Item #62523 8 Lectures on Yoga [ Eight Lectures on Yoga ]. Aleister CROWLEY.

8 Lectures on Yoga [ Eight Lectures on Yoga ].

San Francisco, CA: [ OTO ] Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), 84pp (+ iipp. statement & adverts). "Velobound": Flexible clear plastic front cover over printed paper cover sheet, dark blue plastic rear cover, secured together with a blue plastic back strip. Hand-colored endsheets. B&w diagrams. SIGNED on the title-page "Lotte Lieb Sr Iahan" - that is the name and magical name of the co-publisher of the book, Lotte Lieb, who at that time ran Stellar Visions with well-known OTO figure Ebony Anpu. An early publication produced in collaboration with the (then) "Caliphate O.T.O." Crowley's "Eight Lectures on Yoga" is widely regarded as one of his best works, and as one of the wittiest and most insightful studies of the subject ever written by a Westerner. The verso of the title page has a series of quotes from the Grady McMurtry versus the Marcelo Motta court case of 1985, whilst the final leaf has a statement about the O.T.O. on the recto. A little yellowing to the edges of the wrappers, otherwise VG+. Scarce. Item #62523

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