finished reading moonchild, and i must confess towards the end i began to loose the narrative slightly, it begins to shift and change as lisa's personality begins to change and she enters an astral level depicted by the tarot card, la lune, however pushing through this surreal piece of writing the twist in the tail comes as lisa runs into the arms of a rival lover to the protagonist cyril, where she gives birth to an unwanted daughter.
the end of the book finds the white magickians joining the allies and the black lodge joining the opposing forces as war breaks out, this really is quite a clever ploy as the white magickians reveal although they lost lisa they used her as a pawn to distract the black lodge while creating many other moon-children who would save the human race. but it is the final conclusion of moon child that raises crowley up in my eyes, for he ends with such a powerful and fundamental truth that any reader who is attuned to magickal thought would find emotive and moving. brilliantly written for the time, occult concepts strewn throughout the story and the mystical understanding that shines through the ending will linger on for a good few days.