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Cecil Frederick Russell (1897–1987) was an American occultist. Russell was a member of the A∴A∴ and Aleister Crowley 's magical order, Ordo Templi Orientis. Russell later founded his own magical order, the G.B.G. (variously explained as "Great Brotherhood of God" or "Gnostic Body of God").
Dec 4, 2012 · f. Russell (1897-1987), one-time follower of Aleister Crowley and founder of his own splinter sect devoted to the philosophy of Thelema, published mainly pseudo-spiritual works. Information can be found here ( http://cfrussell.homestead.com/files/intro.htm ) and elsewhere on the net.
C.F. Russell. Cecil Frederick Russell, also known underthe motto Genesthai was an occultist and member of the A∴A∴, later founding the G∴B∴G∴ (Great Brotherhood of God, or Gnostic Body of God), which grew out of his Chorononzon Club.
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- June 12, 1987
- June 19, 1897
If Cecil Frederick Russell (1897–1987) is remembered at all today, it tends to be as an acolyte, however briefly, of Aleister Crowley. Russell first came across Crowley by reading his 'The Revival of Magick' in The International in 1917, and met him for the first time in June 1918, at Crowley's New York apartment.
The C.F. Russell Catalogue. Cecil Frederick Russell. 1897-1987. Russell wrote in 1922: "Magick is aptly defined as the science and art of doing one's Will – achieving one's purpose, fulfilling the Law of THELEMA. Thus theoretical magick is the art of perfecting mental processes, and practical magick the art of perfecting volitional processes.
The founder of the G∴B∴G∴ was C. F. Russell whose magical name was Frater Genesthai. Lou Culling described Russell "…as a teacher in Practicing Magick, was, without question, the greatest genius of this century, or of several past centuries that I have been able to trace.”
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A selection of the rather abstruse “Ming” booklets by one-time Crowley acolyte C. F. Russell is followed by the first three volumes of his also often-baffling Znuz is Znees, Memoirs of a Magician.
