Item #60441 HRILIU. Liber XV, Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass. IAO131, Aleister Crowley: related works.
HRILIU. Liber XV, Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass.

HRILIU. Liber XV, Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass.

United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND [ 2015 ]. Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [ 304pp ]. Full vellum with gilt solar designs on upper board and gilt lettering to spine, silk endpapers. Clothbound slipcase. This edition limited to 31 hand numbered copies this being no. 12. From the publisher: "The simplest, most direct and most powerful of all magick ceremonies is the eucharist, it is quite literally the transmutation of the material being into the divine, filling the individual with Love, leading eventually to becoming a divinity oneself…This book is a long and profound study of Aleister Crowleys Gnostic Mass, the most magnificent ritual celebration of the secrets of Invocation, Consecration, Transformation." Contents include: Part I: General Symbolism; The Symbolic Dimensions of the Gnostic Mass; The Officers; Magical Energy in the Gnostic Mass; The Mass of Baphomet; The Basic Plot of the Gnostic Mass. Part II: A Detailed Analysis ...The Furnishings of the Temple; The Officers; The Ceremony of Introit; The Ceremony of the Opening of the Veil; Of the Office of the Collects which are Eleven in Number; Of the Consecration of the Elements; Of the Office of the Anthem; Of the Mystic Marriage & the Consummation of the Elements. A lovely Fine copy, in near Fine custom clothbound slipcase. Item #60441

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