Occult & Esoterica
[CROWLEY, Aleister et al.] AMOR DIVINA. Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis (Limited to 156 Copies)
[CROWLEY, Aleister et al.] AMOR DIVINA. Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis (Limited to 156 Copies)
With contributions by C. S. Jones; G.J. Yorke, Marcelo Motta, and Others (Edited by Coemgen la Vaughan)
UK: Hell Fire Club Books, no date (2018). Privately Printed. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Limited to 156 copies bound in quarter scarlet pigskin. Seven-fold Star of Babalon blind-stamped to front. Mark of the Beast stamped in gold to the center, with Aleister Crowley's facsimile signature in gilt to lower front, gilt titling to spine. Includes folding card with publication details and limitation number. Illustrated with b/w figures and emblems. A lovely book production. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket.
This invaluable work gathers together all the available information pertaining to the sex magic practices and rituals of the O.T.O. from various authors and practitioners including Crowley, Theodor Reuss, Frater Achad, Gerald Yorke, Marcelo Motta, and many others. Includes the full texts of Crowley's Amrita, De Arte Magica, and others as well as numerous Secret Papers of the O.T.O. Additional information is gleaned from essays, letters, and more. CONTENTS: Introduction; Hymn to Pan with performance notes by A. Crowley; The Gnostic Neo-Christians by T. Reuss; Sex, 666, & the O.T.O. by G.J. Yorke; GENERAL DOCUMENTS ON THE SEXUAL SECRET OF MAGICK: A.M.R.I.T.A.: The Elixir of Life; The Elixir of Life from the diary of A. Crowley, June 7, 1919; The Elixir of Life: Our Magical Medicine; Remarkable Experiment with the Elixir of Life; Amrita (1933); On Liber XV: Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ; Liber Artemis Iota; SECRET PAPERS OF THE OTO: A Private Letter of Parzival X° (V°) by C.S. Jones; De Natura Deorum (VII°); Letter from Crowley to Jones re VII°; De Nuptiis Deorum cum Hominibus (VIII°); Liber C vel AGAPE (IX°); De Arte Magica; IX° Emblems & Their Mode of Use; Liber Qoph: Gnosticorum Missa Minor; Adorations for IX° Working; De Homunculo Epistola (X°); The Holy Hymns to the Great Gods of Heaven; Crowley to G.L. McMurtry re IX°; XI Degree OTO; C.S. Jones to G.J. Yorke re XI°; APPENDICES: O.T.O. Degrees & How They Relate to Freemasonry; Marcelo Motta‘s Revision of Liber C; VIII° & IX° ―Secrets; Two Essays by G.J. Yorke: Tantric Hedonism & Tantric Theory; G.M. Cowie Address to London O.T.O. (1916); Epistle from Frater Achad to Sister Katherine Talbot (1918); An O.T.O. Interpretation of the Trigrams of the I Ching by W.T. Smith; Liber Stellæ Rubeæ; Bibliography and Notes