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Aleister Crowley in America : Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World by Tobias Churton (2017, Hardcover)

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PublisherInner Traditions International, The Limited

ISBN-101620556308

ISBN-139781620556306

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Book TitleAleister Crowley in America : Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World

Number of Pages768 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicMagick Studies, Artists, Architects, Photographers, United States / General, Occultism

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTobias Churton

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight41.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsCrowley 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., 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in the New World--and of the multiple denizens of his exciting and unique social circles--the book includes previously unpublished manuscripts, letters, and photographs.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!, 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., 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., 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., 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.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal130.92

Table Of ContentPreface 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

SynopsisAn exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States * Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation * Investigates Crowley's undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley's quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States. In 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley's 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley's complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley's involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler. We experience his love affairs and share Crowley's hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania , his making of the "Elixir of Life" in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley's influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley's organization in LA. Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley's U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic "religion" of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley's final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons., An exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States - Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation - Investigates Crowley's undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI - Includes an abundance of previously unpublished letters and diaries Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley's extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States, while working to undermine Germany's propaganda campaign to keep the United States out of World War I. Masterfully recreating turn-of-the-century America in all its startling strangeness, Churton explains how Crowley arrived in New York amid dramatic circumstances in 1900. After other travels, in 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley's 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley's complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley's involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler while living and lecturing on now-vanished "Genius Row." We experience his love affairs and share Crowley's hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. We examine his controversial political stunts, his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania , his making of the "Elixir of Life" in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, his prolific literary achievements, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley's influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and rocket fuel genius Jack Parsons. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley's organization in LA. Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley's U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic "religion" of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley's final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons.

LC Classification NumberBF1598.C7C575 2017