Aleister Crowley - The Beast In Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton

Rochester: Inner Traditions, 2014. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Octavo, 386 pages. Brown boards with gilt accents. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minimal use and wear. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. Sixteen pages of color plates.

Inner Traditions, 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A biographical history of Aleister Crowley's activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power - Examines Crowley's focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with magical orders - Explores Crowley's relationships with Berlin's artists, filmmakers, writers, and performers such as Christopher Isherwood, Jean Ross, and Aldous Huxley - Recounts the fates of Crowley's friends and colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley's lost art exhibition Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought, and Berlin, the liberated future-gazing metropolis, wanted him. There he would live, until his hurried departure on June 22, 1932, as Hitler was rapidly rising to… Read More

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