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Auteur

CHURTON, Tobias

Titel

Aleister Crowley in America. Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World

Type document

Boek

Nummer ISBN/ISBD

978-1-62055-630-6

ISSN

Uitgever

Inner Traditions

Uitgaveplaats

Rochester, Vermont

Publicatiejaar

2017

Pagina's

749

Bijlagen

XVI

Nummer van het werk

SEK-SEK-B0815-00050

Taal van het werk

Engels

Vindplaats

B 0815/00050

Rubrieknaam

B0815 esoterie magie - ésotérisme magie - esotericism magic - Esoterik Magie

Samenvatting

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 Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley's extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in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.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Aleister-Crowley-America-Espionage-Magick/dp/1620556308

Samenvatting

Preface and acknowledgments


I. The adventure

1. A special relationship
1.1. 1898: a diplomat manqué
1.2. Recruited at Cambridge?
1.3. Crowley and the Carlists
1.4. Crowley and 'MacGregor' Mathers

2. The song of the sea

3. Out of the frying pan, into New York

4. The eagle and the snake: Mexico City
4.1. The two republics

5. Chevalier O'Rourke and the Mexican Herald

6. The mother's tragedy
6.1. Post script: the last laugh

7. Return to New York 1906

8. Art in America
8.1. John Quinn


II. The furnace

9. 1914

10. The sinews of war
10.1. Germans come shopping
10.2. Meanwhile in London...
10.3. Cap in hand, to the savages for Cowries

11. My egg was addled
11.1. What the papers said

12. Lowr into the water

13. The magick of a New York Christmas: World War I style
13.1. John O'Hara Cosgrave, Evangeline Adams, and Frank Crowninshield

14. Toward the fatherland
14.1. Into the dark lair
14.2. Getting in with the Germans
14.3. Münsterberg

15. Getting hotter
15.1. Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love
15.2. The Lusitania

16. Jeanne
16.1. The Statue of Liberty stunt
16.2. Normal service resumes

17. The wrong thing at the right time

18. The way West
18.1. Vancouver

19. California welcomes the world
19.1. San Francisco
19.2. Create in me a clean beast, o God

20. Replacement therapy
20.1. The spying game

21. The owl and the monkey went to sea
21.1. Philadelphia
21.2. The elixir of life

22. Aleister Crowley's psychedelic summer
22.1. Dr. Crowley the night-tripper
22.2. Another Crowley, another place
22.3. The Book T
22.4. The ball of fire
22.5. Stauros Batrachou

23. Crowley on Christ
23.1. Shaw takes a pasting

24. Nothingness with twinkles
24.1. The star sponge vision

25. New Orleans and bust

26. The butterly net

27. Suffer the little children
27.1. The affidavit

28. The International
28.1. Secret service interview

29. Enter the camel

30. It's all in the egg
30.1. Amalantrah
30.2. Enter Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs

31. Unholy holiness at 64a West Ninth Street
31.1. Meeting Leah Hirsig
31.2. Eva Tanguay

32. Island
32.1. The redhead strikes
32.2. Visions
32.3. The blue equinox


III. Escape

33. Genius row
33.1. Thelema in Detroit

34. Summer in Montauk  - and a thousand years ago

35. End game

36. Legacy
36.1. The O.T.O. in America
36.2. The Church of Thelema
36.3. Jack Parsons: rocket man
36.4. L. Ron Hubbard
36.5. Whatever happened to the beast in America?
36.6. EK-STASIS


Appendix 1: (Simeon) Leon Engers (Kennedy) (18941-1970), by Frank van lauwen, Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Appendix 2: sale catalog from tha uction of the John Quinn collection, a note by John Quinn; Aleister Crowley

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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