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| Amalantrah Working at Treadwells |
Posted by lashtal on  in 10°  :  in 23°  : dies  : Anno IVxviii |
On 14 October 2010 at Treadwells Bookshop…
Crowley's Amalantrah Working: Thelema, The Tao, and the New York Years
Gary Dickinson
In New York in 1918, Aleister Crowley undertook a visionary session with his friend Roddie Minor, with her having visions and reporting them to Crowley as they occurred. One part of the record relates her saying, "We went down by the stream and across it into the woods where the wizard and the child were. They both looked a little lonely. I asked his name and he told me Amalantrah. I asked who I was and he said 'Part of the Tao.'"
Gary Dickinson looks in greater depth at this episode, Crowley's relationship with the Tao Te Ching, and other related themes in the Working.
Gary Dickinson is a sinologist and Crowley researcher: a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he worked in the field of Chinese art for over twenty years, lecturing throughout the world on Chinese ritual and symbolism. He is co-author of Imperial Wardrobe, widely regarded as a source-work on the court dress of the Qing period (1644-1911). He was also an historical consultant for the Oscar-winning costumes in Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.
Price: £7.00
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| Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley |
Posted by lashtal on in 26°  : in 27°  : dies : Anno IVxviii |
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An extraordinarily exciting new book from Teitan Press. A lesser publisher might have gone with an alternative title: Aleister Crowley: The Sex Magick Letters. Having had the opportunity to see this already, I consider it an essential purchase for anyone genuinely interested in Crowley…
Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley
By Aleister Crowley and David Curwen
Edited and with an Introduction by Henrik Bogdan and a Foreword by Tony Matthews
In September 1944, a fifty-one year old Londoner named David Curwen wrote to Aleister Crowley, initiating a correspondence that would last several years. While Curwen approached Crowley with deference, the relationship that evolved between them was a complex one that defied the accepted parameters of the student-teacher nexus. For David Curwen was no newcomer to the study of the occult, and Crowley soon discovered that the flow of knowledge would not be simply one way. In particular Crowley was tantalized by the deep understanding of the principals of tantra that Curwen had acquired during the course of many years study under a mysterious guru.
At Crowley's urging Curwen joined the O.T.O., but he remained skeptical of many of "the Beast's" claims, and the two ultimately parted company on strained terms. However, Curwen retained his interest in the occult, and in later life he devoted himself to the study of alchemy, publishing the results of his researches pseudonymously in the book In Pursuit of Gold, a work that many believe to be the most significant study ever published of practical alchemy.
In addition to reproducing all of the surviving correspondence between the pair, Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley includes an important biographical Foreword by David Curwen’s grandson, Tony Matthews. The letters themselves have been edited and annotated by the scholar of Crowley and Western esotericism, Henrik Bogdan, who has also contributed an illuminating Introduction that gives context to the relationship between Crowley and Curwen, as well as exploring the history of their interest in sexual occultism and tantra, and the influence that they had in Kenneth Grant.
Praise for Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley:
"A subtle, demanding spiritual teacher and a skeptical, literal-minded student -- what could possibly go wrong? A fascinating and often amusing correspondence, and a brilliant editorial debut by Henrik Bogdan."
Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior O.T.O.
"Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley illuminates a hitherto shadowy figure in Aleister Crowley's twilight years, David Curwen, a tantric and alchemist who was the last person to be initiated into the Ninth Degree of the O.T.O. by Crowley himself. Curwen emerges from this study Janus-faced, reflecting back on Crowley's life in magick while simultaneously looking ahead to the inspiration he himself would provide to one of Crowley's more prolific followers and interpreters, Kenneth Grant. Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley thus represents a fascinating nexus in the transmission and transmutation of esoteric traditions across the twentieth century."
Dr. Richard Kacznyski Author of Perdurabo.
"An important series of previously unpublished Crowley correspondence on the OTO and its secrets, with contemporary commentary which clarifies these esoteric teachings and their history."
Martin P. Starr Author of The Unknown God.
"A moving, funny and profound volume detailing the correspondence between an impecunious, querrulous and impatient Magus-Beast and a respectful, determined and stubborn Alchemist-Magus-in-waiting. Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley includes a Foreword as fascinating and revealing as its Introduction, and is beautifully presented and published—this is a perfect book!"
David Tibet / Current 93
The book is a hardcover, octavo sized (9 x 6 inches, approx 23.5 x 15.2cm), xlviii + 136pp. Sewn, printed on acid-free paper. Heavy dark green cloth binding, with gilt titling etc to the spine. Black and white frontispiece, and eight pages of black and white illustrations. Pictorial dustjacket. ISBN: 9780933429277. Edition limited to 777 numbered copies. Price: US $45.00
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