INDEX

1890s, see Nineties
18B regulation, 233
23rd Psalm, 250
72 Club (or Ida's Club), Shaftesbury Avenue, 229

A Hidden Life (aka Hermit of Peking) (Trevor-Roper), 297–98
A∴A∴, 69, 75, 88, 90, 96, 98, 104, 113, 115, 120, 171, 289n.
Abbey Road, 202
Aberconway, Lady, 242, 247
Abramelin, 32, 38, 48, 51n., 52, 57, 62, 63, 68, 77, 81, 130, 194, 198, 205, 286
Abrams, M.H., 300n.
absinthe, 13, 61, 107, 135, 210, 285, 286, 287; ‘The Absinthe Drinker’ (Symons), 288; ‘Absinthe: The Green Goddess’ (AC), 107, 287
Acceptance World, The (Powell), 178, 272
Aceldama: A Place to Bury Strangers In (AC), 28, 29, 31
Adam and Eve, pub, 212
Adam Street, 93
Adam, Villiers de L’Isle, 300
Adams, Daisy, 60
Addiscombe, Croydon, 108
aesthetic movement, 286–87, 295, 297–98, 301
Against Nature (Huysmans), 285
Agamya, Guru Paramahamsa, 73–4, 214
Ahab and Other Poems (AC), 76
Ahmed, Rollo, 159, 168, 177, 191, 196n., 209, 210
Aiwass, 63, 80, 222
Albany, 182
Albemarle Street, 144, 146; Albemarle Court, 144
Albert Road NW1, 165, 166
alchemy, 38, 41, 99n., 169
Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored (Cockren), 169
Aldebaran, 210n, 301
Alderney Street, Pimlico, 192–95
Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writing of Gerald Yorke (Richmond, ed.), 121
Aleister Crowley: The Man The Mage The Poet (Cammell), 225
Alexander VI, Pope, 245
Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, 55
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 86
All for Love (Dryden), 230n
All Souls Place, 127
Allen, Marta, 180
aloes, 52–53
Amazing Secrets of the Yogi (Dane), 174
Americans, AC on, 249
Amrita rejuvenation pills 15, 169
Anand, Mulk Raj, 139
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry (33 degrees), 105
angel choirs, London buses like, 239
Anger, Kenneth, 224
Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, 64, 78, 191, 214; Magical Record of, 189
Antelope pub, Eaton Terrace, 212, 213
Anti-Christmas cards, 136
Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry (33 degrees), 105
Antinous and Other Poems (Summers), 224n.
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 230
Apex, printer, 246
Apollonius, 143
Aquila Press, 127
Arabian Nights, 24, 35
Arbuthnot, Foster Fitzgerald, 24
Archer, Ethel, 69, 70
Archway Road, 202n.
Argenteum Astrum, see A.A.
Argyle Street and Argyle Square, King's Cross, 181
Argyll Street W1, 245
Arlington Chambers, Dover Street, 235
Arlington Road, Camden, 162
Arnold, Matthew 16
Arnsohn, Mme, 169
Arsenic and Old Lace (film), 248
Artemis, Rite of, 83
Artillery Lane, 262n.
Astley's pipe shop, 245
Astor, Lady, 236
Astoria Hotel, Greek Street, 136
astral projection, 39, 41, 58, 115, 167, 174, 193
‘At the Feet of Our Lady of Darkness’ (AC / Kranil), 287–88
‘At The Fork of the Roads’ (AC), 29
Atlantis bookshop, 124–26, 222
Augoeides, 134n.
Austin, Hugh, 174
Author of Trixie, The (Caine), 194
avant-gardism, 84; and magic, 83, 301
Avengers, The 21
Avenue Studios, Kensington, 104–6
Avonmore Road W14, 165
Axel (Adam), 300–301, 301n; Axel's Castle (Wilson), 301n.

Babe of the Abyss, 68, 71, 154
Backhouse, Sir Edmund, 296–98
Bagh-i-Muattar (AC), 126
Baker Street, 200, 212
Baker, Julian, 38–39, 41, 44, 45,174
Bankes, Viola, 88–89, 243
Banned Lecture, The (AC), 118n.
Baphomet, 42, 99, 104, 214
Barclay's bank 20
Barfoot or Barefoot, Agnes “Bobby”, 185, 193
Barnitt, Henriette, 246
Baron's Court Road 15
Barrow Road, Streatham, 46–47
Bartzabel, spirit of Mars, 83
Basil Street, 131
Basingstoke, 38
Bat Club, see also Bug House, 167
Bataille, Georges 16n.
Bateman Street, 206, 210
Battersea, 68–69
Baudelaire, Charles 18, 70, 288, 293n.
Bax, Clifford, 106, 182, 231
Bayley, J.G., 160n., 233, 238, 241, 248
Bayswater 20, 85n., 113–14, 165, 177, 178–9, 272
Bayswater Road, 208
Beak Street, 115
Beardsley, Aubrey 13, 18n., 28, 29n., 30, 61, 70, 75, 90, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291
beauticians, 169, 196
Beaverbrook Press, 160
Beckett, Samuel, 172
bedsit-land 20, 178–9, 187, 213
Beerbohm, Max 16, 61, 91n., 247, 287, 290, 291
Belgrave Road, 189
Belgravia, 20, 194, 213, 216; Belgravia Club, Torquay, 228
Bennett, Allan, 46–7, 48–9, 50, 54, 57, 63, 85, 106, 182, 232
Bennett, Frank, 57n.
Benney, Mark, 214n.
Bentley's, Swallow Street, 137
Beresford, J.D., 111, 112
Berkeley Galleries, Davies Street, 238
Berkeley Grill, 136
Berkeley Hotel, 240
Berkeley Square, 75, 238
Berkeley, Bishop, 144
Berlemont, Victor, 210
Bernhardt, Sarah 18n.
Berridge, Dr. Edward, 60n., 85
Besant, Annie, 182
Bethnal Green 19, 183
Betjeman, John, 178
Bibliotheque Nationale, 48
Bickers, Betty and Sheila, 113–15
Bishop James (“Bishop of Harrods”), 131–32
Bishop, Mr., 119
Bishop, Tom Bond, 26–27
Bishops At Large (Anson), 131n.
Bismarck, 69, 98n.
biting girl, Edith Grove, 172
Black Art, The (Ahmed), 196n.
Black Arts, The (Cavendish), 33
Black Currant Pudding Brothers, 218
Black Magic Libel Case, 81, 116, 149–50, 163
Black Magic Restaurant (Bar 666), 140
Black Mass, 72, 84, 90, 143, 224, 288
Blackfriars Road, 204
Blackley (Blatchly), Josephine, 119–200, 206–7
Blackwood, Algernon, 41, 126
Blake Sandford and Blake, chemists, 52
Blake, William, 87, 95, 239, 244
Blakemore, Trevor, 105
Blanch, Lesley, 182
Blavatsky, Madame, 32, 59, 78, 216
Bleak House (Dickens), 76
Block, Grey and Block, wine merchants, 164
Bloomsbury, 30, 78, 101, 124–6, 137, 141, 165–6, 180, 218; Bloomsbury Group, 139n., 218, 296
Blowzabella, 188
Blue Hall cinema, Edgware Road, 248
Blunt, Bruce, 137
Blythe Road, Hammersmith, 45, 180; Battle of, 54–6, 63
Bois de Boulogne, 54, 80
Boleskine, 57, 64, 80, 142
Bolivar restaurant, 127, 236
Bond Street 20, 28–30, 50, 65, 66, 67, 75, 92, 133, 144, 163, 228, 242, 245n.
Bond, James, 112
Book 4 (AC), 92
Book of Black Magic and Pacts (Waite), 31
Book of Lies (Crowley), 98
Book of The Law (Liber Al), 63–4, 112, 160, 183, 190–91, 221, 222, 287, 293, 296
Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, see Abramelin
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The (Burton), 24; see also Arabian Nights
Book of Thoth, The, 30, 183
Borgia, Rodrigo, see Alexander VI
Boundary Road, 202
Bow, Clara, 225n.
Bowie, David, 118
Bowlly, Al, 250
Boyer, Charles, 238
Bracewell, friend of AC, 138
Brackenbury, Eve, 174
Bramble, John, 300n.
Brand, Adele, 202
Breton, Lola, 179
Brewer Street, Soho, 137, 206
Bright, tailor, 244–45
Brighton, 146, 151n., 250
Brighton Rock (film), 248
British Library (British Museum Reading Room), 29, 76, 77, 263
British Monomarks, 190
British Museum, 73, 77, 78–9, 124, 126
Brixton, 20; prison, 233
Broadhurst Gardens, 202
Bromage, Bernard 19, 165–67
Brompton Road, 29, 131, 169
Brook, Peter, 238, 240–41
Brooke, Rupert, 82
Brooks, Collin, 102, 235–6, 238
Brooksmith, Captain Eldred Stuart, 148
Brooksmith, Pearl, 148, 151, 163, 165–7, 168, 169, 172n., 172–3, 174, 175, 186, 190, 192, 198, 205
Brown, G, landlady, 177
Bruton Galleries, 75
Bruton Street, 75
Buckingham Gate, 189
Buckingham Palace Road, 228
Buckland Crescent, Swiss Cottage, 132
Bucknill, Justice, 81
Buddhism 21, 22n., 49, 57, 63, 70, 73n., 85, 106, 121, 126, 293n.
Budge, Wallis, 78
Bug House, 132
Bun Shop, 39
Burchett, George, 204
Burdett, Osbert, 290
Burdon, Eric, 175
Burgess, Guy, 236, 247n., 282
Burke, Thomas, 124n., 128n.
Burlington Arcade, 66
Burnett-Rae, Alan, 168–70
Burra, Edward, 124
Burroughs, William, 175, 179
Burton, Lady Isabel, 23, 24, 254
Burton, Sir Richard, 23–5, 28, 34, 95, 126
Bury St SW1, 119
Bury Place, see Bury Street WC
Bury Street WC (now Bury Place WC1), 124–26
Bury Street Buddhist Bookshop, 126
Busch, Bertha (“Bill”), 118, 127, 142, 144, 146, 158, 197, 248
Butler, Emmy, 204
Butler, Ruby 15n., 209
‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’ (Johnson), 40
Byrne, Christine Rosalie, 101
Byron, Lord, 182; bathtub of, 237
Bywaters and Piper, dental practice, 127

Cable, Peter, 212
Cadogan Place, 66
Café Royal 13, 20, 61–2, 66, 75, 101n., 116, 119, 136, 211, 221, 224, 228, 235, 237, 246, 258, 285, 287, 288, 290
Cagliostro, 88
Caine, Michael, 136n.
Caine, William, 194
Cairo, 63, 190; Cairo Museum, 64, 78
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 96, 117, 126, 243, 249, 254
Caledonian Road, 34
Called Back (Conway), 35
Cambridge, 26, 28, 30, 31, 120, 121n., 153, 160
Cambridge Court, Edgware Road, 181
Cambridge Terrace (now Sussex Gardens), 177
Camden Road, 41, 211
Cammell, Charles, 90n., 137, 188, 223, 224–5
Cammell, Donald, 224
Cammell, Iona, 225
Campanile, see Westminster Cathedral
Campbell, Selvin, 202
cannabis, 51
Cannon, Dr Alexander, 158–9, 168
Canonbury Road, 202n.
Carey Street, 163–4
Carey, John, 295
Carleton, Billie, 51n.
Carlos Place, 149–50
Carlos, Carlism, 299–300
Carnet du Bal (film), 248
Carter, Lieut.-Colonel John Fillis Carré, 127–9, 130
Casa Prada, restaurant, 137, 191
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Powell), 194
Casaubon, Meric, 78
Castletown Road, 194, 209
Castro, Dolores del (Madeline Montalban), 216
cat-feeling 15
Catholic priests, 103
Caton, R.A., 228–9
Caulfield, Captain Harry Frowd St.George, 197
Cave of the Golden Calf, 118
Cavell, Edith, 107
Cavendish Court, Wigmore St., 151n.
Cavendish Hotel, 144, 164, 175
Cavendish Square, 242
Cavendish, Richard, 33
Caxton Hall, 82–4
Cecil Court, 31–33, 133, 262
Cecil Hotel, Strand, 38–9, 48, 57, 68
Cefalu, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 119, 142, 149, 152, 160
Central News, 98n.
Centre Point, 124
Champney, Henry D’Arcy, Revd., 26
Chancellor, E Beresford 21
Chancery Lane, 48–9, 57, 66, 76, 108, 150, 163, 176, 211; Chancery Lane rule (AC), 50
Chandos Place, 236
Chant, Mrs Ormiston 18
Charing Cross Hospital, 199
Charing Cross Road, 32, 145, 206, 238
Charing Cross, 91; AC on, 40
Charles I, King, 39–40, 299
Charlotte Street, 117–18
Cheiro (Louis Hamon), 69
Chelsea 20, 88–90, 96–97, 160, 172–3, 181, 198–201
Chepstow Villas, 187, 200
Chester Terrace (now Chester Row), 213–15, 217
Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 90
Chez Victor, Soho 16, 135–6, 193, 214
Chicken Inn, 249
Chiswick, 184, 218; House, 218;
- Mall, 184
Chiswick Press, 29, 76
Choronzon, demon, 82n.
Christ, 60, 63, 94, 107, 109
Christian Science, 182
Christie, John, 187
Christopher and Co. wine merchants, 250
Chronicles of Pharmacy, The (Wootton), 52
Churchill, William, photographer, 245, 246
Churchill, Winston, 83, 133, 138, 237, 239, 245
cinema-going, 248, 284
Cipher Manuscript, 42, 43
Cittie of York, pub, 211
City of Dreadful Night (Thomson), 145
City of God, 36; City of God (AC), 246
Claridges, 136
Clarke, Maisie, 195, 200
Clay Street, Marylebone, 140
Cleugh, James, 127
Cleveland Gardens, 113–14
Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, The (von Eckhartshausen), 32
cocaine, 50, 51n., 52, 66, 109, 111, 231
Cockren, Archibald, 169, 271
Cogswell and Harrison, gun shop, 245
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 36, 231
Collins publishers, 111, 122
Colney Hatch asylum, Friern Barnet, 132, 144, 158
Colombo's, Greek Street and Great Portland Street, 136
Colonial Club, Bateman Street, 206
coloured girl of Windmill Street, 188, 206
Co-Masonry, 182
Comer, Camille, 179
Common Lodging Houses, 204
Commonweal, Socialist paper, 98n.
Compton Chambers, 209
Comptons, pub, 212
Conduit Street W1, 238, 245n.
Confessions (AC), 23, 34, 36, 119, 122, and passim
Confessions and Impressions (Mannin), 150
Connaught Rooms, 44
Connoisseur, The, 224
Connolly, Cyril, 64, 144, 302
Considine, Angela, 200n.
Constable publishers, 149–50, 152, 156, 163
Conversations in Bloomsbury (Anand), 139n.
Coram Street, Holborn, 69, 105
Cordelia, friend of AC, 249
Corelli, Marie, 291
Cornwall Gardens, Kensington, 247–48
Cornwall Street SW1, 197
Cosgrove, Dr, 199, 205
Counter-Decadence, 292
Covent Garden 21, 31, 44–5, 71, 245, 246
Coventry Street 18, 19, 248, 287
Cowie, George, 100, 102
Crab Tree club, 115
Craven Arms, Shrewsbury, 202
Craven Road, 212
Crawford Street, 140, 151
Crawford, T.C., 73
Crawshaw, Dr, 227
Cremorne Road, 180
Cricklewood Broadway, 203
Crippen, Dr, 86, 141, 153, 296
Cripps, Margot, 197
‘Crisis in Freemasonry, The’ (AC), 111
Crowley, Aleister Ataturk (son), 173, 254
Crowley, Anne Lea “Poupée” (daughter), 110, 149
Crowley, Edward (father), 26, 241, 253
Crowley, Emily (mother), 26–7
Crowley, Lola Zaza (daughter), 64, 65
Crowley, Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Jezebel Lilith (daughter), 64
Crowley, Rose (wife) 6305, 66–7, 68, 132, 167, 178
Crowleyanity, 69
Croydon, 107–8
Croysdale, Vera, 60
Cruze, Captain Eddie, 152, 153
Culbertson, Ely, 156
Cumberland Hotel, 151
Cumberland Terrace, 148, 151, 172
Cunard, Nancy, 136, 189
Curries and Other Indian Dishes (Anand), 139
Curtis, Eileen, 174
Curzon Street, 156–7, 227

Daily Express, 191, 211, 227n., 233
Daily Mail, 157
Daily Mirror, 174
Dalmeny Court, 175
Dance to the Music of Time (Powell), 93n., see also Acceptance World, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Dane, Victor, 174, 177
Dangerous Drugs Act 1920, 50
Davidson, John, 291
Davidson, Reverend Harold, 199
Davidson, Violet, 181
Davies Street, 238
Davies, tailor, 244, 245n.
Davies, Mary, 100
Davis, Florence, 204
Davison-Light, Frank, 187n.
De Arte Magica (AC), 60n., 86n., 99n., 102
De Homunculo (AC), 102
De Natura Deorum (AC), 102
De Nuptiis Secretis Deorum cum Hominibus (AC), 102
De Quincey, Thomas, 36, 301
‘Dead Ione’ (Pound), 96
Dean Street 20, 137, 206, 210
Death in Ecstasy (Marsh), 132
Dee, Dr John, 63, 78, 79, 95, 242, 301
Delhi Indian restaurant, 187
Dell, Hyde Park, 208–9
de Miramar, Maria Teresa (“Marie”), 89, 130–32, 158, 167, 204, 252
Demos restaurant, 137, 192, 193
Denmark Hill, 59
Dennes and Co., solicitors, 108, 176
Der Sturmer, 125
Derriere la Façade (film), 248
Devereux, Paul, 33
Devil Rides Out, The (Wheatley), 89, 154, 157, 158
Devonshire Terrace, Marylebone, 184
Diana, Princess, 106
Diary of a Drug Fiend (AC), 104, 111–12, 113, 116, 118, 147, 288n.
Dickens, Charles, 76
Dilkush, Indian restaurant, 138
Diona of Compton Chambers, 209
Dobson, Joan, 181, 191
Dobson, Roger, 280
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 240–41, 242
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson), 35, 120
Dog and Duck, pub, 210
Doherty, Deirdre Patricia “Pat”, 172, 173, 205, 250n., 277
Dollond and Aitchison, 164
Dolphin Square, 196, 197
Dome café, Paris, 149
Donegall, Lord, 156
Donley, Ethel, 195
‘Door in the Wall, The’ (Wells), 36
Dorset Street, 140
Douglas Road, Canonbury, 34
Douglas, Lord Alfred (Bosie), 290
Douglas, Rita, 180
Dove, pub, 212
Dover Castle, 204
Dover Street, 52, 129n., 235, 237, 245, 282
Dowie and Marshall bootmakers, 39
Down Street, 159
Dowson, Ernest, 211, 288
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 127
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (film), 120n.
Dracula (Stoker), 24–5, 157, 160
Draghici, Marie-Louise, 200
Drayton Arms, pub, 27
Drayton Gardens, 26–7
Drayton, Beryl, 188
‘Dream Circean, The’ (AC), 35
dreams of AC, 35, 35, 51, 77, 93, 189, 193, 198, 221, 230–32, 234, 239, 244
Driberg, Thomas, 52–3, 125, 137, 154, 156, 160, 183, 191, 210, 211, 219–20, 233
‘Drug Panic, The’ (AC), 111
Dryden, John, 230n.
Duckworth, publishers, 93
Duke Street, SW1, 133, 144, 175, 250
Duke Street, W1, 175, 227
Duke's Hotel, St.James's Place, 119
Duncan, Isadora, 91
Duncombe-Jewell, Louis, 64
Dunhill's, 133, 175
Durham House Street, 95
Duval, Jeanne 17n.
Duval, Violet, 102
Dyer, Dr Bernard, 49
Dynevor Road, Richmond, 224

L’Escargot, 135–37, 138, 210, 214
East End, 51, 116, 128n.
Eastbourne Terrace, 181
Eaton Square, 213
Eaton Terrace, 212, 214
Eckenstein, Oscar, 13, 37, 38, 63; and adventure of, 34–36; quintessence of Magick, 36
Eckhartshausen, Karl von, 32
Edgware Road, 179, 181, 203, 208, 248, 295
Edith Grove, 172, 180
Edward Street, off Wardour Street, 136
Edward VIII, 159, 170
Effingham Road, 229
Elgin Avenue, 247n.
Eiffel Tower restaurant, 117–18, 173, 176, 214
Eight Lectures on Yoga (AC), 214
Eleusis, Rites of, 82,4, 85, 96
Eliot, T.S., 246, 295
Ellis, Havelock, 261, 291
El Vino's, 137, 211, 224
Emmy, of Hyde Park, 208
Empire Music Hall, Leicester Square 17, 18
Enchiridion of Pope Leo, 31, 77
England Stand Fast (AC), 229
England Their England (Macdonell), 146
Enochian, 63, 78, 242, 247
Epstein, Jacob, 62, 115, 290
Equinox of the Gods, The, 181, 190, 192
Equinox, The, 51, 61, 74, 78–9, 80–81, 89, 90
Erskine, dull party, 191
Escoffier, Auguste, 195
Esmeralda's Barn, 240
ether, 50, 83, 115, 210, 288n., 300n., 301
Eton, 120
Eton Road, Hampstead, 224
‘Eugenics’ (AC), 286, 293n., 296
Euston, 45, 180
Euston Road, 34n., 44n., 137, 180, 191, 208, 251
Evans, Colin, 177
Evans, Montgomery, 118n.
Evans, Tom, 216
Evening Standard, 199
Exotic Restaurant, 140
Eye in the Triangle, The (Regardie), 128n.

Fabian, Robert, 82
‘Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The’ (Poe), 161n.
Fairhazel Gardens, NW6, 174
Falconer, Katherine or Cathrine, 204–5, 213, 214, 238, 277; and recipe, 205n.
Fanny Hill (Cleland) 17
Faraday, Michael, 144
Farr, Florence, 41, 54, 55
Farringdon Road, 41–3
Feilding, Everard, 69
Fenton, West De Wend, 85
Fermaprint, 246, 2843
Fields, Helen, 209
Fitzgerald, Noel, 126, 202, 214
Fitzgerald-Hanrahan, John, 193
Fitzgibbon, Constantine, 212
Fitzrovia 20, 34, 117, 126, 136, 180, 212
Fitzroy Street, 115–16, 138
Fitzroy Tavern, 117–120, 185, 209, 211, 212, 228
Fitzwilliam House, 224–5
Five Graves to Cairo (film), 248
Flaming Sex (Owen), 196
Flood Street, Chelsea, 96–7
Florence Court, Maida Vale, 188
flying dreams, 35
Forbes, Hector Stuart, 225
Forest Hill, 41, 54, 303
Forest, Ione de, 96–7
Formby, George, 95
Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy), 150, 178
Fortnum and Mason, 91n., 131, 133, 141n., 175, 182
Fortune, Dion, 216–17
Fortune Press, 228–9
Fountain Court, 95n.
Four Red Monks Carrying a Black Goat Across the Snows to Nowhere (AC), 71
Fox, Louis, 137, 202
Foyle, Christina, 145
Foyle's bookshop, 144, 145
Francis of Assisi, St., 164
Francis, bookseller, 246
Franco, General, 300
Franz Joseph, Emperor, 117
Frascati's, restaurant, 137
Freemasonry, 41, 42, 43, 44, 81, 98, 101, 104–5, 111, 182
French Pub (York Minster; French House), 210, 212, 228
Fribourg and Treyer 19, 132–34
Friern Barnet, 158
Fryer, Peter, 29
Fulham Road, 104–6
Fuller, Jean Overton, 97
Fuller, J.F.C., 68–9, 73–4, 78–9, 80, 86
Fun of the Fair, The (AC), 246
Fyffe, Paula, 180

‘Galahad in Gomorrah, A’ (AC), 289
Galata tobacconist, 133
Ganymede (Rembrandt), 111
Gastaud, Dr and Madame, 196
Gateway to Prosperity, The (Dane), 174
Gauguin, Paul, 95
Gee Bee Université de Beauté, 169
gentleman, idea of 16, 21, 28, 164, 211, 240, 245, 249, 253-54n.
George V, 289n.
George's Café, 55
Georgian House, Bury Street, 119, 130
Germer, Karl, 125, 131, 135, 136, 161, 175, 176, 178, 184, 190, 192, 222, 237, 290
Gertrude Street, 172
Giant's Thumb, The (AC), 293
Gibbons, Joan (or Brooks), 192
Gielgud, John, 239
Gilbert Place, 124n.
Gilbert, R.A., 69
Gillingham Street, 195
Gin Lane (Hogarth), 124, 295
Gissing, George, 77
Gladys, of West End, 206
Glasshouse Street, 133, 246
Glendinning's auctions , 245, 283
Gloucester St SW1, 195
Glyn, Elinor, 235n.
Gnostic Catholic Church, 104
Gnostic Mass, 95
Gnostic saints, 95, 245
Godfrey Phillips Gallery, 175
Goetia, 46, 48; Goetia or Lemegeton, 46n., 77; Goetia.(Mathers edition), 63
Golden Dawn, Order of the, 41–3, 44–5, 54–6, 57, 59–60, 105, and passim
Goldhurst Road, Hampstead, 74
Goldston, Edward “Teddy”, 122
Gonne, Maud, 41, 44n., 45
Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood), 129
Goodwin, Hilda, 179–80
Gordon Chambers, Jermyn Street, 213
Gourmet's Guide to London, The 19
Gower Street, 59–60
Goya, Francisco, 40
Grand Central Hotel, 151
Grant, Mrs, beautician, 169
Gray, Mr., bookseller, 147
‘Great Drug Delusion, The’ (AC), 111
Great Marlborough Street 14n., 228
Great Ormond Street, 165–67
Great Percy Street, 41
Great Portland Street, 136, 137, 169
Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, 44, 46, 68, 241
Great Russell Street , 126
Great Tower Street, 49
Great Work, 183, 241
Greek Street, 115, 136, 138
Green Man, pub, 212
Green Park, 237
Greencroft Gardens, South Hampstead, 34n.
Greene, Graham, 160, 248
Greville Road, Maida Vale, 41
Grimoire of Honorius, 77
Grimoires, 31–2, 46, 77, 200, 286
Grimorium Verum, 32
Grosvenor Casino, 248
Grosvenor Hospital For Women, 146
Grosvenor Hotel, Duke Street W1, 175, 176, 213
Grosvenor House Hotel, 145
Grosvenor Square, 175, 227
Guilford Street, 176
Gun For Sale, A (Greene), 248
Gurdjieff, George, 76
Gyatso, Thubten, 13^th Dalai Lama, 121

Haggerston 18
‘Half Hours with Famous Mahatmas’ (Fuller), 74
Half Moon Street, 227, 232
half-woman, half-god, AC as, 111
Halicarnassus mausoleum, 124
Hamilton House, Piccadilly, 237–8, 240
Hamilton Place, 237
Hamilton, Gerald, 127–9, 133, 210n., 215, 218, 219, 232–4, 235, 237, 240, 247, 248, 251
Hammersmith 14, 45, 54–6, 165, 172, 188, 193, 209, 212
Hamnett, Nina, 69, 96, 115, 116, 117, 123, 149, 152, 156, 170
Hampstead, 74, 174, 202, 224
Hampstead Road, 251
Hanover Square W1, 212, 228–234, 235
Hard Rock Café, 237
Hardy, Thomas, 293
Harlequin Club, 115–16
Harley Street, 159, 168, 226
Harley, Evelyn, 181
Harpocrates, 75, 215
Harris, Frank, 290
Harris, Lady Frieda, 182–4, 201, 213, 218, 219, 248, 250, 251
Harris, Sir Percy, 183
Harris, Thomas Lake, 98
Harrods, 131, 132
Hartmann, Franz, 98
Harvey, Pat 15n., 180, 199
Hasker Street, 197–201, 204, 205, 213
Hatchett's restaurant, 129n., 136, 235, 248
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 124
Haymarket, 19–20, 119, 133–4, 226, 259; Haymarket Stores 20
Heddon Street, 118
Heneky's pub (now Cittie of Yorke), 211
Henley, William Ernest, 292
Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 71
Henry Heath, hatmaker, 245n.
Henry Poole, Savile Row, 245n.
Heppell's chemist 19, 134, 226, 227n.
Hermes, feminine, 39
Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, 105
heroin, and morphine 19, 50, 52, 111, 112, 134, 140, 175, 205n., 223, 226, 226–7, 231, 232, 237, 238n., 247, 293n.
Hershant, W.L., 202n.
Heseltine, Philip (Peter Warlock), 51, 137, 194, 257
Heysel, Jeanne, see Forest, Ione de
Hidden Church of the Holy Grail, 105
Hidden Masters (of Theosophy), 45, 216
Hidden Masters, Order of the, 126
Hieroglyph, The (Archer), 70
High Holborn, 190
Hilda of Park Lane, 180
Hilling, Stella, 203
Hirsig, Leah, 109–112, 119, 149, 160, 161, 232
‘History Lecture for Neophytes’ (Westcott), 54
History of the Popes (von Ranke), 79
History of Witchcraft and Demonology, The (Summers), 224
Hitler Speaks (Rauschning), 222, 279
Hitler, Adolf, 64, 68, 125, 222, 296, 298, 302; AC dreams of, 221; and Secret Chiefs, 222
Hoare, Oliver, 106
Hogarth, William, 124, 295
Hogg, Deborah, 238
Hohenzollerns, 222
Holborn, 29, 47, 48, 69, 76, 101n., 165, 190, 245
Holmes, Sherlock, 39, 127
Holy Grail, 50, 105, 219
Holy Guardian Angel, 48, 57, 64, 68, 286
Holy Royal Arch of Enoch, Order of, 105
Honorius, Grimoire of, 32, 77
Hop Poles, pub, 209, 212
Hope, Bob, 248
Horlicks’ Magazine and Home Journal, 32
Horniman, Frederick, 54
Horniman Museum, 41, 54, 303
Horniman, Annie, 41, 54
Horos, Laura and Theo, 59–60
Horse and Sack, pub, 212
Horseshoe, pub, 37
Hotel Washington, 156–7
Houghton, Michael, 124–6, 222
Howe, Ellic, 104
Howland Street, 180, 273
Hubard, Lily, 235
Hulme, T.E., 300n.
Hungaria Restaurant, 154
Hunt and Roskell, jewellers, 65, 259
Hunter, Edmund, 56
Hutchinson publishers, 111, 235
Huxley, Aldous 16n., 182
Huysmans, J-K, 285n.
Hyde Park, 131, 188, 195, 204, 208–9; Speakers’ Corner, 298
Hyde Park Corner, 237, 240
Hyde Park Hotel, 237; Grill, 237
Hylton, F.W., 174
‘Hymn to Pan’ (AC), 95, 155, 242, 250, 293n.
‘Hymn to Satan’ (AC), 293n.
Hypnotism, Suggestion and Faith Healing (Cannon), 158

Jackson, Eric, 235
Jackson, Frank Dutton, see Horos
Jackson, R.J., 126
Jacobites, Jacobitism, 39–40, 54, 297n., 299
Jaeger, Hanni (“Anu”), 127, 130, 252
Jagger, Mick, 33, 121
Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee, 215
Jamaica International Hotel, 181
James, Bishop, 131–2
James, William 16n.
Jameson, John, 198, 200–201
Jeanette, of Shaftesbury Avenue, 206, 229
Jeannine, 245
Jeffery, George, bookseller, 42n.
Jekyll and Hyde, 35, 120
Jephthah (AC), 55
Jermyn Street 19, 20, 66, 119, 132, 144, 175, 176, 213, 226, 244–51
‘Jewish Problem Re-Stated, The’ (AC), 111
Jezebel (AC), 76
John Bull, 114, 122
John Long publisher, 196n.
‘John St. John’ (AC) 15n., 80
John, Augustus, 61, 89, 115, 118, 123, 212, 254
Johnson, Lionel, 39, 211, 286
Johnson, Marie, 188
Jones, Charles Stansfeld, 69
Jones, George Cecil, 38–9, 41, 45, 48, 49, 65, 68, 69, 85–6, 174, 181
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw), 143
Julia, of Broadhurst Gardens, 202
Jung, Carl, 128n., 286
Junky (Burroughs), 179

Kabbalah 11, 41, 44, 68, 73, 74
Kama Sutra, 24
Kanchenjunga, 63
Keats, John 15n, 36
Kelley, Sir Edward, 78, 95, 242, 301
Kellner, Karl, 98, 99n.
Kelly, Rose, see Crowley, Rose
Kelly, Sir Gerald, 61, 63, 135, 254
Kemp, Harry, 105–6
Kempinski, restaurant, 136, 199
Kensington, 26–7, 66–7, 104–5, 156, 165, 193, 194, 247–8; South Kensington Station 16
Kensington Gardens, 156, 295
Kerman, Isidore, 149–50, 152, 163, 238
Key and Whiting, bookbinders, 202n.
Key of Solomon, The, 31, 46n., 77
Kilburn, 202
King James Bible, 107, 145
King Street, Hammersmith, 209
King Street, Portman Square, 179
King, Susie, 181
King's Cross, 34n., 41, 180, 181, 185, 248, 251, 259, 284
King's Road, 111, 172
King's Court, 180
Kinnerton Street, 240
Kipling, Rudyard, 292
Kitchener, Lord, 117
Knightsbridge, 130–32, 237
Knights of the Holy Ghost, Order of the, 104
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Order of the, 104
Knights of Malta, Order of, 104
Knights of St John, Order of the, 104
Knott, Norah, 199, 204
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 29
Kranil, Izeh, 287–88
Kubla Khan (Coleridge), 36, 231
Kuntzel, Martha, 221–22
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La Fontaine, Jean, 71–2
Ladbroke Grove, 164
Lambert, Constant, 137, 194
Lambeth, 46
Lamburn, Joan, 238–39
‘Lamia’ (Keats), 36
Lancaster Terrace, 180
Lane, John, 28, 289n.
Langham Chambers, 127
Langham Hotel, 127–8, 236
Langham Street, 126, 209, 229
Last Ritual, The (Harris / AC), 184
Laughing Torso (Hamnett), 116, 149
Laveleye, Victor de, 222
Laver, James, 227, 272
Lawrence, D.H., 118, 122, 139n., 265, 295
Le Gallienne, Richard, 286
‘Leah Sublime’ (AC), 202
Legend of Aleister Crowley, The (Stephensen), 122
Leicester Square 16–17, 18, 55, 133, 146
Leoni's Quo Vadis, 137
Leslie, Dr. W. Murray, 66
Lesser Key of Solomon, The, 31, 46n.
‘Let's All Go Down the Strand’ (popular song), 39
Leverson, Ada, “The Sphinx”, 291
Levi, Eliphas, 42, 142; and necromancy, 143
Levy, Harry, 204
Levy's Sound Studio, 242
Lewenhaupt, Count and Countess, 163–4, 258
Lewis, Rosa, 144, 164
Lewis, Wyndham, 62, 76, 117, 118, 295
Ley-On's, 138
Leyton, 51
Lhasa, Professor from, 79
Liddell, Alice, 86, 262
Life magazine, 177
Lilian, of Dean Street, 206
Lillington St SW1, 195
Lingam-Yoni (Reuss), 99n.
Lisle Street, 209
Literary Ghosts of London (Chancellor) 21
Little Green, Richmond, 225
Little Newport Street, 206
Living in Bloomsbury (Burke), 124n.
Lobb shoemaker, 245n.
Lodge, Dr., 227
‘Lodging for the Night, A’ (Stevenson), 35
London After Dark (Fabian), 82
London Bridge, 79, 295
London, Crowley on 5, 13, 16, 167, 295, and passim
London: A Book of Aspects (Symons), 295
Long Trip, The (Devereux), 35
Looking Glass, The, 81, 85–6
Louisa, of Lisle St, 209
Loveday, Raoul, 114, 115–16, 161
Lowe's chemist, 50–52, 262, 282
Lower Marsh, Waterloo, 132, 204
Lower Regent Street, 133, 154
Luang Prabang 21
Ludendorff, Erich, 222
Ludwig I of Bavaria, 59
Luzac's bookshop and publisher, 73, 126

Macaulay, Thomas, 79
Macdonald, Dr, 226
Macdonell, A.G., 146
Machen, Arthur, 31, 32, 36, 41, 43, 118n., 211, 239, 289, 291
Mackenzie, Kenneth, 42, 43
Macky, Ann, 57n., 246–7
Mad-Doctor Merciful (Brooks), 235
Maddox Street, 212, 229
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 96
‘Magic’ (Yeats), 251
magical voice, 242–3
Magician, The (Maugham) 18–19
Magick in Theory and Practice (AC), 97, 122, 145, 149, 154, 182, 202n.; and instructions for reading, 154–55
Magick Without Tears (AC), 247
Magister Templi, 45, 68, 71, 107, 183
Magus, 45, 107, 109, 215, 281
Maida Vale 18, 41, 57–8, 188, 203, 247n.
Maisky, Ivan, 246
Maison Basque, 235
Maison Bertaux, 228
Maison Desti, Bond Street, 92
Majorca, restaurant, 137
Malory, Sir Thomas, 29, 107
Mandeville Place, 169
Manette Street, 145
Mannin, Ethel, 90, 150, 262
Manning, Miss, landlady, 244, 250
Manor Park Crescent, Edgware, 181n.
Manor Place, Paddington Green, 177ff, 186, 192, 193, 198, 203
Mansfield Street, 120
Mansfield, Katherine, 76, 88
manuscripts in dreams, AC on, 77
Mapleton House, Coventry Street 19
Marble Arch, 208
Marchmont Street, 101
Marchmont, Peggy, see Byrne
Margaret Street, 73
Margaretta Terrace, Chelsea, 90
Margin for Error (film), 248
Mark Masons’ Hall, 44
Marlowe, Christopher, 240–41
Mars, Spirit of, 82, 96
Marsh, Ngaio, 132
Marshall Street, 207
Marston, Commander Guy, R.N., 82–3
Martinists, Order of, 105
Marylebone Police Court, 60, 152, 153
Mason's Arms, 212, 229
Masonry, see Freemasonry
Massenet, Jules 17n.
Mathers, Moina, 41, 54, 197, 302n.
Mathers, Samuel Liddell ‘MacGregor’, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 54–6, 57, 59–60, 63, 68, 77, 80–81, 84, 85–6, 197, 253, 286, 299, 302, 303–4
Maugham, Somerset 18–19, 91n., 290
May, Betty, 62, 93, 115–16, 117, 152, 153, 170, 211
Mayfair 20, 50, 119, 137, 144, 149, 156–7, 158, 175, 180, 226, 228, 235, and passim
Mayfair Hotel, Down Street, 159
McClymont, Annie, 169
Meacher, Thomas and Higgins, chemist, 151
Mecca, 23
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 221–22
Melba, Nellie, 195
Melvill, Ruby, 204
Memodial, AC invention, 197
Messalina 17
Mexico 13, 63
Meyer, Karl, 238
Meynell, Wilfred, 96
Michaud, Jean, 126
middle-class dullness, 45, 297
Milestone Hotel, Kensington Court, 156
Miller, Paxton and Fairminer, auctioneers, 150
Millie, of Langham Street, 208
Milliken and Lawley, 39, 48 n.1
‘Misadventures of John Nicholson, The’ (Stevenson), 35
Modern Book Company, Praed Street, 146–7
Modern Fitness (Dane), 174
Modernism and the Occult (Bramble), 281, 300n.
Modigliani, Amedeo, 115
Mohammed, 63, 107, 109
Moll Flanders (Defoe) 17
Monet, Claude, 35
Monico's, 137
Monmouth Street, 246
Montagu Square, 120, 151
Montalban, Madeline, “Witch of St Giles”, 124, 216
Montez, Lola, 59
Moonchild (AC), 32, 40, 41n., 55, 90, 92, 97, 122, 147
Moonraker (Fleming), 112
Moran, Jessie, 200n.
Mormonism, 24
Mornington Crescent, 251
Morocco, Sultan of, 47
Morris, Elsie, 172, 271
Morris, William, 98n.
Morrison, friend of AC, 228
Morshead Mansions, 180
Mortadello (AC), 192, 198
Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 29n., 107
Mortlake, 23
Morton House, Chiswick, 184, 218
Mosimann, Anton, 216
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 233, 246
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Isherwood), 127, 215
Mudd, Norman, 160–62
Murray, Francis Edwin, printer, 29
Museum Street, 122n., 124–26
music halls 16–17, 288
‘My Wanderings in Search of the Absolute’ (AC), 150
Mysteria Mystica Maxima, 99–100, 104

O’Donnell, Elliott, 106
O’Dwyer, Sir Michael, 83
O’Hara, Dr, 213
Oakley Square, 44n., 45
Observer, The, 75, 214, 215
Oddenino's restaurant and hotel 19, 61, 119, 133, 136, 228, 237
‘Ode to Psyche’ (Keats) 15n.
Ogden, C.K., 125
Oke, doctor or psychiatrist, 167
Old Bailey, 60, 93, 153, 290
Old Brompton Road, 26, 27
Old Cheshire Cheese, 211, 214n.
Old Compton Street, 212
Old Gloucester Street, 178–9, 190
Old Tivoli Theatre, 39, 95
Olympia, 165, 180
Onslow Square, 106
onycha, 52
opal, 65, 261–2
‘Open Letter to Labour’ (AC), 299n.
Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook (AC and Mudd), 160n.
Opium, 24, 50, 83, 140, 287, 288, 301
‘Opium Smoker, The’ (Symons), 288
Orage, A.R., 76
Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis (the Order of the Rose of Ruby and Cross of Gold; R.R. et A.C.), 45
Ordo Templi Orientis, 98–99, 101, 104–5, 131n.
Orientalism, 25, 138, 286, 287
Oriflamme, 105
Orpen, William, 205n.
Orwell, George, 120
Otter, Gwen, 69, 88–90, 111, 150, 160, 224, 262
Outram Road, Croydon, 108
Owen, Alex, 285n.
Owen, Lady Edmee, 196–7
Oxford, 115, 117–18, 122, 240, 297
Oxford Street, 36, 137, 175, 259
‘Ozymandias’ (Shelley), 79

Pace, Sally or Sarah, 202–3
Paddington 20, 64–5, 146–7, 177–181, 212
Paddington Green 20, 176, 177–78, 181, 187, 190
Paddington Hotel, 57
Pagani's restaurant, 137
Page, Jimmy, 220
Pain, Col. J.R., 126
Pall Mall, 81, 111, 182, 250
Pan, 95, 110, 166, 286, 289n., 292, 293; ‘Hymn to Pan’ (AC), 95, 155, 242, 250, 293
Papani, Yannis, 116
Paradise Lost (Milton), 301
Paragon, Richmond, 219–20
Paris Working, 82n., 160
Park Lane, 145, 180
Park Lane Hotel, 146
Park Mansions, Knightsbridge, 130–32
Parker, Lily, 180
Partridge, Christopher, 285n.
patchouli, 287–88; ‘Patchouli’ (AC), 287; ‘Being A Word On Behalf of Patchouli’ (Symons),
Paxton & Whitfield, cheese shop, 244
Peacock, Dr, 227
Pearson's Magazine, 78
Peeping Tom (Powell) 21
Percy Street, 117
Performance (Cammell), 224
Perfumed Garden, The (Burton), 24
Petersburg Square, 146
Petersham Road, Richmond, 188, 219–20
peyote, mescaline, 65, 83, 88, 261–2
Phaedra (Swinburne), 111n.
Philip Morris tobacconists, 133, 164
Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, 145, 239
Phoenix, Mass of the, 105
Phryne 17
Picasso, Pablo, 211
Piccadilly, 18–19, 61, 66, 67, 75, 101–3, 119, 131, 133, 136, 137, 144, 154, 166, 182, 211, 226, 227, 235–6, 237–9, 245, 246, 286; Circus, 18, 19, 61, 133, 137, 154, 237, 244; and vice, 102; and passim
Piccadilly Brasserie, 240, 249
Piccadilly Pavilion, 244
Pickett, Mattie, 192–5
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 301n.
Pigné, André, 166
Pillars of Hercules, pub, 138
Pimlico, 38, 179, 180, 192–97, 208, 213, 294
Pius IX, Pope, 59
Plomer, William, 179
Plough pub, 126
Plowden, Alfred Chichele 14
Plymouth Brethren, 26–7, 31
Poe, Edgar Allan, 161n.
Poland Street, 30, 246
Pollitt, Herbert, 30, 291
Pollock, Peter, 236
Polworth Road, 27, 46
Polygraphiae (Trithemius), 42
Pope Roach, chemist, 132
Porteous Road, 181, 191
Porterfield, Morris Fraser, dentist, 214, 247
Portland Place, 127, 235–6
Portugal 16
Potomac restaurant, 248
Potter & Clarke, chemist, 261–2
Pound, Ezra, 76, 96, 295
Powell, Anthony, 93, 178, 194, 216n., 243, 254, 285, 302n.
Powell, Michael 21
Power, Tyrone, 238
Praed Street, 146–7, 150, 179, 212
Preston, Hayter “Teddy”, 94
Price, Harry, 177
Price, Vincent, 121n.
Pride of Paddington, pub, 212
Primrose Hill, 165
Prince of Wales Drive, 68
Princes Arcade, Jermyn Street, 246
Princes Street, 228
Princess Louise, pub, 101n., 258
Priory Road, 202
Probsthain's, bookshop, 126
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), 151
Prostitutes, 17, 101–2, 179–81, 188–189, 195, 204, 208–9; and passim
Proust, Marcel, 35–6
Prunier's, restaurant, 249
psychogeography 21, 146, 179, and passim
Publicist, The, 122
Punch's Club, Waverton Street, 156
Putney High Street, 250

Quadrant Arcade, 246
Quadriga, Hyde Park Corner, 237
Quarrendon Road, Fulham, 213n.
Queen's House Hotel, Leicester Square, 146
Queen's Square, 166
Queensway, 165
Queer Street, being on, 163, 164

RAC (Royal Automobile) Club , 182
Rachman, Peter, 187
Rae, Gipsy, 181
Ragged Ragtime Girls, 95
Railway Tavern, 204
railway termini 20, 146, 179, 180
Rais, Gilles de, 118n.
Ralston Street, Chelsea, 88–90
Randolph Road, Maida Vale, 58–59
Randolph, Paschal Beverly, 99, 263
Ranke, Leopold von, 79
Rathbone Place, 211
Rauschning, Herman, 222, 279, 296
Rawlinson, chemist, 244
Real Mahatma, A (Crawford), 73
Redburn Street, Chelsea, 160
Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea, 171, 172–3
Redway, George, 31
Regardie, Israel, 128, 130, 243
Regent Street 14n., 19, 61–2, 66, 75, 98–100, 102–3, 115, 118, 127, 136, 138, 228, 236, 246
Regent's Park, 34n., 148, 193
Reich, Wilhelm, 128n.
Rembrandt, 111
Reuss, Theodor, 95, 98–99, 102n., 104, 105, 293n.
Rex de Arte Regia (AC), 101, 102n., 263
Rhodes, B.S. Ltd, moneylender, 163
Rhymers Club, 211
Rialto cinema, Coventry Street, 248
Richards, Grant, 111
Richardson, Arthur, 171
Richardson, Maurice, 210, 213–15
Richardson, Mrs, 171
Richmond, 188, 219–20, 224–25
Richmond Bridge, 223
Richmond Green, 221, 223
Richmond, Keith, 121
Rimbaud, Arthur, 288
Risotto Cheshire Cheese, 211, 214
Rite of Memphis (97 degrees), 105
Rite of Mizraim (90 degrees), 105
Ritz, 91n., 136, 182, 248; Wilde dinner at, 91n., 290
Ritz, Cesar, 91
Rodin, Auguste, 70
Rogers and Co., tailors, 164, 245n.
Rolling Stones, 121
‘Romanticism and Classicism’ (Hulme), 300n.
Romanticism, 139n., 299–301
Rooms of Mystery (O’Donnell), 106
Rops, Felicien de, 30
‘Rosa Alchemica’ (Yeats), 303n.
Rosa Coeli (AC), 76
Rosa Inferni (AC), 76
Rosebery, Lord, 297
Rose Croix of Heredom, Holy Order of, 105
Rosher, Charles, 46
‘Rosicrucian Scandal, The’ (AC), 86
Rosicrucianism, 41, 71, 98, 105, 126, 301n.
Ross, Jean, 129
Ross, Robert, 91n., 290
Rossetti Studios, Chelsea, 96
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 51n.
Rost, Lieut.-Colonel Ernest , 126
Rotha, Paul, 238
Rothenstein, William, 91n.
Rowson, Olga, 60
Rowton House hostel, 162
Royal Arcade, Bond Street, 27–30, 144
Royal Asiatic Society, 34
Royal Court’ diaries 20
Royal Courts of Justice, 39, 80–81, 85
Royal Institution, 144
Royal Oak (now Oak), 212
Royal Ordnance factory, Swynnerton, 205
Royal Watercolours Painters Society, 238
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald), 30
Rupert Street, 206, 209
Russell Square, 111, 171, 176
Russell, Betty, 206
Ruthvah, 185, 274

Sackville Street, 244
Sacred Magic of Abramelin, see Abramelin
Said, Edward, 25
Salomon, see Horos
Sanctuary of Saints, 32, 38, 44
Sanctuary, The (church), 131–2
Sandwich Street, 185–6
Sangorski and Sutcliffe, bookbinders, 30, 246
Santini, Mario, 136, 267
Sargent, John Singer, 106
Sat Bhai, Order of the, 105
Satan, Satanism, 31, 64, 71, 77, 82, 90, 109, 150, 154, 202, 224, 245, 286, 287, 293n., 301
Savoy, hotel and grill restaurant, 39, 51n., 91–2, 93, 95n., 136, 164, 195
Savoy, The, journal, 28, 287, 288
Savoy Turkish Baths, Jermyn Street, 66, 244
Scarlet Women, 109, 110, 127, 130, 132, 167, 192, 197, 263
Scented Garden, The (Burton), 24
Schumann, Robert, 83
Scott's, restaurant 18
Scottsboro Boys, 189
Scrutton, Lord Justice, 85, 86
‘Second Coming, The’ (Yeats), 302–4
Secret Chiefs, 15, 45, 54, 80, 216, 222; Secret Chiefs, The (speaker meetings), 101, 258
Secret Doctrine, The (Blavatsky), 32
Sedgwick, Betty, see Betty May
Selfridge's, 148
Sergeant Pepper, 229
Set, Egyptian god, 63
Seven Stars, The, pub, 163
Sewell, Brian, 51n.
Seymour Street, Marylebone, 152
Shafi's, restaurant, 138
Shaftesbury Avenue, 30, 137, 206, 229, 245
Shakespeare, pub, 193
Shakespeare's Head, pub, 228
Shanghai, restaurant, 138
Sharp, Millie, 206
Shaw, George Bernard, 54, 293
Shaw, Dr Harold Batty, 226
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 18n., 151
Shell-Mex House, 39
Sheridan-Bickers, Horace, 113
Shikars, 208–9, 228, 234
Shivalingam temple, 99n.
Sickert, Walter, 61
Sieveking, Lance, 120
Simpkin & Marshall, 190
Simpson, Alice, 57, 58
Simpson, Elaine, 57, 58, 63
Simpson's, Strand, 39, 93–4, 136
Sinclair Gardens, Hammersmith 14, 180
Sino-Japanese War, 190
‘Sire de Malétroit's Door, The’ (Stevenson), 35
Skipsey, Maurice, see Victor Dane
Sleeping Through Space: Revealing the Amazing Secrets of How to Get What You Want and Keep Well (Cannon), 159
Sleepless Underworld, The (Owen), 196n.
Slesser, Lord Justice, 172
‘Slim Gilt Soul, A’ (AC), 290
Slippery Joe, 221
Smith, Pamela Colman, 183
Smith, Timothy d’Arch 11–12, 125, 234n., 285n.,
Smithers, Leonard, 28–30, 39, 61, 291
Smythson's 20
Snepp, Vera, 65n.
Soames, Enoch, 61, 107, 287, 288
Sobieski Stuarts, 297n.
Social Dance Club, Little Newport Street, 206
Socialist League, 98
Socialists, 295, 299
Soho 16, 19, 115–16, 135–7, 138, 206–7, 228, and passim
Soho Square, 228
Sorcery Club, The (O’Donnell), 106
Sotheby's, 71, 150, 253
South Audley Street, 73–4
South Kensington Station 16
South Sea stick, 150
Southwark, 46
Spare, Austin Osman, 70, 75, 124n., 182
Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse (La Fontaine), 71
Speakers’ Corner, see Hyde Park
Special Branch, 127, 128
Speller, Alice, 220, 229–30, 234, 238–44
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard, 141
spilt religion, romanticism as, 300
Sprengel, Anna, 42–3, 45, 54–55, 59, 80
Spy in the Bag case, 192
Sri Brahma Dara: “Shower from the Highest” (Agamya), 73
St George's, Bloomsbury

St Giles, 124, 216
St Giles’ church, 245
St James's church, Jermyn Street, 244
St James's church, Spanish Place, 233
St James's Place, 119
St James's Street, 44n., 119, 132, 245n., 249
St Luke's, Muswell Hill, psychiatric hospital, 199
St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake, 23
St Mary's Mansions, 64
St Mary's Terrace, Paddington, 64
St Paul's Cathedral, 79
St Peter's Square, Hammersmith, 188
Stafford Street, 50–52, 144
Stag Brewery, Pimlico, 38
Stanton, Catherine, landlady, 177, 181, 193
Stanwick Road, West Kensington, 193
Star in the West, The (Fuller), 69
Star Sound Studios, 242
Stationers Hall Court, 190
Stead, W.T., 78
Steadman, Van Praagh and Naylor, 81
Steiner, Rudolf, 182, 246
Stella Matutina, 216, 302n.
Stent Lodge, Forest Hill, 41
Stephensen, Percy Reginald, 118, 122–3
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 35, see also Jekyll and Hyde
Stewart, Meum, 182
Stoker, Bram, 24–5
Strand, 38–40, 48n., 80, 91, 93, 95, 102, 163
Strand, The (magazine), 39
Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount, 170
Streatham, 27, 46, 294
Striptease Lady (film), 248
Strydom, Johannes, 233
Stuart's Domestic Agency, Fulham, 131
Stulik, Rudolf, 117, 118
Sturges, Mary d’Este, 91–2
Sturges, Solomon, 92
suburbs, prejudice against, 27, 108n.
Suffolk Street, 81
Sulka's, Bond Street, 245n.
Sullivan, J.W.N., 123
Summers, Reverend Montague, 224–25, 228
Sunday Referee, The, 150, 212
Sunlight Cure, The (Dane), 174
Sunningfields Road, Hendon, 139
Surbiton, 171
Suster, Gerald, 128n.
Swaffield Road, 132
Swallow Street, 136, 137, 211
Swan pub, Hammersmith, 209, 212
swastika, 222, 279, 298
Swinburne, Algernon, 24, 70, 83, 95, 111n., 291, 293
Swiss Pub (Comptons), 212
Symbolism, 286, 288, 300, 301n.
Symbolist Movement in Literature, The (Symons), 288
Symonds, John, 33, 188, 229, 233, 274
Symons, Arthur 18n., 261, 288–9, 291, 295

Tamashas, 231–2, 234
Tankerville, Earl of, 66
Tantra, 99n., 139n.
Taphthartharath, spirit of the planet Mercury, 54
Tarot, 41, 183, 213, 218, 229, 231, 238, 246
Tarrasch Trap (chess manouevre), 28
Tedworth Square, Chelsea, 88
Temple (Knights Templar), Order of the, 104
Templars, 42, 99, 100, 104
‘Temple of Solomon the King, The’ (Fuller and AC), 80
Temple of the Orient, Order of the, see Ordo Templi Orientis
Thais 17
Tharp, Runia, 126
The Man Who Came to Dinner (film), 248
Thelema, Abbey of, 109, 111, 112, 113, 228
Theobalds Road , 165
Theodora 17
Theosophy, 32, 41, 45, 98, 99, 128, 182, 242
They Got Me Covered (film), 248, 284
This Gun for Hire (film), 248
Thistle Grove, 26-7; see also Drayton Gardens
Thomas, Dylan, 139, 211–12, 228
Thompson, Edith, Thompson and Bywaters case, 153
Thomson, James, 145
Thomson, Dr William Brown, 227
Thoth, 121n., 293, Book of Thoth (AC), 30, 183
Three Inquisitive People (Wheatley), 156
Thynne, Major Robert, 172
Tiger Woman (May), 116
Titanic, R.M.S., 30; Titanic, The (AC), 292–3
To The Devil - A Daughter (Wheatley), 109
Todd, Dennes and Lamb, see Dennes and Co.
Todd, Ruthven, 211
Tom Brown tailor, Conduit Street, 245n.
tom-tom drumming, 82–3
Took's Court, Holborn, 29, 76
Torch Theatre, 240–41
Torquay, 92, 228, 230, 244
Tottenham Court Road, 37, 180, 187
Trafalgar Square, 189
Tressillian Road, Brockley, 160n.
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 297–8
Trinity College, Cambridge, 28, 120
Trithemius, Johann, 42
Trocadero, Piccadilly 18
Trotsky, Leon, 246
True and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits, A (Casaubon), 78
Turkish baths, 66, 176, 244, 249
Ubu Roi (Jarry), 302
unconscious, 57n., 63–4, 139n., 286
Unexplained Mysteries of the World, 177n.
unguentum Sabbati, 52
Unlucky Mummy (British Museum), 78
Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly), 302n.
Upper Gloucester Place, 151n.
Upper Montagu Street, 151, 152
Urban, Hugh, 99n.
Uricedin, 169
Usher, Mrs Meg, 173

Waddell, Leila, 82–3, 95, 102
Wagner, Richard, 95, 98, 298
Waite, A.E., 31–2, 33, 188, 302n.
Wakeford, Phyllis, 187–88, 200
Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, 151n., 164
Wallen, John, 25n.
Wallis, dentist, 247
Walpole, Horace, 78, 79
Wandering Bishops (Episcopi Vagantes), 131
Warburg Institute, 121
Ward's Irish House, 237
Warlock, Peter, see Heseltine
Warren Drive, Surbiton, 171
Warrilow, Jane, 172
Warwick Road, West Kensington, 66–7
Warwick Way, 197
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 246, 295
Waterloo, 132, 180, 204
Watkins bookshop, 31–3, 38, 48, 133, 198n.
Watkins, John, 32–3
Watson Turner, dental practice, 127
Waugh, Evelyn, 88, 144
Waverton Street, 156
Welbeck Street, Marylebone, 168–70, 171, 190, 248
Wellington Square, 111–12, 244
Wellington Villas, Isleworth, 42
Wells, H.G., 36, 91n., 290
West End, 16–19, and passim; in wartime, 249–50
West Halkin Street, Belgravia, 216
West London Hospital, Hammersmith, 172
West Middlesex Hospital, 180
Westbourne Hotel, 212
Westcott, Dr William Wynn, 41–5, 54, 80, 211
Westminster Abbey, 142, 143
Westminster Bank 19
Westminster Cathedral, 237n.
Wetton, Peggy, 198–200, 204, 205, 212, 213
What Rough Beast? (Benney), 214n.
Wheatley, Dennis, 72, 89, 105, 109, 154, 156–7, 260
Wheatsheaf, pub, 211
Whineray, E.P., 51–2, 66, 144, 261–2
Whistler, James, 30, 35
Whitby, Lucy, 187
White Stains (AC), 28
White Tower, 118, 136, 205, 214
White's Oysters, 137
Whiteley, Cecil, 153
Whiteley's, Bayswater; and ‘Furniture Depository’ Avonmore Road, 165, 178
Why Not? (Bankes), 88
Wigmore Street, 151
Wilcox, Mary, 195
Wilde, Constance, 41
Wilde, Oscar 13, 28, 60n., 61, 62, 64, 70, 91, 127, 239, 289–91, 301–2
Wilkinson, Louis Umfreville, 140, 177, 199, 210, 219, 235, 242, 247, 250
Williams, Dora, 206, 209
Williams, Lilian, 180, 273
Wilson, Edmund, 301n.
Wilson, Maisie, 189
Wilson, Mary, 189
Wilson, Rose, 195, 200n.
Wilton Diptych, 166
Wilton Place, 240–41
Wimpole Street, 127
Windmill Street, 138, 188, 206
Windsor Castle, pub, 212
Witchcraft-Magic: An Adventure in Demonology (Vincent Price LP), 121n.
Witkowski, Georg, 58
Woburn Walk, 55
Wodehouse, P.G., 158
Woking, 292
Wolfe, Jane, 112
Wolfenden Report, 208
Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS, Wrens), 205
Woodford, Reverend A.F.A., 42
Woodman, Dr William Robert, 41, 42, 43, 54
World's End, 172, 180
World's Tragedy, The (AC), 65, 263, 299
Wratislaw, Theodore 18n.,
Wyllie, Tom, 247n.

Yeats, W.B., 32, 41, 43, 55–56, 58, 77, 211, 247, 251, 286, 287, 295, 302–4
Yeats, Jack B., 302
Yellow Book, The 13, 28, 285, 291
Yeoman House, Haymarket 18, 119
Yoga, 63, 118, 173, 214, 234, 282; Yoga (Fuller), 73
York House, Southampton Row, 165
York Street, Covent Garden, 31
York Street, Marylebone, 212
Yorke, Gerald, 118, 120–21, 122, 127, 130, 132, 135, 181, 191, 197, 204, 221
Yorke, Philip, 120
Yorkshire Grey pub, Langham Street, 212, 229
Young, Peggy, 195
Young's, Chinese restaurant, 138

Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder, 29
Zanoni (Bulwer-Lytton), 134
Zeppelin raids, 107–8
Zitelli, Joseph, 133
Zoo, London, 165, 193