RT Article
T1 A Hackney Disciple of the Beast 666: A History in Letters
JF The pomegranate
VO 18
IS 1
SP 5
OP 30
A1 Josiffe, Christopher
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1670475409
AB Studies of Aleister Crowley's followers have tended to focus on unconventional or bohemian figures. This article examines a different type of person-Neville Foreman, an insurance clerk and family man who lived in the unfashionable Clapton district of Hackney, East London. Several years' correspondence between Foreman and Crowley sheds light on the profile of a Crowley acolyte from a more conventional background. Whilst Foreman was no bohemian, this lower-middle class office clerk was nonetheless an esoteric seeker. Dissatisfied with his previous explorations in New Thought, Theosophy and Anthroposophy, Foreman arrived at Crowley and Thelema hoping for spiritual guidance and personal development, and also seeking some resolution to his sexual difficulties.
K1 Aleister Crowley
K1 Anthroposophy
K1 Argenteum Astrum
K1 A?A?
K1 Neville Foreman
K1 New Thought
K1 O.T.O
K1 Ordo Templi Orientis
K1 Theosoph
K1 Sex Magic
DO 10.1558/pome.v18i1.22349