marion dockerill - my life in a love cult
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Thus, we might say that the magical and sexual career of Aleister Crowley was in many ways parallel to that of the founder of the Tantrik Order in America, Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard – and in fact, the two did also briefly intersect. Not only do many of Crowley’s teachings on sexual magic do seem to bear some superficial resemblance to those of Bernard’s American Tantra, but it would seem that Crowley also had some direct contact with the members of the Tantrik Order in the 1920′s. Crowley was first introduced to his infamous “Scarlet Woman,” Leah Hirsig, in New York in 1918 by her sister Alma, Alma, it seems, was a direct disciple of Bernard and deeply involved in his Tantrik Order in New York; however, she would later go on to publish her own exposé of Bernard’s group, under the pseudonym of Marion Dockerill, entitled, My Life in a Love Cult: a Warning to All Young Girls (1928).TRANSCRIPT
