens of his exciting and unique social circles--the book includes previously unpublished manuscripts, letters, and photographs. Churton furnishes the reader with a sensitive and intimate portrait that brings Crowley to life--as if we are invited to a convivial conversation or private dinner with the Magus himself. Truly an outstanding, enjoyable, and invaluable book! * James Wasserman, author of Templar Heresy: A Story of Gnostic Illumination * Way beyond the standard Crowley hagiographies, Churton's books always put the Great Beast in cultural context. This fascinating mustread is no exception; it's an invaluable, well-researched, and highly entertaining insight into the great magician's life, thoughts, and scandals during his American adventures. * Carl Abrahamsson, author of Occulture and Reasonances * This beautifully produced and richly documented history tracks and clarifies Crowley's myriad experiences in America. Tobias Churton admirably sorts out fact from fantasy and shines an illuminating light on a misunderstood facet of Crowley's career. * Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America * Churton has sifted through a mass of material--from long-neglected documents to the latest researches of contemporary Crowley scholars--to put together this comprehensive and intriguing study of the years the Beast spent in America. He brings fresh eyes to old controversies, such as the true nature of Crowley's political activities during the First World War, and presents a work that anyone interested in the history of Crowley and his circle will read with enthusiasm. * Keith Richmond, co-owner of Weiser Antiquarian Books and author of Progradior and the Beast * Aleister Crowley in America focuses sharply and drills down into Crowley's formative U.S. period, burgeoning with rich and surprising depth beyond what is possible in a life-spanning biography. This story deserves a book of its own, and Tobias Churton demonstrates here that the Beast is indeed in the details. * Richard Kaczynski, author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley *

Author Information

Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, Tobias Churton is a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the author of many books, including Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin and Occult Paris. He lives in the heart of England.

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