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Wilfred Talbot Smith (born Frank Wenham; 8 June 1885 – 27 April 1957) was an English occultist and ceremonial magician known as an advocate of the religion of Thelema. Living most of his life in North America, he played a key role in propagating Thelema across the continent.
22 feb 2024 · The history of the Thelema movement is recounted through the biography of its leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), who was an early convert to Crowley’s revealed religion, a unique brand of apocalyptic esotericism.
12 lug 2013 · “The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley’s contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Smith, the unacknowledged offspring of a prominent English family, emigrated to Canada where he met Charles Stansfeld Jones and through him, the works of ...
1 nov 2003 · The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957).
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This chapter discusses Wilfred Talbot Smith’s birth, the concealment of his parentage, his paternal family and upbringing as a virtual orphan and out-of-wedlock “upstairs-downstairs” child in Victorian England. Smith was warehoused out of sight of the socially and politically prominent Cox family.
22 feb 2024 · Originally published to critical acclaim in 2003, Starr’s comprehensive exploration of the life and legacy of Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1953) remains an indispensable contribution to the study of 20th-century esoteric traditions and the development of modern occultism.
3 gen 2024 · Martin P. Starr tells the history of the movement through the biography of its leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), who took up Crowley’s plans for organizations to teach the latter’s methods in Western and Eastern esoteric traditions and his laws for a new world order, and established these systems in British Columbia and ...
