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THE SUNDAY REFEREE London, England 9 October 1932
THE MASTER MAGICIAN.
[by Victor B. Neuburg]
Magick [Magick in Theory and Practice]. By the Master Therion.
The writer, the Master Therion, is the Bad Boy of British Journalism—Aleister Crowley. This wicked man vide the Press, passim) has produced a work that is witty, erudite, profound, and accomplished. . . . For once Mr. Crowley may be treated fairly critically, and without the rancour that is born of the over-payment of the professional scurrility-mongers of Grub-street. Much of this author's extreme unpopularity is due, beyond dispute, to his persistent habits not merely of explosive violence of expression and passionate assertiveness; habits not merely stupid, but dull as fireworks in sunlight. . . . The writer's accomplishment is patent, he is a master, at any rate, of prose; his power of expression is as near perfection as that of any author I have read.
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