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“It was after the [great] war that Aleister Crowley attained his greatest notoriety—although it should never be forgotten that he emerged from the very fin de siècle atmosphere of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and that he was a supreme example of the type of Symbolist magus who had flourished in Paris during the 1890s.”

Wwii Symbolism 1976 Aleister Crowley Fin De Siècle Golden Dawn

Book:The Occult Establishment

Source: The Occult Establishment

“It is impossible to understand Crowley. unless we grasp that, like Madame Blavatsky and Mathers and Yeats and Florence Farr, he took magic as seriously as Lord Rutherford took atomic physics. Literary commentators often make the same mistake about Yeats: that he regarded magic as a romantic exercise in suspension of disbelief. Yeat's [sic] magical notebooks reveal this to have been untrue; they go into overwhelming detail about magical procedures and symbols and show that he continued to be obsessed by it long after he ceased to be a member of the Golden Dawn.”

Magick Aleister Crowley 1987 Golden Dawn W B Yeats

Book:Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast

Source: Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast

“On the breezy morning of March 31, 2017, a group of seven black-masked anarchists approached the headquarters of the neofascist Golden Dawn party near the Greek capital’s Larissa Station, a central train stop in the densely populated working-class borough of Kolonos. Armed with sledgehammers, sticks, and road flares, many of them donned motorcycle helmets in anticipation of a fight with the far-right Golden Dawn members. But on this morning, they met no resistance. The anti-fascists quickly smashed the windows, and threw flares into the office. Messages lambasting the Golden Dawn were spray-painted on the door. According to some accounts, those inside the office, unprepared for a confrontation, quickly fled. Security footage of the incident emerged in the local media within hours and went viral on social media. In the video, taxis and other vehicles can be seen speeding past as a group of anarchists stayed back on the road to ensure they weren’t ambushed from behind. Within minutes, the group had smashed the windows of the office, battered the door, and left behind glass shards glimmering under the bright spring sky. Emanating from large holes, weblike cracks stretched across the window panes.”

Fascism Greece Far Right Antifa Anti Fascism Neo Nazis Golden Dawn

Book:Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle

Source: Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle

“These tit-for-tat attacks and confrontations between anti-fascists and the Golden Dawn have punctuated the last few years of political turmoil in Greece, with the former accusing the police of playing an integral role in protecting the latter. And like any prolonged conflict, these battles have produced ample martyrs, idols and intensely hated enemies for both sides.”

Fascism Greece Far Right Antifa Anti Fascism Neo Nazis Golden Dawn

Book:Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle

Source: Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle

“Fyssas’s murder was a turning point for the broad anti-fascist left in Greece. The Golden Dawn had always met dedicated resistance to its violent attacks on migrants, leftists, critics, and journalists, but the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper in public was kerosene to the anti-fascist fire that had long burned in many Greeks’ hearts.”

Greece Athens Antifa Anti Fascism Antifascism Golden Dawn Pavlos Fyssas

Book:Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle

Source: Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle