Amrita. Essays in Magical Rejuvenation.
Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. First edition - Deluxe. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xviii + 60 pp. Original gilt illustrated purple leather with color frontispiece and purple endpapers. No. 11 of a deluxe edition of 33 copies bound thus. There was also a clothbound edition of 1000 copies. A collection of Aleister Crowley's writings on occult medicine, particularly on Amrita: an ambrosia or "elixir of life" said to ensure longevity, restore youth and energy, and bestow various occult boons. It was referred to by Crowley as "the principal Secret of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O. )." Edited with an introduction by Martin P. Starr. Contents are: Foreword by Soror Grimaud (Helen Parsons Smith); Introduction by Martin P. Starr; A. M. R. I. T. A. ; The Elixir of Life: Our Magical Medicine; The Elixir of Life (I); The Elixir of Life (II); The Order of the Purifications on Waking; Remarkable Experiment with the Elixirof Life; AMRITA; Additional Cases; IT; On Food. A very light hint of shelf-rubbing and a few barely noticeable indentions to the leather on the boards (almost certainly artefacts of the binding process and thus like that from new). A near-Fine copy. Item #73213
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