The Grimoire of Armadel.
MATHERS, S. L. MacGregor (Editor & Translator) (Introduction and additional notes by Francis King).
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1983. Reprint Hardcover, sm.4to, viii + 80 pp, Original green cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, b/w illustrations. The Grimoire of Armadel was a work supposedly derived from the mediaeval black magic text known as the Grimorium Verum, but more likely a seventeenth century work (or at least a seventeenth century reworking of an earlier text). Mathers had apparently completed his translation of this work in the late 1890s, but circumstances conspired against its publication, and although it circulated in manuscript amongst the members of the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega (the group of Golden Dawn members who remained loyal to Mathers following the split within that order) it remained unpublished until 1980. It was then published in this edition, with an Introduction and notes by occult scholar Francies King. Hint of bruising to points, bookshop sticker on front pastedown, otherwise a tight, bright VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Not price clipped, spine a little darkened, edges lightly rubbed, short closed tear at upper spine) 0877284792 (Item ID: 34502)
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