Kwaw Li Ya was Crowley's Chinese alias

Reading the following article (click on link)
I found some interesting Crowleyisms...

http://www.billheidrick.com/tlc2001/tlc0201.htm

In the editorial notes they refer to Kwaw, saying;

Chinese Aphorisms of Kwaw --

Kwaw Li Ya was Crowley's version of his own name in Chinese,
and the aphorisms are presumably writings produced during his
travels through China in 1905 e.v. Crowley later published some
articles on Asian poetry under the name of Kwaw Li Ya...
identified as a professor of poetry at the University of Pekin.

So Crowley invented the poet, wrote the poetry
and then criticised himself with references to:

...the obscene Chinese Aphorisms of Kwaw
...the nameless bestialities of Kwaw

A+ for Aleister

Ripper! Old Crowl enchants and delights with his imagination again.

So knowing this chappie had a penchant for a bit of fun, why do folks never twig that his persona might have been a smokescreen too? I didn't actually start paying attention to that until I bought Lon DuQuette's book which has snippets from Frieda about conversations with Uncle Aleister.

Totally different than the persona.

Kwaw Li Ya on the Haiku

Here, also reproduced in the Thelema Lodge Newsletters, is the Haiku contest run by Crowley in 'Vanity Fair' under the name of Kwaw Li Ya while in America:

http://www.billheidrick.com/tlc1998/tlc0198.htm#cc

And here is the tale of the Philosopher Kwaw in 'Thien Tao' or 'The Synagogue of Satan' first published by Crowley in 'Konx Om Pax':

http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib41.html

Kwaw93

AC had so many facets in his personality, I often wonder who or what the like he really was.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who had lived so many different lifestyles but still has not found himself. Suppose it was similar with beasty boy Crowley.

Oh God, I'm dying of laughter over here! I just found this list.

A rather impressive list of pseudonyms, wouldn't you say? Was he going for the world record or something?

http://bbs.bapho.net/bbs/i-drive/ac-texts/ac/pseudons.asc

PSEUDONYMS USED BY AC
_Poetry_
In published books:
A.E.C.
Aleister Crowley
Count Vladimir Svaroff
?.D. Carr
George Archibald Bishop
The Reverend P.D. Carey
The Author of the V Sign
E.G.O.
St. E.A. of M. and S.
A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge
Major Lutiy
Rec C. Verey
_____________
In periodicals:
Perdurabo
Hilda Norfolk
Barbay de Rochehuart (sic?)
John Masefield Junior
Enid Parsons, aged twelve.
Ananda Vijja
Ethel Ramsay
Jeanne La Goulue
John Roberts
Alice Wesley Torr
__________________
Unpublished:
Aleister Crowley dit Alastor le Demon du Solitude

_Prose_
In published books, pamphlets and broadsheets:
Frater Perdurabo
Ankh-F-N-Khonsu, The Priest of the Princes
Therion
The Master Therion
Khaled Khan
Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji
Alastor (in Greek)
To Mega Therion (in Greek) DCLXVI
Abhavananda
DCLXVI
Ankh-af-na-Khonsu, the Priest of the Princes.
666 The Prophet of the New Aeon.
Ko Yuen
Comte de Fenix
Fra H.I. Edinburgh
Logos Aionos Thelema (~in Greek)
________________
In periodical (mainly the Equinox and the International)
G.H. Frater O.M.
Perdurabo
666
John St. John
E.A.C.
M.W.
A.L.
H.K.T.
K.H.A.K.
J.C.
O.M.
Francis Bendick
A Quiller Jr.
S.Holmes
Alice L. Foote
Eric Tait
Nick Lamb
Lemuel S. Innocent
Robinson C. Crowley
Christabel Wharton
Saint Edward Aleister Crowley 33', 90', X', P.G.M., U.S.A., etc., etc.
Baphomet, X', O.T.O. Ireland, Iona and all the Britains.
H.C.
O.H.
J. McC.
K.S.I.
S.O.S.?
I.I. (?)
The Author of Rosa Mundi
D Carr
Percy Flage
Laura Graham
M. Tupper
David Thomas
A.C. Hobbs
Hodgson Y. Knott
Mark Wells
Edward Kelly
J Turner
Thomas Wentworth
S.C. Hiller
E. Le Roulx
V. English M.D.
Professor Jacobus, Imperator.
Tarr, M.S.
Doris Leslie ~(Baby)
Mohammed.
Diogenes
Hamlet
O Dhammaloyou
Kwaw Li Ya
Panurge
Cor Scorpionis
Cerebellum
Probationer
Georgos
Leo
Felix
Sumatra Wrapper
Super Sinistram
Sir Meduim Coeli
Madame Bock Brune
A Mourner Clad In Green
Prometheus
A London Physician
Prob Pudor
S.J. Mills
James Grahame
Cyril Custance
Sir Maurice E. Kulm,
Percy W. Newlands P.R.A.S., P.H.B.S.,P.R.C.S.,...,P.R.Y.S.,P.R.Z.S.,Etc.
Jonathon Hutchinson, Natu Minimus
Nick Lamb
Caligula
Martial Nay
Marshal de Cambronne
William Shakespear pp. Ouija Board
Dost Achiba Khan
Lord Boleskine
Alexander Tabasco
Miles
Leo Viridis
Cantab
Victor
Candlestick
Ariel
H Sapiens
Morpheus
The Brothers Lazarus
Mrs. Bloomer Greymare
C.M. of the Vigilantes
A Gentile
A New York Specialist
Gerard Aumont
Prometheus
________________________Unpublished articles:
Cro-Cro
Cain
The Beast, 666, 9'=2' A.'.A.'.
Macgregor of Boleskine and Abertarff
A Mental Traveller
Professor Theophilus Von Schartzkopf Ph.D, etc, etc. Professor of Zoology in the university of Tubingen
Professor Throld Thorwaldssen Late of the University of Mango
Gerard Aumont
The Beast 666 9=2 A.'.A.'.
Macgregor of Boleskine and Abertarff
A mental traveller
Cain

Unpublished Poetry
E. Aleister Crowley
E.A.C.
Aleister Crowley dit Alastor le demon du Solitude
Algernon Robert Charles Brinburning

Poetry in published books

A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge
Count Vladimir Svaroff
A.E.C.
St E.A. of M. and S.
H.D. Carr
The Authoress
Rev C. Verey
E.G.O.
The Author of the V Sign

In the Equinox

Hilda Norfolk
percurabo
Ananda Viffa
Ethel Ramsay
Barbay de Rochechouart
John Masefield Junior

Inthe international
Jeanne La Goulue
Adam dias
Enid Parsons, aged twelve
john Roberts
Leo Vincey
Saint Edward Aleister Crowley 33', 90' X' P.G.M., U.S.A., etc etc etc

Pornography

George Archibald Bishop
The Late Major Lutiy
The Reverend P.D. Carey

Published technical works
Abhavananda
Prater Perdurabo
Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
LCLXVI
The Master therion
Therion
Mahamtma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji
Alastor (in greek)
Fra H.I. Edinburgh
Khaled Khan
Ko Yuen
Comte de Fenix
666 The Prophet of the New Aeon


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Now I am pretty sure he had a multiple persons problem.

Most of those names are taken from the Equinox. Crowley wrote many of the articles under a pseudonym to make it look as if there were many different contributors. He didn't actually use them in real life.

Aeon418 said:

He didn't actually use them in real life.

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pseudonym: A false or fictitious name, esp. one assumed by an author.

I think in real life they are called aliases.

Thanks for correcting me.

You wouldn't deny a simple soul a little entertainment now would you?