PORTABLE DARKNESS: ALEISTER CROWLEY READER HC W/ D/J 1989 OCCULT MAGICK OTO
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:55503177 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Religion: Wicca & Paganism |
ALEISTER CROWLEY. [Scott Michaelsen, Editor]. [Forwards by Robert Anton Wilson & Genesis P-Orridge].
PORTABLE DARKNESS: AN ALEISTER CROWLEY READER.
NY: Harmony Books. FIRST EDITION, 1st printing. 1989.
xxvii (27) + 339 pages. Large octavo (9 by 6 inch) hardcover with d/j, blue boards, burgundy cloth spine, gilt titling to spine, burgundy endpapers.
Light soiling & some remnants of gold paint top edge (SEE PIC), d/j price-clipped, light rubbing to d/j, O/W NEAR FINE ...CONDITION IN NEAR FINE D/J.
“The selections in ‘Portable Darkness’ are organized thematically by Crowley’s favorite subjects, most notably the power of Language, Yoga, Sex, and Magick. As accompanied by Michaelsen’s illuminating essays, as well as forewords by counterculture leaders Robert Anton Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge, these writings present Crowley the brilliant thinker and writer.”
PART III contains “DE ARTE MAGICA, ” Crowley’s treatise on sex magick, along with related materials.
The whole of the book can perhaps best be summed up in Robert Anton Wilson’s words: “I must warn you ... that the Attorney General has determined that these pages may be hazardous to your Dogma.”
Crowley was born in the middle of the sexually and intellectually repressive Victorian era, and his historical purpose seems to have been that of an "ice-axe" to break up the frozen rivers of human potential and creativity. Though not generally acknowledged, his writings were extensively utilized by Gerald Gardner and other early Wiccan pioneers in putting together what is now (obviously innacurately) termed the Old Religion or modern Witchcraft.
CONTENTS:
• PART I. QABALAH AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND WRITING.• PART II. YOGA AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND TRASCENDENCE.• PART III. SEX AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND WOMAN.• PART IV. LIBER AL: THE BOOK OF THE LAW. MAGICK AND LAW.PART V. THE BOOK OF LIES. MAGICK AND LIES.
APPENDIX: A MAGICK CHRONOLOGY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
[keywords ceremonial magic magick occult occultism esoterica esoteric enochian john dee cornelius agrippa o.t.o. golden dawn crowley mathers waite renaissance philosophy spiritualism alchemy hermeticism alchemical grimoire sacred geometry myth mythology legend metaphysics metaphysical new age religion mysticism ancient rosy rose cross rosicrucian occult occultism esoteric hidden knowledge esoterica divination scrying metaphysics metaphysical spiritualism spiritism wicca wiccan magic sex magick tantra tantric rose cross ancient mysteries mystery religions mediaeval medieval renaissance alchemy hermeticism freemasonry masonic secret societies conspiracy egypt egyptian greece greek rome roman paganism pagan druidism feminism theology thealogy paganism neo-paganism neopaganism polytheism satanism left hand path]
A GREAT INTRODUCTION TO THE STRANGE WORLD OF THIS WILDLY ENIGMATIC AND VERY INFLUENTIAL EARLY-20TH-CENTURY OCCULTIST.
PORTABLE DARKNESS: AN ALEISTER CROWLEY READER.
NY: Harmony Books. FIRST EDITION, 1st printing. 1989.
xxvii (27) + 339 pages. Large octavo (9 by 6 inch) hardcover with d/j, blue boards, burgundy cloth spine, gilt titling to spine, burgundy endpapers.
Light soiling & some remnants of gold paint top edge (SEE PIC), d/j price-clipped, light rubbing to d/j, O/W NEAR FINE ...CONDITION IN NEAR FINE D/J.
“The selections in ‘Portable Darkness’ are organized thematically by Crowley’s favorite subjects, most notably the power of Language, Yoga, Sex, and Magick. As accompanied by Michaelsen’s illuminating essays, as well as forewords by counterculture leaders Robert Anton Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge, these writings present Crowley the brilliant thinker and writer.”
PART III contains “DE ARTE MAGICA, ” Crowley’s treatise on sex magick, along with related materials.
The whole of the book can perhaps best be summed up in Robert Anton Wilson’s words: “I must warn you ... that the Attorney General has determined that these pages may be hazardous to your Dogma.”
Crowley was born in the middle of the sexually and intellectually repressive Victorian era, and his historical purpose seems to have been that of an "ice-axe" to break up the frozen rivers of human potential and creativity. Though not generally acknowledged, his writings were extensively utilized by Gerald Gardner and other early Wiccan pioneers in putting together what is now (obviously innacurately) termed the Old Religion or modern Witchcraft.
CONTENTS:
• PART I. QABALAH AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND WRITING.• PART II. YOGA AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND TRASCENDENCE.• PART III. SEX AND MAGICK. MAGICK AND WOMAN.• PART IV. LIBER AL: THE BOOK OF THE LAW. MAGICK AND LAW.PART V. THE BOOK OF LIES. MAGICK AND LIES.
APPENDIX: A MAGICK CHRONOLOGY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
[keywords ceremonial magic magick occult occultism esoterica esoteric enochian john dee cornelius agrippa o.t.o. golden dawn crowley mathers waite renaissance philosophy spiritualism alchemy hermeticism alchemical grimoire sacred geometry myth mythology legend metaphysics metaphysical new age religion mysticism ancient rosy rose cross rosicrucian occult occultism esoteric hidden knowledge esoterica divination scrying metaphysics metaphysical spiritualism spiritism wicca wiccan magic sex magick tantra tantric rose cross ancient mysteries mystery religions mediaeval medieval renaissance alchemy hermeticism freemasonry masonic secret societies conspiracy egypt egyptian greece greek rome roman paganism pagan druidism feminism theology thealogy paganism neo-paganism neopaganism polytheism satanism left hand path]
A GREAT INTRODUCTION TO THE STRANGE WORLD OF THIS WILDLY ENIGMATIC AND VERY INFLUENTIAL EARLY-20TH-CENTURY OCCULTIST.
