Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World
by Tobias Churton explores the infamous occultist's transformative five-year stay in the U.S. beginning in 1914. Using private diaries, Churton reveals Crowley's work for British intelligence, his involvement in Greenwich Village art scenes, and his efforts to spread Thelema, while highlighting his intense, scandalous lifestyle and lasting influence on American esotericism.
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Antiquarian
Out of print first hardback edition, limited to 350 copies only. Published by Kamuret Press 2021.
Condition: Fine, unread copy. Extremely minor crease to top right dustwrapper, otherwise completely pristine.
Edited, annotated and introduced by Richard Kaczynski, this edition far surpasses that found in the Collected Works: red and black ink has been employed to capture the feel of the 1904 edition; a 50 page introduction by Crowley’s foremost biographer introduces the reader to the many themes to be found throughout the book; finally, copious end-notes further elucidate concepts and ideas in need of clarification.
From the introduction:
‘The Sword of Song is arguably the greatest story never told. It is a book of firsts: his first manifesto, his first talismanic book, his first mystical essays, his first nod to sexual mysteries, and an enticing preview of what was to come in The Book of the Law, the spirit-writing that would form the cornerstone of his philosophy’.