ABSTRACT:
Talk delivered at London's October Gallery, April 7, 1998, on the art of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), a self-taught painter and occultist.
“The Artist is a creative genius; that is, he is of the nature of the Godhead which devised the Soul as a medium for self-realization. Also, as History assures us, the Artist is of the caste of the initiated rulers of Mankind; he understands the theory of the Universe, he is an Epopt of the Mysteries of Nature, and an Hierophant of the Inviolable Sanctuary"--Aleister Crowley, “Realism: A Note upon the Theory of Art”
