The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites.
Bolingbrook, IL: Teitan Press, Inc., 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, xii + 416pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt sigil on front cover, frontis, photographs. SIGNED at the close of the Prologue. The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Introduced to Crowley's works by Charles Stansfeld Jones in Canada, Smith met Crowley only once, but their twenty year correspondence povided a major link between the Beast and his followers in the United States and Canada. Smith's spiritual life centered first on the initiatic structure of the Order of the A.·. A.·., complemented by the emerging fraternal and social schemes of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Smith followed Jones into a few all but-forgotten movements like the Universal Brotherhood and the Psychomagian Society. About Fine in lightly rubbed near Fine dustjacket. Dust jacket unclipped and protected in mylar sleeve.) Long out of print and quite scarce. Item #69788
ISBN: 093342907X
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