Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism

Magonia Review of Books It is a balanced collection of well-selected essays by scholars and researchers who know their subjects, all of which are stimulating, and which succeed in showing why Crowley should be taken seriously [...] Not just recommended but essential reading!

<br>Henrik Bogdan is Associate Professor in History of Religions at the University of Gothenburg. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (2007) and editor of Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence, by Aleister Crowley and David Curwen (2010). <br>Martin P. Starr was the editor of the Teitan Press series of the works of Aleister Crowley which appeared between 1985 and 2003. He is the author of The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites (2003), the first academic study of Aleister Crowley's followers in the USA.<br>

CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; FOREWORD - WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF; 1. INTRODUCTION - HENRIK BOGDAN AND MARTIN P. STARR; 2. THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE: ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE MAGICAL EXPLORATION OF EDWARDIAN SUBJECTIVITY - ALEX OWEN; 3. VARIETIES OF MAGICAL EXPERIENCE: ALEISTER CROWLEY'S VIEWS ON OCCULT PRACTICE - MARCO PASI; 4. ENVISIONING THE BIRTH OF A NEW AEON: DISPENSATIONALISM AND MILLENARIANISM IN THE THELEMIC TRADITION - HENRIK BOGDAN; 5. THE GREAT BEAST AS A TANTRIC HERO: THE ROLE OF YOGA AND TANTRA IN ALEISTER CROWLEY'S MAGICK - GORDAN DJURDJEVIC; 6. CONTINUING KNOWLEDGE FROM GENERATION UNTO GENERATION: THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND OF ALEISTER CROWLEY'S MAGICK - RICHARD KACZYNSKI; 7. ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE YEZIDIS - TOBIAS CHURTON; 8. THE FRENZIED BEAST: THE PHAEDRAN FURORES IN THE RITES AND WRITINGS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY - MATTHEW D. ROGERS; 9. ALEISTER CROWLEY: FREEMASON! - MARTIN P. STARR; 10. "THE ONE THOUGHT THAT WAS NOT UNTRUE": ALEISTER CROWLEY AND A. E. WAITE - ROBERT R. GILBERT; 11. THE BEAST AND THE PROPHET: ALEISTER CROWLEY'S FASCINATION WITH JOSEPH SMITH - MASSIMO INTROVIGNE; 12. CROWLEY AND WICCA - RONALD HUTTON; 13. THROUGH THE WITCH'S LOOKING GLASS: THE MAGICK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE WITCHCRAFT OF ROSALEEN NORTON - KEITH RICHMOND; 14. THE OCCULT ROOTS OF SCIENTOLOGY? L. RON HUBBARD, ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE WORLD'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL NEW RELIGION - HUGH URBAN; 15. SATAN AND THE BEAST. THE INFLUENCE OF ALEISTER CROWLEY ON MODERN SATANISM - ASBJORN DYRENDAL; INDEX