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Aleister Crowley: the beast 666

There he was, among the many faces of the album par excellence "Sgt Pepper and the Lonely Heart Club Band ".
the world's most famous cover, there are words of the Beatles: "Above us are the faces of the people we value most." Among Gandhi Lewis Carroll and Crowley also appear here.
"Do what you want," was his mantra, becoming the first commandment with his followers.
But what exactly did he, Mr. Aleister Crowley?
to unveil the mystery of his life thinks John Symonds, his pupil and lawful literary executor, who through the pages of this biography, published by Edizioni Mediterranee shows us the dark side, hidden or not, one of the most influential of the century last year. Symonds reveals the highly controversial figure, considered the founder of the modern occult if not as one of the leading members of Satanism, including its rigorous and honest thought in his classes on time where the denial some companies boasted of his master, trying to uncover the truth, albeit not absolute, this master of darkness. Crowley was one of the most influential men of his century, considered the master in some circles of power, is also excellent as a mountaineer, applications in other fields such as poetry, where the Irish poet Yeats says that this is a fool but a fool could to write six lines of true poetry, something not all receive the compliments of such a poet, even for only six verses. Painter, the book includes a collection of his paintings convinced subversive of bourgeois values, so long to arrive to build the structure of its signing as a kind of foul. Like Cagliostro, is considered a key figure in the history of the new magical movements. A Crowley is assigned the highest attempt to create a "religion of magic 'for the contemporary period and its influence on contemporary magic has been remarkable. A curious and engaging book.

John Symonds
Aleister Crowley The Beast 666
Edited by Sebastiano Fusco
Ohara
illustrations -16 10 color plates outside the text
600 pp.Euro 39.50