Books of Interest: about and by Aleister Crowley

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	COMPACT DISC 666 featuring Aleister Crowley	Reproduction of Crowley’s voice originally recorded on wax cylinders. Poetry, magical invocations


	A Magick Life by Martin Booth	Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet, novelist, bisexual adventurer and drug user was not a man to inspire half-hearted reaction in his own lifetime. He was either adored or vilified. So Martin Booth's crisply written, agenda-free biography which sets out simply to tell the truth objectively is a welcome addition to Crowley literature. Born to a wealthy brewing family, Crowley, whose parents belonged to the fanatical Plymouth Brethren sect, had a miserably repressed childhood. He spent much of the rest of his life apparently trying to shake off what he regarded as the filth of Christianity. Magic for Crowley, who decided while still at Cambridge in 1898 on a career as a magus, was intrinsically linked to human will. He came to believe that he and his disciples could control almost anything by exerting will. Booth's book does what it promises. It provides the extraordinary facts and leaves you to decide for yourself from an informed position whether this man--in whom interest has grown considerably since his death in 1947, especially during the 1960s--was merely a degenerate charlatan or an impassioned, although arguably misguided, magical missionary.
	Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley	The cornerstone of Crowley’s magickal philosophy
	777 & Other Qabalistic Writings by Aleister Crowley	Encyclopaedic Qabalistic reference work
	Do What Thou Wilt: a Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin	The legendary Aleister Crowley is a tantalising and bizarre subject. As an occult leader, heroin addict, sexual adventurer, misogynist, and visionary, he is the inspiration for many vile Gothic protagonists. Author W. Somerset Maugham devoted a novel, The Magician to this chilling figure of indulgence and religious mockery. Like any good biographer, Lawrence Sutin set out to discover the man behind the myth. After considerable research, Sutin admits that Crowley was "a shameless scoffer at Christian virtue" and "a spoiled scion of a wealthy Victorian family" but he also sees him as a 20th century figure as "protean, brilliant, courageous, and flabbergasting as ever you could imagine". Contrary to common belief, he was never known to participate in satanic ritual--to do so would acknowledge the Christian church, which he was loathe to.
	What I did in my holidays by Ramsey Dukes Buy it in the USA	Further collected essays: In a way it's frustrating that when you get 'occult' attached to the description of your book you've removed 99.9% of your potential audience - frustrating because this book is so impressive it deserves to be extremely widely read. Ramsey Dukes has a clarity, and creativity, of thought that means each of the many and varied chapters of this book leaves you with something to think about long after you've finished reading. The world needs more original thought, and more people prepared to consider ideas too unusual for most people to work with.
	Magick by Aleister Crowley	Crowley’s classic and influential texts on magick and yoga
	The Goetia The Lesser Key of Solomon the King Aleister Crowley (Editor), S. L. MacGregor Mathers (Translator)
	The Key of Solomon the King Clavicula Salomonis S.L. MacGregor Mathers (Translator)	Translated and Edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers. One of the most famous of all magical textbooks MacGregor Mathers who was a well known 19th century magician and head of the Order of the Golden Dawn
	Outside the Circles of Time by Kenneth Grant Out of Print in USA, try ABE (below)
	The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage S. MacGregor Mathers (Translator)
	The Confessions of Aleister Crowley By Aleister Crowley	Celebrated and lengthy (almost 1000pp) Crowley autobiography
	Sex & Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter	Intriguing biography of Jack Parsons, pupil of Crowley, historically-important rocket scientist and magickal associate of L Ron Hubbard who later founded the Scientology movement
	Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God by Kenneth Grant Out of Print, try ABE (below)	In this study of Aleister Crowley's system of sexual magic, Kenneth Grant reveals the occult workings of the Fire Snake or Kundalini-Goddess the cosmic power that when awakened by magical means assumes the form that Crowley called the Scarlet Woman. Grant also describes a method of dream control that Crowley and others used to establish contact with extraterrestrial and non-human beings and to prepare themselves for the realization of true cosmic consciousness.
	Nightside of Eden by Kenneth Grant Out of Print in USA, try ABE (below)	Famed occultist Kenneth Grant continues his explorations of the left hand path in the compelling study that begins with the evolution of the Sephiroth of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. He delves into the almost unknown nightside of the tree , finding evidence of extraterrestrial dimensions that, even now, stir our group unconscious in potentially dangerous ways. We must understand these powers, says Grant, for if they are not controlled, the violent disruptions which are already overtaking civilization will become pandemic
	The Book of Lies By Aleister Crowley	Quirky, difficult series of riddles, puns and qabalistic mysteries apparently hiding mystical truths
	Beyond the Mauve Zone by Kenneth Grant Out of Print in USA, try ABE (below)
	Enochian World of Aleister Crowley:... By Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette, Christopher Hyatt
	Hidden Lore: The Carfax Monographs by Kenneth Grant Out of Print in USA, try ABE (below)
	My Life with the Spirits The adventures of a modern magician. By Lon Milo Duquette	In this text, DuQuette takes readers into the sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious world of the modern ceremonial magician. Laced with self-effacing humour, his confessions, insights, and profundities contain a body of technical information on magick.
	Remembering Aleister Crowley by Kenneth Grant Buy it in the USA	This fascinating and absorbing book ('Remembering Aleister Crowley') documents a written correspondence beginning in 1944, when Grant was twenty, and the Great Beast was sixty-nine and had only three more years to live. This beautifully produced book fills a void of knowledge about what really occurred at the end of his life by the most knowledgeable man on the subject, Crowley himself.
	Cults of the Shadow by Kenneth Grant Buy it in the USA	Many sincere occultists have hesitated to study the notorious left hand path for fear of stumbling into incalculable evil and ultimate damnation. As the last student of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant has no such hesitations. In he shows that the left hand path has no connection with black magic-it is a legitimate balance to the right hand path dating back to the primeval phases of consciousness. Grant leads us on a dark pathway through Africa's Ophidian (snake) tradition Egypt's Draconian cult and the Tantric secrets of India and Tibet into the present day.
	Outer Gateways by Kenneth Grant Buy it in the USA	As Aleister Crowley's last magical student at Netherwood in the 1940's, Kenneth Grant has upheld a proud occult tradition through a lifetime of study practice and writing. This latest book is not only for experienced students of the occult; it is also excellent for those who are new to Grant's work. Here is Grant moving through magic and beyond to a new and controversial view of human evolution and the ultimate goal of Undivided Consciousness. Topics include the primal grimoire the unfamiliar spirit and the fourth power of the sphinx along with aspects of dream control and the wisdom of S'lba.
	The Book of Thoth	Crowley’s own guide to his redesigned Tarot deck
	Hecate’s Fountain by Kenneth Grant. Out of print in UK, try ABE (below) Buy it in the USA	This text began in the work of the New Isis Lodge as they created what Kenneth Grant describes as tangential tantra a profound disturbance which lies between dreaming and dreamless sleep in the realm of Night. Much of this material had a Lovecraftian weirdness and intensity. It is chronicled here with a poetic immediacy that outlines the manifestations of the highest magical zone this side of the Abyss. A must for all students of the occult.
	The Illustrated Beast by Sandy Robertson	‘Scrapbook’ format volume, many illustrations, photos and reproductions of news clippings
	The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Prof Ronald Hutton Buy it in the USA	Ronald Hutton's highly acclaimed The Triumph of the Moon is a history of modern pagan witchcraft, examining not only its origins half a century ago but the many ideas and enthusiasms of the last few centuries that paved the way for it. He finds powerful influences in 18th and 19th-century Freemasonry, 19th-century Rosicrucian-type societies, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Crowley, as well as in the tradition of wise women, dispensers of herbal remedies and folk wisdom.
No image available	The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe...The Twentieth Century- Willem De Blecourt, Ronald Hutton, Jean La Fontaine, Bengt Ankarloo (Editor), Stuart Clark (Editor)	Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations, including a new history of English Wicca, and satanic abuse mythology.
No image available	Kaos 14 Magazine (Joel Biroco, Editor) Supplied free, direct from publisher’s website	Extensive and authoritative downloadable free magazine on modern occultism and magic, including pieces on Kenneth Grant, Crowley, the OTO, voodoo, book reviews etc
	Strange Distant Gods that are not dead today: Aleister Crowley and the 20^th Century Synthesis of Magick By Dave Evans Purchasable Electronic book direct from website