New PDF release: Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

By Marco Pasi

ISBN-10: 1844656950

ISBN-13: 9781844656950

ISBN-10: 1844656969

ISBN-13: 9781844656967

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is likely one of the most famed and critical authors within the background of western esotericism. Crowley has been lengthy overlooked via students of faith while the tales of magical and sexual perform which movement approximately him proceed to draw renowned curiosity. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" seems to be on the guy in the back of the parable - through surroundings him firmly in the politics of his time - and the improvement of his rules via his broad and terribly different writings. Crowley used to be a rationalist, sympathetic to the values of the Enlightenment, but additionally a romantic and a reactionary. His look for another approach to show his spiritual emotions led him to intricate his personal imaginative and prescient of social and political switch. Crowley's advanced politics resulted in his involvement with many key participants, corporations and teams of his day - the key carrier of varied nations, the German Nazi get together, Russian political activists, reporters and politicians of varied persuasions, in addition to different writers - either in Europe and the US. "Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" provides a lifetime of principles, an exam of a guy formed via and shaping the politics of his times.

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