Liber Aleph Vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly; In the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777. Being the Equinox Volume III Number VI
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc, 1995. Third Printing. Softcover. Large Octavo. xxxiv + 222pp, color frontis, index. The fourth printing of the revised Second Edition, which included a new Prolegomenon by Hymenaeus Beta. The book was first published by Karl Germer, Crowley's chief disciple and successor as head of the O.T.O. In his 'Introduction' Germer declared the book to be ".. one of the masterworks of the late Aleister Crowley ... one of ... [his] greatest and deepest books, into which he put his very blood." He then quotes Crowley as writing that 'Liber Aleph, the Book of Wisdom or Folly', was intended to express the heart of my doctrine in the most deep and delicate dimensions. It is the most tense and intense book I have ever composed." Very light rubbing and shelf dust else a tight, bright near Fine copy. Item #61630
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