Friendship in doubt : Aleister Crowley, J.F.C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British agnosticism /

Rebelling against Victorian religious and social strictures, occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J.F.C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg were active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. 'Friendship in Doubt' examines how the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaczynski, Richard (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Cambridge University Freethought Association
  • A Strange Epilogue
  • 5. Borrowed Influences
  • The Method of Science
  • Phallicism
  • Saints and Other Gnostics
  • A Familiar Voice
  • 6. Crowley Versus the Rationalist Press Association
  • 7. Fuller & Neuburg after the Agnostic Journal
  • The Equinox
  • The Triumph of Pan
  • Backing Away
  • 8. Life after Crowley
  • The Science of War
  • Occult Writings
  • Victor Neuburg's Later Years
  • Neither Gone nor Forgotten
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Anthology of Primary Texts by Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, and Victor B. Neuburg
  • Only
  • Vale, Jehovah!
  • A Song of Dawn
  • A Barbaric Survival
  • Ego
  • Sadness
  • Strong-​Heart
  • Pillow Fighting, b.c.
  • Credone?
  • March Twentieth
  • To Count Tolstoy
  • A Song of Freedom
  • Carmen Triumphans
  • The Pagan
  • Between the Spheres
  • Beetledom Dying
  • From India
  • A Lullaby
  • The Silent Gods
  • Divine, and Other Carnage
  • My Homeland
  • Saladin
  • To Shelley
  • The Swan-​Song
  • When It Was Dark
  • Three Earth-​Notes
  • The Fugitive
  • Contempt of Court
  • A Lyric
  • The Garden of Youth
  • Bible Science
  • An Old Song
  • The Dream
  • Hail, Saladin!
  • Christianity in India, 1724
  • The Suicide
  • Demcomep
  • Ballade of the Daisy
  • Napoleon and the Superstitious
  • The Agnostic Journal
  • The Value of Atheism
  • Vertebrates and Invertebrates
  • A Song of the Promise of Dawn
  • A Leaf (of Grass) from Walt Whitman
  • The Creation of Eve
  • Diary Entry, October 11, 1908
  • Two Poems
  • On a Statue of the Buddha
  • The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review, 1908-​9. Monthly, 2"d."
  • Concerning "Blasphemy" in General and the Rites of Eleusis in Particular
  • Seascape
  • Serpens Noctis Regina Mundi
  • The Late Mr. G. W. Foote
  • Meals with the Masters
  • Appendices