In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989Nicolas-Hays, Inc., 24 мая 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 336 In this daring expose by a survivor of a unique era in the New York occult scene, James Wasserman, a longtime proponent of the teachings of Aleister Crowley, brings us into a world of candlelit temples, burning incenser, and sonorous invocations. The author also shares an intimate look at the New York Underground if the 1970s and introduces us to the company of such avant-garde luminaries as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harry Smith and Angus MacLise. A stone's throw away form the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol's Factory, William Burrough's "bunker," and the legendary Chelsea Hotel was a scene far more esoteric than perhaps even they could have imagined. When James Wasserman joined the O.T.O. in 1976, there were fewer than a dozen members. Today the Order numbers over 4,000 members in 50 countries and has been responsible for a series of groundbreaking publications of Crowley's works. The author founded New York City's TAHUTI Lodge in 1979. He chronicles its early history and provides a window into the heyday of the Manhattan esoteric community. This is also a saga with a very human tableau filled with tender romance, passionate friendships, an abiding spiritual hunger, danger, passion, and ecstasy. It also explores several hidden magical byways including the rituals of Voodoo, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism. Reconstructed from personal memories, magical diaries, multiple interviews, court transcripts, witness depositions, trial evidence, and extensive correspondence, this book elucidates a hithero misreported and ill-understood nexus of modern magical history. |
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On the Road | |
On the Mend | |
Portland and the Abbey of Thelema | |
On the Road Again | |
1973 TO 1977 | |
Weiser Publishing and The Commentaries of | |
Meeting Marcelo Motta in Brazil | |
1977 TO 1979 | |
The Tree of Life and The Egyptian Book of the Dead | |
1979 TO 1989 | |
The Founding and Early Years of TAHUTI | |
The Beat Goes | |
APPENDICES | |
Analysis by a Master of the Temple Jack Parsons | |
Application for the Guild of Drama and Thaumaturgy | |
California and Grady McMurtry | |
Harry Smith and the Game Changes | |
Thelemic Middle Pillar as a Group Ritual | |
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