The Secret City: London's Hidden History of Magic, Mystery, and the Occult.

Buy Now (Click Link) In 1920, Aleister Crowley, now the established prophet of the new aeon, embarked on his most ambitious and most infamous experiment: the founding of the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily. This was to be the first Thelemic monastery, a magical utopia where a select group of his disciples could live according to the principles of "Do what thou wilt." The Abbey was to be a laboratory for the new aeon, a place where the techniques of Thelemic magic could be practised in their purest form, free from the constraints of the outside world. But the experiment would end in tragedy, scandal, and the further blackening of Crowley’s already notorious reputation. The Founding of the Abbey Crowley and a small group of his followers, including his current "Scarlet Woman," Leah Hirsig, rented a small villa on the outskirts of the Sicilian fishing village of Cefalù. They painted the walls with elaborate, sexually explicit, and often terrifying murals depicting t...