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 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 Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley's quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States.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…mehr
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 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 Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley's quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States.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.
Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. He is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is faculty lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. The author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, and Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin, he lives in England.
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Preface 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
Preface 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
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