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| Secret Agent 666 |
Posted by lashtal on  in 5°  :  in 21°  : dies : Anno IVxvi (May 26, 2008 - 09:13 PM) |
My thanks to Richard Spence for the information in this News item...
Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. Crowley, who proclaimed himself the Great Beast 666, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.
Using documents gleaned from American, British, French, and Italian archives, Secret Agent 666 reveals that Crowley's clandestine service linked him to the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, the Communist International, and the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess.
Author Richard Spence, a professor of History at the University of Idaho, argues that Crowley--in his own unconventional way--was a patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask his role as a secret agent.
Dr. Spence has appeared on the History Channel and as a speaker at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He has been interviewed on Radio Liberty and other media outlets and has been a consultant and interviewee for documentary films produced by the Russian Cultural Foundation. He is also the author of _Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly_ (Feral House 2002).        
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Re: Secret Agent 666
by ParrachF on May 26, 2008 - 09:17 PM
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I guess something's missing in this news story. The book is coming out on Jun 1st (USA) and Aug 7th 2008 (UK).
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Re: Secret Agent 666
by the_real_simon_iff on May 27, 2008 - 05:59 PM
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93! I was already delighted by Mr. Spence's essay on Crowley in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence and am now looking forward to receiving my copy (a real steal with the dollar value these days) of this book. The contents sound real promising. Aleister Crowley as a cultural phenomenon is so easy to disregard and so I welcome every effort of serious study on this man. Some biographers should start work on a revised edition of their books, this year so far shows that not all of his lovers went insane or committed suicide, that his paintings might be more than just drug-crazed efforts to gain money and respect, and now (now if you missed Mr. Spence's essay from 2000) you have to once and for all delete the "traitor to his homeland" from his many titles. This is a good thing I think. But will it outweigh the Cemical Wedding effect? Love=Law, Lutz
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Dance the Adolf Hitler by Tenri-Kyo on May 28, 2008 - 06:29 AM
Re: Secret Agent 666
by IAO131 (admin@thelemicstudies.com)
on May 29, 2008 - 06:34 PM
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93,
I have received this book and read through the majority of it. It is extremely good for multiple reasons, the foremost being that he does not come to the table with a vendetta against Crowley or something to prove (that Crowley was Logos of the Aeon, for example). He talks explicitly about his troubles of getting information from intelligence agencies and makes sure to distinguish between various levels of accuracy (for example between people who knew Crowley and people who possibly knew him). Not only this but he does not make outlandish claims, especially not without evidence. All in all, it is a great read so far with many interesting speculations. I recommend it.
IAO131
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Re: Secret Agent 666
by BlueKephra on Jun 02, 2008 - 04:06 PM
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This just arrived in the post today.For anyone in the UK who is waiting for it to be released in the UK, a hint, the "other sellers" have it in stock (other UK sellers) . Looks very well done, can't comment on the content yet.
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Re: Secret Agent 666
by gurugeorge on Jun 29, 2008 - 10:25 AM
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This looks absolutely fascinating. Doesn't one of the many "deathbed tales" about AC have him clutching a letter of "thanks for your service" from Naval Intelligence? I always thought that, if true, that might have been a bit of a Magister Templi joke (Naval Intelligence = Binah), but if this book is sound, it might have had a perfectly straightfoward mundane meaning as well :)
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