Aleister Crowley in America

Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, Tobias Churton is a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the author of many books, including Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin and Occult Paris. He lives in the heart of England.

“Aleister Crowley in America focuses sharply and drills down into Crowley’s formative U.S. period, burgeoning with rich and surprising depth beyond what is possible in a life-spanning biography. This story deserves a book of its own, and Tobias Churton demonstrates here that the Beast is indeed in the details.”

• Preface and Acknowledgments PART ONE The Adventure ONE A Special Relationship 1898: A Diplomat Manqué Recruited at Cambridge? Crowley and the Carlists Crowley and “MacGregor” Mathers TWO The Song of the Sea THREE Out of the Frying Pan, into New York FOUR The Eagle and the Snake: Mexico City The Two Republics FIVE Chevalier O’Rourke and The Mexican Herald SIX The Mother’s Tragedy Post Script: The Last Laugh SEVEN Return to New York 1906 EIGHT Art in America John Quinn PART TWO The Furnace NINE 1914 TEN The Sinews of War Germans Come Shopping Meanwhile in London . . . Cap in Hand, to the Savages for Cowries ELEVEN My Egg Was Addled What the Papers Said TWELVE Lower into the Water THIRTEEN The Magick of a New York Christmas: World War I Style John O’Hara Cosgrave, Evangeline Adams, and Frank Crowninshield FOURTEEN Toward the Fatherland Into the Dark Lair Getting In with the Germans Münsterberg FIFTEEN Getting Hotter Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love The Lusitania SIXTEEN Jeanne The Statue of Liberty Stunt Normal Service Resumes SEVENTEEN The Wrong Thing at the Right Time EIGHTEEN The Way West Vancouver NINETEEN California Welcomes the World San Francisco Create in Me a Clean Beast, O God TWENTY Replacement Therapy The Spying Game TWENTY-ONE The Owl and the Monkey Went to Sea Philadelphia The Elixir of Life TWENTY-TWO Aleister Crowley’s Psychedelic Summer Dr. Crowley the Night-Tripper Another Crowley, Another Place The Book T The Ball of Fire Stauros Batrachou TWENTY-THREE Crowley on Christ Shaw Takes a Pasting TWENTY-FOUR Nothingness with Twinkles The Star Sponge Vision TWENTY-FIVE New Orleans--and Bust TWENTY-SIX The Butterfly Net TWENTY-SEVEN Suffer the Little Children The Affidavit TWENTY-EIGHT The International Secret Service Interview TWENTY-NINE Enter the Camel THIRTY It’s All in the Egg Amalantrah Enter Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs THIRTY-ONE Unholy Holiness at 64a West Ninth Street Meeting Leah Hirsig Eva Tanguay THIRTY-TWO Island The Redhead Strikes Visions The Blue Equinox PART THREE Escape THIRTY-THREE Genius Row Thelema in Detroit THIRTY-FOUR Summer in Montauk-- and a Thousand Years Ago THIRTY-FIVE End Game THIRTY-SIX Legacy The O.T.O. in America The Church of Thelema Jack Parsons: Rocket Man L. Ron Hubbard Whatever Happened to the Beast in America? EK-STASIS APPENDIX ONE (Simeon) Leon Engers (Kennedy) (1891–1970) by Frank van Lamoen, Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam APPENDIX TWO Sale Catalog from the Auction of the John Quinn Collection A Note by John Quinn Aleister Crowley Notes Bibliography Index