Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (34 page)

Over the last twenty years the Swiss O.T.O. have been responsible for the German translation and publication of many of Crowley’s works.
¹
They have also staged a production of Crowley’s mystery-play
The Heart of the Master
and established an Abbey of Thelema in the heart of rural Switzerland.

In 1971 Liz Miller and I visited the Swiss Abbey of Thelema and were impressed by its almost Shangri-La type self-sufficiency; the Swiss Crowleyans have their own church, complete with bell-tower, their own printing press, their own alchemical laboratory where they engage in the production of ‘Paracelsian’ remedies, their own hotel, the Gasthof Rose, and even their own paint factory! We found Frater
Paragranus
and his fellow-workers to be dedicated occultists, working extremely hard at their chosen tasks, yet managing to retain that streak of hard commonsense which is lacking in so many esotericists. We attended the Swiss version of Crowley’s Gnostic Mass and were impressed by both its beauty and the economy of its performance. The one thing we did
not
find were the type of sexual orgies engaged in by Crowley at his Sicilian Abbey; but, of course, we hadn’t expected to!

¹
Notably
Book Four
(parts I and II),
Magick in Theory and Practice, Eight Lectures on Yoga
and
The Heart of the Master
. German versions of Crowley’s
Liber Legis
and many O.T.O. documents have also been produced.

A
VALON
, Arthur.
Principles of Tantra
(Madras, Ganesh and Co. 1955)

—,
The Serpent Power
(Madras, Ganesh and Co. 1958)

—,
Shakti and Shakta
(Madras, Ganesh and Co. 1953)

—,
Garland of Letters
(Madras, Ganesh and Co. 1953)

—,
The Great Liberation
(Madras, Ganesh and Co. 1952)

B
ATHURST
, Leila.
Manifesto of the M.M.M
. (London, M.M.M. 1913)

B
HARATI
, Agehananda.
The Tantric Tradition
(London, Rider & Co. 1965)

B
HATTACHARYA
, Benoytosh.
Buddhist Esoterism
(London, Oxford University Press, 1932)

—,
Buddhist Iconography
(Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959)

B
LOCH
, Ivan.
Sexual Life of Our Time
(London, Rebman, 1908)

C
AVENDISH
, Richard.
The Black Arts
(London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967)

C
HUBB
, Ralph.
Manhood. A Poem
(Published by the author, 1924)

—,
The Sacrifice of Youth
(Published by the author, 1924)

—,
A Fable of Love and War
(Published by the author, 1925)

—,
The Cloud and the Voice
(Published by the author, 1927)

—,
The Book of God’s Madness
(Published by the author, 1928)

—,
Woodcuts
(London, Andrew Bloch, 1928)

—,
An Appendix
(Published by the author, 1929)

—,
Songs of Mankind
(Published by the author, 1930)

—,
The Sun Spirit
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1931)

—,
The Heavenly Cupid
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1934)

—,
Songs Pastoral and Paradisal
(The Tintern Press, 1935)

—,
Water Cherubs
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1937)

—,
The Secret Country
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1939)

—,
The Child of Dawn
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1948)

—,
Flames of Sunrise
(Lithographed and published by the author, 1954)

—,
Treasure Trove
(Lithographed and published by the authtor 1957),

—,
The Golden City
(Lithographed by the author and posthumously published by his sister, 1961)

C
ROWLEY
, Aleister.
White Stains
(Supposedly Amsterdam 1898, but may well have been produced in London by Leonard Smithers)

—,
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
(Privately printed,
circa
1904, Brussels (?))

—,
Collected Works
(3 vols. in one) (Boleskine, S.P.R.T. 1907)

—,
Bahg-I-Muattar
(London, privately printed, 1910. Probsthain acted as distributors)

—,
777
(London, Neptune Press, 1951)

—,
Book of Lies
(London, Wieland and Co. 1913 (?))

—,
Magick in Theory and Practice
(Paris, Lecram, 1929)

—,
Confessions
(London, Cape, 1969)

(See
also under
EQUINOX
,
a periodical largely written by Crowley
)

C
ULLING
, Louis T.
Complete Magic Curriculum
(Minnesota, Llewellyn, 1969)

D
’ARCH
S
MITH
, Timothy.
Ralph-Nicholas Chubb: prophète et pédéraste
(an article in Arcadie, March, 1963, pp. 137–44)

—,
Love in Earnest
(London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970)

D
ASGUPTA
, Shashibhusan.
Obscure Religious Cults
(Calcutta, University Press, 1946)

—,
Introduction to Tantric Buddhism
(Calcutta, University Press, 1950)

D
AVENPORT
, John.
Aphrodisiacs and Antiaphrodisiacs
(London, Hotten(?), 1869)

D
AVID
-N
EEL
, Alexandra.
Initiations and Initiates in Tibet
(London, Rider and Co. 1932)

E
QUINOX
, T
HE
.
Volume I, Number
1 (London, Simpkin Marshall, March, 1909)

—,
Volume I, Number
2 (as above, but September, 1909)

—,
Volume I, Number
3 (as above, but March, 1910)

—,
Volume I, Number
4 (London, Published by Aleister Crowley, September, 1910)

—,
Volume I, Number
5 (As above, but March, 1911)

—,
Volume I, Number
6 (London, Wieland and Co., September, 1911)

—.
Volume I, Number
7 (As above, but March 1912)

—,
Volume I, Number
8 (As above, but September, 1912)

—,
Volume I, Number
9 (As above, but March, 1913)

—,
Volume I, Number
10 (As above, but September, 1913)

—,
Volume III, Number
1 (Detroit, Universal Publishing, 1919)

—,
Volume III, Number 3 (The Equinox of the Gods
) (London, O.T.O. 1936)

—,
Volume III, Number 4 (Eight Lectures on Yoga
) (London, O.T.O. 1939)

—,
Volume III, Number 5 (The Book of Thoth
) (London, O.T.O. 1944)

—,
Volume III, Number 6 (The Book of Wisdom of Folly
) (California, Thelema Publishing Co. 1961)

E
VANS
-W
ENTZ
, W. Y.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
(London, Oxford University Press, 1928)

—,
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines
(London, Oxford University Press, 1935)

—,
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(London, Oxford University Press, 1954)

F
ULLER
, Jean Overton.
The Magical Dilemma of Victor B. Neuburg
(London, W. H. Allen, 1965)

G
ARDNER
, Gerald.
Witchcraft Today
(London, Arrow Books, 1966)

G
UENTHER
, H. V.
Life and Teachings of Naropa
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963)

H
OWARD
, Clifford.
Sex and Religion
(London, Williams and Norgate, 1929)

J
ENNINGS
, Hargrave.
The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries
(London, John Camden Hotten, 1870)

—,
Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial
(London, Redway, 1884)

K
ING
, Francis.
Ritual Magic in England
(London, Neville Spearman, 1970)

K
NIGHT
, Richard Payne.
Essay on the Worship of Priapus
(London, Hotten, 1865)

L
AVER
, James.
The First Decadent
(London, Faber and Faber, 1954)

L
EVI
, Eliphas.
History of Magic
(London, Rider and Co. 1968)

L
UK
, Charles.
Taoist Yoga
(London, Rider and Co. 1971)

M
OSSIKER
, Frances.
The Affair of the Poisons
(London, Gollancz, 1970)

N
ETHERCOT
, Arthur.
The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant
(Chicago, University Press, 1963)

O
LIVER
, George.
History of Initiation
(London, privately printed, 1829)

R
EGARDIE
, Francis Israel.
My Rosicrucian Adventure
(Minnesota, Llewellyn, 1971)

—,
Golden Dawn
(4 vols. in 2) (As above, but 1969)

—,
Tree of Life
(New York, Weiser, 1969)

—,
Art of True Healing
(Toddington, Helios Books, 1964)

—,
Philosopher’s Stone
(Minnesota, Llewellyn, 1970)

—,
Eye in the Triangle
(as above)

—,
Enochian Dictionary
(Texas, Sangreal Foundation, 1971)

R
EICH
, Wilhelm.
The Sexual Revolution
(London, Vision Press, 1952)

—,
Mass Psychology of Fascism
(New York, Orgone Institute Press, 1946)

—,
Function of the Orgasm
(London, Panther Books, 1968)

—,
The Cancer Biopathy
(New York, Orgone Institute Press, 1948)

—,
Ether, God or Devil
(Maine, Orgone Institute Press, 1951)

—,
Cosmic Superimposition
(Maine, Orgone Institute Press, 1951)

—,
The Oranur Experiment
(Maine, Orgone Institute Press, 1951)

—,
The Murder of Christ
(Maine, Orgone Institute Press, 1953)

—,
Contact with Space
(New York, Core Pilot Press, 1957)

—,
Selected Writings
(London, Vision Press, 1961)

R
HODES
, H. F. T.
The Satanic Mass
(London, Arrow Books, 1965)

R
OHMER
, Sax.
Romance of Sorcery
(New York, Paperback Library, 1970)

R
USSELL
, C. F.
Znuss is Znees
(California, privately printed, 1970)

S
EABROOK
, William.
Witchcraft
(London, Sphere Books, 1970)

—,
Magic Island
(New York, Harcourt Brace, 1929)

S
MYTH
, Frank.
Modern Witchcraft
(London, Macdonald Unit 75, 1970)

S
TEIGER
, Brad.
Sex and Satanism
(New York, Ace Books, 1969)

S
UMMERS
, Montague.
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
(London, Kegan Paul, 1926)

—,
The Geography of Witchcraft
(London, Kegan Paul, 1927)

—,
The Discovery of Witches
(London, Cayme Press, 1928)

—,
The Vampire, His Kith and Kin
(London, Kegan Paul, 1928)

—,
The Vampire in Europe
(London, Kegan Paul, 1929)

—,
The Werewolf
(London, Kegan Paul, 1933)

—,
A Popular History of Witchcraft
(London, Kegan Paul, 1937)

—,
Witchcraft and Black Magic
(London, Rider and Co. 1946)

—,
The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
(London, Rider and Co. 1950)

T
UCCI
, Giuseppe.
Theory and Practice of Mandala
(London, Rider and Co. 1961)

W
ALKER
, Benjamin.
Sex and the Supernatural
(London, Macdonald Unit 75, 1970)

W
ATTS
, Alan W. (editor).
The Two Hands of God—The Myths of Polarity
(New York, G. Braziller, 1963)