by Gary Lachman
Book of Lies (AC), 177, 362n22
Book of Thoth (AC), 292, 299, 359
Booth, Martin, 245
Booth-Clibborn, Augustine, 238–39
Borges, Jorge Luis, 186
Bosse, Harriet, 358n55
Bottomley, Horatio, 163–64, 166, 220
Bowie, David, 5, 333–35
Boxer Rebellion, 131
Bradlaugh, Charles, 43
Brando, Marlon, 324
Brethren of the Free Spirit, 58
British Film Institute, 10
British Union of Fascists, 141
Brook, Peter, 298, 373n46
Brooksmith, Pearl, 282–86
Buddhism, 18, 49, 71, 88, 90, 97, 132, 135, 167, 169, 173, 194, 355n12
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 4
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 361n40
Burnett-Rae, Alan, 284–86
Burroughs, William, 332, 337, 345
Burton, Richard, 35, 42, 89
Busch, Bertha (Billie), 276–78
Butler, E. M., The Myth of the Magus, 308
Butts, Mary, 235, 236, 238, 241, 242, 248, 368n37
Cagliostro, Alessandro, 215, 353n12, 374n72
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 273, 290
Cameron, Marjorie, 305, 306
Cammell, Charles Richard, 198–99, 263, 294–96, 318–19, 349n1
Carlyle, Thomas, 42
Carpenter, Edward, 43; From Adam’s Peak to Elephanta, 98
Carter, Colonel, 271–72, 276, 278
Carus, Paul, 194, 199
Casement, Roger, 277
Cassady, Neal, 324
Castaneda, Carlos, 82
Catholicism, 145, 203
Cavendish, Richard, 326
Champney, H. d’Arcy, 28–29
Chéron, Jane, 183, 184, 221–22
Chesterton, G. K., 139
Chiswick Press, 239
Choronzon Club, 232
Christians, 18, 30, 43, 48, 114, 138, 139, 141, 145, 149, 175, 253, 281, 334, 338, 344, 356n16; fundamentalist, 336, 341, 345 (see also Plymouth Brethren); Gnostic (see Gnosticism)
Churchill, Winston, 15, 291, 292
Churchward, James, 334
Ciara, 343
Close, Herbert, 155
Clouds without Water (AC), 142–43
Cobain, Kurt, 13
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 42, 110–11; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 37
Collected Works (AC), 8, 122, 139
College of Occult Science, 79
Collins, William, 240–41, 243, 251
Colquoun, Ithell, 284
Confessions (AC), 4, 8, 11, 23, 25, 28, 32, 42, 45, 48, 55, 60, 93, 95, 102, 106, 130, 131, 135, 140, 144, 161, 173, 181, 196, 201, 231, 242, 243, 251, 254, 258, 272, 329, 350n20, 361n40
Constable and Co. publisher, 280–82
Coomaraswamy, Alice Ethel (Ratan Devi), 201–2, 365n30
Coomaraswamy, Ananada K., 87, 201–2
Corbin, Henry, 358n64
Cowie, George Macnie, 207, 219
Cremers, Vittoria, 178–79, 185, 186, 207
Crowley, Aleister: acolytes of (see names of specific followers and students); adolescence, 28–33; Asian travels, 87–90, 129–35, 146; biographers, 10–11, 19, 155 (see also Fuller, J.F.C.; King, Francis; Symonds, John); birth, 20, 21; at Boleskine, 73–74, 98–101, 121–23; childhood, 23–27, 42; children, 122, 129–32, 134–38, 142, 144, 153–54, 223, 226, 230, 231, 239–40, 283, 286, 311–12, 316, 369n17, 371n3, 372n23; counterculture interest in, 1–6, 11, 114, 320–31; death, 301, 314–18; education, 26–31, 33–34, 38, 40–43, 53, 60; egotism, 8–9, 12–13, 17–18, 164; in Egypt, 92–93, 102, 103–5, 120–21; expulsion from Italy, 36, 41, 55, 251; family background, 20–24; frog crucified by, 194–95, 204, 206; in Germany, 155, 274–78; health problems, 29, 52, 137, 219, 223; heroin addiction, 18, 36, 55, 117, 219, 221, 225, 237–38, 258, 299, 302, 313, 315, 317; infamy, 16–17, 149, 167–69; inheritance, 41, 71, 223; involvement in esoteric orders (see A...A...; Golden Dawn; Ordo Templi Orientis); Kennedy’s portrait of, 15–16, 209, 345–46; libel suit, 279–84, 311; magazine as magical legacy, see Equinox, The; marriages (see Crowley, Rose; De Miramar, Maria Teresa Ferrari); in Mexico, 81–86, 157; mountaineering, 8, 25, 29, 34–35, 39, 51–52, 84–85, 90–93, 123–28, 159; in New York, 81, 189–93, 195–201, 208–19; last years, 7, 10, 298–314; in Paris, 93–98, 102, 121, 147–48, 169–70, 254–58; popular culture influenced by, 331–45; public performances of rituals by, 165–66, 180–87; Scarlet Women and, 26, 116–17, 186–88, 190, 210, 212, 224, 237, 263, 268, 282–83, 290, 364n2 (see also Crowley, Rose; De Miramar, Maria Teresa Ferrari; D’Este Sturges, Mary; Hirsig, Leah); sexual proclivities of, 7, 18, 19, 26, 29–32, 43–48, 71–72, 128–29, 142–43, 149–51, 155, 159–60, 167–69, 188–89, 201–2, 209–10, 222–23; Sicilian abbey of, 223–51; spiritual awakening and growth, 49–53, 160–62; works (see titles of specific books); during World War II, 290–92, 294–98
Crowley, Ann Léa (AC’s daughter; Poupée), 223, 226, 230
Crowley, Astarte (AC’s daughter), 231
Crowley, Ataturk (Randall Gair; AC’s son), 283, 286, 311–12, 316, 371n3, 372n23
Crowley, Edward (AC’s father), 23–25, 27, 106, 350n20
Crowley, Emily (née Bishop; AC’s mother), 24–25, 29, 31–34, 37, 41, 147, 167
Crowley, Lola Zaza (AC’s daughter), 138, 142, 144, 153–54, 239–40, 369n17
Crowley, Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith (AC’s daughter), 122, 129–32, 134–37
Crowley, Rose (AC’s first wife), 64, 99–104, 107, 108, 116, 121, 122, 129–32, 134–38, 140, 142, 144, 147, 153, 171, 202, 210, 211, 239, 263, 283
Crusades, 176
Cunard, Nancy, 193, 296, 300
Current, 93, 336
Curwen, David, 308
De Arte Magica (AC), 187
Dee, John, 73, 121, 157–59, 295, 361n34
De Kerval family, 20–21
De Miramar, Maria Teresa Ferrari, 267–68, 270–72, 274, 276, 278, 283
D’Este Sturges, Mary (Sister Virakam), 170–72, 177, 192, 202, 210, 211, 223, 361n7
Devereux, Paul, 327
De Wend-Fenton, West, 166, 242
Diary of a Drug Fiend, The (AC), 2, 3, 226, 236, 240–43, 254, 264, 279, 281, 329, 372n29
Dick, Philip K., 340, 376n26
Dickens, Charles, 254; David Copperfield, 37
Dickinson, Bruce, 336
Doherty, Patricia (later McAlpine), 283, 286, 290, 293, 312, 314, 316, 317, 372n23
Doors, the, 330
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 119
Douglas, Archibald, 30–31, 55
Douglas, Gordon, 355n12
Douglas, James, 242
Dreiser, Theodore, 194, 2
Dreyfus case, 271
Driberg, Tom, 263–64, 290, 291
Duncan, Isadora, 170, 361n7
Dunsany, Lord, 154
Duranty, Walter, 182–84
Duval, Violet, 189
Eckartshausen, Karl von, The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, 51, 52, 60
Eckenstein, Oscar, 35, 52, 61, 65, 84, 85, 89–93, 123, 132, 147, 169, 173, 351n40
Eight Lectures on Yoga (AC), 88, 287
Eliot, T. S., The Wasteland, 307
Ellis, Havelock, 43, 155, 360n28
Ellmann, Richard, Yeats, 308–9
Eminem, 343
English Alpine Club, 38
English Review, 186, 195, 240
English Socialist League, 175
Epstein, Jacob, 169–70, 243
Equinox, The, 4, 16, 154–57, 162, 163, 169, 172, 181, 218, 221, 264, 266
Equinox of the Gods, The (AC), 286–87
Esoteric Order, 60
Esoteric Record, The (AC), 184
Expressionism, 174
Faithfull, Marianne, 328
Falk, Johann, 353n12
Falk, Samuel Jacob Chayyim, 353n12
Farr, Florence, 60, 75, 76, 78, 139–40
Fatherland, The, 195–98, 208, 288, 365n19
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Fielding, Henry, 42
Fleming, Ian, Casino Royale, 291
Ford, Henry, 263
Fortean Times, 10
Fortune, Dion, 4, 292, 322; The Mystical Qabalah, 310, 311
Foster, Jane, 192–93, 202, 203
Fothergill, Reverend, 30
Fraser, Robert, 320, 327
Fraternity of Light, 292
Freemasonry, see Masonic order
Freud, Sigmund, 37, 119, 211, 222, 233–34, 294, 357n37, 362n17; Civilization and Its Discontents, 233
Fripp, Robert, 376n21
Fuller, J.F.C., 95, 147, 148, 154, 166, 167, 169, 194, 239, 253, 280, 319; The Star in the West, 140–41
Fuller, Jean Overton, 152, 156–57
Gacy, John Wayne, 140
Gardner, Gerald, 309–10; Book of Shadows, 310
Gaunt, Guy, 196–97
Gebser, Jean, 174, 345
Geldof, Peaches, 341, 342
George, Madelaine, 214–16
George V, King of England, 253, 276
Germer, Karl, 261–65, 270, 272, 273, 275, 277, 287–88, 298–300, 303, 306, 318, 371n3
Gibbon, Edward, 42
Gilles de Rais, Baron, 273
Ginsberg, Allen, 325
Glanvil, Joseph, 3
Gleadow, Rupert, 312, 313
Gnosis, 9
Gnosticism, 9, 57, 107, 329, 340–44, 364n47
Goetheanum, 367n10
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of, 3, 4, 51, 54, 57–68, 70, 74–76, 79, 80, 84, 121, 123, 133, 139, 162–63, 167, 168, 175, 220, 232, 267, 292, 320, 327, 335, 343, 352–53n11, 353n12
Golden Dawn, The, 267
Golden Hind, 313
Goldman, Emma, 257
Goldston, Edward, 272, 273
Grahame, Laura, 71–72, 74, 76, 81, 243
Grant, Kenneth, 273, 302–3, 308–11, 316, 337, 374n59, 375n94; The Magical Revival, 4, 303
Grau, Albin, 262
Gregg, Frances, 213–14, 244, 301
Gros, Edmund, 238
Gross, Otto, 119, 357n37, 362n17
Guillarmod, J. Jacot, 92–93, 122–27, 239, 358n54
Gurdjieff, George Invanovitch, 134, 151, 153, 175, 180, 256, 269, 295, 296, 320, 321, 360n6, 366n54, 367n10, 369n9, 373n46, 376n21
Haggard, H. Rider, She, 169
Haji, Abdullah al, 128
Hall, Daryl, 336
Hamburger, Michael, 309
Hamilton, Gerald, 277–78
Hamnett, Nina, 175, 231, 235, 244, 289; Laughing Torso, 280, 283, 372n25
Harris, Frank, 200, 219, 255; My Life and Loves, 154
Harris, Frieda, 293, 296, 297, 307, 314, 316
Harrison, Austin, 240
Harrison, Charles George, 215
Hartmann, Franz, 176
Hastings, Beatrice, 359n6
Hawking, Stephen, The Grand Design, 91
Heart of the Master, The (AC), 259
Heine, Heinrich, 141
Heinlein, Robert, 305, 322, 374n61
Hell’s Angels, 2, 161
Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, 177
Hermeticism, 133. See also Golden Dawn
Hesse, Hermann, 3; Demian, 329; In Sight of Chaos, 119; Tagebuch, 120
Heyse, Jeanne, 181
Hidden Church, 51–52
Himmler, Heinrich, 335
Hinduism, 87–89, 176, 353n12, 363n36
Hirsig, Alma, 216, 221, 254, 258, 375n94
Hirsig, Hansi, 221, 226, 254, 258
Hirsig, Leah, 216–17, 221–28, 230, 231, 236–42, 248, 251, 253–54, 256–63, 272, 274, 276, 306, 368n24, 375n94
Hitler, Adolf, 141, 262, 287, 292, 335, 368n1, 371n17; Mein Kampf, 288
Hollis, Helen, 192, 193
Holmes, John Clellon, 324
Holy Books of Thelema (AC), 145, 287
Homer, The Odyssey, 241
Horniblow, Lilian, see Grahame, Laura
Horniman, Annie, 60, 63, 75
Horniman, Frederick J., 63
Horos, Mrs., 79–80, 95; See also Sprengel, Anna
Houghton, Michael, 302
Hubbard, L. Ron, 305–6
Hund, Karl Gottlieb von, 353n12
Hunt, C. Vidal, 269–70
Hunter, E. A., 77–78
Huxley, Aldous, 16, 152, 155, 206, 276, 326, 367n13; Antic Hay, 242; The Doors of Perception, 330
Huxley, Julian, 16
Huysmans, J. K., Là-bas, 39
I Ching, 2, 6, 220, 221, 223, 226, 230, 282
Illuminati, 278, 342
Ingram, Rex, 10, 97, 363n32
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, 367n10
International, The, 196, 207–8, 211, 231
Isherwood, Christopher, Berlin Stories, 277
Jackson, Frank Dutton, 79
Jackson, William, 199
Jacob, Samuel A., 211–12
Jaegger, Hanni, 274–76
Jagger, Mick, 263, 327–28, 343
James, William, 196, 205–6, 220; The Varieties of Religious Experience, 88
Jarman, Derek, 338
Jaynes, Julian, 127; Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 108–9
Jay-Z, 342–45
Jephthah (AC), 54, 55, 122
Jewish-Christian mysticism, 52
Jews, 149, 153, 172, 264, 267, 271, 308, 353n15; mystical tradition of, see Kabbalah
Jezebel (AC), 54, 69
Joachim of Fiore, 113–14
Joad, C.E.M., 301
John, Augustus, 307
John Bull, 12, 16, 163, 166, 220, 221, 247, 273, 283
Johnson, Robert, 322
Jonas Brothers, 341–42, 346
Jones, Charles Stansfeld, 194, 203–4, 210, 298
Jones, George Cecil, 58–59, 63, 69–71, 84, 138, 147, 167–69, 219, 220, 257, 365n15
Joyce, James, 15; Ulysses, 242
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw), 292
Jung, Carl G., 2, 11, 25, 32, 65, 83, 152, 160, 174, 210–12, 234, 267, 294–96, 326; The Psychology of the Unconscious, 211; Red Book, 107; The Seven Sermons to the Dead, 107; Symbols of Transference, 294
Kabbalah, 52, 61, 66, 81, 90, 133, 145, 151, 152, 161, 171, 177, 225, 270, 294, 340, 353n12
Kant, Immanuel, The Critique of Pure Reason, 132
Keasby, Professor, 207–8
Kellner, Karl, 176, 177
Kelly, Edward, 157, 158
Kelly, Gerald (AC’s brother-in-law), 18, 47, 94–100, 102, 128, 142, 147, 153–54, 201, 239
Kemp, Harry, 180
Kennedy, Leon Engers, 15, 208–9, 218, 256
Kerouac, Jack, On the Road, 324
Kesey, Ken, 155, 324
Keyserling, Count Herman, 367n10
Khayyam, Omar, 130
King, Francis, 161, 195, 362n17, n22; The Magical World of Aleister Crowley, 9; Ritual Magic in England, 4