num_pages: 960
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
titlecomplete: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
genres: Occult, Autobiography, Memoir, Religion, Magick, Biography Memoir, Spirituality, Thelema, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 773
publisher: Penguin Books