Aleister Crowley

Note : some people, including some of my personal acquaintance, have found some difficulties with the person and/or the work of Mr. Aleister Crowley.

He might be a something else. However, frankly and in a broad perspective, he was not nearly half as bad as some of the commonly advertised "heroes".

Parts of his work may seem worthy of being instantly rejected ; one can yet distinguish between what can be use and what had better be left aside.

Howbeit, he had not always made sure to make his work easily accessible to evaluation. As a service to the rest of humanity, I am here providing some titles which might help as introduction to the works of Mr. A. Crowley, for those persons who, under the influence of the daily newspaper and the evening TV, might have lost the ability directly to confront the master.

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Crookshank, F. G. (Francis Graham), 1873-1933. Title Epidemiological essays. Publisher New York : Macmillan, 1931. Description ix, 136 p. ; 22 cm. { Publisher London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1930. Description ix, 136 p. ; 21 cm. } Note Includes index. Language English

Harrison, Lawrence Whitaker, b. 1876. Title The diagnosis and treatment of venereal diseases in general practice / by L.W. Harrison ; with a chapter on the medico-legal aspects, etc. / by F.G. Crookshank. Edition 3rd ed. Publisher London : H. Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Description xx, 525 p., 19 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. Series Oxford medical publications Note Includes index.

Cumston, Charles Greene, 1868- Title Notre sympathique confrère François Rabelais. Conférence faite le jeudi 21 février 1918, a la Société médicale de Genève. Publisher Genève : Georg, 1918. Description 24 p. illus. 23cm. Language French

New Sydenham Society. Title Prize essays on leprosy / Newman, Ehlers, Impey. Publisher London : The Society, 1895-1897. Description 2 v. : maps ; 22 cm. Series New Sydenham Society. [Publications] ;v. 157, 162 Language English Note Bibliographical foot-notes. Contents Newman, G. [1st ser.] On the history of the decline and final extinction of leprosy as an endemic disease in the British Islands.--Ehlers, E. On the conditions under which leprosy has declined in Iceland, and the extent of its former and present prevalence.--Impey, S. P. Leprosy in South Africa.--Impey, S. P. On spontaneous recovery from leprosy. [2d ser.] Thompson, J. A. A contribution to the history of leprosy in Australia.--Cantlie, J. Report on the conditions under which leprosy occurs in China,

Trinidad. Leper Asylum. Title Report on leprosy and the Trinidad Leper Asylum : for the year ... / by Beaven Rake. Publisher Port-of-Spain : Government Printing Office. Description v. ; 32 cm. Publishing History Began with 1887. Cf. National Union Catalog. Note Vols. for 1887- by Beaven Rake. Language English

Warren, Edward, 1804-1870. Title Sketch of the progress of the malignant or epidemic cholera from its arrival in America : with tables illustrative of its progress in the principal cities it has visited / by Edward Warren. Publisher Boston : Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832. Description 40 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references. Language English

Smith, Alexander, fl. 1831. Title A systematic and practical description of the spasmodic cholera. Publisher London, Smith, Elder; Dublin, Fannin, 1831. Description 16 p. 22cm. Language English

Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849. Title An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with syphilis : and the symptoms which exclusively arise from that poison ... / by Richard Carmichael. Edition 1st American ed. Publisher Philadelphia : Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817 ([Philadelphia] : William Fry) Description xvi, 303 p. : ill. Series Early American imprints.Second series ;no. 40405. Note Includes bibliographical references. Language English

Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759 Title All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near; it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America. Written for general service Publisher Philadelphia, 1737 Description 271 p. 16 cm

Santorio, Santorio, 1561-1636 Title Medicina statica: being the aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into English, with large explanations. To which is added Dr. Keil's Medicina statica Britannica with comparative remarks and explanations. As also Medico-physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. Kings-evil. VII. Venereal diseases Edition The 3d ed. By John Quincy .. Publisher London, W. and J. Newton [etc.] 1723 [i. e. 1724] Description viii, 344, [6], 116, [18] p. : illus. ; 20 cm Note "Medico-physical essays" has special title page, dated 1724 Language English

Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Title Avr. Philip. Theoph. Paracelsi Bombast ab Hohenheim ... Opera omnia: medico-chemico-chirvrgica, tribvs volvminibvs comprehensa. Edition Ed. novissima et emendatissima, ad germanica & latina exemplaria accuratissim� collata; variis tractatibus & opusculis summ� hinc inde diligenti� conquisitis, vt in voluminis primi praefatione indicatur, locupletata: indicibusq� exactissimis instructa ... Publisher Genevae, sumtibus I. Antonij, & Samuelis De Tournes, 1658. Description 3 v. in 2. front. (port.) illus. 35 cm. Note Vols. 2-3 have special title-pages only. Printer's mark on each t.-p. Language Latin

Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646. Title A new light of alchymy taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur / Written by Micheel Sandivogius...also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus...also a chymical dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All of which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F., M.D. Publisher London : Printed by A. Clark, for Tho. Williams, 1674. Description 8 p., L., 351 p. ; 17 cm. Note "Of the nature of things" and "A chemical dictionary" have special title-pages. Translation of Novum lumen chymicum. Language English

Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689. Title Thomae Sydenham Methodus curandi febres propriis observationibus superstructa. Publisher Londini : Impensis J. Crook, 1666. Description [14], 156, [1] p.

Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Title Operum medico chimicorum; sive, Paradoxorum, tomus genuinus primus[-undecimus] ... Recenter Latine factus. Publisher In Francofurto : A Collegio Musarum Palthenianarum, 1603-1605. Description 11 v. illus., ports. 25 cm. Note Edited by Zacharias Palthenius. Contents t. 1. Agens de caussis, origine ac curatione morborum in genere.--t. 2. Tradens fundamenta, quibus ver� & genuin� medicin� ars superstructa, & ex quibus solis illa addiscipossit.--t. 3. Agens de caussis, origine ac curatione morborum in specie.--t. 4. Agens itidem ut tertius de caussis, origine ac curatione morborum in specie.--t. 5. Agens de libris ad medicinam physicam spectantibus.--t. 6. E chymicis primus, continens, processus & pr�parationes spagyricas rerum naturalium ad usum medicin�: multaque alia de tinctura physicorum, & c�lo philosophorum: de c�mentis item & gradationibus.--t. 7. E chimicis secundus, continens, vires efficacias, & proprietates rerum naturalium, & earum quoad medicinam, pr�parationes: cum multis alchimicam scientiam secretis spectantibus.-- t. 8. E philosophicis vero primus, continens philosophiam de generationibus & fructibus quatuor elementorum.--t. 9. E philosophicis vero secundus, continens arcana naturalia supernaturalia, eorumq[ue] caussas, origines, substantias & proprietates.--t. 10. E philosophicis vero tertius, continens philosophiam sagaeem & astronomiam magnam.--t. 11. E philosophicis vero quartus, continens astronomiam magnam cum artibus incertis, transmutationibus metallorum, magicis adversus morbos figuris, & planetarum sigillis. Language Latin