Occult & Esoterica
[CROWLEY, Aleister, Edited and Introduced by Francis King] Crowley on Christ (1974)
[CROWLEY, Aleister, Edited and Introduced by Francis King] Crowley on Christ (1974)
London: C.W. Daniel, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 232pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to spine. A near fine copy in like dust jacket..
This was first published in typewritten form as a limited edition of 200 copies as The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw in 1953. This work was intended as a destructive critique of Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, but as Crowley wrote, it became transformed into a detailed, intensely readable and most amusing analysis of the Life of Christ, of the Gospels, and of Christianity itself - a definitive study of the orthodox religion of Europe and North America from the point of view of Crowleyan Magick. Francis King has included Crowley's Arte de Magica as an appendix to this volume. It seems out of place here but I think that King placed it here because he forgot to include it in his book 'The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.' which would have made more sense