The Place of Enchantment The Place of Enchantment British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern e   f The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London  ,professor ofhistory and gender studies at Northwestern University,is the author ofThe Darkened Room:Women,Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. The University ofChicago Press,Chicago  The University ofChicago Press,Ltd.,London © by Alex Owen All rights reserved.Published  Printed in the United States ofAmerica                :---(cloth) Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Owen,Alex,– The place ofenchantment :British occultism and the culture ofthe modern / Alex Owen. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ---(hardcover :alk.paper) . Occultism—Great Britain—History—th century. I. Title. . (cid:2)(cid:2)—dc  øThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum require- ments ofthe American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials, .-. And they said to one another,Behold,this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore,and let us slay him. . :‒    ⁄ ix ⁄ xi  ⁄ Enchantment à la Mode /  / Culture and the Occult at the Fin de Siècle /  / Magicians of the New Dawn /  / Sexual Politics /  / Modern Enchantment and the Consciousness of Self /   / Occult Reality and the Fictionalizing Mind /   / Aleister Crowley in the Desert /   / After Armageddon /   / Occultism and the Ambiguities of the Modern /  ⁄  ⁄  ⁄   (following page ) . Anna Kingsford (ca.) . Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky () . Annie Besant () . Annie Besant () . William Wynn Westcott (nineteenth century) . Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers . Florence Farr (ca.) . Florence Farr as Louka () . Henry Marriott Paget,Yeats() . Yeats and Todhunter (ca.) . Annie Horniman () . Aleister Crowley as the Adept (ca.) . Aleister Crowley as the Beast () . Victor Neuburg (late s)