Leah Hirsig's Three Chapters in My Life: Containing the Diary of Babalon

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Lea (Leah) Hirsig (April 9, 1883, Trachselwald, Canton of Bern – February 22, 1975) was a Swiss-American notably associated with the author and occultist Aleister Crowley. She continued to work for Crowley and the promulgation of Thelema, and later married William George Barron, with whom she had a son, Alexander Barron (4 Dec 1925-? In 1925, when Crowley asked her to serve again for a period as his scribe and secretary, she readily accepted; she was ready to give her assistance when it was necessary to the furtherance of his magical work and to the promulgation of the Law of Thelema. Abstract In 1920, the Swiss-American music teacher and occultist Leah Hirsig (1883–1975) was appointed ‘Scarlet Woman’ by the British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), founder of the religion Thelema.

She and her older sister Alma were drawn to the study of the occult, and this interest led them in the spring of 1918 to pay a visit to Aleister Crowley, who was living at the time in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. En la primavera de 1921, Hirsing fue la única testigo de la elevación de Crowley al grado máximo de Ipsissimus.In 1919 Leah Hirsig was consecrated as Crowleys «Scarlet Woman», taking the name Alostrael, «the womb (or grail) of God. Hirsig’s role as Crowley’s initiatrix reached a pinnacle in the spring of 1921 when she presided over his attainment of the grade of Ipsissimus, the only witness to the event.

The number of copies of the 'edition' is unknown, but obviously there could not have been many as it is extremely uncommon. In 1920, Crowley cofounded a religious commune, the Abbey of Thelema, in Cefalù, Sicily, with his lover and disciple Leah Hirsig, who became Crowley’s Scarlet Woman. Sin embargo, su madre junto a Leah y sus hermanas se trasladaron a Estados Unidos en 1885, cuando era una niña de dos años, y creció en Nueva York, mientras que su padre junto con sus hermanos emigraron a Argentina.

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Hirsig and her older sister Alma were drawn to the study of the occult, and this interest led them in the spring of 1918 to pay a visit to Aleister Crowley, who was living at the time in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village.

Leah (Lea, para su familia) Hirsig (9 de abril de 1883 - 22 de febrero de 1975) fue una ocultista suizo-estadounidense, asociada con el también ocultista Aleister Crowley.