Liber Baal: Being Further Revelations Concerning King Solomon's Arte and Philosophy Known as Magick.
Fremont CA: The Technology Group, 1990. First Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. Stapled booklet. Octavo. 28pp (includes printed rear cover). Yellow paper wrappers printed in black. Written or gathered by Nelson and Anne White for use in their "Hermetic/Gnostic Magickal Order" the 'Temple of Truth' (T.O.T.)." The booklet basically comprises 15 chapters, divided into a series of numbered paragraphs, each of which comprises a few aphoristic sentences on aspects of magic or the occult. From the publisher: "'Liber Baal' was collected and edited by Fra. Zarathustra, from documents and manuscripts in the archives of The Temple of Truth ..." Frater Zarathustra: (aka Nelson H. White: 1938 - 2003) and Soror Veritas his wife Anne White 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 - both the T.O.T. and the journal ceased operations in April 1990. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s they edited, wrote and published dozens of different books and booklets 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. Fanzine-type production values, a bit of light shelf wear and a few light marks on covers some toning to pages, else a tight, clean VG copy. Quite uncommon. Item #70558
ISBN: 0939856352
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