[sageb1]

"Symonds returned to biography in 1959 with Madame Blavatsky, Medium and Magician, an entertaining account of the life of the founder of Theosophy, a sharp-tongued medium who is said to have levitated her 17-stone self to a chandelier to light her cigarette."

Ah yes, Blavatasky. One of the founders of New Age spiritualism.

[Tax-chick]

How curious. Don't we have a FReeper using that name?

[RichInOC]

While he made no secret of his own disapproval, he enlivened his accounts of Crowley’s life with humorous anecdotes, recalling, for example, how, after his move to Boleskine House overlooking Loch Ness, Crowley had written to the local Vigilance Society complaining that “prostitution is most unpleasantly conspicuous” in the area. The society sent round an observer who found no evidence. Crowley wrote back: “Conspicuous by its absence, you fools!”

Okay, I laughed.

[AnAmericanMother]

There will ALWAYS be an England.

Glad somebody made some money off that sleaze Crowley.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.