The Revival of Magick: Aleister Crowley
The Revival of Magick: Aleister Crowley
This chapter turns to the infamous British magician Aleister Crowley, who overlapped with Frazer at Trinity College, Cambridge. This chapter shows that Crowley drew on the very text in which Frazer worked out disenchantment to stage his revival of modern “magick” [sic]. Hence, the narrative of disenchantment was self-refuting insofar as it reinvigorated the very thing it described as endangered.
Keywords: Aleister Crowley, James Frazer, Magic, Magick, disenchantment, neo-paganism, The Golden Dawn, Occultism, Religious Studies, Oedipus effect, Sex magic
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