THE DAILY STANDARD

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

5 February 1930

(page 2)

Oxford Bans Lecture By Mystic.

15th Century Monster.

London, Tuesday.

Aleister Crowley's lecture to the Oxford Poetry Society on "Gllles De Rais," the fifteenth century magician, and the original Bluebeard, has been cancelled. The secretary, who stated that the authorities had banned Mr. Crowley, told the "Manchester Guardian" that he believed the trouble was due to a report that Mr. Crowley was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death in Sicily of his secretary Raoul Loveday, an Oxford undergraduate.

"Perhaps," added the official, "he was banned because Rais said that he was accused of having ritually murdered 800 children. A false accusation has been made," says Rais; "I not only killed, I have eaten the children."

Ex-Rhodes Scholar Stevenson [sic] [P.R. Stephensen], the Director of the Mandraka [sic] Press [Mandrake Press], is publishing Crowley's autobiography [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley].

[Aleister Crowley is an English writer and practicer of mysticism.]