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02677aam a22004098i 4500 001 1FF69AC2505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 003 SILO 005 20190327010156 008 140313s2014 vtua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2013038783 020 $a 1620552566 020 $a 9781620552568 035 $a (OCoLC)879400374 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ORX $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a BF1598.C7 $b C58 2014 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Churton, Tobias, $d 1960- $9 806469 245 10 $a Aleister Crowley : $b the Beast in Berlin : art, sex, and magick in the Weimar Republic / $c Tobias Churton ; Introduction by Frank van Lamoen. 264 1 $a Rochester, Vermont : $b Inner Traditions, $c 2014. 300 $a xix, 386 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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 Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diary material by Crowley, Tobias Churton examines Crowley's years in Berlin and his intense focus on his art, his work as a spy for British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. 600 10 $a Crowley, Aleister, $d 1875-1947 $x Travel $z Berlin. $z Berlin. 650 0 $a Occultists $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Magicians $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Artists $z England $v Biography. $9 852789 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. $9 853320 650 0 $a Art $z Berlin $z Berlin $x History. 650 0 $a Art and society $z Berlin $z Berlin $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1918-1933. $9 253949 650 0 $a Magic $z Berlin. $z Berlin. 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909032941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FF69AC2505611E99CDA2C4797128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search