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[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] Azoetia. A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft (Sethos Edition)
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] Azoetia. A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft (Sethos Edition)
Full title: Azoetia. A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft. Being a full and accurate transcription compiled and amended by the author from the original manuscript of 'The Book of the Magical Quintessence
Xoanon Publishing, 2002. Second Edition, First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Issued without dust jacket. 366pp. Limited to 484 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 391. Bound in holly-green cloth, with gold blocking of the Circle of the Sacred Alphabet on front and back boards, green and white endbands, brown endsheets. Illustrated throughout by the author. A near fine copy.
The Azoëtia was first published in 1992 and is regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition. The grimoire is comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working instruments, the full text of the Sabbatic Rituals of Ingress, Congress, and Egress, and an eleven-chaptered grimoire detailing the arcana and composite practices of the Sacred Alphabet - the twenty-two lettered code of sorcerous principles underlying the practical spectrum of the Arte Magical. The entire work intends the reification of traditional British cunning-craft praxis according to the spiritual vision and artistry of a contemporary initiate.
This copy is from the collection of Thelemic author Robert C. Stein (1931 – 2024), who wrote "The Mystery of the Letters and The Tree of Life" and other works. Stein was a Professor Emeritus of Biology in the New York State University System, whose involvement in the study and practice of Thelema spanned three decades and travels in five continents.