Richard Kaczynski is an independent scholar of Western Esotericism, best known for the biography Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (2010). He publishes and presents widely, including with the Association for the Study of Esotericism and Trans-States (for which he was a keynote speaker in 2016). As a statistician, he has held academic positions with the Wayne State University School of Medicine, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, and Yale University School of Medicine.

• CHAPTER ONE: THE AGNOSTICS


• CHAPTER TWO: CROWLEY AND RATIONALISM


• CHAPTER THREE: THE PRIZE


• CHAPTER FOUR: AGNOSTICS ON CAMPUS


• CHAPTER FIVE: BORROWED INFLUENCES


• CHAPTER SIX: CROWLEY VS. THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION


• CHAPTER SEVEN: FULLER and NEUBURG AFTER THE AGNOSTIC JOURNAL


• CHAPTER EIGHT: LIFE AFTER CROWLEY


• Conclusion


• Acknowledgements


• ANTHOLOGY OF PRIMARY TEXTS BY ALEISTER CROWLEY, J. F. C. FULLER, AND VICTOR NEUBURG

Rebelling against Victorian religious and social strictures, occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg were active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Friendship in Doubt examines how the Agnostic movement inspired and introduced them to each other as foundational figures in the new religious movement of Thelema.