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Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell

Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell: The screenplay never filmed by Carlos Atanes, previously mentioned, is now available.

Carlos Atanes' Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell

“Underground filmmaker Carlos Atanes has been trying to make a movie about Aleister Crowley and his Magick for more than ten years. In the beginning of 2007 this was the third and last attempt of the deal with Magick: “Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell”. This script is structured in the reverse order of the Major Arcana of Crowley’s Tarot. The plot describes the mystical trip of Crowley through the Duat, the egyptian underworld, the encounters with significant characters in his real life (people such as Hanni Jaegger, Fernando Pessoa, Leila Waddell, Victor Neuburg, Raoul Loveday) and the confrontation with the demon Choronzon, his old adversary. Here you have the screenplay such as it was written and never filmed.” [via]

 

 

Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell

Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell by Carlos Atanes is an unfilmed screenplay, that is being made available as a book in March.

Carlos Atanes' Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell

“Underground filmmaker Carlos Atanes has been trying to make a movie about Aleister Crowley and his Magick for more than ten years. He started in 2002 shooting two crowleyesque feature length films, Ian Perplexed and Perdurabo. They were both unfinished. On the way he made two non-crowleyesque movies, FAQ and PROXIMA.

In the beginning of 2007 this was the third and last attempt of the deal with Magick: In the Mouth of Hell. Atanes wrote it for two years, until the end of 2008. This script is structured in the reverse order of the Major Arcana of Crowley’s Tarot. The plot describes the mystical trip of Crowley through the Duat, the egyptian underworld, the encounters with significant characters in his real life–people as Hanni Jaegger, Fernando Pessoa, Leila Waddell, Victor Neuburg, Raoul Loveday– and the confrontation with the demon Choronzon, his old adversary.

Atanes’ intention was to shoot it in Spanish with his flagship actor Manuel Solàs playing the mature Crowley. While he was looking for fundings he was shooting another two apparently non-crowleyesque feature movies, Maximum Shame and Gallino, the Chicken System–although this one contains clear references to Sexual Magick.

In the Mouth of Hell was a complex and expensive project, and it was not conceived for everybody but just for curious, informed and/or initiated audiences, which means an added difficulty to attract producers and investors’ interest. After four years of search, finally fundings didn’t arrive and Atanes threw in the towel. He decided to shelve the matter. But he also thought it would be a pity to bury a text that could be interesting for all of those who were waiting for this film for a decade. This way people could watch the film and recall in their heads.

This is the screenplay such as it was written and never filmed.” [via]

 

 

September 1930, Lisbon: Aleister Crowley’s lost diary of his Portuguese trip

“September 1930, Lisbon: Aleister Crowley’s lost diary of his Portuguese trip” (Note: the link goes to a PDF) by Marco Pasi is an article in Number 1, Spring 2012 of Pesso Plural, a publication of research about Fernando Pessoa published by Brown University, Utrecht University and Universidad de los Andes. In addition to the article itself, there’s also a series of images of the diary typescript itself you will probably find interesting.

“Aleister Crowley’s diary for the period of his travel to Portugal and his meeting with Fernando Pessoa has long been considered lost or inaccessible. However, a copy has been finally found and is here presented and published for the first time. The analysis of the diary allows us to have a fuller knowledge of Crowley’s movements and activities while in Portugal and especially of his meetings with Fernando Pessoa. It also clarifies some aspects of the famous Boca do Inferno suicide stunt in which Pessoa was directly involved and brings some new clues concerning a possible initiation of Pessoa in one of Crowley’s magical orders.”

“O diário de Aleister Crowley referente ao período da sua viagem a Portugal e ao seu encontro com Fernando Pessoa considerava-se, há muito tempo, perdido ou inacessível. Porém, uma cópia do mesmo foi finalmente localizada e é aqui apresentada e publicada pela primeira vez. A análise do diário permite-nos ter um conhecimento mais completo dos movimentos e das actividades de Crowley aquando da sua estadia em Portugal e, nomeadamente, do seu encontro com Fernando Pessoa. Também esclarece certos aspectos da famosa encenação do suicídio de Crowley na Boca do Inferno, encenação na qual Pessoa esteve directamente envolvido, e fornece algumas novas pistas relativas a possível iniciação de Pessoa numa das ordens mágicas de Crowley.” [via]

Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics

You may be interested in Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics (via Amzn) an apparently still upcoming book by Marco Pasi. According to the publisher’s page for the book, this was scheduled for June 2012, but is also listed there as not yet published. Amazon lists the publication date as December 31, 2011.

The figure of Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) is one of the most important authors in the history of modern western esotericism. A prolific and eclectic author, he wrote novels, poetry, essays, and, above all, developed in his many writings his personal magico-religious doctrine. During his life he had the opportunity to meet, and at times to influence, a considerable number of figures in the most various milieus. This volume contains a study of Crowley’s relationship with the politics of his times, a crucial issue in order to understand the importance and the influence of his work.

Crowley, educated in the late Victorian age, shows many of the contradictions of this period. The search for an alternative way to express his religious feelings lead him to elaborate his own vision of political and social radical change. He announced a new era echoing the ideal of a “new man” proposed by the totalitarian regimes and the radical politics of his times, and at the same time anticipated some ideas made fashionable today by the “New Age” spirituality. The book follows the steps of Crowley’s intellectual development on the basis of the enormous corpus of published writings, but also through the analysis of numerous unpublished documents.

According to the publisher the contents include a biographical sketch; Magical Politics, including Between mysticism and religion, The Liber Legis, Political radicalism and totalitarian regimes & Magic; Dangerous liaisons, including J.F.C. Fuller, Tom Driberg, Walter Duranty, Gerald Hamilton & Maxwell Knight; The Mouth of Hell & Fernando Pessoa’s political mysticism; Counter-initiation and conspiracy.

The publisher also offers a short bio of the the author you may be curious to read:

“Marco Pasi is Assistant Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He earned his PhD in 2004 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne with a thesis on the idea of magic in English occultism. He is the book review editor of Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism and a member of the editorial board of Politica Hermetica.”

Certainly seems like an interesting lens through which to examine the life and work of Aleister Crowley, but the typically exorbitant fee for a scholarly work is daunting at $85 US. Anyone want to buy a copy for the Hermetic Library to review?

something something Aleister Crowley

 

I think the text is

“L.G.P. Ano 12, Sol em Balança

Não Posso Viver Sem Ti.
A outra “Boca de Infierno” (sic)
apanhar-me-á não será tão quente como a tua

Hisos

Tu Li Yu

Texto da carta de Aleister Crowley (famoso mago Inglês; 1875-1947), para a sua companheira “A Mulher Escarlate” simulando o suicidio na Boca do Inferno.

Esta carta foi publicada em jornais nacionais como o “Diário de Notícias” ou o “Notícias Ilustrado”, e estrangeiros, para credibilizar o sucedido, com a conivência do Poeta Fernando Pessoa e do Jornalista e Occultista Augusto Ferreira Gomes. Em Setembro de 1930, com o intuito de conhecer Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley permanence em Lisboa Sintra e Estoril durante cerca de 20 dias.”

for which a messy translation attempt could be

“L.G.P. Year 12, Sun in Libra

I Can not Live Without Thee
The other “Boca de Infierno” (sic)
catch me will not be as hot as your

Hisos

Tu Li Yu

Text of the letter of Aleister Crowley (famous magician English, 1875-1947), his companion for “The Scarlet Woman” simulating the suicide in the Mouth of Hell.

This letter was published in national newspapers as the “Daily News” or the “Illustrated News”, and foreign credibility to what happened with the connivance of the poet Fernando Pessoa and the Journalist and Occultist Augusto Ferreira Gomes. In September 1930, in order to meet Fernando Pessoa, Aleister Crowley remains in Lisbon, Sintra and Estoril for about 20 days.”

I’ve added a stub for Fernando Pessoa to the Hermeneuticon Wiki and now added a link to this image there.

 

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From Aug 23rd, an article in Portuguese about 800 pages of correspondence between Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley

From Aug 23rd, an article in Portuguese about 800 pages of correspondence between Fernando Pessoa and Aleister Crowley at http://tinyurl.com/lgorup that links to http://hermetic.com/crowley/

Here’s a link to the Google translation of the article: http://tinyurl.com/kru36p

Here’s some info about Fernando Pessoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa: “Myth is the nothing that is all.” [via]

F. Pessoa: “We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others’ dreams.” [via]