Megatherion: The Magical World Of Aleister Crowley - Softcover

King, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840680865 ISBN 13: 9781840680867

Publisher: Creation Books, 2004

Synopsis

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) has been seen variously as a man of notorious sexual habits, a satanic occultist, and latterly an icon of the 1960s love generation. He was the synthesizer of what he termed "Magick," a system of occult philosophy and technique outlined in such classic texts as The Book of the Law and Magick in Theory and Practice. Crowley's vision combined clarity, intellectual power,and a strange, sometimes frightening beauty.

In this cogent and intensely readable account of Crowley's occult progress, Francis King examines each of the three main sources of Magick-thus throwing much new light on Crowley himself and explaining the admiration for his writings by the likes of filmmaker Kenneth Anger and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

About this edition

• Publisher: Creation Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1840680865
• ISBN 13: 9781840680867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192