“Up to about 20…” Karl Germer, letter to Crowley, December 28, 1928, O.T.O. Archives.
“For me everything…” Karl Germer, letter to Crowley, June 2, 1929, O.T.O. Archives.
“I found this man…” Crowley, “Statement Re: Tranker” (1925), O.T.O. Archives.
“One who ought…” Crowley, Magick, p. 131.
“Jones was in fact…” Hymenaeus Beta, “Prolegomenon” to Crowley, Liber Aleph (New York: 93 Publishing, 1991), p. xxvi.
“I mistook ‘Comment’…” Crowley, Magick Without Tears ed. Israel Regardie (Saint Paul: Llewellyn, 1973), p. 316.
The 1925 Comment may be found in Crowley, Magick, p. 386.
“It is no use…” Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga, pp. 100–1.
“I myself…” Ibid., p. 101.
“proceeded to exploit…” Norman Mudd, letter to Crowley, October 30, 1925, O.T.O. Archives I am again grateful to Keith Richmond, who first provided me with a copy of this letter.
“The script alone…” Leah Hirsig, letter to Crowley, August 4, 1927, O.T.O. Archives. Again my thanks go to Keith Richmond, who first provided me with copies of the Hirsig–Crowley 1926–7 correspondence.
“imbecile letter…” Crowley, letter to Hirsig, August 8, 1927, O.T.O. Archives.
“all my recognitions…” Leah Hirsig, letter to Crowley, August 19, 1927, O.T.O. Archives.
“I now Notify you…” Leah Hirsig, letter to Crowley, September 6, 1930, with response noted on letter by Crowley, O.T.O. Archives.
“a dim, grey little…” Tom Driberg, Ruling Passions (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977), p. 85.
“[H]e claimed to have…” Ibid., p. 83.
“On practically every…” Jane Wolfe, 1926 Diary, O.T.O. Archives. There are no specific dates provided for the entries quoted here and below.
“weeping, saying…” Ibid.
“But what really…” Ibid.
“Letter from Dridi…” Crowley, September 11, 1926, diary entry, 1926 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“demonstrate the defamation…” Crowley’s personally annotated copy of Maugham’s The Magician, which contains this statement, forms part of the Yorke Collection of the Warburg Institute, University of London.
“contained enough poisoning…” Carlos Clarens, An Illustrated History of the Horror Film (New York: Putnam, 1974), p. 53.
“in the midst of…” Carlos Clarens, Horror Movies (London: Secker and Warburg, 1968), pp. 72–3.
“If I was just…” This poem is contained in Crowley, December 7, 1926, diary entry, 1926 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“a huge success…” Crowley, November 13, 1926, diary entry, 1926 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Eugene and all…” Crowley, January 2, 1927, diary entry, 1927 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“There have been about…” Crowley, letter to Montgomery Evans, January 17, 1929, O.T.O. Archives. I thank Randall Bowyer for his assistance in obtaining a copy of this letter for me.
“He has a nice place…” Kasimira Bass, letter to Wilfred T. Smith, September 2, 1927, O.T.O. Archives.
“for the galleon…” Crowley, letter to Wilfred T. Smith, September 1927, O.T.O. Archives.
“they fell down…” Gerald Suster, Crowley’s Apprentice: The Life and Ideas of Israel Regardie, the Magical Psychologist (London: Rider & Co., 1989), p. 38.
“considered opinion that…” Israel Regardie, The Eye in the Triangle, p. 17.
“Well, suddenly Crowley…” Suster, Crowley’s Apprentice, p. 38.
“As he talked…” Lance Sieveking, The Eye of the Beholder (London: Hulton Press, 1957), p. 251.
“I haven’t seen…” Ibid., p. 252.
“In Crowley he took…” Charles R. Cammell, Aleister Crowley: The Black Magician (original title: Aleister Crowley: The Man, the Mage, the Poet) (London: New English Library, 1969), p. 96.
“Montague Summers said…” Sieveking, The Eye of the Beholder, pp. 247–8.
“that A.C. was in…” Gerald Yorke, letter to Barracaud, November 7, 1955, O.T.O. Archives.
“The unfortunate part…” C. de Vidal Hunt, letter to Gerald Yorke, November 7, 1928, O.T.O. Archives.
“She was a fairly…” Jack Lindsay, Fanfrolico and After (London: The Bodley Head, 1962), p. 173.
“That pair used to…” Suster, Crowley’s Apprentice, pp. 39–40.
“The real inferiority…” Crowley, March 9, 1929, diary entry, 1929 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“success to our campaign…” Crowley, April 17, 1929, diary entry, 1929 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Alastair [sic] Crowley…” Rupert Grayson, Stand Fast, the Holy Ghost (London: Tom Stacey, 1973), pp. 142–3.
“I’m a bit sorry…” Quoted in Craig Munro, Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P. R. Stephensen (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984), p. 91.
“M. [Miramar] had…” Crowley, October 8, 1929, diary entry, 1929 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“He [Crowley] believed…” Leslie Frewin ed. Parnassus Near Picadilly: The Cafe Royal Centenary Book (London: Leslie Frewin, 1965), p. 33.
“an unpaid bill…” Ibid., p. 35.
“Stephensen and Crowley…” Keith Richmond, “Introduction” to Crowley, The Forbidden Lecture: Gilles de Rais (Thame, UK: Mandrake, 1990), p. 23.
“The one thing…” Ibid., p. 54.
“It appears from…” Crowley, Magick, p. 207.
“There is no passage…” Hymenaeus Beta, “Editor’s Introduction” to Crowley, Magick, p. lxvii.
“[O]nly the advanced…” Dion Fortune, Applied Magic (essay collection) (Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1983), p. 65.
“But while I…” Ibid., p. 66.
“All discussions upon…” Crowley, Magick, p. 141.
“[T]here is no doubt…” Ibid., p. 191.
“The student must guard…” Ibid., p. 261.
CHAPTER TEN
“Bury me in a…” Crowley, June 1, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“his wife penniless…” Gerald Yorke, note [n.d.], O.T.O. Archives.
“I must have been…” Crowley, August 4, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Hanni Larissa Jaeger…” Ibid., October 18, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Huxley improves…” Ibid., October 4, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“I thought he had…” Quoted in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 463.
“very bad nightmares…” Crowley, October 16, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Anu showed me…” Ibid., November 16, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Karl is a filthy…” Ibid., December 13, 1930, diary entry. 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archive.
“Anu has been playing…” Ibid., December 14, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“She is always…” Ibid.
“She is violently…” Ibid., November 22, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archive.
“She explains her…” Ibid., December 15, 1930, diary entry, 1930 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archive.
“The idea of my…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Yorke, June 2, 1931, O.T.O. Archives.
“A marvelous day…” Crowley, May 6, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Louise to dinner…” Ibid., May 7, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“It will be no good…” Crowley, letter to Maria Teresa de Miramar, September 1930, O.T.O. Archives.
“I suggest to you…” Colonel Carter, letter to Crowley (with noted response on letter by Crowley), October 1930, O.T.O. Archives.
“As regards Mrs. A.C.…” Colonel Carter, letter to Gerald Yorke, March 3, 1931, O.T.O. Archives.
“Unfortunately her earlier…” Medical Superintende
nt of Colney Hatch Medical Hospital, letter to Crowley, August 1, 1931, O.T.O. Archives.
“It is very English…” Crowley, July 18, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Most wonderful fuck…” Ibid., September 5, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“The best fuck…” Ibid., September 6, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“The truly awful thing…” Christopher Isherwood, Diaries, Volume One: 1939–1960 ed. Katherine Bucknell (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), p. 550.
“What is piquant…” Gerald Hamilton, The Way It Was With Me (London: Leslie Frewin, 1969), p. 56.
“was showering the Magus…” Maurice Richardson, “Epilogue” to Gerald Hamilton, Mr. Norris and I: An Autobiographical Sketch (London: Allan Wingate, 1956), p. 169.
“Bill—whew!…” Crowley, February 25, 1932, diary entry, 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Then began a most…” Crowley, December 6, 1931, diary entry, 1931 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“I direct my Executor…” Crowley, “Will” dated December 22, 1931, O.T.O. Archives.
“Bill half insane…” Crowley, May 31, 1932, diary entry, 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Everything I am…” Gerald Suster, Crowley’s Apprentice, p. 50.
“advised me to leave…” Crowley, July 5, 1932, diary entry, 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“insisted on making…” Ibid.
“So showed her…” Ibid.
“I’m sorry: but…” Ibid., July 20, 1932, diary entry, 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“At the end of…” Viola Banks, Why Not (London: Jarrolds, 1934), ch. 15.
“method of restoring…” Crowley, Amrita, p. 1.
“He writted me…” Gerald Yorke, note to Crowley 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“This case is typical…” Crowley, 1933 statement copied by Gerald Yorke into Crowley 1933 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Great Public Meeting…” Crowley, April 10, 1933, diary entry, 1933 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Here lies a Pearl…” Crowley, August 18, 1933, diary entry, 1933 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Told her we must…” Crowley, October 25, 1933, diary entry, 1933 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Bitched buggered…” Crowley, final undated page of 1933 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“The Gods have forbidden…” Ibid.
“claimed to have been…” Constantine Fitzgibbon, The Life of Dylan Thomas (London: J.M. Dent, 1965), p. 172.
“I have written quite…” Denise Hooker, Nina Hamnett: Queen of Bohemia (London: Constable, 1986), p. 197.
“Abominable libels…” Crowley, September 7, 1932, diary entry, 1932 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Crowley had a temple…” Nina Hamnett, Laughing Torso (London: Constable, 1932), pp. 173–4.
“There was not the…” “Law Report,” London Daily Telegraph, May 11, 1933.
“she could tell me…” Ethel Mannin, Confessions and Impressions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1930), p. 195.
“your chances of winning…” Quoted in Symonds, The Beast 666, p. 497.
“Dr. Trelawney” See Timothy d’Arch Smith “‘Dr. Trelawney’ and Aleister Crowley,” London Magazine, March 1988.
“was altogether futile…” Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume Two, Messengers of Day (London: Quality Book Club, 1979), p. 84.
“Hilbery: Did you take…” “Law Report,” London Daily Telegraph, April 11, 1934.
“O’Connor: You say that…” “Law Report,” London Daily Telegraph, April 13, 1934.
“I have been over…” “Law Report,” London Daily Telegraph, April 14, 1934.
“Friday the 13th…” London Sunday Express, April 15, 1934.
“Aleister Crowley who started…” This copy of Laughing Torso forms part of the Yorke Collection, Warburg Institute, University of London.
“almost constant…” Crowley, May 11, 1936, diary entry, 1936 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“showing serious signs…” Ibid., May 12, 1936, diary entry, 1936 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“Pearl’s devotion…” Ibid., May 29, 1936, diary entry, 1936 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“for the rest of…” Gerald Yorke, note to Crowley memorandum re: 1932 writ against Yorke, O.T.O. Archives.
“She had been told…” Crowley’s personally annotated copy of Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939), is part of the O.T.O. Archives. Another copy, in which Gerald Yorke transcribed Crowley’s marginal notes, forms part of the Yorke Collection, Warburg Institute, University of London.
“You are perfectly right…” Quoted in Francis King, The Magical World of Aleister Crowley (London: Arrow Books, 1987), p. 162.
“when in prison…” Gerald Yorke, handwritten annotation to a first-edition copy of Francis King, The Magical World of Aleister Crowley (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977), that forms part of the Yorke Collection, Warburg Institute, University of London.
“Our revolution is…” Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, O.T.O. Archives, p. 220.
“Their supreme, their…” Ibid., p. 275.
“The ‘nation’ is…” Ibid., p. 229.
“After all these…” Ibid., pp. 140–1.
“almost certainly…” Ibid., p. 212.
“93 as base…” Crowley, May 5, 1936, diary entry, 1936 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“Viereck will sign…” Ibid., July 30, 1936, diary entry, 1936 Diary, O.T.O. Archives.
“Now let me come…” Crowley, letter to George Sylvester Viereck, July 31, 1936, O.T.O. Archives.
“there is a persistent…” Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Racist and Nationalist Fantasies of Guido von List and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology (Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1985), p. 217.
“When the Gestapo were…” Karl Germer, letter to Max Schneider, November 8, 1935, O.T.O. Archives.
“preserve the noble…” Crowley, “Propositions for consideration of H.M. [His Majesty’s] Government,” written October 1936, sent January 27, 1937, O.T.O. Archives.
“Prospectus of book…” Press clipping appended to Crowley, December 23, 1937, 1937 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives. The original source of the clipping is unclear.
CHAPTER 11
“The average voter…” Crowley [pseud. Comte de Fenix], The Scientific Solution to the Problem of Government (London: O.T.O., n.d.) [c. 1937].
“The theories of…” Ibid.
“Hitler has invented…” Ibid.
“Let this formula…” Ibid.
“At the first mouthful…” Alan Burnett-Rae, “A Memoir of 666,” in Sandy Robertson, The Aleister Crowley Scrapbook (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1988), p. 27.
“I explained that…” Ibid., p. 25.
“I do wish you’d…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Yorke, May 10, 1938, O.T.O. Archives.
“Perhaps in future…” Quoted in Maurice Richardson, “Luncheon with Beast 666,” in Fits and Starts: Collected Pieces (London: Michael Joseph, 1979), p. 113.
“that when you got…” Ibid., p. 117.
“Vanity was his…” Louis Wilkinson [pseud. Louis Marlow], Seven Friends, pp. 43–4.
“Elaborate dream…” Crowley, February 4, 1938, diary entry, 1938 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“Fascism must always…” Ibid., February 21, 1938, diary entry, 1938 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“I had several long…” Crowley, June 2, 1939, diary entry, 1939 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“jointly applied to Crowley…” Quoted in Anthony Masters, The Man Who Was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984), p. 68.
“Crowley had put up…” Anthony Masters, The Man Who Was M, p. 128.
“in mind for some…” Ibid., p. 127.
“The German Intelligence…” Richard Deacon, A History of the British Secret Service (London: Frederick Muller, 1969), p. 311.
“it never came off…” Donald McCormick, letter to Gerald Yorke, May 10, 1967, O.T.O. Archives.
“Here was a man…” Charles R. Cammell, Aleister Crowley, p. 104.
“I did my best…” Ibid., p. 105.
I wish you had…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Yorke, September 6, 1941, O.T.O. Archives.
“They gave me command…” Crowley, poem written on last, undated page of 1940 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“she had come to…” Charles R. Cammell, Aleister Crowley, p. 106.
“the revival of true…” Crowley, letter to Gerald Yorke, September 11, 1944, O.T.O. Archives.
“the problem is not…” Crowley, April 3, 1941, diary entry, 1941 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“nauseated and ineffably…” Crowley, April 13, 1942, diary entry, 1942 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“All considered…” Ibid., October 1, 1942, diary entry, 1942 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“was sitting with my…” Constantine Fitzgibbon, The Life of Dylan Thomas, p. 174.
“I note that when…” Crowley, January 25, 1943, diary entry, 1943 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
“made possible such…” Quoted in Harry Wulforst, The Rocketmakers (New York: Orion Books, 1989), p. 102.
“Your attempts to seduce…” Crowley, letter to Wilfred T. Smith, autumn 1943, O.T.O. Archives.
“With regard to bungling…” Crowley, letter to Jack Parsons, October 19, 1943, O.T.O. Archives.
“Christmas 1943 was…” J. Edward Cornelius (Frater Achad Osher), “The Warrior-Troubadour: The Life & Times of Grady Louis McMurtry,” in Red Flame: A Thelemic Research Journal, issue No. 1 (Berkeley: Pangenetor Lodge O.T.O., 1994), p. 14.
“The origin of the Tarot…” Crowley, The Book of Thoth (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1986), p. 20.
“Each card is…” Ibid., pp. 47–8.
“This card represents…” Ibid., p. 105.
“the ‘secret eye’…” Richard Cavendish, The Tarot (New York: Crescent Books, 1986), p. 120.
“‘Now you see’…” Louis Wilkinson [pseud. Louis Marlow], Seven Friends, pp. 46–7.
“Much of this is…” Crowley, March 3, 1943, diary entry, 1943 Diary, typescript, O.T.O. Archives.
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