LF118 Tobias Churton – Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin Part One

E529 - LF118 Tobias Churton – Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin Part One

Published: February 6, 2026

Duration: 43:44

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Tobias Churton discusses his book Aleister Crowley – The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic. The talk also touches on psychology, politics, science, spirituality, materialism, quantum physics, social conformity, limits to human understanding, and the quest for meaning and purpose in life.

This is a two part interview. Part two is here.

Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion Thelema, he wanted to be among the leaders of art a...