In 1904-still dressed as “Prince Chioa Khan” and recently returned from his Book of the Law experience in Cairo-Crowley dines with novelist Arnold Bennett at Paillard’s. Soon engaged to Anglo-Irish artist Eileen Gray, Crowley pontificates and parties with English, American, and French artists gathered around sculptor Auguste Rodin: all keen to exhibit at Paris’s famed Salon d’Automne. Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, Churton explores how Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn’s Inner Order in Paris in 1900 and how, in 1902, he relocated to Montparnasse. It reveals Crowley’s “expulsion” from Paris in 1929 as a high-level conspiracy against CrowleyĮxploring occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s longstanding and intimate association with Paris, Tobias Churton provides the first detailed account of Crowley’s activities in the City of Light.It uncovers Crowley’s involvement in the Belle Époque with sculptor Auguste Rodin and other artists and in the 1920s with Berenice Abbott, Nancy Cunard, Man Ray, André Gide, and Aimée Crocker.It investigates the truth about tales of Crowley “raising Pan,” going mad, and leading a life of debauched sex magick in Paris.Aleister Crowley in Paris examines Aleister Crowley’s 30-year-long intimate association with Paris.Publisher Inner Traditions International summarizes the new work: At last, Crowley’s artistic character is fully established as we find his authentic place among many of the finest artists of the century. Tobias feels he’s been saving the best till last: Aleister Crowley in Paris is a sumptuous, copiously illustrated journey of exquisite detail and consistent revelation into Crowley’s long relationship with France’s capital.
In January 2023, hot on the heels of 2022’s Aleister Crowley in England comes the sixth and final volume of Tobias Churton’s biography of English mage, mountaineer, poet, artist and prophet, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).
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