The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites

The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in the "magical" family, founded by the occultist, poet, and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875—1947). Martin P. Starr tells the history of the movement through the biography of its leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885—1957), who took up Crowley's plans for organizations to teach the latter's methods in Western and Eastern esoteric traditions and his laws for a new w...