| CONTENTS | {9} |
| INTRODUCTION | {13} |
| PART ONE: Towards the Golden Dawn Prelude Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 |
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| PART TWO: The Mystical Adventure Chapter 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 |
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| PART THREE: The Advent of the Aeon of Horus Chapter 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 |
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| PART FOUR: Magical Workings Chapter 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 |
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| PART FIVE: The Magus Chapter 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 |
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| PART SIX: At the Abbey of Thelema Chapter 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 |
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| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | |
| An idealized self-portrait JPG GIF: L M S | frontispiece |
| The Magician, 1911 | 224-225 |
| Crowley’s mother | |
| Crowley’s father | |
| The schoolboy, aged 14 | |
| The poet, aged 30 | |
| Osiris Risen: Crowley in 1899 | |
| S. L. M. Mathers, Head of the Golden Dawn | |
| Allan Bennett | 256-257 |
| The explorer, mountaineer and big-game hunter, c. 1906 | |
| The expedition to Chogo Ri, 1902 | |
| Crowley in the Himalayas, 1905 | |
| The Buddhist, the man of sorrows | |
| Rose Kelly, Crowley’s first wife | |
| Sister Cybele (Leila Waddell) | |
| The Beast 666: Crowley aged 37 | 480-481 |
| Demonstrating a yogic technique of breath-control, c. 1912 | |
| The Charter issued by John Yarker admitting Crowley to the highest grade (33°) of the Scottish Rite of Masonry, 1910 |
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| The Stele of Revealing: Exhibit 666, Boulak Museum, Cairo | 512-513 |
| Crowley wearing the head-dress of Horus, c. 1910 | |
| Baphomet: Crowley in full Masonic regalia, 1916 | |
| The Arabian alchemist | |
| Leah Hirsig in Crowley’s studio, New York, 1918 | |
| Handwritten plan for climbing Mt Everest, 1921 | |
| Crowley and Alostrael (Leah Hirsig) at the Abbey of Thelema, 1921 | |
| Betty May | |
| Raoul Loveday (Frater Aud), 1923 | |
| Sketch by Crowley of Norman Mudd (Frater Omnia Pro Veritate) | |
| Frank Bennett (Frater Progradior) | |
| Maria de Miramar and Crowley | |
| Sketch by Crowley of a devouring demon | 768-769 |
| Crowley as a human being, 1934 | |
| Crowley as Fo-hi, the Chinese god of joy and laughter | |
| Crowley’s hands locked in yogic mudra | |
| Sketch by Crowley | |
| In Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, c. 1943 | |
| At Netherwood, Hastings | |
| The Beast 666: self-portrait |
