Lords of the Left-Hand Path
Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies
by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.
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Names: Churton, Tobias, 1960– author.
Title: Aleister Crowley in America : art, sex, espionage, and sex magick in the new world / Tobias Churton.
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Index
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Abdul Aziz, 25, 513
Abramelin demons, 224
Abteilung IIIb, 278
Adams, Evangeline Smith, 202, 227–28,
234–35, 238, 256, 276, 287, 299,
390–93, 396, 399, 449, 502, 569,
704
“Adams Cottage,” 391–92, 407, 410,
439, 569
Agape Lodge, 650, 660, 669
Agricultural Workers Organization
(or “Agricultural Labor Bureau”),
337, 548
Aiwass, 476, 513, 514, 520, 525, 566, 613
Alameda Park, 67, 80
Albert, Dr. Heinrich F., 278, 318
Al-Hallaj, 596
Allan, Maud, 437–38
Allen, Dorothy Ditman, 279–80
Allen, William Elby, 605
Alsop, John, 581
Alton, 37
Amalantrah, 511–19, 521, 527–29,
531–32, 534–35, 537
American Philosophical Society, xiv,
405, 407, 411, 714, 729
Amick, Robert Wesley, 582
Ancient & Accepted Rite, 70, 341, 571,
596
Ancient & Primitive Rite, 222, 457, 676
Anger, Kenneth, 659, 661
Lucifer Rising, 662
Annapolis, 542, 574, 577, 597
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 357, 594
Armory exhibition, 146–47, 162,
581–82
Arnhold & Karberg, Hong Kong, 112,
116
Ashburnham, Bertram, 5th Earl of, 8,
10–12, 14, 16, 21, 35, 73, 84, 697
Asmodee, 70, 528–29
Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, 197,
Augoeides, 131–32, 232, 514–15
Austin, Texas, 441, 447, 449
Babalon, 216, 218, 222, 223, 250, 285,
292, 362, 655, 657–58, 660
Bach, Christian A., 228, 704, 729
Back, Ivor, 19, 36, 68, 728
Baigent, Michael, 650
Bailly, Edmond, 549
Baker, Julian Levett, 13
Baldwin, Faith, 517
Bamber, John, 648
Barbelo, 216, 706
Barnard, George Gray, 145
Barrymore, Ethel, 522
Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 177, 202, 372,
376
Bartzabel, 231
Baudelaire, Charles, 69, 540
Bayley, Charles Clive, 375–76
Beardsley, Aubrey, 15, 147
Becker, Alfred, 544–45, 548, 556, 560,
567
Beerbohm, Max, 206
Begbie, Edward Harold, 197
Bennett, Allan, 13, 16, 22, 25, 29, 107,
119, 122, 248, 399, 461, 614
Bennett, Arnold, 178, 224, 590
Berenson, Bernard, 201
Bergson, Henri, 24, 246,
Berkman, Alexander, 334, 500, 521, 629
Berman, Avis, 584, 722
Bernard, Pierre Arnold, 532
Berridge, Edward William, 25, 143, 461
Besant, Annie, 139, 358, 516
Bigelow, William Sturgis, xiv, 405,
407–10, 440, 714
Billing, Noel Pemberton, 438
Bishop, Alma, 467
Bishop, Birdie (née Love), 78, 465–67,
475
Bishop, Elizabeth, 465
Bishop, Joannah, 465
Bishop, John, 465
Bishop, Lawrence, 78, 465
Bishop, Mamie, 467
Bishop, Mary, 78
Bishop, William, 78
Blackden, Ada Mary, 25
Blackden, Marcus Worsley, 25
Blackett, Basil, 200
Black Sabbath, 665
Blake, William, 3, 38, 286
Blanchard, Madame Katherine Reude,
581
Blavatsky, Madame Helena, 117–18,
180, 222, 515–16, 595, 614
Boer War, 11–12, 37, 41–42, 44, 61,
79–80, 89, 159, 491
Bois, Jules, 36
Book of the Law, The, 33, 36, 40, 249,
317, 372, 402, 419, 441, 516, 520,
576, 574, 595, 616, 626, 649, 662,
670
Booth, George Macaulay, 189, 197, 200,
727
Bottomley, Horatio, 90, 172, 199, 459
Boxer Rebellion, 42, 60, 121
Boy-Ed, Captain Karl, 257, 279, 296,
319, 323
Bradley University, 673, 683
Brancusi, Constantin, 577
Breeze, William, xiii–xiv, 16, 20, 39,
55–56, 78, 81, 86, 123, 180, 194,
203–4, 215, 224, 236, 301, 304,
315, 326, 351, 360, 466, 472, 485,
489, 502, 523, 529, 574, 575, 597,
646, 666, 700, 702, 703–4, 706–7,
709, 712–13, 718–22, 724–25, 728
British Mission, 490, 607
Brodie-Innes, John William, 612
Brody, J. B., 75
Brooks, Collin, 184
Brown, Laura, 292–93
Bruce, Arthur Loring
(Frank Crowninshield), 282
Bruce, James, 33
Bruno, Giordano, 444, 495
Bryan, William Jennings, 52, 174, 698,
729
Bullock, Guy, 170, 459
Burke, Frank, 318, 378, 630
Burlingame, Mildred, 660
Burlingame, Ray, 660
Burton, Sir Richard, 164
Cabell, James Branch, 558, 642–43, 725
Cadbury, George, 37
Café Lafayette, 546
Cagliostro, 140, 557
Caillaux, Henriette, 261
Calimaya, 102
Cameron, Marjorie, 655, 659–60
Cammell, Charles R., 32, 662, 697, 727
Campania, SS, 137
Campbell, Colin, xiv, 392–93, 713
Campbell, John W., Jr., 655
Carlisle, Sidney, 336
Carlos de Bourbon, Don (“Carlos VII”),
7, 78, 82
Carrington, Hereward, 265, 453, 461,
488, 534, 628, 724
Carson, Sir Edward, 246
Carus, Paul, 258–59, 334, 353
Case, Paul Foster, 650
Casement, Sir Roger, 160, 163, 203, 246,
493, 703
Cavell, Edith, 311–12, 339, 372
Cefalù, 177, 310, 542, 583, 640, 646,
661
Celtic Church, 11, 85
Chamberlain, Joseph, 3
Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 147, 500,
565, 578, 582–84, 591, 722
Chesterton, Cecil, 259
Chesterton, G. K., 178, 234, 259
Chestertown, 128
Choronzon, 180, 542, 616, 640, 723
Christensen, Dorthe Refslund, 656, 725
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 5
Churchill, Winston, xi, 5, 44, 61, 73, 83,
205, 295, 642, 664, 699
Cixi, Dowager Empress, 51
Clifford, Henry Stuart (“Stuart X”),
372, 568
Coates, Dorothy, 168, 240, 271
Colima, Mount, 77, 98–99
Collie, J. Norman, 101, 104, 410
Collman, Charles A., 367, 711
Columbia, SS, 173
Columbia University (séances), 265
Condant, Frederick R., 378
Conrad, Joseph, 183, 446
Conway, Martin, 94
Coomaraswamy, Alice Ethel, (née
Richardson), 374, 384, 388–89,
394–95, 439
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kent, 384,
386, 395, 439
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 130
Cosgrave, John O’Hara, 202, 208, 234,
236, 238, 312, 462, 717
Cowie, George Macnie, 158–59, 170,
187–88, 240, 454, 467, 467–68,
471, 551, 701–2
Cox, Kenyon, 581, 590
Crane, Stephen, 581
Cristóbal, 74
Crocker, Aimée (Aimée Gouraud), 202,
220–21, 223–25, 234, 245, 254–55,
258, 266, 268, 516, 706
Crompton, Paul, 279–80
Crompton, Peter, 280
Crosse, Cynthia, 707
Crowley, Aleister
“Affidavit,” 171, 176, 202, 375, 376,
469, 479, 502–3, 540, 576, 669,
701–2, 712, 717
Alice: An Adultery, 121, 689
An Appeal to the American Republic, 3,
688, 726, 728
“Art in America,” 119, 130, 138,
145–46, 148, 155, 184, 224, 694,
700, 728
“At the Fork in the Roads,” 15
Bagh-i-Muattar, 164, 692
Baphomet, 342, 462, 490, 494, 514
as “Bellerophon Cawdor,” 555
at Boleskine, 10, 12, 19, 23–24, 170,
188, 224, 468, 696–99
Book of Lies, 447, 473, 475, 658, 693,
726, 728
The Book of the Great Auk, 614–15
in Boston, 437, 439–40
at Bristol, New Hampshire, xiv,
390–93, 400, 402, 410, 428, 437,
713
at Buffalo, 132, 328, 350, 360, 710
Carmen Saeculare, 34–40, 49, 62,
81–82, 246, 688, 698
in Ceylon, 78, 119, 122, 399, 700
in Chicago, 326, 332–36
as “Clifford,” 340, 342
Collected Works, 19, 33, 36, 68, 163,
386, 691, 728
as Comte de Fénix, 670, 672
as “Count Vladimir Svareff,” 19, 21,
84, 687, 689
as “Cyril Grey,” 351, 460–61
“Dawn,” 509
“A Death Bed Repentance,” 481
in Decatur, 555, 617–22
in Detroit, 332, 569, 571, 596–99,
622–25
at Esopus Island, 545–54, 556–60,
562, 564, 569, 611, 721, 724, 728
as Father Ivan, 557–78
The General Principles of Astrology,
235, 502, 704, 728
The Giant’s Thumb, 224
Gnostic Mass, 595, 625, 642, 647,
649–51
The Golden Rose, 292–93, 362, 440,
708, 728
Golden Twigs, 445–47, 716
“Good Hunting,” 415–16
The Gospel according to St. Bernard
Shaw (Liber 888), 424–36
at the Grand Canyon, 359
Green Alps, 12, 15, 696
Hail Mary, 229, 694
in Hawaii, 71, 101, 117–19
The Hermit of Oesopus Island, 550,
611, 721, 724, 728
as “Hugo de Larens,” (page to Jacques
de Molay), 612
“Humanity First,” 504–5
“Hymn to the American People,” 157
as Isidor Achille O’Rourke, 79–80,
91–106
Jezebel and Other Tragic Poems, 16,
687, 697
in Kansas City, 359, 710
The King’s Friend, 23
“Knight Errant,” 293
Konx Om Pax, 20, 691, 706, 728
“The Last Straw,” 90, 172, 279, 313,
468–59, 639, 702
The Legend of Aleister Crowley, 90,
697, 723
and Legitimism, 10-12, 14, 35, 105,
107
Liber Aleph, The Book of Wisdom and
Folly, 526–27, 728
Liber Astarte vel Berylli, 647
in Los Angeles, 356, 710
as Marius de Aquilis, 564, 611
Moonchild, 29, 460–61, 655
The Mother’s Tragedy, 62, 71, 108
in New Orleans, 449–54, 462–64
Order of L.I.L., 70, 76, 98, 557
Orpheus, 112–13, 122, 690
as Pope Alexander VI, 611–12
“The Prohibitionist-Verbotenist 1919,”
626–27
“Proofs of the Scientific Solution
of the Problems of Government,”
669–70
The Revival of Magick, 520, 704, 711,
714, 716, 718, 728
Rites of Eleusis, 139, 186, 284, 399,
663, 695
in San Francisco, 108–17, 345–54
at Santa Cruz, 355
The Savior, 277, 293
in Seattle, 343, 569
The Ship, 261
Simon Iff, 40–41, 53, 176, 194, 337,
351, 384, 391, 395, 460–61, 466–67,
485, 493, 505, 507, 655, 702–3, 709,
712–13, 716–19,
56, 690
in St. Paul, Minnesota, 338
Tannhaüser, 24, 54–56, 67, 692
“The Tent,” 170
as Therion, 343, 364, 421, 441, 475,
489, 508, 512, 515–20, 524, 529,
535, 537, 648, 658, 716
Thumbs Up!, 651
at Titusville, Florida, 465–69
in Vancouver, 131–32, 337, 339–42
White Stains, 16, 164, 688
The World’s Tragedy, 425, 581, 693,
715
“Writings of Truth,” 123, 700
Crowley, Astarte Lulu, 641
Crowley, Edward, 35, 274, 567
Crowley, Emily Bertha, 5, 77–78, 205,
465, 474, 717
Crowley, Florence Mary, 5
Crowley, Jonathan, 5, 76
Crowley, Lilith, 131, 135
Crowley, Lola Zaza, 186
Crowley, Rose, 19, 28, 131, 135, 138,
186, 320, 440
Crowninshield, Frank, 202, 228,
236–38, 282, 312, 462, 480
Cudlipp, Thelma, 589
Culling, Louis, 655, 661
Cumming, Mansfield Smith, 375, 457,
469, 524, 608
Cummings, E. E., 524
Dakota Building (New York), 5
8–59, 254
Dante Alighieri (and Beatrice Portinari),
266, 414
Darby, John Nelson, 37
Darwin, Charles, 211, 424, 499
Davies, Arthur B., 581
Davies, Mary, 468, 610
Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 200
Debs, Eugene Victor, 134–36
Dee, John, 67, 239, 563
d’Este, Mary (Soror Virakam), 461, 482,
512, 638
DeForest, Robert W., 383, 712
de Guaita, Stanislas, 550
de Lapasse, Vicomte, 651
de Mille, Cecil B., 25
Dernburg, Bernhard, 175, 178, 196, 199,
258, 323
Deroxe, Myriam, 354–56, 358, 439, 441,
444, 446, 482, 710
de Nègre, Jacques-Etienne Marconis, 551
Devachan, 117
Dewey, Lea, 240–41, 245, 250, 255,
266, 269, 273 276
de Woody, Charles, 545, 560
Díaz, Porfirio, 66, 72–75, 89, 91–92,
295
Disraeli, Benjamin, 5, 179, 471
Ditman, Hettie D., 280
Dodge, David, 130
Doheny, Edward L., 45, 71, 74–75
Doherty, Randall Gair (Aleister Ataturk
Crowley), 37
Doolittle, Hilda, 385
Dorr, J., 303, 607
Draper, Olita Lunt, 648
Dreiser, Theodore, 473, 555, 565, 589
Drummond-Wolff, Sir Henry, 5, 9, 696
Duncombe-Jewell, Louis Charles
Richard, 10–11, 14, 37
Dunston, Jack (proprietor of “Jack’s”),
308
du Potet, Jules Denis, Baron, 222
Duranty, Walter, 156
Duval, Violet, 187, 218
Dylan, Bob, 337, 664
Eckenstein, Oscar, 71–72, 77–78, 80,
92–104, 124, 133, 170, 699
Egan, Martin, 202
El Boazeo, 86–87, 699
El Paso, 65, 81, 103, 108
Emmett, Ellen, 581
Empire Building (New York), 57
Empress of India, RMS, 131
Encausse, Gérard, 53
Engels, Freidrich, 25
Engers, Beatrice, 677, 679, 680–82
Engers, Leon (or Leon Engers Kennedy),
frontispiece; 15, 177, 453, 455–56,
472, 482–83, 486, 495, 501, 569,
576, 584, 601, 673–84
Engers, Mozes, 453, 455, 673–75, 677,
681
Engers, Levie Salomon, 673
English, Vincent John, 16, 73, 697
Eos, (as component of Eosonophon and
Eosphoros; cf: Eostre), 515
Epstein, Jacob, 155, 242, 300
Equitable Trust Company, 455
Esopus Island. See Crowley, Aleister, at
Esopus Island
Evans, Captain F. R., 117
Feilding, Honorable Francis Henry
Everard Joseph, 18, 73, 170–71,
179–80, 192, 211, 265, 272, 310–13,
368, 375, 377, 461, 468–70, 608,
628, 638–39, 702, 707
Feilding, Randolph, Earl of Denbigh, 179
Feilding, Colonel William, 179
Feininger, Lyonel, 679, 683