Blake and the Left Hand Path: William Blake, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare

William Blake has been claimed by a number of esoteric and even occult thinkers and practitioners. At the end of his life, he was as much known for his series of Visionary Heads - apparitions of spirits and historical figures - and this made him attractive to later spiritualists in the Victorian era. In this podcast, Jason Whittaker explores how Blake was invoked by two more radical practitioners of magic: Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare.