This study radically reformulates the importance of socialist trends in European religious history. By examining the emergence of the radical socialist Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810?1875), who is regarded as the founder of occultism under the name Eliphas Lévi, it reveals the re…
This study radically reformulates the importance of socialist trends in European religious history. By examining the emergence of the radical socialist Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810?1875), who is regarded as the founder of occultism under the name Eliphas Lévi, it reveals the re…
Die Bedeutung sozialistischer Strömungen für die europäische Religionsgeschichte erfährt durch diese Studie eine tiefgehende Aufarbeitung. Anhand der Entwicklung des radikalen Sozialisten Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810-1875), der unter dem Namen Eliphas Lévi als Begründer des Okk…
"A Magick Life is a detailed and extensively researched biography, a uniquely unbiased study of one of the twentieth century's most charismatic, misinterpreted and controversial figures, a brilliant polymath whose considerable intellect and talent were crushed by his self-destru…
"A Magick Life is a detailed and extensively researched biography, a uniquely unbiased study of one of the twentieth century's most charismatic, misinterpreted and controversial figures, a brilliant polymath whose considerable intellect and talent were crushed by his self-destru…
"Perdurabo traces Aleister Crowley's remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as one of the most notorious men of his day. Crowley, a tireless magician, prophet, poet, and adventurer, has inspired generations of…
The name "Aleister Crowley" instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences'and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than "the Beast," as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo (th…
"Perdurabo traces Aleister Crowley's remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as one of the most notorious men of his day. Crowley, a tireless magician, prophet, poet, and adventurer, has inspired generations of…
