Full name: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autobiography

Author: Aleister Crowley Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140191899 0140191895

Aleister Crowley's autobiographical confessions are a fascinating record of his lifetime's journey into Strange regions of consciousness. A 'saint' of the 'Gnostic' church, Crowley subtitled his six-volume work 'an autohagiography'. He describes his initiation into magic, his world-wide travels and mistresses, his experiments with sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous Book of the Law which contains the gospel that Crowley proclaimed for all mankind: the Law of Thelema, or Do What Thou Wilt. Generations before his time, Crowley invoked sex, drugs, and Eastern philosophy in his perpetual and often bizarre search for self-realization. The Confessions, skillfully edited and annotated by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, serves as the perfect introduction to Crowley's extraordinary life and thought. Similar books: The Eye in the Triangle by Israel Regardie Peradurabo by Richard Kaczynski My Life With the Spirits by Lon Milo DuQuette The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley A language older than words by Derrick Jensen A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden Force of circumstance by Simone de Beauvoir 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Karate-Do by Gichin Funakoshi Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel The Wheel of Life by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross