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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: The Adventure
Chapter 1: A Special Relationship
1898: A DIPLOMAT MANQUÉ
RECRUITED AT CAMBRIDGE?
CROWLEY AND THE CARLISTS
CROWLEY AND “MACGREGOR” MATHERS
Chapter 2: The Song of the Sea
Chapter 3: Out of the Frying Pan, into New York
Chapter 4: The Eagle and the Snake: Mexico City
THE TWO REPUBLICS
Chapter 5: Chevalier O’Rourke and The Mexican Herald
Chapter 6: The Mother’s Tragedy
POST SCRIPT: THE LAST LAUGH
Chapter 7: Return to New York 1906
Chapter 8: Art in America
JOHN QUINN
Part Two: The Furnace
Chapter 9: 1914
Chapter 10: The Sinews of War
GERMANS COME SHOPPING
MEANWHILE IN LONDON . . .
CAP IN HAND, TO THE SAVAGES FOR COWRIES
Chapter 11: My Egg Was Addled
WHAT THE PAPERS SAID
Chapter 12: Lower into the Water
Chapter 13: The Magick of a New York Christmas: World War I Style
JOHN O’HARA COSGRAVE, EVANGELINE ADAMS, AND FRANK CROWNINSHIELD
Chapter 14: Toward the Fatherland
INTO THE DARK LAIR
GETTING IN WITH THE GERMANS
MÜNSTERBERG
Chapter 15: Getting Hotter
PHILADELPHIA: CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
THE LUSITANIA
Chapter 16: Jeanne
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STUNT
NORMAL SERVICE RESUMES
Chapter 17: The Wrong Thing at the Right Time
Chapter 18: The Way West
VANCOUVER
Chapter 19: California Welcomes the World
SAN FRANCISCO
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN BEAST, O GOD
Chapter 20: Replacement Therapy
THE SPYING GAME
Chapter 21: The Owl and the Monkey Went to Sea
PHILADELPHIA
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
Chapter 22: Aleister Crowley’s Psychedelic Summer
DR. CROWLEY THE NIGHT-TRIPPER
ANOTHER CROWLEY, ANOTHER PLACE
THE BOOK T
THE BALL OF FIRE
STAUROS BATRACHOU
Chapter 23: Crowley on Christ
SHAW TAKES A PASTING
Chapter 24: Nothingness with Twinkles
THE STAR SPONGE VISION
Chapter 25: New Orleans—and Bust
Chapter 26: The Butterfly Net
Chapter 27: Suffer the Little Children
THE AFFIDAVIT
Chapter 28: The International
SECRET SERVICE INTERVIEW
Chapter 29: Enter the Camel
Chapter 30: It’s All in the Egg
AMALANTRAH
ENTER SAMUEL AIWAZ JACOBS
Chapter 31: Unholy Holiness at 64a West Ninth Street
MEETING LEAH HIRSIG
EVA TANGUAY
Chapter 32: Island
THE REDHEAD STRIKES
VISIONS
THE BLUE EQUINOX
Part Three: Escape
Chapter 33: Genius Row
THELEMA IN DETROIT
Chapter 34: Summer in Montauk—and a Thousand Years Ago
Chapter 35: End Game
Chapter 36: Legacy
THE O.T.O. IN AMERICA
THE CHURCH OF THELEMA
JACK PARSONS: ROCKET MAN
L. RON HUBBARD
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BEAST IN AMERICA?
EK-STASIS
Appendix 1: (Simeon) Leon Engers (Kennedy) (1891–1970) by Frank van Lamoen, Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Appendix 2: Sale Catalog from the Auction of the John Quinn Collection
A NOTE BY JOHN QUINN
ALEISTER CROWLEY [CATALOGUE SUMMARY; AUTHOR UNKNOWN, POSSIBLY QUINN, POSSIBLY JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER.]
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
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