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Aleister Crowley, the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton ; foreword by Frank van Lamoen

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Aleister Crowley, the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic, Tobias Churton ; foreword by Frank van Lamoen

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Main title

Aleister Crowley

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electronic resource eBook

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Tobias Churton ; foreword by Frank van Lamoen

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the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic

Summary

Known to his friends affectionately as "The Beast," Crowley saw the closing lights of Berlin's artistic renaissance of the Weimar period when Berlin played host to many of the world's most outstanding artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, composers, architects, philosophers, and scientists, including Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Ethel Mannin, Otto Dix, Aldous Huxley, Jean Ross, Christopher Isherwood, and many others. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diary material by Crowley, Tobias Churton examines Crowley's years in Berlin and his intense focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with German Theosophy, Freemasonry, and magical orders. He recounts the fates of Crowley's colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley's lost art exhibition--six crates of paintings left behind in Germany as the Gestapo was closing in. Revealing the real Crowley long hidden from the historical record, Churton presents "the Beast" anew at a blazing, seminal moment in world history

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