A Magick Life: the biography of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth
Booth, M. (2000). A magick life: The biography of Aleister Crowley. London: Hodder & Stoughton. [Worldcat] In the austere postwar years, Crowley had little money. His main source of income was the Agape Lodge of the OTO in Pasadena, California. Germer, living in New York, also sent him a percentage of OTO initiation fees. […] […]
In The Name Of The Beast: The Devil
Cornelius, J. E. (2005). In The Name Of The Beast: A Biography of Grady Louis McMurtry, disciple of Aleister Edward Crowley. A Thelemic Research Journal. (Vol. One 1918-1962, pp. 93-109). Red Flame Productions, Berkeley. Posted with permission. Chapter Nine THE DEVIL The Angel stood on Gilead His Wings a coursing flame Two eyes of piercing […]
LA Times: The Man Behind The Religion
Source: http://www.latimes.com/la-scientology062490,0,7104164,full.story Hubbard’s intense curiosity about the mind’s power led him into a friendship in 1946 with rocket fuel scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Parsons was a protege of British satanist Aleister Crowley and leader of a black magic group modeled after Crowley’s infamous occult lodge in England. Hubbard also admired Crowley, and in a 1952 […]
London Sunday Times: Scientology New Light on Crowley
The Sunday Times, December 28, 1969 LONDON Scientology: New Light on Crowley On 5 October, 1969, Spectrum published an article “The odd beginning of L. Ron Hubbard’s Career.” The Church of Scientology has sent us the following information. “Hubbard broke up black magic in America: Dr Jack Parsons of Pasadena, California, was America’s Number One […]
SCIENTOLOGY: Revealed for the first time. . . The odd beginning of Ron Hubbard’s career
London Sunday Times (Spectrum) October 5, 1969 In 1946 Aleister Crowley (left), the sorcerer and mystic whose dabblings in black magic earned him the title The Wickedest Man in the World, found a new disciple and welcomed him to one of his occult communities in California. The extraordinary activities of this new and enthusiastic disciple […]