Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

Pasi, Marco

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“…The infatuation for magic also existed among Fascist intellectuals in Italy and was not uncommon decades later among neo‐ and post‐Fascists (Ponzetta 2005). The writings of Crowley enjoyed some popularity among British rockstars in the 1970s (Fast 2001; White 2019) and are still the object of scholarly inquiry (Pasi 2014). And if the analyses by Asprem (2020) and Magliocco (2020a, 2020b) are correct, portions of the American society are still actively practicing magic or, at least, did so at the time of Trump's election.…”

Section: Modernization and Traditional Beliefsmentioning

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Modernization, Superstition, and Cultural Change

Pelizzo,

Turganov,

Kuzenbayev

2023

World Affairs

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By exploring the relationship between socioeconomic development, secularism, and the pervasiveness of traditional beliefs, this article shows that while some traditional practices and beliefs, such as making use of traditional healers, are negatively and significantly related to several development indicators, there is little to no detectable (statistical) relationship between other traditional beliefs and practices, such as believing in and seeing a jinn, and development. The evidence presented in the article sustains the claim, advanced at the turn of the millennium by Inglehart and Baker, that the impact of socioeconomic development on values, attitudes, and cultural change is complex and non-linear.

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Modernization, Superstition, and Cultural Change

Pelizzo,

Turganov,

Kuzenbayev

2023

World Affairs

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“…General Fuller, a Thelemite, was a member of Mitrinović's The New Britannia for a while. 44 The connection between The New Britannia and Mitrinović and Crowley and O. T. O. attracted the attention of conspiracy theorists of that time, mostly those of Catholic orientation. 45 Although Fuller, being dissatisfied due to the fact that the group was insufficiently organised, switched to Mosley's fascist movement, he did not sever connections with Mitrinović.…”

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The Sexual-Mystical Sophianism of Dimitrije Mitrinović

Radulović¹

2022

Dimitrije Mitrinović

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“…Del Campo 1994; DuQuette 2003), which can be supplemented with the multitude of academic studies of Crowley and his personal attitudes and beliefs (i.e. in Bogdan and Starr 2012a;Pasi 2014).…”

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Lucifer Over Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle

White

2016

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One of the great figureheads of American experimental cinema, Kenneth Anger (b.1927), is internationally renowned for his pioneering work, recognisable for its blend of homoerotica, popular and classical music, and dark, symbolist imagery. A follower of Thelema, the religion of infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), Anger’s work is imbued with occult themes and undercurrents rarely comprehensible to the non-initiated viewer. In exploring these esoteric ideas, Anger makes use of archaeology and heritage in his short films Eaux d’Artifice (1953) and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954–66), as well as in the lost films The Love That Whirls (1949) and Thelema Abbey (1955), which utilize such disparate elements as Aztec human sacrifice and putative Renaissance Satanism. However, this theme only reaches its apex in Lucifer Rising (1980), an exploration of Thelemic theology filmed at such sites as Avebury, Luxor, and Karnak, which reflects and propagates the Thelemic view of the past—an ‘alternative archaeology’ rooted in Crowley’s own fascination with Egyptomania. This paper seeks to explore Anger’s use of the past and place it in its proper context of twentieth-century Western esotericism.

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Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

Cited by 7 publications

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Modernization, Superstition, and Cultural Change

Modernization, Superstition, and Cultural Change

The Sexual-Mystical Sophianism of Dimitrije Mitrinović

Lucifer Over Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle

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