"This book was written in 1917, during such leisure as my efforts to bring America into the War on our side allowed me. Hence my illusions on the subject, and the sad showing of Simon Iff at the end. Need I add that, as the book itself demonstrates beyond all doubt, all persons and incidents are purely the figment of a disordered imagination?"So begins the cattiest, messiest novel from infamous transcriber of the Book of Lies, the Beast Himself, Aleister Crowley(18751947). Hiding behind the guise of fiction, Moonchild is Crowleys platform to throw shade at his nemeses in Englands spiritualist circles the Theosophists, Christian Scientists, The Society for the Psychical Researchnone are spared Crowleys sardonic quips. He trashes Madame Blavatsky as a fraud and darkly hints that Anne Besantlike himselfmay have had hidden connections to the shadowy underbelly of metaphysical military intelligences.Crowleys main ire is reserved for "black magicians" such as Arthur Edward Waite and MacGregor Mathers, whose thinlyveiled fictionalized selves haunt Moonchild as its primary antagonists, captives of the evil forms of magick they have chained themselves to.The narrative follows the initiation of "Lisa la Giuffria" (a representation of Crowleymuse Mary DEste) into the White Lodge, recruited to fill the role of the Goddess Artemis in a secret Experiment that could reorder the future of all humankind. It is in these passages that Crowley reveals some of the technical mechanisms of his...

Binding: Paperback;458 pages; Publisher: Jabberwoke; Classification: N/A; Weight: 488.77 g; Dimensions: N/A

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