172 1920 United States Federal Census, Titusville, Brevard, Florida, 9A. 1930 United States Federal Census, Titusville, Brevard, Florida, 4B. Biographical Supplement, Confessions, unexpurgated ed., vol. 7.
173 New York passenger list, Vaderland, 23 Aug 1904, National Archives, Washingon, D.C., lists the widow Emily Bertha Crowley visiting Joy, Kentucky.
174 Confessions, 824.
175 “Suffer the Children,” unpublished.
176 Confessions, 826.
177 Social Security Death Index, 130-16-2933, New York.
178 Crowley described the studio as “a garret in an old half-decayed house on Fifth Avenue” (Confessions, 779); Engers’s draft registration card gives his address as 900 West 70 Street (World War I Draft Registration Cards, Manhattan, NY, Draft Board 124).
179 “In Memoriam: John Yarker,” The Equinox 1913, I(10): xxiii–vi.
180 Aleister Crowley, “The Disciples,” The Equinox 1913, 1(10): 91–2.
181 Engers draft registration card, op. cit.
182 Confessions, 779.
183 “Have You Had Your Soul Painted Yet? The Newest After-the-War Art and Its Astonishing Translations of Life,” Atlanta Constitution, 5 Jan 1919, D1. Fred Walter, “Dr. Engers, Ex Director, Views Art from Within,” unidentified newspaper clipping c. Sep 1964, Special Collections Center, Bradley University Libraries (with thanks to William Breeze).
184 [Aleister Crowley], “Art and Clairvoyance,” International 1917, 11(12): 379.
185 Article on Leon Engers-Kennedy, OS 5.a.4, Yorke Collection. See also Crowley’s “Psychochromes,” letter to Sigmund Freud, OS 5.b, Yorke Collection.
186 “Have you Had Your Soul Painted Yet?,” Atlanta Constitution. “Random Impressions in Current Exhibitions,” New York Tribune, 16 Feb 1919, A2.
187 Walter, “Dr. Engers, Ex Director,” op. cit. This article does not date when Engers studied at the Bauhaus, but Feininger taught there between 1919–1932.
188 1930 U.S. Census, Manhattan, enumeration district 310, 1548: 12B. “Deaths,” New York Times, 6 Feb 1959, 25.
189 Confessions, 779.
190 Walter, “Dr. Engers, Ex Director,” op. cit.
191 “Gallery Shows, Museum Exhibits,” New York Times, 8 Aug 1965, X11. “What’s New in Art Shows,” New York Times, 31 Oct 1965, X26.
192 Walter, “Dr. Engers, Ex Director,” op. cit.
193 “Deaths,” Times (London), 25 Apr 1917, 41461: 1.
194 Birth record, Q2 1867, GRO, Portsea Island, Hampshire: 2b: 408. 1871 UK Census, Portsea, Hampshire, RG10, piece 1127, 88: 7.
195 Her siblings’ names and birth years are Joseph Patrick (1868), Elizaeth Catherine (1870), Martha Ann (1874) and Edward Charles (1877). 1881 UK Census, Portsea, Hampshire, RG11, piece 1130, 83: 4. Birth records, GRO, Portsea, Hampshire.
196 Mary Davies, My Psychic Recollections (London: the author, 1912), 12.
197 Marriage record, 22 Feb 1886, GRO, Parrish Registers, Portsea, Portsmouth and Southsea. 1881 UK Census, Portsea, Hampshire, RG11, piece 1146, 110: 47.
198 Birth records, GRO, Portsea, Hampshire. Death record, Q4 1892, GRO, Portsea, Hampshire, 2b: 296. Davies, My Psychic Recollections, 36–9.
199 1901 UK Census, Lewisham, London, RG13, piece 554, 125: 27.
200 Diogenes [Crowley], “Reviews,” The Equinox 1912, I(8): 254. The Theosophist, Dec 1912, 470–1. Atheneaum, Apr 1912, 439.
201 W. Steff Langston to G. M. Cowie, 4 Sep 1916, Yorke Collection.
202 G. M. Cowie to AC, 18 Oct 1916, Yorke Collection.
203 Mary Davies to AC, 21 Apr 1917, Yorke Collection.
204 G. M. Cowie to AC, 20/22 Feb 1917, Yorke Collection.
205 G. M. Cowie to AC, 8 Mar 1917, New 4, Yorke Collection. See also: Cowie to Frank Bennett, 21 Nov 1917, New 92, Yorke Collection; newspaper articles in New 87, Yorke Collection; Warburg; Gilbert, “Baphomet and son”; and Inquire Within [Stoddart, C. M.] Light Bearers of Darkness. (Hawthorne, CA: Christian Book Club of America, 1930), 163.
206 “ ‘M.M.M.’ Mysteries: Order of the Temple of the Orient Raided,” Times (London), 16 May 1917, 41479: 3. While this case was the only one where an underlying political motive was reported by the press, it was by no means the only arrest under the Vagrancy Act during this era. For other cases of arrests for fortune telling, see “Pretending to Tell Fortunes: Brisk Business in Chorlton-on-Medlock,” Manchester Guardian, 4 Jun 1915, 5. “ ‘Fortune-Telling’ in Ancoats: A Severe Sentence,” Manchester Guardian, 31 Jan 1916, 12. “Fortune-Telling at Southport: Five Women Fined,” Manchester Guardian, 20 Jul 1916, 10. “Fortune-Telling: An Indian’s Plea for Leniency,” Manchester Guardian, 19 Aug 1916, 9. “Fortune-Teller Fined: London Magistrate’s Warning,” Manchester Guardian, 30 Dec 1916, 4. “Asking the Spirits: Journalist and ‘Psychic’: Amusing Interview,” Observer (London), 31 Dec 1916, 11. “More Fortune Telling,” Observer (London), 4 Mar 1917, 8. “The General’s Friend: Case against Alleged Fortune Teller Dismissed,” Observer (London), 21 Apr 1918.
207 “Psychist fined: A Claim to Supernatural Qualities,” Times (London), 23 May 1917, 41485: 3.
208 G. M. Cowie to AC, 28 Jul–2 Aug 1917, New 4, Yorke Collection.
209 G. M. Cowie to AC, 26 Jul (1917).
210 G. M. Cowie to AC, 28 Jul–2 Aug 1917.
211 G. M. Cowie to AC, 31 Dec 1917.
212 Mary Davies, “A Disavowal: To the Editor of the Occult Review,” The Occult Review, Sep 1917, 26: 176.
213 “King’s Bench Division (Before Mr. Justice Darling, Mr. Justice Avory, and Mr. Justice Sankey): A Regent-Street Fortuneteller’s Appeal: Davis v. Curry,” Times (London), 26 Oct 1917, 41619: 2.
214 G. M. Cowie to AC, 22 Nov 1917. See also G. M. Cowie to AC, 31 Dec 1917.
215 G. M. Cowie to AC, 27 Dec 1917.
216 G. M. Cowie to AC, 6 Jan 1918.
217 Classified ad, Times (London), 30 Apr 1918, 41777: 14.
218 G. M. Cowie to AC, 25 Apr 1917. See also the letters dated 20 Feb 1917, and 12 Jul 1918, as well as Disposition of Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness shire, 5 May 1914. Scottish Records Office.
219 Frank X. O’Donnell, “In RE: Aleister Crowley.”
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1 Nicholson and Lee were both, coincidentally, members of A. E. Waite’s GD. See R. A. Gilbert, “The Masonic Career of A. E. Waite,” Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 1986: 99; Gilbert, Golden Dawn Companion, 171, 173.
2 1917 (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 520–4.
3 The following articles appeared in the International: “The revival of magick” was serialized through the August through November, 1917, issues as follows: 11(8): 247–8 (Aug 1917), 11(9): 280–2 (Sep 1917), 11(10): 302–4 (Oct 1917) and 11(11): 332–3 (Nov 1917). “Cocaine,” 11(10): 291–4 (Oct 1917). “The Ouija Board,” 11(10): 319 (Oct 1917). “The Message of the Master Therion,” 12(1): 26 (Jan 1918). “Geomancy,” 12(1): 28–9 (Jan 1918). “Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae,” 12(3): 70–4 (Mar 1918).
4 Confessions, 781.
5 Confessions, 781.
6 1900 US Census, Oooee, Orange, Florida, registration disctrict 122, 10B. U.S. Passport Applications, 11 Apr 1921, National Archives, College Park, M.D. Roddie Minor’s sisters were Waskie (b. 1880), Jessie (b. 1882) and Vee (b. 1890).
7 “Will Arrest Suffragettes: New York Police Officer Threatens and is Defied: Parade Will Be Formed into Funeral Procession, if Necessary, to Make It Legal,” Washington Post, 16 Feb 1908, 12.
8 “Suffragists Did Not Parade: Only Six Women Marched up Broadway Sunday: Police Prohibited March: Crowd of Several Thousand Followed, Watching the Six Women, Who Are Clamoring for Woman’s Rights,” Logansport Reporter, 17 Feb 1908.
9 “She Wants to Vote,” Coshocton Daily Times, 19 Feb 1908. “Alas! Poor Suffragettes: Feminine Clothes Threaten to Disrupt Their Ranks–A Row on for Monday,” New York Tribune, 28 Mar 1908, 4.
10 Columbia University Catalogue, 1911, 403. Catalogue of Officers and Graduates of Columbia University from th
e Foundation of King’s College in 1754, 16th ed. (New York: Columbia Univ., 1916), 884. Columbia University, Catalogue and General Announcement 1911–1912, series 12 (New York: Columbia Univ., Dec 1911) 2: 420.
11 Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, Alumni Journal (New York: Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University), 19(1): 9. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1912, 1282. Pacific Pharmacist 1912, 134. Metta Lou Henderson, American Woman Pharmacists: Conributions to the Profession, 34. By 1926 she was president of the American Institute of Cosmetics and Chemistry, predicting that soon men and women alike would be wearing makeup. She remained in Manhattan for many years, living in the same apartment building as her sister Vee, who was working as a Registered Nurse. She eventually moved to Pocokoke, Maryland, where she married merchant marine engineer Robert Lee Warwick. Her husband predeceased her in 1963 and Roddie Minor Warwick died at age ninety-three at Bi-County Nursing Home on January 17, 1979. See “Is Day of Dandified Men Quietly Dawning? Half Million Males Now Use Cosmetics as Freely as Women and Claim They Are an Aid in Transacting Business,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1926. 1930 U.S. Census, Manhattan, New York, enumeration district 1188, page1A. “Deaths and Funerals: Robert Lee Warwik,” Salisbury Times, 28 Feb 1963. Obituary, Accomac Eastern Shore News, 25 Jan 1979 (with thanks to William Breeze).
12 Although he would try on several occasions to print the book, some setback or another always prevented him from seeing it in print. See Karl Germer to Philip Kaplan, 23 Jul 1961, Kaplan Papers.
13 Confessions, 833.
14 AL i.65.
15 Aimée Crocker Gouraud, Moon-Madness and Other Fantasies (New York: Broadway Pub. Co, 1910).
16 “Prepare To Be Startled—The Queen of Bohemia Is Here: But What New Sensation Can Mrs. Aimee Gouraud, the Woman of a Thousand Fads and Fancies, Possibly Have to Spring on a Public Which She Has Already Amazed in Such Countless Ways?” Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 Dec 1921.
17 Passport application, 10 Feb 1919, National Archives, College Park, MD.
18 Marriage record, Q2 1914, GRO, London, 1a: 1243.
19 The Equinox 1913, 1(10): 91–2.
20 Leah Hirsig to Norman Mudd, 12 Aug 1923, Yorke Collection.
21 “Samuel A. Jacobs, Designer of Books,” New York Times, 17 Sep 1971, 46. “Fine American Bookmaking of 1930: The American Institute of Graphic Arts Holds its Ninth Annual Exhibiion,” New York Times, 15 Feb 1931, 60.
22 AC to Montgomery Evans II, 22 Oct 1926, Evans Papers.
23 Gerald Bordman, The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984), 656.
24 Bordman, Oxford Companion, 656.
25 David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, The Songs, The Performers and Their Times: The Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956 (New York: D. I. Fine, 1989), 64.
26 Actress Mitzi Gaynor portrayed Eva Tanguay in I Don’t Care Girl (1953).
27 Additional biographical information on Eva Tanguay came from: Ragan, Who’s Who in Hollywood, op cit.; Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, actresses, Directors, Playwrights, and Producers of the English-speaking Theatre (Detroit: Gale Research, 1978); and Alice M. Robinson, Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).
28 “Drama Be Damned,” International 1918, 12(4): 127–8.
29 U.S. passport application, 6 Apr 1921, National Archives, College Park, MD. Passenger list, SS Rochandeau, 24 Sep 1921. Passenger list, SS President Garfield, 3 Oct 1923. The 1921 passenger list gives Roehling’s marriage date as 17 Apr 1913, but the 1923 passenger list gives 17 Apr 1917. The latter is presumed to be a typo.
30 “Women Urge Wilson and Congress to Pass National Dry Law,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 24 May 1917, 17.
31 “Ethical Culture,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 Mar 1918, 178(68): 15. “News from Colleges,” Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Sep 1917–Jun 1918, 11: 536. In 1922, returning from a visit to Russia, she would address Le Cercle Français, and the Chicago Drama League on “The Russian Drama of Today.” See “Women’s Club Page,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 5 Mar 1922, F5–6.
32 Diary, 20 Jun 1920.
33 According to Troxel, “The Map Service had started on an atlas of 14 maps of Central Asia. When we got to Inner and Outer Mongolia we had trouble even finding place names.” She was already interested in Asian culture, had lived for a year in China, and had studied at the University of California and Harvard, so she worked nights at home to compile a ten-thousand-word dictionary that she presented to the Army. In those Cold War years, this was extremely valuable to the military, who printed the book and for her “scholarly achievement and unselfish patriotism” gave her the Exceptional Civilian Service Award, its highest civilian award. Asked how she managed to accomplish such a task, she remarked, “Really, it was simple.” See “Army Gives Woman Top Civilian Award,” Washington Post, 12 Jun 1953, 18. “Civilian Gets High Award for Mongolian Dictionary,” Schenectady New York Gazette, 17 Jun 1953. Arthur Edson, “Mongolian Dictionary Given Army: Woman Employee of Map Service Wins Award for Her Work,” Hartford Courant, 17 Jun 1953, 11C.
34 Elsa Lincke was born in Berlin on February 16, 1864, daughter of Carl Ernst Lincke. She married Samuel Lowensohn of Russia in New York City in 1886; he died in Chicago in 1901. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen on 18 Nov 1914. See New York County Supreme Court Naturaliation Petition, 18 Nov 1914, 169: 139. U.S. Passport Application, 14 Mar 1921, National Archives, College Park, MD. U.S. Passport Application, 9 Apr 1923, National Archives, College Park, MD.
35 American Club Woman, Oct 1916, 11: 58.
36 AC and Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939) met in 1918. Prior to that point, Lewis had reviewed Crowley’s edition of the Goetia in “Some Books NOT Recommended,” American Rosea Crucis, Oct 1916, 22–4. In a letter dated July, 1918, Crowley offered Lewis recognition as a member of the Order of Illuminati, VII° in OTO, and a Magister Templi (letter sold at Sotheby’s, 17 Dec 1996, catalogue LN6731, lot 344). Whether Lewis actually received this letter from Crowley has been the subject of debate. However, Crowley later wrote of Lewis, “I made him Honorary VII° O.T.O. in 1918 and he works under charters from Peregrinus [Reuss].” (AC to Roy Leffingwell, 19 Aug 1934, Yorke Collection.) Elsewhere, he refers to Lewis “whom I recognise as a member of the 95°, not the 96°, of the Rite of Mizraim; and VII°, not X°, of the O.T.O.” as “an honorary member, not a full member” of OTO (AC to W.T. Smith, 3 Jan 1936, Yorke Collection).
37 Confessions, 791.
38 Asked during a pro-German lecture whether he supported Germany’s invasion of Belgium and devastation of northern France, he shrugged and replied, “A lot of this talk about Belgium and France is Piffle.” In dismissing Keasbey, the University of Texas board of regents stated, “for the best interests of the university Dr. Keasbey is removed from his position.” See “Drop Peace Leader of Texas University: Dr. L. M. Keasbey Dismissed, Following Campaign Made along No Annexation Lines: Derided Belgian Charge: Organization of which He Is Moving Spirit Lays His Downfall to ‘Financial Interests,’ ” New York Times, 21 Jul 1917, 11. “University of Texas Discharges Pacifist: Removes Professor keasbey, Who Organized Meeting Here,” New York Tribune, 21 Jul 1917, 11.
39 The Equinox 1919: 3(1): 225–38.
40 Confessions, 871.
41 U.S. Passport Application, 11 Oct 1920, National Archives, College Park, MD. California Death Index, Los Angeles, 12 Jun 1987.
42 World War I service card, 1969052, Orlando, Florida.
43 AC to Roy Leffingwell, 11 Jul 1942, Yorke Collection.
44 Confessions, 840.
45 William Buehler Seabrook, from Chapter 4 of his serial for International Features Service, Inc, ca 1923. TS, New 18, Yorke Collection.
46 “Artist Paints Dead Souls but Refuses to be Classed with Futurists’ School: Englishman Portrays Weird Spirits at His Studio in Greenwich Village,” Syracu
se Herald, 9 Mar 1910, 10.
47 Seabrook, ibid.
48 Mathers’s obituary is in New 87, Yorke Collection. The letter is AC to James Branch Cabell, 17 Nov 1919, HRHRC.
49 As Ryerson recalled, “I remember that there were many times when I drove to the railroad station in a little cart, to get Julia Warde Howe from the station to take her to this school of philosophy.” Howe (1819–1910) was an abolitionist and author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” See testimony of A. W. Ryerson, 9 Jan 1922, Universal Book Stores Bankruptcy, Case #4946, 8, National Archives, Chicago, IL.
50 Testimony of A. W. Ryerson, 9 Jan 1922, 8–9.
51 C. M. Burton, The City of Detroit Michigan 1701–1922 (Detroit-Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1922). U.S. passport application, 10 Oct 1892, National Archives, College Park, MD. Jefferson S. Conover, Freemasonry in Michigan (Coldwater, MI: Conover Engraving and Printing Co., 1897). Detroit Telephone Directory, 1919. Albert W. Ryerson, The Ryerson Genealogy. (Chicago: Privately printed for Edward C. Ryerson, 1916). “Weird ‘O.T.O.’ Cult Here Recalled by London Suit: Crowley, Its Sponsor, Fails in Libel Action: ‘Love’ Teachings Blazed into Prominence in 1923 in Young Mazie Ryerson’s Case against Elderly Husband,” Detroit News, 15 Apr 1934. “Black Magic once Detroit Cult: Lives Ruined Decades Ago by Sorcerer Aleister Crowley,” Detroit News, 26 Jan 1958. “Aleister Crowley,” Detroit News, 24 Oct 1967. Confessions, 842 et seq. Francis Dickie, “Aleister ‘Black Magic’ Crowley,” American Book Collector 1961, 11(9): 34–7. Kaplan Papers. Robert Lund, private communication. Ken Spencer, private communication. C. S. Jones Papers catalogue, typewritten MS, private collection.
52 Membership record, Grand Lodge of Michigan. Testimony of Gordon W. Hill, 30 Dec 1921, 30–1. He appears as “dental student” in the 1920 U.S. Census, Detroit Ward 8, Wayne, MI, unumeration district 251, 4B.
53 Membership record, Grand Lodge of Michigan. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Minutes of the Synod of Michigan, 1949, 11. 1920 U.S. Census, Detroit Ward 8, Wayne, MI, enumeration district 269: 8B.
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