The Abbey of Thelema
The death of a resident there in 1923 triggered a hostile British press campaign and the Italian government's expulsion of Crowley soon after. The community's original wall murals, painted over at the time, were only partially uncovered and photographed decades later, in 1955.
The death of Raoul Loveday (February 1923); Crowley's expulsion by the Italian government (April 1923); Kenneth Anger's 1955 photography of the uncovered murals
A rented Sicilian villa occupied by Aleister Crowley's community in the early 1920s as a centre for magical practice and communal living.