Tao Te Ching

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was uniquely qualified to produce a translation of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching. He was called the finest English metrical poet of his generation by some of his contemporaries, and his work is anthologized in the Oxford Book of Mystical Verse. He was also a profound and experienced magician, mystic, and philosopher, trained in western esotericism, Hermeticism, the Qabalah and more traditional western philogophy, but with a deep and abiding interest in the ancient philosophies of the Orient.