The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse

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In today's 'post-truth' world, we are becoming inundated with fantasy fictions, 'alternate news'; and grossly oversimplified (and wildly exaggerated) conspiracy theories that identify cryptocratic power structures ruling our fates. But suppose the truth is both stranger than any fiction and more nuanced and disturbing than any theory? Suppose it is not conspiracy but complicity that creates our world? Beginning as an investigation into the author's childhood inside a closet aristocracy of 'progressive' British entrepreneurs, Vice of Kings uncovers a history both disturbingly personal and shockingly universal. By juxtaposing disc jockey Jimmy Savile's secret cultural, criminal, and political affiliations in the second half of the 20th century with the life and teachings of Aleister Crowley in the first, it uncovers an alarming body of evidence that ritual child abuse is not only the dark side of occultism, but the shadowy secret at the heart of culture, both ancient and modern. In the process, Vice of Kings reveals an invisible culture behind the one we know, a secret hierarchy that impacts our lives, in ways both subtle and profound, from birth until death. It is a cryptocratic superculture that operates via traumagenesis (intentionally traumatic child-rearing practices), secret initiation/recruitment rituals (abusive social structures), and collective cultural 'inception' via mass media and the arts. By shaping our world implicitly, from the inside out, it makes us complicit with it--like the sleeping subjects of hidden monarchs. Cover Copyright Contents Cock-Up or Conspiracy? (Author’s Note) Introduction: Glamor Vice Part I: Occult Yorkshire: Fabian Family Secrets and Jimmy Savile’s Britain I. The Grandfather: Alec Horsley, Northern Dairies, the Fabian Society II: A Brief History of Fabianism: Co-Opting the Left and Right III: Havelock Ellis, Lolita, and the Sexual Child IV: Progressive Politics and Witchcraft: Brazier’s Park, Order of Woodcraft, Common Wealth V: Progressive Schools: Abbotsholme, Theosophy, Wicca, Grith Fyrd VI: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Dandies: Marianne Faithfull, the Stones, Tom Driberg, and LSE VII: Food Control, World Control: Suez Crisis, Northern Dairies, Marks & Spencer VIII: Mass Observation and Dance Halls: Jimmy Savile’s Beginnings IX: Evolutionary Theory and Social Engineering: Richard Acland’s Common Wealth X: The Gates of Hell: MKULTRA, Robert Graves, William Sargent, and Wasson’s Magic Mushroom XI: A Scientific Outlook: Congress for Cultural Freedom, Bertrand and Russell, William Empson, and the New Criticism XII: Tentacles Across the Ocean: Edward House, Woodrow Wilson, the Council on Foreign Relations XIII: Jimmy’s Kingdom: LSE, NHS, and the Beginnings of Psychiatric Social Work and Child Care XIV: Strategy of Wolves: UK Child Care System as Sex Abuse Network XV: Child Abuse as Sex Magick and Sexual Research: Aleister Crowley, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey XVI: World Process: Kinderladen, Paedophile Information Exchange, and Labor XVII: A Master Key: Northern Foods, MI5, Groucho Club, Lord Haskins XVIII: A Lamb Among Wolves: Richard DDawkins, Gore Vidal, the Secret of Secrets Part II: The Crowley Joke XIX: Pedophilia and Organized Ritual Abuse XX: None Dare Call it Insanity: Crowley, Occultism, and Child Sacrifice XXI: Island of the Ipsissimus: The Abby of Thelema XXII: To the Assult! or: Why Should We Take Crowley Seriously? XXIII: Hangdog with a Hard-On XXIV: A Sodomitic Will: From the Crow’s Mouth XXV: Necessary Offense: The Left-Hand Path and Sexual Liberation as Social Engineering XXVI: A Luciferian Lighthouse: An Act of Unconscious Animal Sacrifice XXVII: Circles of Denial: Checking in with the Experts XXVIII: Over to Satan’s Side: Espionage, Black Mass, and Blackmail XXIX: A Worn-Out Toy: Poupee’s Death, God-Identification, Garbanzo’s Passing XXX: Spectral Justice: The Unconscious Confession of the Taboo-Breaker XXXI: Abuse Culture and the Law of the Strong XXXII: Blood Treason Afterword: The Truth of Affect Notes Index About the Author Back Cover