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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the dark side of occultism and the shadowy secret at the heart of culture and society.
In today's "post-truth" world, we are becoming inundated with fantasy fictions, "alternate news", and grossly oversimplified (and wildly exaggerated) conspiracy theories that identify cryptocratic power structures ruling our fates.
But suppose the truth is both stranger than any fiction and more nuanced and disturbing than any theory? Suppose it is not conspiracy but complicity that creates our world?
Beginning as an investigation into the author's childhood inside a closet aristocracy of "progressive" British entrepreneurs, The Vice of Kings uncovers a history both disturbingly personal and shockingly universal.
By juxtaposing disc jockey Jimmy Savile's secret cultural, criminal, and political affiliations in the second half of the 20th century with the life and teachings of Aleister Crowley in the first, it uncovers an alarming body of evidence on the prevalence of organized child abuse in occult circles, as well as the wider society.
Table of ContentsCOCK-UP OR CONSPIRACY? (AUTHOR'S NOTE)
INTRODUCTION
Glamor vice
PART I: OCCULT YORKSHIRE: FABIAN FAMILY SECRETS AND JIMMY SAVILE'S BRITAIN
CHAPTER I
The Grandfather: Alec Horsley, Northern Dairies, the Fabian Society
CHAPTER II
A brief history of Fabianism: co-opting the left and right
CHAPTER III
Havelock Ellis, Lolita, and the sexual child
CHAPTER IV
Progressive politics and witchcraft: Brazier's Park, order of Woodcraft, Common Wealth
CHAPTER V
Progressive schools: Abbotsholme, Theosophy, Wicca, Grith Fyrd
CHAPTER VI
Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and Dandies: Marianne Faithfull, the Stones, Tom Driberg, and LSE
CHAPTER VII
Food control, world control: Suez Crisis, Northern Dairies, Marks & Spencer
CHAPTER VIII
Mass observation and dance halls: Jimmy Savile's beginnings
CHAPTER IX
Evolutionary theory and social engineering: Richard Acland's Common Wealth
CHAPTER X
The Gates of Hell: MKULTRA, Robert Graves, William Sargant, and Wasson's Magic Mushroom
CHAPTER XI
A Scientific Outlook: Congress for Cultural Freedom, Bertrand Russell, William Empson, and the New Criticism
CHAPTER XII
Tentacles across the ocean: Edward House, Woodrow Wilson, the Council on Foreign Relations
CHAPTER XIII
Jimmy's Kingdom: LSE, NHS, and the beginnings of psychiatric social work and child care
CHAPTER XIV
Strategy of wolves: UK child care system as sex abuse network
CHAPTER XV
Child abuse as sex magick and sexual research: Aleister Crowley, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey
CHAPTER XVI
World process: Kinderladen, Paedophile Information Exchange, and Labour
CHAPTER XVII
A master key: Northern Foods, MI5, Groucho Club, Lord Haskins
CHAPTER XVIII
A Lamb among Wolves: Richard Dawkins, Gore Vidal, the Secret of Secrets
PART II: THE CROWLEY JOKE
CHAPTER XIX
Pedophilia and organized ritual abuse
CHAPTER XX
None dare call it insanity: Crowley, occultism, and child sacrifice
CHAPTER XXI
Island of the Ipsissimus: the Abbey of Thelema
CHAPTER XXII
To the assault! or: why should we take Crowley seriously?
CHAPTER XXIII
Hangdog with a Hard-On
CHAPTER XXIV
A sodomitic will: from the Crow's mouth
CHAPTER XXV
Necessary offense: the left-hand path and sexual liberation as social engineering
CHAPTER XXVI
A Luciferian Lighthouse: an act of unconscious animal sacrifice
CHAPTER XXVII
Circles of denial: checking in with the experts
CHAPTER XXVIII
Over to Satan's Side: Espionage, Black Mass, and Blackmail
CHAPTER XXIX
A worn-out toy: Poupée's death, God-identification, Garbanzo's passing
CHAPTER XXX
Spectral justice: the unconscious confession of the taboo-breaker
CHAPTER XXXI
Abuse culture and the law of the strong
CHAPTER XXXII
Blood Treason
AFTERWORD
The truth of affect
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
