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5 “A Tour of Eileen Gray’s Hideaway,” Irish Times, 6 Jul 2009.
6 Confessions, 676.
7 Confessions, 556.
8 Confessions, 556.
9 Quoted in Claire Harman, 1995. “Reluctant Widow,” Times Literary Supplement, 11 Aug 1995, 4819: 24.
10 All three poems are from Clouds without Water. The quotation is from “The Black Mass,” 70.
11 From Aleister Crowley, The Winged Beetle (Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1910).
12 The Equinox 1913, 1(9): 103–14.
13 The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 113–48. The author is given as “Martial Nay,” no doubt a commentary on their relationship.
14 In Aleister Crowley, Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light (Foyers: SPRT, 1907), 79–82 and 95–8, respectively.
15 W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (New York: Vintage Books, 1956 [1915]), 202.
16 Quoted in Anthony Curtis, The Pattern of Maugham: A Critical Portrait (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974), 60.
17 See Richard A. Cordell, Somerset Maugham: A Writer for All Seasons (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1969), 39.
18 Quotes from Of Human Bondage, 207, 207, and 210, respectively.
19 Symonds, Shadow Realm, 56–7.
20 Confessions, 344.
21 “W. E. Henley,” in Rodin in Rime (1907), rpt. Works 3: 119.
22 Aleister Crowley, Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden, ed. Martin P. Starr (Chicago: Teitan Press, 1986 [Paris, 1904]), 9.
23 Frank Swinnerton, Figures in the Foreground: Literary Reminiscences, 1917–40 (London: Hutchinson, 1963), 90.
24 “Obituary of Ivor Gordon Back,” The Lancet, 23 Jun 1951, 260: 1371.
25 G. F. Newbold, “Ivor Back, FRCS,” British Medical Journal, 21 Jul 1951, 2: 182. See also D’Arcy Power, Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1930–1951 (London: The College, 1953), 30–1; Ivor Back and A. Tudor Edward, Surgery, Student’s Synopsis Series (London: Churchill, 1921). Other works include Ivor Back and John Haskell Kemble, Round the World—and Back: An Account of the Journey of Ivor Black, A.K. Travelling Fellow, 1911–1912 (London: University of London Press, 1913), a record of his time as a 1911 recipient of an Albert Kahn Traveling Fellowship. See “ ‘Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowships’ in University of London,” The Historical Record (1836–1912), Being a Supplement to the Calendar (London: University of London Press, 1912), 568 and Nature, 4 May 1911, 86(2166); 337. Back also wrote “Entries on Diseases and Affection of of the Penis, Urethra, Scrotum, Testicle, and Tunica Vaginalis,” in Arthur Latham and T. Crisp English (eds.), A System of Treatment, vol. 2: General Medicine and Surgery (New York: Macmillan, 1915). He also contributed essays on diseases of bone to vol. 1, and was cited as “a distinguished authority on rectal diseases” [“ ‘Bubble’ and ‘Squeak’: A Simple Story with a Moral,” American Journal of Clinical Medicine 1916, 23(6): 479].
26 Confessions, 342.
27 Confessions, 349.
28 Crowley, Snowdrops, 8.
29 Confessions, 338.
30 “Balzac,” from Rodin in Rime (1907), rpt. Works 3: 122.
31 A. Rodin to AC, 25 Feb 1903, box 1, file 1, C0195, Auguste Rodin Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University, NJ.
32 Frederic V. Grunfeld, Rodin: A Biography (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987), 455–6.
33 Confessions, 340. Schwob’s translations of Crowley’s “Rodin” and “Balzac” appear in Les Maîtres Artistes: Revue mensuelle, 15 Oct 1903, 8: 283.
34 Crowley’s 1903 contributions to the Weekly Critical Review are: “Balzac: To Auguste Rodin,” 5 Feb 1903, 1(3): 5; “The Triads of Despair,” 12 Mar 1903, 1(8): 6; “The Hermit’s Hymn to Solitude,” 2 Apr 1903, 1(11): 3–4; “Rodin,” 21 May 1903, 1(18): 8; “II. Rodin: Tête de Femme (Luxembourg),” 28 May 1903, 1(19): 6; “Rodin III: Syrinx and Pan,” 4 Jun 1903, 1(20): 10; “Rodin IV: Illusion,” 11 Jun 1903, 1(21): 3; “Rodin V: La Fortune,” 18 Jun 1903, 1(22): 19; “Rodin VI: Paolo and Francesca,” 25 Jun 1903, 1(23): 16–7; “Rodin VII: Les deux Génies,” 2 Jul 1903, 1(24): 16; “Rodin VIII: La Vielle Heaulmière,” 9 Jul 1903, 1(25): 18; “Rodin IX: La Tentation de Saint-Antoine,” 16 Jul 1903, 1(26): 8; “Rodin X: La Main de Dieu,” 30 Jul 1903, 2(28): 38; “Rodin XI: An Indicent (Rue de l’Université. 182),” 6 Aug 1903, 2(29): 56; “Le Bourgeois de Calais,” 1903 v. 2; “Rodin I: Eve,” 5 Nov 1903, 2(42): 374.
35 Confessions, 361.
36 For Richard Jewell and family, see the 1871 British Census for Cornwall, RG10, piece 2238, 57: 30. L. C. R. Duncombe-Jewell is listed as “Richard D. Jewell,” age four, and his two younger siblings are given as Arthur (three), and Catherine (one). For the family’s subsequent locations, see the censuses for 1881 (RG11, piece 730, 47: 14) and 1891 (RG12, piece 457, 116: 21). For Crowley at Streatham, see Confessions, where Crowley refers to “when my uncle moved to Streatham” (p. 59), furnishing “a laboratory in the house at Streatham” (p. 62), and a conversation with his uncle John “one day at Streatham” (p. 56). During this time, Emily Crowley lived at 7 Polworth Road in Streatham, while her brother Tom Bond Bishop lived literally down the road (see 1891 census, RG12, piece 456, 151: 64).
37 Captain L. C. R. Cameron to S. J. Looker of Constable & Co., 24 Sep 1932, Nina Hamnett Papers, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
38 400 in L. C. Duncombe-Jewell, “About Myself and the Celtic-Cornish Movement,” Candid Friend and the Traveller 1902, 3(62): 399–400. He indicates that most copies were destroyed by a fire at the printer’s.
39 W. P. W. Phillimore and Edward Alex Fry, An Index to Changes of Name Under Authority of Act of Parliament or Royal License, and Including Irregular Changes from I George III to 64 Victoria, 1760 to 1901 (London: Phillimore & Co., 1905), 100. Marriage record, Honiton, Devon, 5b: 51. Birth record, Devon, 5b: 367. Death record, Plymouth, Devon, 5b: 158.
40 Sharon Lowenna, “Noscitur A Sociis: Jenner, Duncombe-Jewell and their Milieu,” Cornish Studies 2004, 12: 61–87.
41 Confessions, 121.
42 “Seizure of a British Yacht,” Times (London), 19 Jun 1899, 35859: 8. “Seizure of a British Yacht,” The Brisbane Courrier, 20 Jun 1899, 5. “Spain,” Times (London), 7 Aug 1899, 35901: 3.
43 Firefly crew pay list 26 Aug 1899, Ashburnham Carlist Papers, Lewes, quoted in Lowenna, “Noscitur A Socis,” 68.
44 Confessions, 123. One wonders whether this “lieutenant” was a sly reference Lt. Duncombe-Jewell of the Royal Fuslilers, or to the Firefly’s skipper, Lt. English.
45 Lowenna, “Noscitur A Socis,” 69–70.
46 Image of War collects Duncombe-Jewell’s memoirs and essays on this period. See also Duncombe Jewell, “The Boers Appear to Have the Best of the Fight,” Daily Picayune, 25 Feb 1900, 10. “Dinner to Mr. E. F. Knight,” Observer (London), 29 Jul 1900, 4. For his medal, see Lowenna, fn. 55, p. 84.
47 Celtia, Apr 1901, 53, lists his £1 contribution as from “Duncombe Jerrell, M.A.”
48 Letter to Celtia, Aug 1901, 117.
49 Celtia, May 1902, 79. For more on the Celtic-Cornish Society, see Amy Hale, “Genesis of the Celto-Cornish revival? L.C. Duncombe-Jewell and the Cowethas Kelto-Kernuak,” Cornish Studies 1997, 5: 100–11.
50 “Ireland,” Times (London), 24 Aug 1901, 36542: 8. See also Duncombe-Jewell’s “Cornwall: One of the Six Celtic Nations,” Celtia, Oct 1901, 151–4, 159.
51 L. C. Duncombe-Jewell, “A Sonnet in Cornish,” Celtia, Oct 1901, 161.
52 “About VCH Cornwall,” http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/Counties/Cornwall/AboutVCH/About_VCH_Cornwall.
53 W. B. Yeats, John Kelly, Eric Domville, and Ronald Schuchard, The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 251–2.
54 Birth record, GRO, Plymouth, Devon, 5b: 239.
55 See Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, and Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Who’s Who, An Annual Biographical Dictionary, with which Is Incorporated “Men and Women of the Ti
me” (London: A. and C. Black; 1906).
56 Death record, GRO, Plymouth, Devon, 5b: 158.
57 Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, 215–2. Lowenna, 73.
58 Duncombe-Jewell would later remarry, taking as his second wife Janet Sarah Bruce, daughter of the late General Robert Bruce of Glendouglie; see Alexander Henry Higginson, British and American Sporting Authors: Their Writings and Biograpics (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1951), 167–8. Duncombe-Jewell was a prolific writer, and some of his works not previously cited include: A Modern Resurrection, A Romance, 1889; “The True Jacobitism: A Survival,” Albemarie 1892, 2(1): 31–4; “The Present State of Politics in France,” Month: A Catholic Magazine and Review, Oct 1896 88: 217; The Handbook to British Military Stations Abroad (London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1898); L. Duncombe-Jewell, “Orders of Mercy,” Genealogical Magazine 1899, 3(26): 43–5; L. Duncombe-Jewell, “The Arms, Seals, and Plate of Plymouth,” Genealogical Magazine 1899, 3(31): 292–5; L. Duncombe-Jewell, A Guide to Fowey and Its Neighbourhood (Fowey: J.W. Denison, 1901); L. C. D. J. (trans), “A Christmas Song in the Cornish Language of the 17th Century,” Celtia, Jun 1902, 90; L. C. Duncum-Joul, “Dr. Magnus Maclean and Cornish Literature,” Celtia, Nov 1902, 173; “Mermaid of Zenor: Written for the Psaltery, 10 Mis Merh 1903,” Green Sheaf, Oct 1903, 6: 3; “Kyn Vyttyn (Before Morning),” Green Sheaf, Dec 1903, 8: 10; Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, The Hunting Horn, What to Blow and How to Blow It (London: Köhler & Sons, 1905); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, The Book of the Caravan; A Complete Handbook to the Pastime of Caravaning, Illustrated from Photographs, and by Line-Plans and Drawings to Scale (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1907); L. C. R. Cameron, “Superstitions Connected with Sport,” Occult Review 1908, 7(6): 329–34; L. C. R. Cameron, “The Mystery of Lourdes,” Occult Review 1908, 8(4): 203–7; Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, Otters and Otter-Hunting (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1908); L. C. R. Cameron, “Otter Hounds,” in Arthur W. Coaten (ed.), British Hunting (London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1909); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, The Wild Foods of Great Britain, Where to Find Them and How to Cook Them (London: G. Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1917); L. C. R. Cameron, “The Brahan Seer (Kenneth Dun (Coinneach Odhar Foisache)): An Appreciation,” Occult Review, Jun 1918, 27: 318–25; Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe Cameron, Minor Field Sports (n.p., 1921); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe Cameron, Rhymes of Sport in Old French Verse Forms (London: Benn, 1926); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, Rod, Pole & Perch; Angling & Otter-Hunting Sketches (London: M. Hopkinson & Co., 1928); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe Cameron, Love Lies Bleeding: Lyrics in Old French Verse-Forms (London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1929); Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, The Lady of the Leash: A Sporting Novel (London: Lincoln Williams, 1935); Ena Adams and Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell Cameron, Deer, Hare & Otter Hunting (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1936).
59 Confessions, 363.
60 This is the first line from John Keats’s sonnet of the same title.
61 Isaiah 30: 15.
62 GRO, London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Giles, Camberwell, Register of marriages, P73/GIS, Item 048.
63 The Medical Register (London, 1899), 1455. The Medical Register (London, 1895), 1189.
64 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2, Line 71. The play takes place in Inverness, and the quote reflected his passion for Scotland.
65 Confessions, 367.
66 XIX from Rosa Mundi, and Other Love Songs, rpt. Works 3: 64.
67 RPKTT Archives.
68 AC to Gerald Kelly, Aug 1903, Old D6, Yorke Collection.
69 Confessions, 380.
70 J. Gordon Melton, “Thelemic Magick in America,” in Joseph H. Fichter (ed.), Alternatives to American Mainline Churches (Barrytown, NY: Unification Theological Seminary, 1983), 68–9.
71 AC to Gerald Yorke, 9 Mar 1945, Yorke Collection.
72 For more on Brugsch, see KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 1996, 7(3): 14–8.
73 Crowley, Equinox of the Gods, 117–8. Crowley’s identification of Aiwass’s clothing as Assyrian is interesting, as Crowley later equated Aiwass with a Sumerian god. For more on this theory linking Aiwass to the Yezidi god, see Grant, Magical Revival.
74 AL i.3–5.
75 AL i.29.
76 AL i.51.
77 AL i.57.
78 AL i.58.
79 AL i.35.
80 Thelema is Greek for “will.”
81 AL i.39–44.
82 AL i.40.
83 “Dilige et quod vis fac,” from Homilies on the First Epistle of John, VII, 8.
84 “Do what thou wilt.”
85 Walter Besant and James Rice, The Monks of Thelema: A Novel (London: Chatto and Windus, 1878). Walter Besant was the brother-in-law of Annie Besant (1847–1933), who succeeded H. P. Blavatsky as head of the Theosophical Society.
86 For more on these parallels, see: Crowley’s “Antecedents of Thelema” in Revival of Magick, 162–9.
87 AL i.66.
88 AL ii.9.
89 AL ii.10–1.
90 AL ii.63.
91 AL i.41.
92 AL iii.51–4.
93 AC to R. F. Holm, 8 Jul 1936, Yorke Collection.
94 Diary, 11 May 1901.
95 AC to Gerald Yorke, 10 Jul (1944?), Yorke Collection.
96 The Equinox 1912, 1(8): 7.
97 Arnold Bennett, The Journals of Arnold Bennett 1896–1928 (New York: Viking Press, 1932), 169.
98 Harris Wilson, Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells: A Record of a Personal and a Literary Friendship (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1960), 107–8. Bennett based a portion of his Paris Nights on this luncheon with Crowley. See Arnold Bennett, Paris Nights: And Other Impressions of Places and People (London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1913), 36.
99 Her descriptions are published in Scented Garden, also included in Marcelo Motta, Sex and Religion. (Nashville, TN: Thelema Publishing Co., 1981). In Sexuality, Magick and Perversion (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1972), Francis King argues that this ritual, of which only fragments survive in Yorke MS27, employed sex magic, but there is little evidence to support it.
Chapter Six • The Five Peaks
1 Archives of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Henry S. King.
2 AC to Gerald Yorke, 4 Dec 1928, Yorke Collection.
3 Confessions, 335.
4 Confessions, 360.
5 Percival George Albert Bott (1877–1953) was born in Devises, Wiltshire, to John H. and Elizabeth M. Bott. Although a brother and three sisters appear as children in the 1881 Scottish Census, only his older brother John Cecil Latham Bott appears in subsequent census, marriage, or death records. The Bott family relocated from Wiltshire to Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around 1880. Percival attended Wellington College from 1889 to 1893, continuing at the University of London; he passed the intermediate examination in medicine, second division, on Feburary 9, and received his bachelors of medicine in June 1903. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in April 1901 and the following month a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. At this time he also joined the London Medico-Chirurgical Society, the Obstetrical Society of London, and the Medical Society of London. During the Great War he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Mesopotamia theatre of operations from 1917 to 1920. He married Stella Edith Robinson in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in the winter of 1907; she petitioned for divorce in 1925. In autumn of 1932, he married Gladys Blair in Paddington, London. See: Birth record, Q2 1877, GRO, Devises, Wiltshire, 100. Wellington College Register: 1859–July 1905, 37. “University Intelligence,” Times (London), 10 Feb 1898, 35436: 10. “Royal College of Physicians of London,” Times (London), 29 Apr 1901, 36441: 13. “Faculty of Medicine: Bachelors of Medicine,” The Historical Record (1836–1912) Being a Supplement to the Calendar (London: University of London, 1912), 254. Medical Register (London, 1903), 227. “University Intelligence,” Times (London), 9 Jun
1903, 37102: 11. “Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh,” Medical Press and Circular, 12 Aug 1903, 127: 185. “Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh,” Dublin Journal of Medical Science 1903, 116: 253. Membership list of the London Medico-Chirurgical Society, West London Medical Journal 1905, 9: 313. Membership list, Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London 1907, 48: xvii. Membership list, Transactions of the Medical Society of London 1904, 27: xxvi. Medical Register (London, 1907), 241. Marriage record, Q1, 1907, GRO, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 6a: 677. Divorce Court File 8888, Subseries J77/2200, Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and Related Courts, National Archives. Marriage record, Q3, 1932, GRO, Paddington, London, 1a: 173.
6 Crowley, Snowdrops. Most copies were destroyed in 1925, but the book was reprinted in 1986.
7 Rose Crowley to Gerald Kelly, n.d., Old D6, Yorke Collection.
8 “Ascension Day,” lines 98–111, rpt. Works 2: 146–7.
9 Stephensen, Legend of Aleister Crowley, 56.
10 Daily News, Sep 1904, quoted in Stephensen, Legend of Aleister Crowley, 50–1.
11 See Martin Starr’s “Prolegomenon” to the 1986 edition of Snowdrops.
12 Although Bax doesn’t cite the author, he was most likely reading Arthur Edward Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians: Founded on Their Own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents Collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren (London: G. Redway, 1887). It was written in response to Jennings’s immensely popular—but not very historical—book, The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries; with Chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent-Worshipers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols Represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers (London: J.C. Hotten, 1870). There were the main Rosicrucian references at the time.
13 This conversation is drawn from two of Bax’s books: Some I Knew Well (London: Phoenix House, 1951), 51–5, and Inland Far: A Book of Thoughts and Impressions (London: William Heinemann, 1925), 41–2. While Bax quotes Crowley as saying “the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crowleyanity,” its accuracy is suspect: Either Bax misremembered or Crowley misspoke, for AC believed his impact was just beginning; in other words, dawning, not setting. Furthermore, the term “Crowleyanity” is attributed to J. F. C. Fuller, who coined the term later that year.