I can't say that I had heard of this fracas before, but I guess it shows one swift kick trumps magic:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel
https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/
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it just occurred to me this morning to wonder whether the two were familiar with each other. certainly some parts of B.O.T.D. strike me as alluding to some of the crowleys metaphysics. Even the title is remnescent of his B.O.T.L. and in that book reason is "damned" (for a dog). perhaps fort...
I stumbled across a site that appears, upon first inspection, to construct a good narrative of the Hess flight drawing together many interesting threads and portraying him as the unwitting victim of British psychological warfare:
http://www.members.aol.com/LeonardIngrams/index.html
This...
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I watched a very interesting programme on TV last night about Aleister Crowley. I'd heard of him and his connections with the occult, of course, but that was about the extent of my knowledge.
By gum, he were a bad bugger!!
What's your opinion of him? Did he really have the power to...
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