Item #61555 New Dimensions - December / January 1963/64 Vol. I, No. 5. Basil WILBY, And contributor. Essays etc. by W. E. Butler, Marc Edmund Jones Dion Fortune, Gerald Gardner, AKA Gareth Knight.

New Dimensions - December / January 1963/64 Vol. I, No. 5.

St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1963 / 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled booklet. 52pp. (+ 12pp. adverts). Original pictorial wrappers. The second issue of "New Dimensions," a periodical founded by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke of Llewellyn Publications in 1963, at the very start of the late twentieth century revival of interest in the occult. From the outset its editor was Basil Wilby (most of whose works were published under the pseudonym Gareth Knight) a British esotericist and occult author who began his esoteric training in 1953 as a member of the Fraternity (later Society) of the Inner Light, the magical order founded by Dion Fortune. The magazine comprised original artwork, editorials, essays, poetry, reviews, short fiction, etc. on topics as diverse as ritual magick, astrology, witchcraft, miracles, talismans, folklore, clairvoyance, tarot, LSD, astral projection, Kabbalah, UFOs, angels, etc. This issue includes the following articles: Editorial by Basil Wilby; "Astral Projection - The Flying Soul" by W. E. Butler; "Tarot - The Elemental Emperor" by Gareth Knight; "Folklore - The Garden of Eden" by David Williams; "Sorcery - Table Talk and Talk to me of Sorcery" by John Pendragon & Moira Wilson Vawser; "Magic - Introduction to Ritual Magic" (Part 5) by Dion Fortune; "Devination (sic) - Elementary Divination" by Charles S. Tate, Fiction - "The Truth about George" by G. B. Gardner; A Ghost from Avalon" by Dorothy Bowhay; "Death Calls the Doctor" by Stanley Holt; as well as poetry, cartoons, book reviews, readers letters, advertisments, etc. Wrappers a little darkened at edges, otherwise a clean VG+ copy. Item #61555

Sold