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2 weeks agoAleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)
Theirs was a feud over the practices of occult society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; but it was also-at least for Crowley-over poetry. Crowley envied Yeats' literary skill; Yeats could not say the same about Crowley. But while he did not necessarily respect his enemy, Yeats feared him, as did nearly everyone else. As Yeats' biographer wrote a few months after Crowley's death in 1947, "in the old days men and women lived in terror of his evil eye."
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