Magick in Theory and Practice (being part III of Book 4) - Sections 1 - 2

Beschreibung

2 volumes. xxxii; 122; 123-205pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Red and black printed wraps. Universal hexagram printed on the front wraps. Worn. Front wrap of part III completely detached, but present. Text block of second volume completely detached from the wraps, and split at p. 187 (the only thing holding the two portions of the text block together are two tiny threads). Brief notations in pen on the front wraps. Color plate loose, but present in the first section. Bookplate of Premel el Adaros on the verso of the front wraps. The Kabir Premel el Adaros (1894-?) was the author and/or co-author of "Transcendent-science or, the Science of Self-Knowledge," "Things Kept Secret from the Foundation of the World," "The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga," "The Book of the Secret Word and the Higher Way to Fortune," and "Artaahancarasya, Or The Force of 'I.' Purporting to be the Unveilment of All Oriental Mysteries." Premel el Adaros, later Swami Brahmavidya was the founder of the Society of Transcendent Science in Chicago, and the president of the First Church of Hindu Spiritual Science, Chicago. O-XXI. The first two sections of four sections which form Part 3 of Crowley's four-part magnum opus. "Book Four" opens with Crowley's most famous teaching: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Contents in these sections include: The Principles of Ritual; The Formula of Tetragrammaton; Of Silence and Secrecy: and of the Barbarous Names of Evocation; Of the Bloody Sacrifice and Matters Cognate; Of Black Magick: of the Main Types of the Operations of Magick Art: and of the Powers of the Sphinx (with a small section concerning necromancy). Crowley's "Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four" is considered one of the most complete and visionary works on the practice of magick ever written.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Magick in Theory and Practice (being part III of Book 4) - Sections 1 - 2

Verlag

Lecram Press, Paris

Erscheinungsjahr

1930

Einband

Paperback

Auflage

First edition, first issue.

Zustand

Fair

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• Metaphysics & Hermetica