THE CONFESSIONS OF
A L E I S T E R
C R O W L E Y
| CONTENTS |
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| INTRODUCTION |
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PART ONE: Towards the Golden Dawn
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20,
21, 22 |
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PART TWO: The Mystical Adventure
Chapter 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33,
34, 35, 36,
37, 38, 39,
40, 41, 42,
43, 44, 45,
46, 47, 48 |
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PART THREE: The Advent of the Aeon of Horus
Chapter 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
54, 55, 56,
57 |
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PART FOUR: Magical Workings
Chapter 58, 59, 60, 61, 62,
63, 64, 65,
66, 67, 68 |
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PART FIVE: The Magus
Chapter 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,
74, 75, 76,
77, 78, 79 |
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PART SIX: At the Abbey of Thelema
Chapter 80, 81, 82, 83, 84,
85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 90,
91, 92, 93,
94, 95, 96 |
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| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
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| An idealized self-portrait |
frontispiece |
| The Magician, 1911 |
224-225 |
| Crowley´s mother |
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| Crowley´s father |
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| The schoolboy, aged 14 |
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| The poet, aged 30 |
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| Osiris Risen: Crowley in 1899 |
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| S. L. M. Mathers, Head of the Golden
Dawn |
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| Allan Bennett |
256-257 |
| The explorer, mountaineer and big-game
hunter, c. 1906 |
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| The expedition to Chogo Ri, 1902 |
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| Crowley in the Himalayas, 1905 |
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| The Buddhist, the man of sorrows |
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| Rose Kelly, Crowley´s first wife |
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| Sister Cybele (Leila Waddell) |
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| The Beast 666: Crowley aged 37 |
480-481 |
| Demonstrating a yogic technique of breath-control, c. 1912 |
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The Charter issued by John Yarker admitting Crowley to
the highest grade (33°) of the Scottish Rite of Masonry, 1910 |
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| The Stele of Revealing: Exhibit 666,
Boulak Museum, Cairo |
512-513 |
| Crowley wearing the head-dress of
Horus, c. 1910 |
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| Baphomet: Crowley in full Masonic
regalia, 1916 |
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| The Arabian alchemist |
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| Leah Hirsig in Crowley´s studio, New York, 1918 |
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| Handwritten plan for climbing Mt Everest, 1921 |
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| Crowley and Alostrael (Leah Hirsig) at the Abbey of Thelema, 1921 |
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| Betty May |
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| Raoul Loveday (Frater Aud), 1923 |
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| Sketch by Crowley of Norman Mudd (Frater Omnia Pro Veritate) |
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| Frank Bennett (Frater Progradior) |
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| Maria de Miramar and Crowley |
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| Sketch by Crowley of a devouring demon |
768-769 |
| Crowley as a human being, 1934 |
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| Crowley as Fo-hi, the Chinese god of joy
and laughter |
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| Crowley´s hands locked in yogic mudra |
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| Sketch by Crowley |
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| In Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, c. 1943 |
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| At Netherwood, Hastings |
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| The Beast 666: self-portrait |
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