Friendship in doubt: Aleister Crowley, J.F.C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British agnosticism
"Friendship in Doubt explores the influence of the British Agnostic movement-from Saladin's Agnostic Journal and Foote's Freethinker, to the Rationalist Press Association and its Literary Guide-on three founders of the twentieth-century new religious movement of Thelema. Agnosticism i...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Crowley, Aleister 1875-1947
/ Fuller, John F. C. 1878-1966
/ Neuburg, Victor Benjamin 1883-1940
/ Agnosticism
/ Thelemites
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements TJ Modern history TK Recent history ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Agnosticism
History
B Free thought (Great Britain) History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "Friendship in Doubt explores the influence of the British Agnostic movement-from Saladin's Agnostic Journal and Foote's Freethinker, to the Rationalist Press Association and its Literary Guide-on three founders of the twentieth-century new religious movement of Thelema. Agnosticism introduced occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg to each other, and would inform Crowley's publishing company S.P.R.T. A,A, a successor to the fragmented Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; the Equinox journal; and the concept of "magick" as Scientific Illuminism. Crowley, Fuller and Neuburg's essays and poems from the Agnostic literature, reprinted here for the first time, illuminate their thinking at the start of their careers, and provides a baseline from which to understand the subsequent trajectories of their lives"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 485 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-769400-8 |
