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The Magical World of Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley, who died in 1947, has been seen variously as a 'man of notorious sexual habits', a hero of the flower-power generation of the 1960s, and a satanic occultist.
But Crowley was neither a mere sexual athlete nor a vulgar black magician. He was the synthesizer of what he called 'Magick', a system of occult philosophy and technique which combined clarity, consistency, intellectual power and a strange, if sometimes frightening, beauty.
In this detailed and intensely readable account of Crowley's occult progress, Francis King examines each of the three main sources of this Magick - thus throwing a new light on Crowley himself, and doing much to explain the continuing admiration for his writings which is displayed by individuals as diverse as occultists, rock musicians and choreographers.
Aleister Crowley, who died in 1947, has been seen variously as a 'man of notorious sexual habits', a hero of the flower-power generation of the 1960s, and a satanic occultist.
But Crowley was neither a mere sexual athlete nor a vulgar black magician. He was the synthesizer of what he called 'Magick', a system of occult philosophy and technique which combined clarity, consistency, intellectual power and a strange, if sometimes frightening, beauty.
In this detailed and intensely readable account of Crowley's occult progress, Francis King examines each of the three main sources of this Magick - thus throwing a new light on Crowley himself, and doing much to explain the continuing admiration for his writings which is displayed by individuals as diverse as occultists, rock musicians and choreographers.
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