Beelzebub and The Beast: A Comparative Study of Gurdjieff and Crowley.
London: Starfire Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 322pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Color frontispiece. Index & bibliography. Colour & b/w plates. An interesting ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of British artist, writer and musician (founder of the music group Current 93) DAVID TIBET, with his OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE on the title page. It was David Tibet who, several years after the author's death, located the typed manuscript of "Beelzebub and the Beast" and provided it to the publisher, Michael Staley of "Starfire." In addition to therefore being "thanked" by Staley in the Preface, Tibet has also contributed a 3 page remembrance of Hall, which is at the end of the book. "Beelzebub and the Beast" is a comparative study of the life and works of Aleister Crowley and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, in which the author David Hall draws some interesting conclusions about common historical roots of both men's work. David Hall (1942-2007), was a familiar figure in British esoteric circles, especially on account of his editorship of the popular 1970s Thelemic journal "Sothis." He wrote "Beelzebub and the Beast," in the 1970s, but was unable to find a publisher at the time, and it lay largely forgotten until after his death, when Michael Staley asked David Tibet to locate it. The book appears "as new", thus a tight, clean, about Fine copy in amylar protected Fine dust jacket. Item #68380
ISBN: 9781906073145
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