Aleister Crowley's autobiographical confessions are a fascinating record of his lifetime's journey into Strange regions of consciousness. A 'saint' of the 'Gnostic' church, Crowley subtitled his six-volume work 'an autohagiography'. He describes his initiation into magic, his world-wide travels and mistresses, his experiments with sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous Book of the Law which contains the gospel that Crowley proclaimed for all mankind: the Law of Thelema, or Do What Thou Wilt.Generations before his time, Crowley invoked sex, drugs, and Eastern philosophy in his perpetual and often bizarre search for self-realization. The Confessions, skillfully edited and annotated by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, serves as the perfect introduction to Crowley's extraordinary life and thought.
John Symonds Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
John Symonds byl anglický spisovatel známý svým zkoumáním okultismu, biografií a dětských knih. Jeho práce se často zabývala fascinací i kritikou kontroverzních postav, jako byl Aleister Crowley, jehož spisy a odkaz pomohl udržet při životě. Symondsův styl je charakterizován jako schopný vykreslit jak komické situace, tak i složitější lidské motivace, což čtenářům přináší jedinečný vhled do historie a psychologie. Věnoval se také psaní pro děti, kde jeho fantazie a vypravěčské umění nalezly široké publikum.
John Symonds was Crowley's literary executor, and his biography of Aleister Crowley is the fullest account of the life of this most bizarre Englishman. The present edition has been considerably revised and augmented, and remains the standard work on Crowley.