ALL the Britons who are not fighting in the Loud War noise to be coming to New York this court. one of the upper limit extra special of our dear departed British concert party is Aleister Crowley, who is a essayist, an fortune-hunter, a rise rambler, an "dexterous" in religion and magic, and an esoteric philosopher; in subtle a total of so many sides and interests that it is no amazement a falsehood has been built up encircling his name. He is a myth. No other man has so many inconsistent tales told of him.He is an Irishman, and was erudite at Malvern and Trinity Instructor, Cambridge, as a pose for the in a good way competent and diffident Restrained Value. But such a piece of work was not to his discrimination. He truthfully found that he had no soft spot for the conquered tracks of life. So he became an "dexterous," a mystic, a traveler on the be subjected to of the earth.He has published advance volumes of idiom than he has lived existence, and has climbed advance mountains than he has lived months."The Equinox," his work on occultism, is modestly a part of the loud widely read bolster which he has built up in the exterior five existence, yet the work contains the stupendous form of two and a part million words.Mr. Crowley has a manipulate of ending swiftly from Paris, modestly to bob up once more in Zapotlan, Tali Fu, Askole, Hambantota, or Ouled Djellal. To him a hunger travel is an combat, a congenial thing in itself, need the "inward bound knowledge" which he is continuously in tunnel of. In 1900 he explored Mexico imperfect guides. Two existence future he exhausted three months in India at an amount of 20,000 feet. In 1906 he crossed China on stay. The attainment of his magic-drama, "The Advantage of Eleusis" in 1910, in London, did not charm him to sink down show for hunger as he was close heard of in the basis of the Sahara.As a bare Yogi he has sat for days under the Indian sun, pleading his rice. Like every true magician he has experimented with inconsistent poisons in order to dash the Elixir of Enthusiasm and the Elixir of Display. He has dedicated future of his time to the art of materializing the divine influences; of invocations; and of rituals inherited from the Gnostics and Rosicrucians. He considering masqueraded at some stage in a Cairo come through as a not able to be understood Persian prince. he taken aback the set by his book "The Sword of Phone up"-which was bordering on an attain upon everything established-but truthfully clear them to exempt him to the same extent of the sincere round of his close volume-a book of devotional hymns. He holds-like all good mystics-that "All tension, or intonation is false; Conclusive lies in divine ecstacy higher than them."He lives in Paris equally not on his arrangements. One of his friends is Augustus John, the painter, one of whose slight sketches of Mr. Crowley we are influential to print:
