Endnotes
1. CONTRA CONTRA MEANS PRO
1. Breton, “Manifesto of Surrealism,” https://tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm (accessed December 14, 2016).
2. Fowles, The Aristos, 116.
2. SPLENDOR SOLIS
1. Steiner, “What Is Anthroposophy?” 263.
2. Steiner, “What Is Anthroposophy?” 263.
3. Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany, 28.
4. Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany, 37.
5. Frazer, The Golden Bough, 623.
6. Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, 3.
3. ABSTRACTION MADE CONCRETE
1. A much-expanded version of the previous Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis P-Orridge and the Third Mind ov Psychic TV, ed. Joe Rapoza.
4. OVER THE MOON AND BACK AGAIN
1. Walker, “The Moon,” 1881.
2. According to Lukas Feireiss in his brilliant Memories of the Moon Age.
3. “Stanley Kubrick Confesses to Faking the Moon Landings,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4pf6pp1kQ. Excerpted from the film Shooting Stanley Kubrick by Patrick Murray, 2015. The theory was earlier elaborated on by Jay Weidner in the film Room 237 (2012), about Kubrick’s The Shining in this excerpt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4A5tJ2j3o. Also see the film Dark Side of the Moon by William Karel (2002), and Bill Kaysing’s book We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle (1976). Websites accessed on October 1, 2016.
4. “How the Easter Date is determined,” accessed October 1, 2016, www.timeanddate.com/calendar/determining-easter-date.html.
5. Eisler, Man into Wolf, 19.
6. WHAT REMAINS FOR THE FUTURE?
1. Gerald Yorke interviewed by David Tibet in Yorke, Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and Buddhism, 208.
2. Steiner, “Goethe as the Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics,” 61.
3. Steiner, The New Essential Steiner, 180, 187, 192.
4. Donne, from “Meditation 17,” in No Man Is an Island: A Selection of the Prose of John Donne.
5. Crowley, “Liber Thisharb,” in Book Four, 648.
7. PAUL BOWLES
1. Miles, William S. Burroughs: A Life, 253.
2. Miles, William S. Burroughs: A Life, 253.
3. Miles, William S. Burroughs: A Life, 271.
4. Bowles, Without Stopping, 125.
5. Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, 14.
6. Bowles, Without Stopping, 116.
7. Maugham, The Summing Up, 27.
8. Maugham, The Summing Up, 184.
9. Brion Gysin in the foreword to his Stories, 5.
10. Bowles, Without Stopping, 366.
11. Paul Bowles interviewed by Simon Bischoff in Paul Bowles: Photographs, 254.
12. Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, film directed by Jennifer Baichwal, 1998.
8. TANGIBLE EVANESCENCE
1. Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs, 23.
2. Mishima, Sun and Steel, 72.
3. Mishima, Sun and Steel, 102.
4. Mishima, Sun and Steel, 57.
5. Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs, 69.
6. Mishima, Sun and Steel, 41.
9. ANTON LAVEY: MAGICAL INNOVATOR
1. LaVey, Satanic Bible, 155.
2. LaVey, Satan Speaks, 9.
3. LaVey, The Devil’s Notebook, 133, 138.
4. LaVey, The Satanic Rituals, 11.
5. LaVey, The Satanic Rituals, 22.
6. LaVey, The Devil’s Notebook, 78.
7. LaVey, The Devil’s Notebook, 80.
8. LaVey, The Devil’s Notebook, 17, 63
9. LaVey, Satan Speaks, 30.
10. LaVey, Satan Speaks, 22.
11. LaVey, The Devil’s Notebook, 140.
10. CARL JUNG, MYTHMAKER
1. Jung, “The Psychology of the Child Archetype,” 83–84.
2. Campbell, Creative Mythology, 637.
3. Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, 34.
4. Jung, Aion, 269.
11. THE IMAGINATIVE LIBIDO
1. Marie-Louise von Franz, introduction to Hannah, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination, 2.
2. LaVey, “The Construction of Artificial Human Companions,” 138.
12. FORMULATING THE DESIRED
1. Freud, “Dreams and the Occult,” 108.
14. THE MEGA GOLEM IS ALIVE AND WELL
1. Meyrink, The Golem, 19.
2. Meyrink, The Golem, 44
3. Meyrink, The Golem, 71–72
15. SEXUAL-DYNAMIC POLARITY
1. Crowley, Magic without Tears, 63.
2. Crowley, Little Essays towards Truth, 89.
3. Wilhelm, The Secret of the Golden Flower, 24.
4. Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 714.
5. Leah Hirsig, quoted in Symonds, The Great Beast, 254.
17. THE MAGIC OF DREAMS MADE REAL
1. Roger Knudson, quoted in Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming, xxi.
18. COLLECTIVE MYSTICISM
1. Suzuki, Field of Zen, 50.
2. Tesla, My Inventions, 39–40.
3. Crowley, Liber AL: The Book of the La, 43.
19. CHALLENGING INERTIA AND ENTROPY
1. Crowley, Konx Om Pax.
2. Crowley, Konx Om Pax, 63.
3. Willis, The Tao of Art, 41.
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Index
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Acconci, Vito, 56
Acon of Horus, 57
aggression, 47
Aldrin, Buzz, 44
alternative lifestyles, 14
altruism, 95–96
American Horror Story, 214
angels, 60
Anger, Kenneth, 46
anima, 108
animus, 108
Anonymous, 9
Anthroposophical movement, 3–4,
19, 23, 58–59, 62
anticapitalism, 21
anti-urbanism, 25
Apollo 8, 44
archetypes, 106
architecture, 52
Armstrong, Neil, 44
art, 51–56, 64, 75–76, 141–42,
215–17, 222–29
artificial human companions, 116–23
asteroids, 36–37
astral intelligences, 60
atomic energy, 6
Auer, Jane, 71
automatonophobia, 118–19
Aztecs, 175
Babalon, 163–64, 166
Balch, Antony, 33–34
Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The,
54–55
Ballard, J. G., 34
Barthes, Roland, 108–9
Bavarian Illuminati, 2–3
beatniks, 26
Bennett, Vicki, 143
Berlin, Germany, 76–77
Besant, Annie, 65
biodynamic gardening, 60
black holes, 36–37
Black Sun, 20
Blavatsky, Helena, 6–7, 90
Book of the Law, The, 57, 59, 69, 157–58
Bowles, Paul, 70–81
Bowles, Sally, 71
Breton, André, 4–5
Buddha, 170, 199
Burroughs, William, 7, 29, 30, 33–34, 71
Campbell, Joseph, 52–53, 114
cannabis, 74
Carnivale, 168
&
nbsp; Carter, Chris, 214
Casaubon, Meric, 92
Catholic Church, 2, 15, 41, 175
chaos, 125
Christians and Christianity, 15, 41
Christopherson, Peter, 29, 30, 34
Church of Satan, 8–9, 91
cock and balls, 143–48
collective mysticism, 190–200
collective unconscious, 106
Colo, Papo, 55
computers, 53–54
Conner, Bruce, 54–55
Conrad, Joseph, 78
Copland, Aaron, 76–77
Council of Nicaea, 46
counterculture, 6–7
Coward, Noël, 71
Creative Mythology, 52–53
Crosby, Harry, 32
Crowley, Aleister, 3, 4, 6–7, 18, 29,
46, 76–77, 102
comparison with Steiner,
57–69
sexuality and, 156–67
Crowley, Frieda Harris, 36
cultural environments, 3
Current 93, 29
Curtis, Ian, 34
cyberpunk culture, 34–35
Dada movement, 105
Dawkins, Richard, 211
death, 41
Deng Tai, 55
de Predis, Cristoforo, 41
design, 52
detachment, 71, 81
Devil’s Notebook, The, 97, 99
Diana, 40
Dick, Philip K., 34
Diefenbach, Karl Wilhelm, 17
Disney, Walt, 43–44
disobedience, 66–67
do-it-yourself (DIY) culture, 32–33, 139
dolls, 116–23
Donne, John, 67–68
dreams, 178–89
dualism, 7, 53
Duncan, Isadora, 17
Earth, 19
ecological awareness, 26–27
economy, of magic, 168–77
Edison, Thomas, 186–87
education, 53–54
ego, 95
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 43–44
elemental entities, 60
Eliade, Mircea, 112–13
Ely, David, 7
emotion, 96
entropy, 201–9
equality, 53–54
Eros, 25, 26
erotic crystalization inertia (ECI), 93
European Society for the Study of
Western Esotericism (ESSWE),
12
Evans, Cerith Wyn, 30
expat magic, 71–72, 74–75
externalization, 127
extrovert, 108
fashion, 52
Faust, 173
Fawkes, Guy, 9–10
femen, 10–11
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