Collected Rituals from the T.'. O.'. T.'. and Other Sources. Written, Selected or Edited by, or From the Collection of, and with Notes and Comments ...
Fremont, CA: The Technology Group, 1990. First Edition, Sixth Printing. Softcover. Quarto. 11 x 8.5 inches. Duplicated text: printed and paginated on rectos only: thus foliated vi + 107ff (+ xi ff adverts). Buff card covers lettered in black on upper cover, black plastic clip backstrip. According to the Introduction "this book is not for beginners, principally because it has little or no instructional or explanitory information, just the rituals themselves (mostly)." A collection of "over 60 rituals and prayers, curses and what-nots" written or gathered by Anne and Nelson White for use in their "Hermetic/Gnostic Magickal Order" the 'Temple of Truth' (T.O.T.)." Frater Zarathustra: (Nelson H. White: 1938 - 2003) and his wife Anne White (Soror Veritas) were active in the Southern California Occult scene for over 20 years, and were instrumental in the formation and operation of several Esoteric Churches and Magickal Orders. For a time they were associated with Poke Runyon's Ordo Templi Astarte and in 1973 founded their own magical Order, the T.O.T. (Temple of Truth), based in Pasadena, where they also ran the Magick Circle bookstore. In 1974 they began publishing the "White Light" - the Order's journal focused on ceremonial magic, which ran quarterly for some 15 years (it seems that that it ceased publication with Vol. 16, No. 4in April 1990). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s they edited, wrote and published dozens of different books on ritual magick, the Kabbalah, and the occult in general. They were innovative in the use of technology: copying, word-processing, computing etc. and its application to the occult, preparing indexes to previously unindexed works like Barrett's "The Magus", Waite's "Book of Ceremonial Magic" etc. as well as in the production of facsimiles of grimoires, which probably explains the choice of the name of the imprint under which they published: "The Technology Group." The White's books were largely distributed by themselves and sold within their order, so the print runs were tiny. Consequently most of their works, including this, are genuinely uncommon. Very light signs of wear, a few of the pins that secure the clips are loose or missing, some toning to pages, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. Item #70552
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