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MOONCHILD

(LIBER LXXXI - THE BUTTERFLY NET)
A PROLOGUE

by ALEISTER CROWLEY

AUTHOR'S NOTE

 This book was written in 1917, during such leisure as my efforts to bring America into the War on our side allowed me. Hence my illusions on the subject, and the sad showing of Simon Iff at the end. Need I add that, as the book itself demonstrates beyond all doubt, all persons and incidents are purely the figment of a disordered imagination?

London, 1929.

A.C.

 

 

CONTENTS

CHAPTER.

PAGE.

I.

A CHINESE GOD

9

II.

A PHILOSOPHICAL DISQUISITION UPON
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL

21

III.

TELEKINESIS: BEING THE ART OF MOVING
OBJECTS AT A DISTANCE

34

IV.

LUNCH, AFTER ALL; AND A LUMINOUS
ACCOUNT OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION

51

V.

OF THE THING IN THE GARDEN; AND OF
THE WAY OF THE TAO

64

VI.

OF A DINNER, WITH THE TALK OF DIVERS
GUESTS

78

VII.

OF THE OATH OF LISA LA  GIUFFRIA; AND
OF HER VIGIL IN THE CHAPEL OF
ABOMINATIONS

91

VIII.

OF THE HOMUNCULUS; CONCLUSION OF THE
FORMER  ARGUMENT CONCERNING THE
NATURE OF THE SOUL

104

IX.

HOW THEY BROUGHT THE BAD NEWS FROM
ARAGO TO QUINCAMPOIX; AND WHAT
ACTION WAS TAKEN THEREUPON

117

X.

HOW THEY GATHERED THE SILK FOR THE
WEAVING OF THE BUTTERFLY-NET

132

XI.

OF THE MOON OF HONEY, AND ITS EVENTS;
WITH SUNDRY REMARKS ON MAGICK;
THE WHOLE ADORNED WITH MORAL
REFLECTIONS USEFUL TO THE YOUNG

145

XII.

OF BROTHER ONOFRIO, HIS STOUTNESS AND
VALIANCE; AND OF THE MISADVENTURES
THAT CAME THEREBY TO THE BLACK LODGE

157

XIII.

OF THE PROGRESS OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT;
NOT FORGETTING OUR FRIENDS LAST SEEN IN
PARIS, ABOUT WHOSE WELFARE MUCH ANXIETY
MUST HAVE BEEN FELT

171

XIV.

AN INFORMATIVE  DISCOURSE UPON THE
OCCULT CHARACTER OF THE MOON, HER
THREEFOLD NATURE, HER FOURFOLD
PHASES, AND HER EIGHT-AND-TWENTY
MANSIONS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE
EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE CLIMAX OF
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, BUT ESPECIALLY
OF THE VISION OF ILIEL

185

XV.

OF DR. VESQUIT AND HIS COMPANIONS,
HOW THEY FARED IN THEIR WORK OF
NECROMANCY; AND OF A COUNCIL OF WAR
OF CYRIL GREY AND BROTHER ONOFRIO,
WITH CERTAIN OPINIONS OF THE FORMER
UPON THE ART OF MAGICK

201

XVI.

OF THE SPREADING OF THE BUTTERFLY-NET;
WITH A DELECTABLE DISCOURSE CONCERNING
DIVERS ORDERS OF BEING; AND OF THE
STATE OF THE LADY ILIEL, AND HER
DESIRES, AND OF THE SECOND VISION
THAT SHE HAD IN WAKING

215

XVII.

OF THE REPORT WHICH EDWIN ARTHWAIT
MADE TO HIS CHIEF, AND OF THE DELIBERA-
TIONS OF THE BLACK LODGE THEREUPON;
AND OF THE CONSPIRACIES THEREBY CON-
CERTED; WITH A DISCOURSE UPON SORCERY

235

XVIII.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

250

XIX.

THE GRAND BEWITCHMENT

264

XX.

WALPURGIS-NIGHT

277

XXI.

OF THE RENEWAL OF THE GREAT ATTACK;
AND HOW IT FARED

292

XXII.

OF A CERTAIN DAWN UPON OUR OLD FRIEND
THE BOULEVARD ARAGO; AND OF THE
LOVES OF LISA LA GIUFERIA AND ABDUL
BEY, HOW THEY PROSPERED. OF THE CON-
CLUSION  OF THE FALSE ALARM OF THE
GREAT EXPERIMENT, AND OF A CONFER-
ENCE BETWEEN DOUGLAS AND HIS SUB-
ORDINATE

 307

XXIII.

OF THE ARRIVAL OF A CHINESE GOD UPON
THE FIELD OF BATTLE; OF HIS SUCCESS
WITH HIS SUPERIORS: AND OF A SIGHT
WHICH HE SAW UPON THE ROAD TO PARIS.
ALSO OF THAT WHICH THEREBY CAME UNTO
HIM, AND OF THE END OF ALL THOSE
THINGS WHOSE EVENT BEGAT A CERTAIN
BEGINNING

322

 

"MOONCHILD" (LIBER  LXXXI - THE BUTTERFLY NET)

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