Portable darkness

an Aleister Crowley reader

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Portable darkness

an Aleister Crowley reader

1st ed.
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While many of the details of Aleister Crowley's flamboyant life have been well documented, Portable Darkness is the first book to tackle the formidable task of collecting the best of his voluminous lifework. In bringing together Crowley's best writings, editor Scott Michaelsen makes Crowley-an philosophy both accessible and intelligible.

As an intellectual and mystic, Crowley devoted his life to the study of Qabalah, gematria, numerology, astrology, myth, glyphs, yoga, and linguistics. His intense, methodical exploration of so immense and arcane a range of knowledge has yielded, not surprisingly, a hugely challenging body of literature. In Portable Darkness, Michaelsen has sifted through this vast, often abstruse oeuvre in search of those works which best display and illuminate the razor-sharp insight for which Crowley has become known.

The selections in Portable Darkness are organized thematically according to Crowley's favorite subjects: Qabalah and Magick, Yoga and Magick, Sex and Magick, Magick and Law, Magick and Lies. As accompanied by Michaelsen's cogent essays, these texts represent the essential Aleister Crowley, guiding novice and adept alike through the complexities of his notoriously impenetrable writings. Enlightening and revelatory, Portable Darkness is an indispensable lexicon for all those with an interest in the occult.

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Publisher
Harmony Books, Harmony
Language
English
Pages
339

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Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader
May 2007, Solar Books
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Portable darkness: an Aleister Crowley reader
1989, Harmony Books, Harmony
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 323-339.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
133
Library of Congress
BF1611 .C7532 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 339 p. ;
Number of pages
339

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2057180M
Internet Archive
portabledarkness00crow
ISBN 10
0517571285
LCCN
88035789
OCLC/WorldCat
19130275
Library Thing
456749
Goodreads
2363411

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