Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast

Author:   Colin Wilson
Publisher:   Aeon Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781904658276


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   31 December 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast


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"An engrossing portrait of this complex and enigmatic figure and his eclectic system of magick. Poet, Magician, Mountaineer, Polemicist and Pornographer, Aleister Crowley was the most famous, or infamous, name in twentieth century occultism. With his usual flair and style, Colin Wilson brings this complex and enigmatic figure to life and provides an engrossing portrait of the self-styled Great Beast, the man whom the contemporary press dubbed ""The Wickedest Man in the World"". The popular image of him as, in the words of Francis King, 'an insatiable sexual athlete, a pimp who lived on the immoral earnings of his girl-friends, and a junkie who daily took enough heroin to kill a roomful of people', has a basis in fact; but there were other, less obnoxious and despicable, aspects of this highly original character. Crowley's greatest legacy is his eclectic occult system: his Magick persists, a potent synthesis of Golden Dawn magic, oriental esoteric techniques, sexual magic, and the all-encompassing Law of Thelema with its two fundamental principles, 'Every man and woman is a star' and the notorious 'Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law'."

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Author:   Colin Wilson
Publisher:   Aeon Books Ltd
Imprint:   Aeon Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9781904658276


ISBN 10:   190465827
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   31 December 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements 7 One Does Magic Work? 9 Two The Reluctant Christian 25 Three Raising Hell 46 Four The Chosen of the Gods 62 Five The Master and the Disciples 83 Six The Magic Wand 101 Seven The Abbey of Do-What-You-Will 117 Eight Paradise Lost 135 Epilogue 153 Select Bibliography 169 Index 171

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Colin Wilson was born in the East Midlands city of Leicester in 1931. After the phenomenal success of his first book The Outsider in 1956, he moved to Cornwall where he pursued a successful career as a writer, producing over 150 titles in fifty-five years. Essentially an existential philosopher, he has also written on crime, psychology, sex, the occult, literature, music, unexplained phenomena, history, pre-history, and over twenty novels in various genres. He died in December 2013.

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