Home›Sources›Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismSourcesAleister Crowley and Western EsotericismCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/aleister-crowley-and-western-esotericism.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/aleister-crowley-and-western-esotericismCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-aleister-crowley-and-western-esotericism, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/aleister-crowley-and-western-esotericism}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThis is a peer-reviewed academic essay collection, with named specialist contributors addressing Crowley's sources, his magical orders and his later reception directly from the documented historical record rather than one editor summarizing his career secondhand. That contributor-by-contributor specialist method, each chapter grounded in its own author's documented research, is the volume's real evidentiary basis. This record states its own limit plainly: coverage of any one aspect of Crowley's career or thought depends on which chapter addresses it, so a topic no chapter treats in depth is not covered here. Use it for established scholarly facts about a specific aspect of Crowley's sources, orders or reception that a chapter directly addresses; a broader claim needs checking against which contributor actually covers it.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (189 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1A peer-reviewed academic essay collection with named specialist contributors addressing Crowley's sources, orders and reception directly from the documented historical record; this record states plainly that coverage of any one topic depends on which chapter addresses it.NotesWell-attestedPeer-reviewed essay collection covering Crowley's sources, orders and reception.CitationAuthorWell-attestedHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)PublisherWell-attestedOxford University PressPublication YearWell-attested2012Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographClaims Backed By This Source (189 claims)This source backs 189 claims across the atlas. As facts: 141 well-attested, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 17 holds, 1 connected. Plus 29 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicRituals, 25 claims: 19 well-attested, 1 holds, 5 general references.Scriptures & Texts, 24 claims: 17 well-attested, 4 holds, 3 general references.Articles, 23 claims: 23 well-attested.Secret Societies, 21 claims: 16 well-attested, 2 holds, 3 general references.Initiatory Grades, 17 claims: 9 well-attested, 5 holds, 3 general references.Categories, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 general references.Mantras, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.Historical Figures, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 general references.Religions, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 open question, 1 general references.Esoteric Texts, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.Subcategories, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Doctrines, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.Disciplines, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Numbers, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Years, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested141ArticlesA Degree Ladder, a Mass, and a Contested SuccessionAdeptus Minor In The A A's Ten Grade SequenceAdeptus Minor's Published Threshold Status In The A AAn Order Designed So That No Member Can See ItAn Order That Publishes Everything and Admits Almost No OneChoronzon and the Abyss: A Later LayerCrowley and the Problem of the SourcesCrowley's Numerology and an Older WordDee, Kelley and CrowleyHow an Order Became the Vehicle of One RevelationMagister Templi, One Of The A A's Highest GradesMagister Templi's Published Place At The A A's SummitOrders, Ritual and MagickProbationer, The A A's Preliminary GradeProbationer's Published Place In The A A's CurriculumSuppression, Revival, and a Deliberately Dark ReadingThe Core of 'Book Four'The Definition, and the Manual Around ItThe Order That Took the Dark Side of the Planet DeliberatelyThe Phrase in Ceremonial Magic and in ThelemaThe Word of the AeonThelemic and ceremonial textsWhat He Founded, What He Took Over, and What He Was Accused OfCategoriesEnochian AethyrsEnochian GovernorsDoctrinesThe Great WorkEsoteric TextsMagick in Theory and PracticeHistorical FiguresAleister CrowleyInitiatory GradesAdeptus Minor (A A)Magister Templi (A A)Probationer (A A)MantrasAbrahadabraNumbers93Open QuestionsHow many people practise Thelema worldwide, across Ordo Templi Orientis, A A and its other initiatory orders?ReligionsThelemaRitualsInvocationLiber Resh (Solar Adorations)The Gnostic MassScriptures & TextsLiber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente (Liber LXV)Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli)Secret SocietiesA A (Astrum Argenteum)Ordo Templi OrientisSourcesAleister Crowley and Western EsotericismSubcategoriesThelemic TextsOpen question1ReligionsThelemaHolds17DisciplinesCeremonial MagickDoctrinesThe Great WorkInitiatory GradesAdeptus Minor (A A)Magister Templi (A A)Probationer (A A)MantrasAbrahadabraRitualsThe Gnostic MassScriptures & TextsLiber Cordis Cincti Serpente (Liber LXV)Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli)Secret SocietiesOrdo Templi OrientisYears1929Connected1Open QuestionsHow many people practise Thelema worldwide, across Ordo Templi Orientis, A A and its other initiatory orders?General References29CategoriesEnochian AethyrsEnochian GovernorsDisciplinesCeremonial MagickDoctrinesThe Great WorkEsoteric TextsMagick in Theory and PracticeHistorical FiguresAleister CrowleyKenneth GrantVictor NeuburgInitiatory GradesAdeptus Minor (A A)Magister Templi (A A)Probationer (A A)MantrasAbrahadabraThelema, the Word of the LawNumbers93Open QuestionsHow many people practise Thelema worldwide, across Ordo Templi Orientis, A A and its other initiatory orders?ReligionsThelemaRitualsInvocationLiber Resh (Solar Adorations)The Gnostic MassScriptures & TextsLiber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente (Liber LXV)Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli)Secret SocietiesA A (Astrum Argenteum)Ordo Templi OrientisSubcategoriesThelemic TextsYears1929Comments (0)No comments yet. 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