Cairo Stèla 666. Stele of Revealing.
Thame: Amen Press, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folder: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Comprises a 24 page booklet and 10 loose plates, all housed in a specially-made, elegant black cloth folder with gilt stamped title on the front. Edition limited to 93 copies, each individually numbered on a loosely inserted limitation slip, this copy still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap and thus the number is not yet known. The material in the folder is focussed on the Stele of Revealing, the object which played an important part in Crowley's reception of "The Book of the Law." The booklet includes Crowley's paraphrase of the text of the Stele of Revealing, the translation by Gardiner that was originally published in "The Equinox" in 1912, and the 1997 transliteration and translation by the late Terence DuQuesne, juxtaposed with colour reproductions of the original hieroglyphics. The ten loose plates are high quality reproductions in colour and black and white (as appropriate), of plates that were originally published in the first eleven numbers of "The Equinox" series, including the recto and verso of the Stele, the portrait of Crowley, hooded, with his book of Abramelin talismans, Leon Engers Kennedy's portrait of Crowley, Crowley's painting "May Morn," Leila Waddell, robed, playing the violin; etc. Fine condition: sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. (As this copy is still sealed in the shrinkwrap, the copy shown in the second accompanying photograph is actually that of a copy that we previously had in stock that had been "opened."). Item #71019
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