Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)

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Friendship in Doubt
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Contents
1. The Agnostics
	The Birth of Secularism
	Saladin and the Agnostic Journal
	Charles A. Watts and Rationalism: Into the Twentieth Century
	Enter J. F. C. Fuller
	Introducing Victor B. Neuburg
	Saladin’s Illness and Death; the End of the Agnostic Journal
2. Crowley and Rationalism
	The Rationalist Press Association
	The Sword of Song
	A Parting of the Ways
3. The Prize
	The Star in the West
	The Tiger Mahatma
	From Agnosticism to the A⸫A⸫
4. Agnostics on Campus
	Wild Honey
	The Pan Society
	The Cambridge University Freethought Association
	A Strange Epilogue
5. Borrowed Influences
	The Method of Science
	Phallicism
	Saints and Other Gnostics
	A Familiar Voice
6. Crowley Versus the Rationalist Press Association
7. Fuller & Neuburg after the Agnostic Journal
	The Equinox
	The Triumph of Pan
	Backing Away
8. Life after Crowley
	The Science of War
	Occult Writings
	Victor Neuburg’s Later Years
	Neither Gone nor Forgotten
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Anthology of Primary Texts by Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, and Victor B. Neuburg
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	Vale, Jehovah!
	A Song of Dawn
	A Barbaric Survival
	Ego
	Sadness
	Strong-​Heart
	Pillow Fighting, b.c.
	Credone?
	March Twentieth
	To Count Tolstoy
	A Song of Freedom
	Carmen Triumphans
	The Pagan
	Between the Spheres
	Beetledom Dying
	From India
	A Lullaby
	The Silent Gods
	Divine, and Other Carnage
	My Homeland
	Saladin
	To Shelley
	The Swan-​Song
	When It Was Dark
	Three Earth-​Notes
	The Fugitive
	Contempt of Court
	A Lyric
	The Garden of Youth
	Bible Science
	An Old Song
	The Dream
	Hail, Saladin!
	Christianity in India, 1724
	Serenade
	I. H. S.
	Young Summer
	Three Lyrics and a Sonnet
	Freethought
	To the Moon
	Horresco Referens
	Holy Grab
	The City of Lies
	Four Sonnets to William Blake
	Marie Spiridonova
	A Song for a Free Spirit
	An Agnostic View
	Four Poems from the German
	In the Temple of Isis,
	Trust and Prey
	Rejected Sonnets
	Saladin: In Memoriam
	Saladin
	After Agnosticism
	Elohim and the Number π
	De Morte
	Paganism and the Sense of Song
	The Successor of Samson
	Demos and Aristos
	A Recall
	The Eagle and the Serpent
	Freethought
	Madeleine Bavent
	The Suicide
	Demcomep
	Ballade of the Daisy
	Napoleon and the Superstitious
	The Agnostic Journal
	The Value of Atheism
	Vertebrates and Invertebrates
	A Song of the Promise of Dawn
	A Leaf (of Grass) from Walt Whitman
	The Creation of Eve
	Diary Entry, October 11, 1908
	Two Poems
	On a Statue of the Buddha
	The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review, 1908–​9. Monthly, 2“d.”
	Concerning “Blasphemy” in General and the Rites of Eleusis in  Particular
	Seascape
	Serpens Noctis Regina Mundi
	The Late Mr. G. W. Foote
	Meals with the Masters
Appendices
	The Legend of Aleister Crowley
	The Master Magician
	Aleister Crowley 1898–​1911
Index