Introduction 1. An Unspeakable Life 2. Magical Politics 3. Dangerous Liaisons 4. The Mouth of Hell 5. Counter-Initiation and Conspiracy Conclusion Appendix 1: Some Additional Remarks on Julius Evola and Aleister Crowley Hans Thomas Hakl Appendix 2: Key Documents. Index
Marco Pasi is Assistant Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"As Pasi shows, the occultist, magician and writer was a gadfly, an
ironist, an ambitious radical and always a controversialist in his
flirtation with the main currents of 20th-century thought… Pasi’s
book proves an admirable introduction to the complex magical and
political connections of this most elusive of figures." - Times
Higher Education
"A pioneering study of Crowley’s relationship to politics. Marco
Pasi’s brilliant analysis of events, facts and ideas refutes many
of the preconceived notions of the relationship between occultism
and politics. This is a groundbreaking book not only for the study
of Crowley, but also for 20th century occultism." - Henrik Bogdan,
author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation, and
co-editor of Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism"In this
sweeping survey, Marco Pasi deftly reconstructs the political
tapestries of Britain, Germany, Italy, France, the United States
and Soviet Union, providing valuable context for the settings which
influenced Crowely’s political thought, and against which that
thought played out. Putting tired and inaccurate tropes about its
subject to bed while opening doors to fresh areas of inquiry, this
book should be on the shelf of anyone with an interest in Crowley
or in the intersection of political and esoteric thought in the
Twentieth Century." - Richard Kaczynski, author of Forgotten
Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis and Perdurabo:
The Life of Aleister Crowley"This must be the most anticipated of
all esotericism-related publications that have appeared in 2013." -
Heterodoxology blog
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