A new review of an old book with a character based on interviews with Crowley

A new review of an old book with a character based on interviews with Crowley at “Book Review: The Devil Rides Out”

“Here we are in wonderful October Country, so how about a Gothic classic?Dennis Wheatley was once one of England’s most popular writers of adventure and espionage novels. Today, when he’s read at all, his occasional forays into the supernatural are what receive the most attention.”

“The novel begins when De Richleau, who knows pretty much everything as the plot requires it, discovers that his friend Simon Aron has fallen in with a wealthy Satanist society under the auspices of a ‘Mr.’ Mocata. The fleshy Mocata is a thinly veiled version of Aleister Crowley, whom Wheatley actually interviewed for the book.”

Consider also:

  1. “Be neither man nor woman, but both in one.”
  2. “Every nursery rime contains profound magical secrets which are open to every one who has made a study of the correspondences of the Holy Qabalah. To puzzle out an imaginary meaning for this ‘nonsense’ sets one thinking of the Mysteries; one enters into deep contemplation of holy things and God Himself leads the soul to a real illumination.”
  3. Aleister Crowley tangentially mentioned in a Rolling Stone cover story
  4. banishing ritual
  5. “Love Alway Yieldeth: Love Alway Hardeneth. . . . . . . . . . . May be: I write it but to write Her name.”