Falsely attributed? (2)

Further to the last: the GD site mentioned also has a copy of an early CP release of Liber 777, with the front matter excised, and again linked to with the remark "falsely attributed to Aleister Crowley." This is a slightly more ambiguous case. It is worth mentioning, however, that (a) the first edition of 777 was published anonymously, (b) the bulk of the page count of the revised edition, the first to have Crowley's name on the title page, consisted of additional material not in the first edition whose authorship has not been seriously disputed, (c) the title page of 777 Revised described it as "A reprint of 777 with much additional matter by the late Aleister Crowley" which can be parsed as only attributing the "additional matter" to AC, especially since (d) the editor's preface to the revised edition stated: "It is not, however, entirely original. Ninety per cent of the Hebrew, the four colour scales, and the order and attribution of the Tarot trumps are as taught in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, with its inner circle of the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold (R.R. et A.C.)," and in fact this source is indirectly acknowledged in Crowley's original introduction, when he discussed previous attempts to tabulate knowledge.

The specific claim that the tables of 777 were lifted almost in their entirity from a GD MS. titled "General Correspondences" was made by Pat Zalewski in Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn (xiii, 92 n.); Zalewski referred again to "General Correspondences" in later books; however unless and until a copy of this MS. predating the publication of 777 is published or otherwise made available for general examination it will be impossible to tell for certain just how much if anything in the tables of 777 was due to AC.

Falsely attributed?

Just turned this up: on the website of an organisation calling itself the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is a copy of the CP edition of the Mathers-Crowley Goëtia, linked with the remark that it was "falsely attributed to Aleister Crowley." While Crowley's claim on the title page to have "edited, verified, introduced and commented" the whole work may be somewhat overblown, his actual contribution to the main text likely limited to providing a few hostile or sarcastic footnotes, the major false attribution in that edition is the "translator" credit to S.L. Mathers; as documented by Joseph Petersen in his edition of the Lemegeton, the BL MSS. on which Mathers drew are all in English. I am also at a complete loss as to by whom Ben Rowe's edition of the Theurgia-Goëtia, also mirrored on that site, was "falsely attributed to Aleister Crowley" -- certainly not by Rowe.

P.S.: To clarify: the full name of the organisation alluded to above is "The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Outer Order of the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega." It is apparently not the same as The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (R) established by Charles "Chic" Cicero. Neither should be confused with the historical organisation of that name which was established in London in 1887 or 1888 and messily imploded a little over a decade later.