The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse

354 Pages·2019·12.375 MB·English

by  Jasun Horsley

The Vice of Kings maps the shadowy intersection between
progressive politics, psychosexual research, intelligence
programs, behaviour modification, occult ritual and philosophy,
and organized child abuse, to reveal long-term social and
cultural engineering goals throughout the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries.
‘Employing the thoroughness of research and careful documentation that
distinguished Horsley’s previous book, Prisoner of Infinity, the author casts
an equally critical beam onto an exploration of systematized child sexual
abuse, the power of privilege and the privilege of power, philosophies
and rationales driving the abuse via chronicling the fraught legacy of his
own family. Readers who have suffered abuse are warned – rightly so –
against the book’s potentially destabilizing effect. The book is, necessarily,
devastating.’
William Grabowski, contributing editor of Library Journal, and author
of Black Light: Perspectives on Mysterious Phenomena
‘Anything Jasun Horsley writes compels me to an uncanny degree; the
stakes feel enormous. He exemplifies a mind grappling to the very edge
of itself and to the edge of collective human experience simultaneously.
Language, in his hands, seems pressured into use as spacecraft into
unknown territory.’
Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
‘The Vice of Kings is a brave journey into a family’s heart of darkness by
an intrepid prose artist. It is not just the painful and bizarre family affairs
he uncovers, but the sexual crimes that the British aristocracy normalized
as their peculiar privilege going back generations. It also happens to be
meticulously researched and beautifully written.’
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency
and the World Made By Hand series
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The Vice of Kings

The Vice of Kings
how socialism, occultism,
and the sexual Revolution
engineered a culture of Abuse
Jasun Horsley
First published in 2019 by
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Copyright © 2019 by Jasun Horsley
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“In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.”
—William Blake, “London”
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not
resist the invasion of ideas.”
—Victor Hugo, History of a Crime

To
my brother
and
my father.
And
to those who
came before.

Contents
COCK-UP OR CONSPIRACY? (AUTHOR’S NOTE) xv
INTROdUCTION
Glamor vice xix
PART I: OCCuLT yORkSHIRE: FABIAN FAMILy
SECRETS AND JIMMy SAVILE’S BRITAIN
CHAPTER I
The Grandfather: Alec Horsley, Northern Dairies,
the Fabian Society 3
CHAPTER II
A brief history of Fabianism: co-opting the left and right 9
CHAPTER III
Havelock Ellis, Lolita, and the sexual child 21
ix