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Aleister Crowley - The Nature of the Beast
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Poet, magician, mountaineer, polemicist, and pornographer, Aleister Crowley huffed and puffed his way through the world of fin-de-sieccle occultism and on into the twentieth century. The popular image of him as - in the words of Francis King - 'an insatiable ambisexual 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 technique, 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'.
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'.
A biography about Aleister Crowley.
Poet, magician, mountaineer, polemicist, and pornographer, Aleister Crowley huffed and puffed his way through the world of fin-de-sieccle occultism and on into the twentieth century. The popular image of him as - in the words of Francis King - 'an insatiable ambisexual 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 technique, 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'.
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'.
A biography about Aleister Crowley.
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