Reddit reviews Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley

Crowley first carried out the Abramelin Operation at Boleskine after he left/was expelled from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It's a medieval ritual first (as far as we know) written down in the form of a letter by Rabbi Abraham Von Worms to his son, Lamed ben Abraham. The film is accurate in many ways, especially in that the ritual is intended to attain 'the knowledge & conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel' (but not 'ask a favour', that part was fictitious) Whilst one (often inaccurate) translation of The Sacred Magick... was rendered by Golden Dawn founder-member SL MacGregor Mathers , completion of the ritual was never a pre-requisite to initiation into the Order. To become a member people merely had to be proposed, seconded and take part in the Neophyte Ritual of that order. Confusingly enough, one of the subsections in the initiatory grades of Crowley's own (later) magical order, ostensibly named the Argentium Astrum,or A:.A:., was also called the Golden Dawn (or G:.D:.).

All artistic license and supplementary info aside, I agree it's a fucking great film, I love it. It often makes me think what an amazing film could be made about Crowley's shenanigans at Boleskine House, or indeed any aspect of his colourful adventures. He was certainly a larger than life character- flawed, incredibly intelligent & well educated, sometimes morally questionable (to put it mildly) but not the baby murdering, satanic, black magick Svengali that the popular media of the day (& since!) had him down as. If anyone's interested enough I can thoroughly recommend the George Dehn translation of Abramelin and also Dr Richard Kaczynski's excellent biography of Crowley, Perdurabo.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Abramelin-Hb-New-Translation/dp/0892542144/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Abramelin&qid=1565523394&s=gateway&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perdurabo-Aleister-Crowley-Richard-Kaczynski/dp/1556438990/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Perdurabo&qid=1565523469&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Shoemaker is awesome. Also check out Lon Milo Duquette, he is very beginner friendly on numerous occult subjects. Oh and Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski is THE biography of choice amongst practicing Thelemites.

It's considered the definitive modern biography of Aleister Crowley.
http://www.amazon.com/Perdurabo-Revised-Expanded-Edition-Aleister/dp/1556438990

https://www.amazon.com/Perdurabo-Revised-Expanded-Aleister-Crowley/dp/1556438990

This really contains the best, most authoratative research on all aspects of Crowley. It's also available as an ebook. A lot of info on the internet involving Crowley and Abramelin is sensationalized and not very trustworthy (hooray for the internet!). This is an actual scholarly work.

93 - You will do best to look in Kaczynski's Perdurabo ... Churton's book might also be good. In his Confessions, he mentions being in New York in chapter 23, and chapter 77 through chapter 80 (adn probably a few more).

I personally have no memory of AC staying in Albany. Frankly, the best way to figure it out is to see if the envelopes are actually real (that is, they exist and aren't forged).

This one but it's a bit melodramatic for my tastes.