Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light Churton Tobias
Investigates the tales of Crowley "raising Pan," going mad, and working gay sex magick in ParisUncovers Crowley's involvement in the Belle poque with sculptor Auguste Rodin and other artists and in…
Specifikacia Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light Churton Tobias
Investigates the tales of Crowley "raising Pan," going mad, and working gay sex magick in ParisUncovers Crowley's involvement in the Belle poque with sculptor Auguste Rodin and other artists and in the 1920s with Berenice Abbott, Nancy Cunard, Man Ray, Andr Gide, and Aime CrockerReveals Crowley's "expulsion" from Paris in 1929 as a high-level conspiracy against CrowleyExploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley's longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley's activities in the City of Light.Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, Churton explores how Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn's Inner Order in Paris in 1900 and how, in 1902, he relocated to Montparnasse. Soon engaged to Anglo-Irish artist Eileen Gray, Crowley pontificates and parties with