Letter. Fatherland, 11 Aug 1915, 3(1): 9.
“Liber A’ash.” The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 33–9. “Liber Astarte.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 37–58. “Liber B.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 5–9. “Liber Cheth.” The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 23–7.
“Liber HAD.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 83–91.
“Liber IOD (inaccurately called TAV).” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 93–100.
“Liber Israfel.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 21–7.
“Liber NV.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 11–20.
“Liber Os Abysmi.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 77–81.
“Liber Resh.” The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 29–32. “Liber RV.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 59–67.
“Liber Turris.” The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 8–15.
“Liber Tzaddi.” The Equinox 1911, 1(6): 17–22.
“Liber Viarum Viae.” The Equinox 1911, 1(7): 101–3.
“Lifting the Mask from England.” Fatherland, 15 Mar 1916, 4(6): 85–6.
“The Master Therion: A Biographical Note.” The Equinox 1986, 3(10): 16–7.
“The Message of the Master Therion.” International 1918, 12(1): 26.
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“Mystics and Their Little Ways: One is Nothing, While Two Is—in Reality—One.” Vanity Fair, Oct 1916, 142, 144.
“A New Heaven and a New Earth: As Foreshadowed in Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegana.” Vanity Fair, Oct 1917, 134, 136.
“A New Parsifal, Wilhelm II: The Vision of an English Poet.” Continental Times, 20 Aug 1915, 22(22): n.p.
“The New Parsifal: A Study of Wilhelm II.” Open Court 1915, 29(8): 499–502.
“The Nonsense about Vers Libre: Why Not a Little Free Prose for a Change?” Vanity Fair, Dec 1915, 65.
“On the Kinchin Lay: I. Prospect and Retrospect.” Pioneer, 10 Aug 1905.
“On the Kinchin Lay: II. Bandoblast.” Pioneer, 17 Aug 1905.
“On the Kinchin Lay: The March.” Pioneer, 20 Sep 1905.
“On the Kinchin Lay: V. Mountains or Metaphysics?” Pioneer, 15 Oct 1905, 3–4.
Dionysus Carr. “On the Management of Blondes: Prolegomena to Any System of Philosophy Devoted to Their Treatment and Care.” Vanity Fair, May 1916, 85.
“One Star in Sight.” In Magick in Theory and Practice. Paris: Lecram Press, 1929.
“An Orgy of Cant: Aleister Crowley, the British Poet, Calls a Spade a Spade.” Continental Times, 24 Feb 1915, 21(23): supplement.
“The Oriental Mind.” Washington Post, 2 Jun 1916, 6.
“The Origin of the Game of Pirate Bridge.” Vanity Fair, Jan 1917, 56.
“The Ouija Board.” International 1917, 11(10): 319.
Prometheus. “Percy Bysshe Shelley.” English Review, Jul 1922, 16–21.
“Praemonstrance of AA and Curriculum of A A” The Equinox 1919, 3(1): 11–38.
Kwaw Li Ya. “The Prize Winners of the Hokku Contest: Their Poetry and an Analysis of It by the Eminent Chinese Poet.” Vanity Fair, Oct 1915, 70.
“Protests against Normal Way of Giving Anesthetics.” Washington Post, 4 Sep 1916, 7.
“Protests He Is Not Author of Book by Stuart X.” Washington Post, 2 Oct 1916, 9.
“The Pseudo-Occultist,” Occult Review, Jul 1914, 20: 29.
“Ratan Devi: Indian Singer.” Vanity Fair, May 1916, 79.
“The Revival of Magick.” International 1918, 11(8): 247–8; 11(9): 280–2; 11(10): 302–4; 11(11): 332–3.
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An Englishman, “Skeletons in the Cabinet.” Fatherland, 10 Nov 1915, 3(14): 245.
“The Soul of the Desert,” Occult Review, Jul 1914, 20: 18–24.
“The Star-spangled Banner: An Explanation of Why—with the Best Will in the World—We Cannot Sing Our National Hymn.” Vanity Fair, Aug 1917, 33, 90.
“Stuart X, The Great Unknown: An Unofficial Adviser to the Universe in General.” Vanity Fair, Aug 1916, 35.
“A Syllabus of the Official Instructions of AA Hitherto Published.” The Equinox 1913, 1(10): 43–7.
John Frederick Charles Fuller and Aleister Crowley. “The Temple of Solomon the King.” The Equinox 1909–1913, 1(1): 141–229; 1(2): 217–334; 1(3): 133–280; 1(4): 41–196; 1(5): 65–120; 1(7): 355–400; 1(8): 5–48; 1(9): 1–11; 1(10): 93–125.
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“Vain Tale: With a Madman on the Alps.” Vanity Fair, 24 Jun 1908, 823.
“Vanity Fair’s Prize Move Scenario: Winner of the Thousand-dollar Reward for the Worst Short Film Story.” Vanity Fair, Jun 1916, 89.
“Waite’s Wet.” The Equinox 1912, 1(8): 233–42.
“What’s Wrong with the Movies? The Industry Seems to Be in a Critical Condition—and Perhaps It Deserves to Be.” Vanity Fair, Jul 1917, 55, 88.
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Picture Credits
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1.1 Grey, Crowley’s Brewery, 10, from an unidentified ninteenth-century portrait.
1.2 Hampshire Record Office, 62M91/1, p139
1.3 Proceedings and Transactions of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 1903, frontis.
1.4 NS 74.1, Yorke Collection, Warburg Institute Archives.
1.5 NS 74.2, Yorke Collection, Warburg Institue Archives.
1.6 Confessions, 1929, v. 1, used with permission of OTO.
1.7 Confessions, 1929, v. 1, used with permission of OTO.
1.8 Confessions, 1929, v. 1, used with permission of OTO.
2.1 Crowley, Works v. 1, frontis.
2.2 MS Thr 447, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library.
2.3 Used by permission of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, catalog number 026.001.
3.1 Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 1894, frontis.
3.2 Daily Mirror, 27 Apr. 1911.
3.3 Confessions, 1929, v. 1, used with permission of OTO.
3.4 Crowley, MMM Manifesto, 1912, from the collection of Helen Parsons Smith.
4.1 Library of Congress.
4.2 Climbers’ Club Journal 1903, v. 5 no. 20.
4.3 Rámanáthan, Culture of the Soul, 1906, frontis.
4.4 Hess, Saggi sulla psicologia dell’alpinista, 1914, 435.
4.5 Jacot-Guillarmod, Six Mois dans l’Himalaya, 1902, frontis.
4.6 Confessions, 1929, v. 2, used with permission of OTO.
4.7 Jacot-Guillarmod, Six mois dans l’Himalaya, 1902, 228.
4.8 Frater Perdurabo and Soror Virakam, Book 4, Part I, 1911, frontis.
5.1 Reproduced from British Medical Journal, 23 June 1951, 1(4720): 1452, with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
5.2 The Candid Friend and Traveller, 1902, 399.
5.3 Aleister Crowley PH:LF1, P21, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
5.4 The Equinox 1912, I(7).
6.1 Berge der Welt, 1948, 199. © Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, used with permission.
6.2 S0021401, Royal Geographical Society.
6.3 Jahrbuch des Schweizer Alpenclub, 1905.
6.4 Jahrbuch des Schweizer Alpenclub, 1905.
7.1 Fuller, The Star in the West, 1907, from the collection of Clive Harper.
7.2 Appleton’s Magazine 1905, 6(1): 47.
7.3 Courtesy of OTO, with pe
rmission from Timothy d’Arch Smith.
7.4 What’s On, 31 Aug. 1907, 5.
7.5 Pearson’s, Oct. 1907, 344.
7.6 Used with permission of Francis Wyndham.
8.1 National Archives, College Park, MD.
8.2 Memoirs of Kenneth Martin Ward, 1929.
9.1 Crowley, Rosa Decidua, 1910, frontis.
9.2 Co-Mason, April 1913, frontis.
9.3 Play Pictorial, Sep. 1911, 81.
9.4 “The Goddess.” The Rites of Eleusis promotional booklet, 1910.
10.1 Radclyffe, Wealth and Wild Cats, 1898, frontis.
10.2 Unidentified news clipping (private collection) and Liverpool Courrier, 28 Oct. 1910.
10.3 Bystander, 12 Oct. 1910, 73.
10.4 Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1911.
10.5 Photograph by E. O. Hoppé © 2010 E. O. Hoppé Estate Collection/Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, California.
11.1 Vanity Fair, Feb. 1915, 42.
11.2 The Equinox, Sep. 1911, 1(7), frontis.
11.3 Audi Alteram Partem, 1935, 27, taken from an unidentified biographical guidebook, Zurich, 1918.
11.4 Library of Congress.
12.1 Library of Congress.
12.2 Vanity Fair, Sep. 1917, 46.
12.3 Billy Rose Theatre Collection, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
12.4 Fatherland, 11 Aug. 1915.
12.5 Library of Congress.
12.6 Library of Congress.
12.7 Vanity Fair, Aug. 1916, 35.
12.8 Atlanta Constitution, 5 Jan. 1919, D1.
12.9 Pearson’s Magazine, October 1917, 168.
13.1 National Archives, College Park, MD.
13.2 B2034.25, Vol. 116(3), Widener Library, Harvard University.
13.3 Howard Johnson (words) and Theodore Morse (music), M–O–T–H–E–R: A Word that Means the World to Me (Leo. Feist: New York, 1915), cover.
13.4 National Archives, College Park, MD.
13.5 National Archives, College Park, MD.
13.6 Burton, City of Detroit, 1922, v. 3, 243.
13.7 National Archives, College Park, MD.
13.8 The Equinox 1919, III(1).
13.9 OTO Archives, with permission from Tony Stansfeld-Jones.
14.1 National Archives, College Park, MD.
14.2 National Archives, College Park, MD.
14.3 Private collection, courtesy of Keith Richmond.
15.1 NS74.64, Yorke Collection, Warburg Institute Archives.
15.2 May, Tiger Woman, 1929, frontis.
15.3 Sunday Express, 26 Nov. 1922, 1.
15.4 New York Times Book Review and Magazine, 1 Jul. 1923, 29.
15.5 Unidentified newspaper article.
16.1 Kenneth Anger Accession, OTO Archives.
16.2 OTO Archives.
16.3 National Archives, College Park, MD.
17.1 From the collection of T. M. Caldwell.
17.2 Mansell, Time & Life Pictures, Getty Images.
17.3 Détective magazine, 1930.
18.1 Oxford Daily Mail, 3 Feb. 1930.
18.2 OTO Archives.
19.1 Unidentified newspaper clippings, private collection.
20.1 From Occult Digest, as cited.
21.1 Crowley, Thumbs Up!, used with permission of OTO.
21.2 Crowley, Fun of the Fair, used with permission of OTO.
22.1 Crowley, City of God, used with permission of OTO.
22.2 OTO Archives.
22.3 Courtesy of LAShTAL.com.
22.4 Courtesy of the Cameron Foundation.
22.5 OTO Archives.
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