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CROWLEY, Aleister . The Star and the Garter By Aleister Crowley. Popular Edition.
Inverness: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, Boleskine House, Foyers, 1904 . 0
4to. 11" x 8.25" [28cm x 21cm] . pp. Original printed dark blue wrappers, rubbed, with some edge wear and bumped corners. Professionally rebacked in blue cloth. Half title lightly soiled along top-edge, and light pink water stain affecting the first 4 leaves, otherwise clean text on quality paper. A good copy of a scarce work. The work consists of a series of poems, identified by number. The fact that there are 33 suggests to some that there may be some reference to the higher degrees of freemasonry. "Aleister Crowley (October 12, 1875 – December 1, 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, yogi, and possible spy. He was an influential member of occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A?A?, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "The wickedest man in the world. Crowley was also a chess player in his youth, a painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, drug experimenter, and social critic." - See Wikipedia . Extract from "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (Chpt 44) "...in The Star and the Garter, Which I wrote at this time; and the three women connected with the "Garter" were an English lady with a passion for either, an acrobat and model whom I called my boot-button girl because her face was "round and hard and small and pretty", and thirdly Nina Olivier. Nina is described in the poem itself and also in several lyrics, notably "The Rondel" - "You laughing little light of wickedness". My adoration of Nina made her the most famous girl in the quarter for a dozen years and more. She figures, by the way, in my "Ordeal of Ida Pendragon". The Star and the Garter contains some of my best lyrics and is also important as marking a new step in my poetic path. I had mastered form better than I had ever done before; I had welded lyrics into a continuous opus with an integral purpose, without artificiality, such as to some extent mars Orpheus and even Alice. I spent two days writing the poem; but I do not consider it a waste of time."
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