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THE BOOK OF THE GOETIA OF SOLOMON THE KING edited, verified, introduced and commented by Aleister Crowley (Deluxe Goat Skin Bound Hardcover)
Deluxe goat skin bound edition of only 72 copies. Book is in fine unread condition
The Book Of The GOETIA of Solomon The King
Translated Into The English Tongue By A Dead Hand
And
Adorned With Divers Other Matters Germane Delightful To The Wise
The Whole
Edited, Verified, Introduced And Commented
by Aleister Crowley
This is a deluxe goatskin Leather Hell Fire Club edition of the Crowley’s GOETIA. This is one of the most unique edition of this book ever published, and is nearly impossible to find. This has been produced by the Hell Fire Club, in a large format folio size, with the text having been printed on very high quality, thick and heavy, oyster conqueror paper, with dyed paper edges, and the leaves were then hand bound by means of ties into the leather case. The full leather binding is dark crimson goatskin. Limitation page states that this edition was limited to only 72 copies.
The text is a facsimile of Crowley’s personal copies of the 1904 first edition reproducing the substantial annotations therein. These commence with three pages carrying Gerald Yorke’s notes. The Preliminary Invocation or Bornless ritual is given twice. The first reproduces the text from Crowley’s vellum bound copy, the second presents the text from Crowley’s camel hair bound copy which has a different set of annotations. These will be important for anyone studing the genesis of Liber Samekh. The Introduction has two additional annotated footnotes by Crowley. The text of the Goetia itself, has seven illustrations of Goetic demons by Crowley, plus some additional annotations. There is then a two page list in the hand of Gerald Yorke giving the appearance of the demons from the Bagh-I-Muattar plus Crowley’s sources for that material. Finally there are three pages of Enochian Calls in the hand of Leah Hirsig plus a pages reproducing talismans from Crowley’s Temple of L.I.L. in Mexico. Crowley’s annotations reveal potent A.A. & OTO magickal formulae, which later were given form in the instructions of “Liber Sameckh” & “Liber Pyramidos”, and which shed much light on Crowley’s later sex magick practices. This very rare edition of this important grimoire, would make a magnificent addition to any Thelemic or occult library.
GATEWAYS THROUGH STONE AND CIRCLE by Frater Ashen (Imperial Vellum Deluxe Edition)
This very rare edition of only 20 copies is bound in full Imperial Vellum by master bookbinder Joel Radcliff at Ars Obscura Bookbinding in Seattle Washington. Title is hand number this being number “3″ of 20 copies, has a sewn in maroon ribbon marker, hand marbled endpapers and a blood red leather skiver is affixed to the spine stampled with gold foil. The spine itself has raised bands with gold foil outlines.
Book is in new unread condition.
“Gateways Through Stone and Circle” is a compendium of personal experiences and research from a traditional ceremonial magician working through a classical book of magic. This volume is a complete and in-depth study in the “Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals” as found in Francis Barrett’s, The Magus, and accredited to Trithemius of Spanheim. Detailed research, personal experimentation, and evoking each of the seven planetary arc
hangels and intelligences to visible and auditory presence are presented within.
You will find descriptions of the seven planetary archangels as witnessed by author, instructions for building each of the traditional implements and furniture to the specifications of the grimoire, as well as detailed illustrations of the author’s actual equipment. Items such as the infamous Book of Spirits or Liber Spirituum are explained in detail so the reader will know how to make and use one. Chapters also describe methods for improving scrying abilities, working with a partner, and conducting the entire ceremony from beginning to end. Everything to make this art work is explained in incredibly vivid detail.
HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN INSPIRED PERSONAL JOURNAL (Hand bound leather personal journal, book of shadows)
This is a blank page personal magical journal or book of shadows.
Each journal is hand bound one at a time by a master book binder. Each page is hand folded and sewn. These are made to last for many generations!
This leather journal is:
6 x 9 in size
80 lbs felt paper
Hand folded and sewn
Hand bound by master book binder
Ribbed spine
Raised Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn cross and triangle
Sewn in silk ribbon marker
320 pages
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Journals are produced one at a time and can up to 2 to 4 weeks for delivery.
All journals can be personalized with your name in gold leaf on the front cover.
THE AFFLICTED MIRROR: A Study of Ordeals and the Making of Compacts by Peter Hamilton-Giles (Limited Edition Hardcover)
Measuring the connectivity between the visible and invisible, by using physicality as a signifier, brings another aspect to the fore. There appears to be good reason to believe there is a ratio in physical difference when it comes to observing how the metaphysical manifests partial presences. Exponential distortions correspond to how we retain a level of contact with the Other. When these abnormalities become exaggerated they prompt greater emotive responses, such as fear. By expressing an Otherness in this manner their difference takes on a terrifying dimension which also indicates power.
A shared feature of genuine magical practice and religious experience is the impression of ‘Otherness’, an entic arena of alienation and unfamiliarity. Contrasted with the more comfortable and known spheres of the Self, this ‘state apart’ provides not only inspiration and wonder, it is the dwelling-place of the gods and the prime source of gnosis, direct experience with the divine.
The Afflicted Mirror, based on a research paper presented at the 1996 AAA Anthropology of Religion inaugural conference in Kansas, suggests that for the metaphysical domain to become significant it must distort its appearance so as to attract our attention. This leads not only to validating the existence of the ‘Other’ but also illustrates its influence on how we shape the world. Providing groundbreaking insight on the magician’s actuated relationship with spirits and Gods, The Afflicted Mirror offers a pioneering examination of a topic often overlooked by scholars. As an original phenomenological model, Peter Hamilton-Giles’ The Afflicted Mirror unites such diverse spiritual states as the mysticism of the Seer, the religious ecstasy of the Saint, and the spirit-conjurations of the sorcerer.
The Afflicted Mirror is 172 pages, printed on heavy stock, and features ten original illustrations by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles.
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