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Tonight on the show, I'll be reading from my latest book, Children of the Beast, Alastro Crily Shadow of Humanity.

It's a 350 page book with about 700 and how many footnotes are I?

It's 762 footnotes.

So it's a very thoroughly research book, in my opinion.

And it covers Crowley's influence upon the 20th century, figures that a lot of people know and some people don't know.

And I really just started by covering Alistair Crowley in a kind of brief method or brief way.

My book, Prophet of Evil, covers him in greater detail.

But it was important, I think, to do an independent study for this book

and kind of relate some of the later information back to his books and research

and just show the connection.

So I really tried to do that. As far as the intro, I just kind of covered him briefly, talked

about what he did. I think it's kind of important to know what my intent was with the book.

And so the intro reads, The Shadow of Occultist Edward Alexander, Alastair Crowley darkens the history and culture of the 20th century, as the preeminent accumulator of occult knowledge and the foremost writer and cultist of the 19th and early of the 20th century. Crowley incorporated knowledge gleaned from prior magicians, writers, and philosophers, forming these ideas with his own into a new

religion for a new age. An avid writer and an accomplished scholar, Cruelly left a vast storehouse

of literature. By his own admission, he was addicted to reading and writing. His enormous amount

of completed works exhibits his mastery of prose, and with his pen, he wielded a vast power

of expression. Crowley wrote books under a variety

of pseudonyms and self-published his own material at whim using the highest quality materials

at the best printing houses of the day and authored innumerable articles for popular publications.

His voluminous writings are often couched in thick jargon referencing arcana contained in

occult manuscripts, the Kabbalah, the taro, world history, and mythology. The primary interest of this book is to trace the trajectory

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