Item #68670 The Talking Tree. William G. GRAY.
The Talking Tree.
The Talking Tree.

The Talking Tree.

New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xviii + 556 pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w Tree of Life frontis, and b&w illustrations, appendix and "postscript". A lovely copy of the first edition, INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper: "Kind thoughts to Clive [Harper] / 1978. / Bill Gray". In this companion volume to "The Ladder of Lights", William G. Gray offers an exhaustive and systematic analysis of the twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life. William G. Gray (1913-1992), was for a short time associated with the Fraternity of the Inner Light, but his main magical mentor is said to have been the London-based Austrian occultist Emile Napoleon Hauenstein (1877–?). In November 1980 Gray and his friend Jacobus G. Swart formally founded a new magical order, the Sangreal Sodality, a group devoted to study and practice of the Western magical/inner tradition. 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. Light bumps to corners and light bruising to spine ends - otherwise appears almost "as new". Thus, a bright and unmarked near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket has very light chafing to spine ends, corners and folds, not price clipped. Dust jacket is now protected by a removable mylar cover). Gray had a reputation as something of a curmudgeon, and signed books by him are genuinely rare. Item #68670
ISBN: 0877281904

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