April 20, 1904 E.V.
The Crowleys leaving Egypt in April 1904 E.V. after the Cairo Working
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• The P. & O. steamer S.S. Osiris anchored in Port Said. Author's collection.
• Section from a 1900s map showing Messina, the largest city in north-eastern Sicily.
• On what date onboard the P. & O. steamer S.S. Osiris did Rose and Aleister Crowley leave Egypt in April 1904 E.V., and where did they land in Europe on their way to Paris?
Aleister Crowley later mentioned in an undated letter to the British social reformer and theosophist Annie Besant (1847-1933), whom he happened to meet on the return ship, that the ship was “the “Osiris” in April 1904 e.v.”
The date of their departure together with where they landed in Europe, have been unknown until now! – Read online or download this PDF file/ebook (32 pp.) containing an extract from FOR THE THELEMITES. [May need further proof reading]
(In connection with this extract, see also the extracts “Cairo Apartment” and “General Dickson”!)
Read online or download (256-bit AES):
• Rose and Aleister Crowley – Ouarda and Perdurabo. Aleister Crowley wrote in Confessions: “For the purposes of the Cairo working, Ouarda and I had bought two abbai; one, scarlet, for me; one, blue, for her.”
• The P. & O. steamer S.S. Isis, the sistership of the Osiris. Author's collection.