The Tree of Ecstasy. An Advanced Manual of Sexual Magic.
London: Aquarian Press, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 256pp. Glossy printed wrappers. Frontis, b&w illustrations, index. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half title page "To Jim with my love and blessings, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki". Ashcroft-Nowicki (b. 1929) was born into a family steeped in occult traditions, with a Romany grandmother, and in the 1960s joined the Fraternity of the Inner Light, the well-known esoteric order founded by Dion Fortune. It was through there she became acquainted with Gareth Knight and Walter Ernest Butler, whose Helios group offered correspondence course teachings on magick and Qabalah. In the early 1970s Butler founded a new fraternity, the Servants of the Light, which Ashcroft-Nowicki joined becoming its Director of Studies in 1976. In this volume she presents the history of sexual magic and provides eleven sexual magic rituals based upon the design of the Qabalistic tree of life. Edges a little darkened, otherwise a tight, clean near-Fine copy. Item #70737
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