New Britain herald., 1928-05-09

ulRnt elup OenNVloI, Uut WlLu u1IlegenCe in results, drew me over to him. and wilt shall be the whole of the IawP
 ward that that ii always his opening line. lt's part of bis funny pagan
 ritual Then hs began working
 his eyebrow fast, just like old
 Svengau himself I'm telling you.
 that may have got results in the
 naughty nineties. but 1t seemed just . wee bit ham to me. <.
 "Then hs told nc that l was <
 Nuit his lady of the starry
 heavens, that l should take my s
 fill of love. that my ecstasy was
 his, and his joy was to see my toy.
 l was simply aghast, but l lot him s## carry on just for the fun of the <. thing. Then when hs came up for
 air l answered
 'Listsn,' l said. you ought to zee Jung He does . lot for cases
 like you. You have . Messianic
 complex because you were dropped
 in . pulpit % . child, or some.
 thing. Any behaviorist could tell at . glance you haven't been properly con- ditioned. Your reactions are dated. and your manifestations of ego show desire to escape from actualitieA Besides, your s! chemistry is different from mine. don't
 really think that pretty Miss 1928 is . little hard on tho famous Alsistsr Crowley. have known him for yeap. and have often found him . delightful companion. He is . man of tremendous energy. mountain climber, explorer. nov. elist painter a well as King of the Devil Cults Hs is also . poet of some dis. tinction.
 But the reaction of this 22.year-old child shows why Crowley's astonishing power has ned, why hs is no longer feared. The world has advanced and hs has grown older. His dark, mysterious power = and hs undoubtedly had it. fades before the shibbolethe of the new, materialistic generation. Jung, Freud. Adler and the 6ehavioristic psychologists. which Miss 1928 drew on 60 amusingly by way of reprisal. have done for him.
 Those who hated and bounded him around the globe, called him monster" "Satanist' and "Sadist." now snap their fingers in derision. The king is deposed!
 Crowley still has his followers in Paris. who tried to give the "Beast" . welcome on his return from "death," but their number has dwindled to . pitiabls few. Yet this bald-headed man with the hypnotic eyes was only . few year, ago the sef-proclaimed Anti Christ" the head of tho celebrated 70. T. O." cult, with secrst branches all over the world. Many people. including Crowley himself, believed hs could perform miracles.
 He fJt became widely known in tho London of the nineties e . brilliant young poet You will 6nd . number of his poems in the Oxford Book of Mys- tical vens. His friends were the most distinguished writers, artists shd diplo- mats of the Yellow Book daya Then hs turned to mysticism % . cult, and to drugs, but was never snslaved by them.
 Crowley never did anything half way. His researches in ancient religious and mystical belisfs consumed years. Hs probably knows a much about these sub 3scts e any man wing today. He emerged from these studies to found the cult of 70. I. o." founded on the an- eisnt practices of the Rosicrucian Order and the Cnostiea
 But Crowley wss not satis6ed with the tsachings of books; hs went among DO. pie. Hs lived for thrss menths among Hindu rs1i0ieus fakirs and starved him. self % they did. He walked across China, he studied the Iayan and Aztec religions in Mexico.
 When hs started his cult everything went swimminsly at first Hs was hand.
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