776 1/2 Tables of Correspondences for Practical Ceremonial.
Los Angeles: College of Thelema, 2010. Third Edition, Deluxe. Hardcover. Quarto. vi + 196pp. Red bonded leather hardcover with gold foil stamping to front cover and spine. Red endpapers, mounted bookmark ribbon, all edges gilt, acid-free paper and binder boards, Smyth-sewn. Issued to commemorate the 20th anniversary year of Temple of Thelema, a limited edition of 156 numbered copies signed by the author on a special numbered commemorative page, which certifies the uniqueness of this edition. The deluxe version of the third, revised, edition of James A. Eshelman's companion to the practice of ceremonial magick. In general terms the books is designed to flesh out and make more accessible the tables of Crowley's 777, after which it is clearly named, in humorous salute. In addition to supplementing, correcting and expanding the original tables of 777 (new tables cover the Assyro-Babylonian, Celtic, Scandinavian, Thelemic, Santerian and Voudoun, pantheons; the Unicursal Hexagram; the Enochian alphabet, Establishing the Law of Thelema, etc. etc.), the Hebrew letters have been reset and transliterated. Other additions include an essay on constructing ritual (tied in with Crowley's "Magick in Theory & Practice") and ten sample rituals for designed with such purposes as generating magical force, attaining prosperity, obtaining angelic guardians, spiritual growth, etc. whilst an Appendix contains the texts of a number of standard banishing and invocatory, rituals, including the previously unpublished Liber Pleiades. James A. Eshelman is Chancellor of the College of Thelema, and well known as a teacher and author, in particular of the highly regarded "The Mystical & Magical System of the A.'.A.'." Hint of bruising to spine ends and corners. Very faint smoke odor, otherwise a tight, clean copy in near Fine condition. (no dust jacket issued with this edition). Item #74723
ISBN: 0970449623
Price: $150.00