Elsie Gray Parker As well as the Yorick in Shakespeare’s Hamlet a character of the same name appears in Laurence Sterne’s Life and opinions of Tristr...

Typo. Should be Crores.

"david" wrote: Well the editor thought it was the physical planet, Venus. Blame him for the disinfo. No, the editor is correct. Crowley ...

"WilliamThirteen" wrote: were those four short paragraphs the extent of it? This lecture is reproduced in The Revival of Magick, New Falc...

"david" wrote: I said, bluntly and enthusiastically, "Depressed! It was great. So on for the rest of the day. Surely, as soon as you ...

W13,Sorry I can't help there because I don't know. I only have an electronic copy of the first part of the catalogue dealing with the Crowley stuff. I...

I don't think so.The books auctioned by Christies in April 1974 were just referred to as the property of 'Lady Kelly'. She would have inherited the bo...

Wellreadwellbred,I got the impression that this book was not published yet. Amazon reviews are notoriously self serving. Why not wait until the book i...

Crowley's title for Baudelaire's Les Litanies de Satan is The Litany of Satan which he published in Oracles (1905). It is reprinted in his Collected W...

The reason for the widely different results in different countries is that inflation differs between places. The Euro calculations must be very diffic...

I remember guineas used to express prices for books and clothing."So a guinea is just about a pound." Not really. A guinea was always greater than a ...

"Shiva" wrote: Not that I know of - at least, I've not seen one. sample:

Clarifiers = MudditesOK

A couple of snippets here from Nos. 1-5I got no results searching for 'Aleister'.There is also a copy of No. 2 on French Amazon; it doesn't look to be...

Anyway, if you canvas openly for this project you will be noticed by the authorities. If you actually get so far as setting out to hand over money you...

Hebrews. 13:8 Jesus Christ! The same yesterday, today and forever.

The photo referenced above is, I believe, taken from the 1929 edition of Confessions. The version from Book 4 part 2 is better, and slightly different...

That was a publisher's pre publication prospectus. The actual book did not contain: The surviving portion of Liber 73, the Urn (Diary, of Magus), or T...

Not exactly struck; see belowOK

The opening drawing is by Augustus John, 'May Morn' (the one with pixies and a hanged woman) is an imitation or forgery of a similar Crowley painting,...

They can only mean ThIShARB in Equinox Vol.1.No7.OK

"herupakraath" wrote: The argument about present and future tense is also worthless given that any interpretation of Forties & Eighties...

Is it really the case that Crowley made any such prophesy? (I genuinely don't know), The usual observation is simply that AC dedicated a poem to Mudd ...

93 Lutz,AC moved to the Park Lane Hotel on 5th Jan 1933.I have no other info except that there is nothing in the 'Old Master' catalogue.OK

93 Lutz,Also I do not think it shows tattoos - it looks to me like a garment. I don't think garments like this existed in 1934 although they probably ...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: 93!I never saw it before. Yes you did! It's item 25 in the 'Old Master' exhibition catalogue and described a...

This work is by a Caribbean cultural commentator Arnim Mitto Sampson (name sometimes given as A.Mitto Sampson or last name sometimes wrongly given as ...

"david" wrote: Bowie is a way better representative of the Crowleyan magickal current imo. Laughing Gnome?OK

"Magickal" wrote: Does anybody know if T.C. published those letters from Crowley to Vierick asking Hitler to accept the Liber Al as the new...

"ignant666" wrote: Other than a mention of an abortive cycling trip in his youth with a detested tutor, You mean this bit? :"It was in th...

"david" wrote: Well, is any given Jehova's Witness ever doing their TW? Hank MarvinOK

On reflection I think you're probably right.

"Horemakhet" wrote: What style of dress is the baggy trousers with knee-high socks in a sloping one-color suit which he is wearing? I was t...

"david" wrote: As an uneducated child .............. Maleducated maybe but certainly not uneducated.OK

"jamie barter" wrote: Was this unusual event publically announced with any advance notice at all? This was front page news on October 4t...

I would also say not. With the possible exception of this one from the Gurlitt stash(right):which puts me in mind of AC's oval portrait of Leah - the ...

"Tao" wrote: Citation? I found it here:It's not actually 'on physics' it's part of the anti pseudo-science agenda.OK

While I don't particularly disagree with the points you are misusing Crowley to support this bit is plain wrong: "david" wrote: “At this ti...

A bit more from the BBC:

Bosch = electrical goods manufacturerBoche = German soldiersbr>Bosh = What I think of the articlebr>OK

Try here:OK

I enjoyed the documentary. I thought to watch a few minutes of it but watched it to the end. The missing Koenig link isbr>OK

"jamie barter" wrote: ..........Bylaws prescribe what is to bed one for succession......... That's the way to do it! (Mr.Punch)OK

I have no disagreement about the 'designer argument' itself. As you point out AC used this argument on at least one occasion to one person (and, if an...

But the designer position is only absurd when combined with monotheism because the single creator/designer has to do absolutely everything. Paganism c...

Los you seem to have answered most of your own questions but you are contrasting Crowley's early position - fresh from feasting on T.H.Huxley and atta...

Crowley wrote two reviews of The Sword of Welleran and three pages of galley proofs of them are at the Harry Ransome Center in Texas. They are not dat...

I got as far as Z or was it ZZZZ.

Early 1900s. It's in Konx Om Pax.

Good old Dr.K - always cogent rarely wrong.Bizarre list from Jamie Barter though. A mixture of available anywhere (e.g. stuff from the Equinox), prett...