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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 de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bogdan, Henrik (Editor , Autor de introducción, etc.), Starr, Martin P., 1959- (Editor , Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Crowley, Aleister, > 1875-1947.
Crowley, Aleister, > 1875-1947
1900-1999
Occultism > History > 20th century.
Hermetism > History > 20th century.
Occultisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Hermétisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Mysticism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Occultism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Reference.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Supernatural.
Hermetism
Occultism
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr
  • The sorcerer and his apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the magical exploration of Edwardian subjectivity / Alex Owen
  • Varieties of magical experience: Aleister Crowley's views on occult practice / Marco Pasi
  • Envisioning the birth of a new aeon: dispensationalism and millenarianism in the thelemic tradition / Henrik Bogdan
  • The great beast as a tantric hero: the role of yoga and tantra in Aleister Crowley's magick / Gordan Djurdjevic
  • Continuing knowledge from generation unto generation: the social and literary background of Aleister Crowleys magick / Richard Kaczynski
  • Aleister Crowley and the Yezidis / Tobias Churton
  • Frenzies of the beast: the phaedran furores in the rites and writings of Aleister Crowley / Matthew D. Rogers
  • Aleister Crowley: Freemason?! / Martin P. Starr
  • "The one thought that was not untrue": Aleister Crowley and A.E. Waite / Robert A. Gilbert
  • The beast and the prophet: Aleister Crowley's fascination with Joseph Smith / Massimo Introvigne
  • Crowley and wicca / Ronald Hutton
  • Through the witch's looking glass: the magick of Aleister Crowley and the witchcraft of Rosaleen Norton / Keith Richmond
  • The occult roots of scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the origins of a controversial new religion / Hugh B. Urban
  • Satan and the beast: the influence of Aleister Crowley on modern satanism / Asbjørn Dyrendal.

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