Biography of an Industrialist Britannica vers. 11 is typically first-rate, giving more incisive information than the online watered down version, but sometimes, as in the industrialist Henry Ford, they leave you wanting, wondering how they ignored him as he was reaching his height when they started the edition in 1908. Instead for a brief biography, we... Continue Reading →
C574 Do as thou wilt: Aleister Crowley
Aleister and Rose on the Cairo honeymoon Aleister Crowley wrote prodigiously. His works “The Book of the Law”, “Magick in Theory and Practice,” Diary of Drug Fiend and “The Book of Thoth” are almost de rigueur reading for occultists. His tarot deck, the Thoth Tarot, is nonpareil. It was created with Lady Frieda Harris... Continue Reading →
C102 Crowley’s Congenital Idiot
Astrologer Evangeline Adams has this as her first chart in her 1927 book, "A Place in the Stars." Aleister Crowley who helped edit the book also has it in his Compleat Works. It is for an unknown woman whom they give the epithet, "Congenital Idiot" i.e. someone who was born with developmental, but not... Continue Reading →