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 All Aeon titles are available as eBooks from aeonbooks.co.uk and other eBook vendors Cover artwork by Michelle Horsley ISBN 978-1-9115970-4-9 aeonbooks.co.uk 9 781911 597049 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 Aeon Books Ltd 12 New College Parade Finchley Road London NW3 5EP Copyright © 2019 by Jasun Horsley The right of Jasun Horsley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-91159-704-9 Typeset by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India Printed in Great Britain www.aeonbooks.co.uk “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