Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader Book

The first book to tackle the formidable task of collecting the best of Crowley's voluminous lifework. While many of the details of Crowley?s flamboyant life have been well documented, his position as the major intellectual figure on the occult has often been eclipsed by his own notoriety. Infamous for scandalizing society on both sides of the Atlantic, Crowley devoted his life to the study of Qabalah, gematria, numerology, astrology, myth, glyphs, yoga, and linguistics. His intense, methodical exploration of so immense and arcane a range of knowledge yielded a huge and challenging body of literature, an abstruse oeuvre. In bringing together Crowley?s best writings, editor Scott Michaelsen makes Crowleyan philosophy both accessible and intelligible. Here are those works which best display and illuminate Crowley?s razor-sharp insight and intellectual range. ? Organized thematically by Crowley?s favourite subjects, the power of language, yoga, sex, and Magick ? Accompanied by Michaelsen?s cogent essays ? Features material not included in the original Random House editionRead More