Megatherion : the magickal world of Aleister Crowley / Francis King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Francis, 1934-1994.

Contributor:

King, Francis, 1904-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultists--Great Britain--Biography.

Occultists.

Great Britain.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

193 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Magickal world of Aleister Crowley

Place of Publication:

London : Creation, 2004.

Summary:

Aleister Crowley (18751947) has been seen variously as a man of notorious sexual habits, a satanic occultist, and latterly an icon of the 1960s love generation. He was the synthesizer of what he termed "Magick," a system of occult philosophy and technique outlined in such classic texts as "The Book of the Law and Magick in Theory and Practice." Crowley's vision combined clarity, intellectual power, and a strange, sometimes frightening beauty.

In this cogent and intensely readable account of Crowley's occult progress, Francis King examines each of the three main sources of Magick -- thus throwing much new light on Crowley himself and explaining the admiration for his writings by the likes of filmmaker Kenneth Anger and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

Notes:

Previous ed.: published as The magical world of Aleister Crowley. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

King, Francis, 1904- Magical world of Aleister Crowley.

ISBN:

1840680865

OCLC:

53963459