Amor Divina, Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis.
England: Hell Fire Club, [ 2018 ]. Subscriber Edition [ Deluxe ]. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 266pp. Maroon leather spine with gilt lettering over green cloth boards with gilt facsimile of Crowley signature, gilt sigil and blind stamped star design to upper board, marbled endpapers. As with all HFC publication there are various editions: this is described as "The Royal Secret Edition: 156 subscriber copies bound in deep red pigskin and dark green cloth, front board stamped with the Mark of the Beast in gold, Aleister Crowley signature beneath, gold titles and ‘666’ to spine." The limitation number is hand-written on a printed and two-toned illustrated notecard loosely inserted. Editor Cœmgen La Vaughan has collected - with seemingly no regard for the legalities of copyright - works by various authors on the "Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis", including: Aleister Crowley, Theodore Reuss, C. S. Jones, G. J. Yorke, Marcelo Motta & others. Contents include: Introduction by Editor; Hymn to Pan with performance notes by A. Crowley; The Gnostic Neo-Christians by T. Reuss; Sex, 666, & the O.T.O. by G. J. Yorke; General Documents on the Sexual Secret of Magick; A.M.R.I.T.A.; The Elixir of Life; The Elixir of Life from the diary of A. Crowley, June 7, 1919; The Elixir of Life: Our Magical Medicine; Remarkable Experiment with the Elixir of Life; Amrita (1933); Additional Cases; On Liber XV: Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ; Liber Artemis Iota; Secret Papers of the OTO; A Private Letter of Parzival X° (V°) by C.S. Jones; De Natura Deorum (VII°); Letter from Crowley to Jones re VII°; De Nuptiis Deorum cum Hominibus (VIII°); Liber C vel AGAPE (IX°); De Arte Magica; IX° Emblems & Their Mode of Use; Liber Qoph: Gnosticorum Missa Minor; Adorations for IX° Working; De Homunculo Epistola (X°); The Holy Hymns to the Great Gods of Heaven; Crowley to G.L. McMurtry re IX°; XI Degree OTO; C.S. Jones to G.J. Yorke re XI°; Appendices; O.T.O. Degrees & How They Relate to Freemasonry; Marcelo Motta‘s Revision of Liber C; VIII° & IX° Secrets; Two Essays by G.J. Yorke: Tantric Hedonism & Tantric Theory; G.M. Cowie Address to London O.T.O. (1916); Epistle from Frater Achad to Sister Katherine Talbot (1918); An O.T.O. Interpretation of the Trigrams of the I Ching by W.T. Smith; Liber Stellæ Rubeæ; Bibliography and Notes. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. Harper is well- known as the bibliographer of Austin Osman Spare, for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. A tight clean Fine copy (No dust jacket issued). Item #66623
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