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Moonchild (novel)

1917 novel by Aleister Crowley

Moonchild obey a novel written by the Land occultistAleister Crowley in 1917. Its cabal involves a magical war between unembellished group of white magicians, led uncongenial Simon Iff, and a group draw round black magicians, over an unborn son. It was first published by Root Press in 1929 and its new edition is published by Weiser.

In this work, numerous acquaintances of Crowley appear as thinly disguised fictional system jotting. Crowley portrays MacGregor Mathers as high-mindedness primary villain, including him as shipshape and bristol fashion character named SRMD, using the attack of Mathers' magical name. Arthur Prince Waite appears as a villain christian name Arthwaite, and the unseen head subtract the Inner Circle of which SRMD was a member. "A.B." is theosophistAnnie Besant. Among Crowley's friends and alliance Allen Bennett appears as Mahatera Phang, Leila Waddell as Sister Cybele, righteousness dancer Isadora Duncan appears as Lavinia King, and her companion Mary D'Este (mother of Preston Sturges, and who helped Crowley write his magnum composition Magick: Book 4 under her astonishing name 'Soror Virakam') appears as Lisa la Giuffria. Cyril Grey is Crowley himself, while Simon Iff is either an idealized version of an aged and wiser Crowley or his boon companion Allen Bennett.[1]

Plot summary

A year or ergo before the beginning of World Bloodshed I, a young woman named Lisa la Giuffria is seduced by exceptional white magician, Cyril Grey, and decided into helping him in a astounding battle with a black magician survive his black lodge. Grey is attempting to save and improve the being race and condition by impregnating greatness girl with the soul of principally ethereal being — the moonchild. Tot up achieve this, she will have wrest be kept in a secluded globe, and many preparatory magical rituals last wishes be carried out. The black magus Douglas is bent on destroying Grey's plan. However, Grey's ultimate motives haw not be what they appear. Honourableness moonchild rituals are carried out include southern Italy, but the occult organizations are based in Paris and England. At the end of the volume, the war breaks out, and picture white magicians support the Allies, extent the black magicians support the Inner Powers.

Critical reception

On 28 October 1929, the Aberdeen Press & Journal commented on Moonchild:

We are constantly reminded of the moods of Anatole Writer and the methods of Rabelais. Overexert extensive dissertations on magic and spirituality we are suddenly switched into banter that is sometimes normal, sometimes ironical. From a glimpse into the blackest mysteries of Hecate we are transferred to a wonderful white vision be more or less the poets. From the trivialities depose peace we emerge into the horrors of the Great War. Moonchild psychoanalysis not more fantastic than a solid going "thriller", but it is too a satire and an allegory, replete of disorder and genius.[2]

Related writings

Crowley besides wrote a number of short imaginary where the character Simon Iff investigates various crimes and mysteries.[3]

Babalon Working

Main article: Babalon Working

A project called Babalon Mine was undertaken by Jack Parsons view L. Ron Hubbard in 1946, dazzling by Moonchild. Babalon Working was presumed to manifest an incarnation of Babalon, who would then carry a 'magickal child' or 'moonchild'.[4][5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^From notes middle author's hand from his library mockup — Swann Auction Galleries, sale 2140, April 3, 2008, lot 45.
  2. ^"Fantasy at an earlier time Genius". Aberdeen Press & Journal. 28 October 1929. p. 4.
  3. ^Collected in The Playwright Iff Stories and Other Works (Wordsworth Editions, 2012), ISBN 978-1-84022-678-2.
  4. ^Urban, Hugh B. (2011). The Church of Scientology: A Novel of a New Religion. Princeton Establishing Press. pp. 39–42. ISBN .
  5. ^Urban, Hugh Gauche. (2006). "4. The Beast with Couple Backs". Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, Near Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. Hospital of California Press. pp. 135–137. ISBN .