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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet, painter, occultist, magician, and mountaineer. Born into wealth, he rejected his family’s Christian beliefs and developed a passio...mehr sehenAleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet, painter, occultist, magician, and mountaineer. Born into wealth, he rejected his family’s Christian beliefs and developed a passion for Western esotericism. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Crowley gained a reputation as a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The Granta and Cambridge Magazine. An avid mountaineer, he made the first unguided ascent of the Mönch in the Swiss Alps. Around this time, he first began identifying as bisexual and carried on relationships with prostitutes, which led to his contracting syphilis. In 1897, he briefly dated fellow student Herbert Charles Pollitt, whose unease with Crowley’s esotericism would lead to their breakup. The following year, Crowley joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret occult society to which many of the era’s leading artists belonged, including Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1900 and 1903, he traveled to Mexico, India, Japan, and Paris. In these formative years, Crowley studied Hinduism, wrote the poems that would form The Sword of Song (1904), attempted to climb K2, and became acquainted with such artists as Auguste Rodin and W. Somerset Maugham. A 1904 trip to Egypt inspired him to develop Thelema, a philosophical and religious group he would lead for the remainder of his life. He would claim that The Book of the Law (1909), his most important literary work and the central sacred text of Thelema, was delivered to him personally in Cairo by the entity Aiwass. During the First World War, Crowley allegedly worked as a double agent for the British intelligence services while pretending to support the pro-German movement in the United States. The last decades of his life were spent largely in exile due to persecution in the press and by the states of Britain and Italy for his bohemian lifestyle and open bisexuality.weniger sehen
Bücher von Aleister Crowley
The Three Magical Books of Solomon: The Greater and Lesser Keys & The Testament of Solomon The Lesser Key of Solomon Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Magick Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5The Book of Lies Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Aleister Crowley Collection Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Book of the Law and the Book of Lies Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Book of the Law Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Best of the Equinox, Sex Magick: Volume III Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Book of the Law Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5
Hörbücher von Aleister Crowley
Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Lesser Key Of Solomon Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Lesser Key of Solomon Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5Liber Al vel Legis - The Book of the Law Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenEight lectures on YOGA Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Dark Arts of Tantric Yoga and Other Timeless Secrets Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Book of Lies Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1910's - The Europeans: The ten best stories written from 1910-1919 by European authors Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenMoonchild Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenThe Lost Gospels of Aleister Crowley: Mark of the Beast 666 Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5
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Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik: Recordings of unseen Intelligences 1905-2007 Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenA Rare Recording of Aleister Crowley Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5