Year: 2012
Author: Richard Kaczynski
Genre: Biography
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 978-1556438998
English language
Format:MOBI
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 720
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo (the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself ); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his infamous philosophy of “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day. Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of the demimonde.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Birthday
A Place to Bury Strangers
The Golden Dawn
The Mountain Holds a Dagger
A Rose by Any Other Name
The Five Peaks
The Great White Brotherhood
Singer of Strange and Obscene Gods
The Vision and the Voice
Aleister Through the Looking Glass
Ordo Templi Orientis
Chokmah Days
Amalantrah
The Abbey of Thelema
Adonis
Eccentrics in Exile
The French Connection
Beast Bites Back
The Black Magic Libel Case
The War of the Roses (and the Battle of the Book)
The Book of Thoth
The Great Turkey Tragedy: Or Heirs Apparent
Epilogue
Notes
References
Picture Credits
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