Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the Age by Alan Richardson

Author:Alan Richardson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2010-03-18T10:40:00+00:00

At that time, too, in the early i9zos, the MasterTherion was rather looking to find a successful pupil-one who would learn all that he had to teach, prove a shining example of his creed, and then go on to tell the world: Ad majorem Crowley gloriam,6 so to speak. It was in late 1922 that he felt he had found the perfect disciple-and that is not too strong a term-in the shape of Frederick Charles Loveday, an Oxford graduate of some distinction, who preferred to be called Raoul.

Raoul and his wife, Betty May, arrived at the Abbey in November 1922, and Crowley felt at once that his pupil-whom he called Frater Aud-would make staggering magickal progress under his guidance. Despite his wife's detestation of the whole regime, Loveday worked right hard under the supervision of what he regarded as a living Master. There were no wonders of the obvious sort, except mysterious blue lights and visions of a bull-deity, but then Crowley once said that while he as Magus may have lacked power, he did have the ability to precipitate spiritual crises within people, which he felt was part of his role as Prophet of the Aeon. Unfortunately Raoul's crisis was an entirely physical one, for he contracted acute enteric fever precipitated by drinking from a polluted mountain spring, and so the potential Magical Son died-stillborn, so to speak-in February 1923.

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