![Item #62525 The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw [ The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw ]. Aleister CROWLEY.](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62525.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1552524860)
The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw [ The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw ].
San Francisco, CA: [ OTO ] Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), viii + 238pp (+ iipp). Transparent mylar cover-sheet over printed front wrapper, 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. Reproduces in facsimile the text of this fascinating study of Christianity by Crowley, built around a critique of Shaw's 'Androcles and the Lion.' It was first published by Crowley's follower, Karl Germer in very limited edition in 1953. An early publication produced in collaboration with the (then) "Caliphate O.T.O." The page following 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 near-Fine copy of a scarce edition. Item #62525
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