Description
Aleister Crowley; John Symonds; Kenneth Grant
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979. Hardcover. 960 pages. First edition of this corrected edition. Some shelf-wear and external soling. Small pencil bookseller note/price on initial leaf. No dust-jacket. Very Good.
One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley’s journey into strange regions of consciousness: 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. A 20th. Century occult classic. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), is a book written in six parts, the first two parts published in 1929. It is subtitled “An Autohagiography” which refers to the autobiography of a Saint, a title which Crowley would also have associated with the Plymouth Brethren, who use it to refer to themselves. Crowley was brought up as one of their members.