THE MAGICK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY: A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema

THE MAGICK OF ALEISTER CROWLEY: A Handbook of Rituals of Thelema

By Lon Milo DuQuette

Aleister Crowley was infamously known as 'The Great Beast 666' and 'The Wickedest Man in the World'... Unfortunately this infamy often eclipsed his teachings, as did his technical and opaque writing style, meant more for adepts contemporary to him than the average modern reader. In this book Lon Milo DuQuette deciphers and explains Crowley’s texts and his more important rituals.

'The Magick of Aleister Crowley' is a clear introduction to the works of Crowley by a modern master of the occult. DuQuette takes the mystery out of both the rituals themselves and Crowley’s writing in this modern grimoire. Step by step, he presents a course of study in plain English, with examples of rituals and explanations of their significance. DuQuette also includes a course of study for Crowley’s system of 'Scientific Illuminism' with an extensive bibliography and fastidious footnotes. This revised edition features extensive corrections, a new introduction, and a new chapter of rituals, "The Rites of Eleusis."

Samuel Weiser Books - 2003 Edition - 261 Page Paperback - B&W Illustrations - Esoteric/Occult/Thelema/Magick/Philosophy/Metaphysics/Ritual - PRICE: $15.00

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LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH: From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan - by Stephen E. Flowers

LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH: From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan

By Stephen E. Flowers, Ph. D.

'Terminus Viae'

The Left-Hand Path is the way of the HERO....
The path of those who, having understood their own individual divinities, would dare to breach the gates of eternity and eat of the tree of life eternal - to stand against the inertia and ignorance of the whole universe, to strive against that which would thwart all intelligence and life and to prevail against it - THIS is the aim of the Sinister Path.....

From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many practices, cults, and individuals across the ages. Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., examines the methods, teachings, and historical role of the left-hand path, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its underlying influence in current world affairs, and reveals which philosophers, magicians, and occult figures throughout history can truly be called “Lords of the Left-Hand Path.”

Flowers explains that while the right-hand path seeks union with and thus dependence on God, the left-hand path seeks a “higher law” based on knowledge and power. It is the way of self-empowerment and true freedom. Beginning with ancient Hindu and Buddhist sects and moving Westward, he examines many alleged left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Yezidi Devil Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire Club, the Bolsheviks, the Occult Nazis, and several heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects. Following a carefully crafted definition of a true adherent of the left-hand path based on two main principles--self-deification and challenge to the conventions of “good” and “evil".

The author analyzes many famous and infamous personalities, including H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino, and reveals which occult masters were Lords of the Left-Hand Path. Flowers shows that the left-hand path is not inherently evil but part of our heritage and our deep-seated desire to be free, independent, and in control of our destinies.

Inner Tradition Books - 2012 Edition - 500 Page Paperback - Few B&W Illustrations - Occult/ Esoterica/ Metaphysics/Left Hand Path/ Philosophy/ Satanic - PRICE: $24.00

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ALEISTER CROWLEY: The Biography - Spiritual Revolutionary & Magus - by Tobias Churton

ALEISTER CROWLEY: The Biography - by Tobias Churton
Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master and Spy !!

The extraordinary true story of one of the most vilified men of all time - known in his lifetime, and for ever after as the world's most wicked man - Aleister Crowley. This book incorporates 20 years of fresh research that includes previously unpublished documents, correspondence and rare photographs. A definitive account of the philosopher, explorer, mountaineer, prophet, artist, magus and one time spy, who both captivated and appalled millions in his lifetime and beyond the grave.

Although it has been 60 years since his death, Aleister Crowley is still shrouded in mystery and infamy that has sealed his reputation as a controversial figure in his time - and that reputation is still intact to this very day. Tobias Churton has set out to untangle a century of scandal and unfounded accusations that persuaded the world that Crowley was a traitor, black magician, drug addict, sexual deviant and anti-social outcast.

Watkins Publishing - 2011 Edition - 474 Page Hardcover - Many Illustrations - PRICE: $25.00

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SEX AND ROCKETS: The Occult World of Jack Parsons - by John Carter

SEX AND ROCKETS: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
By John Carter

Foreword by Robert Anton Wilson

The Mysterious Life and Death of Jack Parsons -- In his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.

By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II and NASA send spacecraft to the moon. He was the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet Corporation, and a lunar crater on the dark side of the moon was named after Parsons.

By night, Parsons called himself 'The Antichrist' when he performed Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic rituals to try and create a new sort of human being that would finally destroy Christianity.

In a Pasadena mansion, the dark, handsome Parsons hosted soirees for the young emerging literature of science fiction, visited by writers such as Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and none other than L. Ron Hubbard himself, who later founded the Church of Scientology.

With L. Ron Hubbard acting as his “Scribe”, Parsons enacted dark “Babylon” rituals to help foment a new occult age - but Jack Parsons dies suddenly in a huge, mysterious explosion that even today cannot be definitively explained. Was it murder ? Suicide ? Conspiracy ? Or just an accident?

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THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE AND DEATH: My Profane Youth 1913-1935 - by James Shelby Downard

THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE & DEATH
My Profane Youth 1913-1935
By James Shelby Downard

“The most absurd, the most incredible, the most ridiculous Illuminati theory of them all.”
— Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy

James Shelby Downard just might be the most controversial conspiracy theorist of the 20th century -- In his essay “ King-Kill 33° ” Downard has notoriously laid out the involvement of Freemasonry in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- 'The Carnivals of Life and Death' is Downard’s autobiographical account of his early years in the deep South, when Ku Klux Klansmen and Freemasons, pulled him into many strange and violent affairs.

Downard does furious battle with both factions and many others. 'Hoodwinked' and set up time and time again, he narrowly escapes numerous attempts on his life. All the while the continuous message of importance seems to be 'nothing is as it seems'.

Adam Parfrey, who introduced Downard to readers in his Apocalypse Culture book compilations, provides the Foreword, based on his personal experiences with the reclusive and now-deceased conspiracy theorist. A real roller-coaster ride of a read !

Contents:

Masonry and the Downardian Nightmare: Foreword by Adam Parfrey

Long Introduction by James Shelby Downard:

Sorcerers and Specters
Of Cowans and Coffins
The Elus and Their Sub-Contractors
Of Sheep and Goats
The Sorcery of Computerized Mind Control
Seeing Past and Future Through a Teardrop
Mesmeric and Magnetic Masonry
The City of the Dreadful Night
Corpus Mysticum of the Past

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CHAPTER Titles:

Chapter 1: The Littlest Bootlegger - 1918
Chapter 2: My Little Alice Blue Gown and Golems - 1918
Chapter 3: The Magical Mystery Tour - 1919
Chapter 4: The Land of Enchantment - 1920
Chapter 5: Little Dixie - 1921-1922
Chapter 6: The Blue Front Cafe on Bloody Elm - 1922
Chapter 7: The Snake Charmer and the Three Assassins - 1923
Chapter 8: My First Gun - 1924
Chapter 9: Cagliostro's Treasure House - 1925
Chapter 10: Re-Tramatization and Radiesthesia - 1925
Chapter 11: Monster Manby and the Switcheroo - 1925
Chapter 12: The Quarry - 1926
Chapter 13: Pipelines and Tunnels - 1926
Chapter 14: Military Complicity in Conspiracies of Silence - 1929
Chapter 15: 'Deja Vu' - 1930
Chapter 16: Into the Tomb - 1931
Chapter 17: Dayton Witch & the State Dept's Black Chamber - 1931
Chapter 18: FDR and the Million Dollar Check - 1931
Chapter 19: Procter Takes A Gamble - 1931
Chapter 20: 'Uncle Brad' - 1931
Chapter 21: Graduation - 1932
Chapter 22: Mr. Zangara - 1933
Chapter 23: The Hanged Man - 1933
Chapter 24: The Military Vendetta - 1933
Chapter 25: Immortals and Illuminati - 1933
Chapter 26: Immortals and Familia - 1933
Chapter 27: Mind Molestation - 1933
Chapter 28: Masonic Sex Circuses - 1934
Chapter 29: Soul Money and Treasure Troves - 1934
Chapter 30: The Eastern Temple - 1934
Chapter 31: Colonel Bunker the Handler -1934
Chapter 32: 'Wild Bill' Donovan's OSS Baker Street Irregulars - 1934
Chapter 33: Of Prophecy and Highbrow Deceit - 1934
Chapter 34: The Chicken Caper - 1934-1935

"Because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city of dreadful night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of 'baseball-hot dogs-apple pie and Chevrolet' that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these 'modern' conditions precisely because sorcery is not what twentieth century man can accept as real." --- James Shelby Downard from his essay: " King Kill 33* "

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