Agapé. The Occult Review. Volume 1, No. 2 - 8 ( Seven issues, complete run, all published ).
Bath: Agapé, 1972 - 1977. First Editions. Softcover. Small Octavos. Seven issues (complete run). Magazine format. 62pp, 60pp, 60pp, 60pp, 40pp + ii, 32pp, 32pp. Original printed coloured wrappers, b&w illustrations. Agapé was an independent occult journal from England, the complete run included Vol. I Nos. 2 - 8, the editor being told "you will never get past issue 1" started with number 2 - effectively ensuring the prediction wrong! Articles Include. J. F. C. Fuller - "The Qabalah"; Edward Kelly - "Varieties of Religious Experience"; Bulwer Lytton "The Ordeal". David Hall - "The Origins & Symbolism of Rosicrucian Chess"; Amado 777 - "The Magic of Aleister Crowley"; Eliphas Levi - "Articles on the Kabbala etc" Amado 777 - "Secret of Secrets"; "Golden Dawn Cypher Ms"; Reviews of Torrens & Ellic Howe works on Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie, "Qabala" by John Michell, C. Hardcastle and Anon (Andrew Drylie); KAZ - Starlight on Love (book of the Law); Crowley's Horoscope. Letters. Golden Dawn Cypher Mss" "The Comment" by Fr. Q.P.O. Unfavorable review of Grant's Magical Revival by Israel Regardie; Crowley's "Forbidden Lecture on Gilles de Rais; numerous book reviews, etc.. Includes issue no. 4, a special issue devoted to Austin Osman Spare. It includes a reduced facsimile reprint of "Anathema of Zos" (complete with grey paper wrappers) - the first time that work had been republished since its original edition of 1927. Plus a short Introduction to "Anathema of Zos" by Kenneth Grant and a long critical article on "The Book of Pleasure" by Lemuel Johnstone [Lionel Snell]. Complete sets thus are uncommon and quite difficult to construct, as several of this issues are quite elusive. Cheap "fanzine" type production values. Pages 23 & 38 of Vol. I No 3 are blank (misprinted), which is not uncommon in this series. Otherwise all in VG + condition. Item #61816
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