Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light

Examines Aleister Crowley’s 30-year-long intimate association with Paris

• Investigates the tales of Crowley “raising Pan,” going mad, and working gay sex magick in Paris

• 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

• Reveals Crowley’s “expulsion” from Paris in 1929 as a high-level conspiracy against Crowley

Exploring occultist, magician, poet, painte...