![]() A mere fifteen, Grant blundered into the fluorescent vortex of Aleister Crowley via a copy of Magick in Theory and Practice discovered in a Charing Cross Road bookshop. ![]() Three years later, aged eighteen, Grant joined the army ‘with the expectation of being sent to India, where I had hopes of finding a guru’. ![]() Given that Grant’s enlistment took place at the height of World War II, this statement would seem to suggest a grasp upon conventional worldly reality that was at best precarious. Eighteen months after setting out on his unusual khaki path towards enlightenment, Grant suffered an unspecified ‘health breakdown’ and was discharged from the forces. LOVECRAFT FULLĭuring convalescence, he wrote to the Jermyn Street address listed in Crowley’s Book of Thoth, and subsequently entered into first a correspondence and then, later, full apprenticeship with the Great Beast. Grant, at the time, was barely twenty, while the Master Therion was in his early seventies, a magus down to his last chants and just about to settle into premises at Netherwood in Hastings, Crowley’s terminal address. The details of the correspondence and relationship are to be found in Grant’s Remembering Aleister Crowley, an entrancing blend of fannish scrapbook and The Screwtape Letters, published by Skoob Books in 1991. The frequently exasperated tone of Crowley’s letters to his younger acolyte suggests a Thelemic Laurel and Hardy routine: Stan fails to magickally identify a channelled drawing of the entity called LAM. ![]() In retaliation, Olly knocks Stan’s bowler hat off and then treads on it. DREAMING THELEMA OF KENNETH GRANT AND H. ![]()
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