Item #68446 An extremely scarce handmade card with holograph inscription to David [Hall] from Dadaji, on one side and a print of a painting of a tree demon pasted on the other. Also with David Tibet's penciled ownership signatures. DADAJI - Shri Dadaji Gurudev Mahendranat, Aleister Crowley: related works. From the David Tibet collection.
An extremely scarce handmade card with holograph inscription to David [Hall] from Dadaji, on one side and a print of a painting of a tree demon pasted on the other. Also with David Tibet's penciled ownership signatures.

An extremely scarce handmade card with holograph inscription to David [Hall] from Dadaji, on one side and a print of a painting of a tree demon pasted on the other. Also with David Tibet's penciled ownership signatures.

( England ): ( Privately Printed ), (1977). A handmade greeting card in the form of a single piece of thin blue card, approximately 7 1/8 x 4 1/4inches with a print of a painting of a tree demon (possibly clipped from a magazine?) pasted on one side (artist unknown). On the other side Dadaji has written "Diwali Greetings / Nov. 1977 / A little early for Diwali Nov 11th / but fast mail is so slow / in the Garb Age / Love & Blessings / [Signed] Dadaji." Dadaji: Shri Paramahamsha Mahendranath (born Lawrence Amos Miles: 1911-1991), was an Englishman who is said to have had a youthful acquaintance with Aleister Crowley and who in later life embraced Indic religion and Tantrism becoming a guru of the northern Indian Uttarakaula Tantric Order. His teachings fused traditional eastern Tantric with Western magical techniques and went on to form the basis for the Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala (AMOOKOS), an occult order founded in 1982 by Michael Magee (Lokanath Maharaj) which gave training to a number of now well-known figures before succumbing to the seemingly inevitable divisions that plague such groups. The card was sent by Dadaji to David Hall (1942-2007), who is best known as the author of "Beelzebub and the Beast", and numerous shorter pieces, and as the editor and publisher of the 1970s occult journal "Sothis" to which Dadaji contributed. The card was later given by Hall to British artist, writer and musician DAVID TIBET (founder of the music group Current 93) and has THREE small examples of Tibet's OWNERSHIP SIGNATURES in pencil above Dadaji's inscription: the uppermost is his magical name as as a member of the Typhonian OTO [Frater] "Pavo", underneath this is his name as a member of AMOOKOS - "Kapilanath", and beneath this an early version of his more commonly seen "civvy" signature. There is a light vertical crease down the centre of the card, and it is a little dusty. Still a VG+ example of a rare survival of the British magical world in the 1970s. Item #68446

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