Liber Vassago, Book One.
Fremont CA: The Technology Group, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Stapled booklet. Octavo. 18pp + (iipp reading list & adverts). Blue printed paper wrappers. B&w illustrations, appendices. First printed in 1984, this is the 1990 second printing. Obviously Goetic in nature, it is described by the publishers as comprising excerpts from various documents from the archives of the magical order T.'. O.'. T.'. 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 "Hermetic/Gnostic Magickal 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 light creasing to covers, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. Quite uncommon. Item #71748
ISBN: 0939856409
Price: $50.00