The Star in the West

About this book

Aleister Crowley appears as the chosen poet and religious prophet of a new age in J. F. C. Fuller's Star in the West. The admiration comes from a contemporary who believed his subject's work signalled an extraordinary spiritual development.

Fuller approaches Crowley through poetry, personality and the early teachings of Thelema. His language offers an unusually direct view of the reputation Crowley was cultivating among supporters before later scandals transformed it. The book is best read as an enthusiastic testimony from inside the movement, with its claims distinguished from independent biography. Its intensity tells us as much about discipleship as about Crowley himself.