Liber Nigri Solis: An Aeonic Astrochymical Grimoire of the Black Sun.
Friedberg [ Germany ]: Theion Publishing, 2013. Edition Deluxe - Auric Edition. Hardcover, Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches), 288pp. Hand bound in full emerald green goatskin, gilt device to front cover and titling to spine, raised bands. Silk marker, ten full-page halftone illustrations and various other illustrations. The "Auric Edition" limited to 60 hand-numbered copies, each of which includes an additional sheet with "a unique hand drawn sigil and corresponding handwritten magical text pertaining to one of sixty occult concepts of the Black Sun" bound in at the front of the volume, this one "Volition". The deluxe "Auric" edition of the first publication by Theion Publishing. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by publisher David Beth to Clive Harper on the first blank, and is additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED to him on the title page by Victor Voronov and Eva Kingsepp. Of the book the publishers explain that "All copies [of the Auric Edition] will be true individual talismanic grimoires of Sol Niger, consecrated to the current." They describe the contents thus: "Liber Nigri Solis, edited by Victor Voronov, elaborates the occult, magical and initiatory work of two esoteric orders [Arcanum Ordo Nigri Solis and Ordo Hermeticum Sinistrum]. Presenting the aeonic history, mythic imagery, and arcane aesthetics of the Black Sun along with its alchemical and astrological aspects and significances, this opus includes a concise though multi-faceted esoteric system in theory and practice suitable for work with the Black Sun on microcosmic, mesocosmic, and macrocosmic levels. It will enable solitary practitioners and occult colleagues alike to cultivate the Gnosis of the Sol Niger through self-initiatory workings, rites, and operations of sinister alchemy." The deluxe issue - sold out before publication - of the first release of the "complete edition of Liber Nigri Solis," being a substantially enlarged, edited and revised version of a work first published in very limited number in 2009. 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. Fine condition. (No dust jacket issued). Item #68647
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