Free Download Martin P. Starr, "The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites "
English | ISBN: 0197744516 | 2024 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 37 MB
The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in the "magical" family, founded by the occultist, poet, and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Martin P. Starr tells the history of the movement through the biography of its leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957), who took up Crowley’s plans for organizations to teach the latter’s methods in Western and Eastern esoteric traditions and his laws for a new world order, and established these systems in British Columbia and in California. Crowley provided the concepts; Smith and his associates made them take flesh, applying Crowley’s doctrine of "Do what thou wilt" and cementing it a part of the artistic and religious underground of the twentieth century.