The Occult Digest Vol. 16, No. 7 - July 1940 through Vol. 17, Number 12 - December 1941 ( 18 issues ); Dedicated to the laws of the Mind-Soul expansion
Chicago, IL: Maha Publishing Company, 1940, 1941. First Editions. Softcovers. Octavos. Eighteen consecutive issues. Each issue approximately 26pp. Stapled pastel colored wrappers, printed in black. "The Occult Digest" was a monthly magazine taken over by Marie Harlowe circa 1939 who merged it with her own earlier publication, "The Telepathic Magazine", which she had been publishing through her Maha Publishing Co. of Chicago. Contents of each issue include editorial, advertisements and essays by various authors including many by editor Marie Harlowe, and Max Freedom Long. Six issues in this run include excerpts from the zodiacal verse series "the Book of the Meditations on the Twelvefold Adoration, and the Unity of GOD" from J. F. C. Fuller's "LIBER DCCCCLXIII - The Treasure-House of Images" in "The Equinox, Vol. I No. 3, 1910. The extracts are retitled as, respectively, "The Glorification of God - Leo; "The Beseechment of God - Virgo"; "The Gratification of God - Libra"; "The Denial of God - Scorpio" ; "The Rejoicing of God - Sagittarius"; and "The Bewilderment of God - Pisces" - although they are simply attributed to the "Equinox, 1910" without author or other detail stated. Vol. 17 No. 1 includes a piece entitled "The Price" which is actually an edited section extracted from Chapter XVI (Part I) "Of the Oath" from Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" (1929), whilst Vol. 17 No. 9 includes a short essay "Some Notes on the Magical Memory of Past Lives" by Crowley which is a heavily edited section of Chapter VI "The Magical Memory" of that same volume. Perhaps needless to say it seems almost certain that neither Fuller nor Crowley were aware of the republication of these pieces. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet book-label neatly tipped in at the rear of each issue. 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. Light overall wear to covers, a few chips and closed tears to edges, pages browned. A single gathering in one issue sprung, otherwise a tight, complete and unmarked. Overall a VG collection of this scarce digest. Item #67128
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