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[IAO131] HRILIU. Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass (Deluxe Vellum Edition, #11 of 31 Copies)
[IAO131] HRILIU. Symbolic Explorations of the Gnostic Mass (Deluxe Vellum Edition, #11 of 31 Copies)
UK: Hell Fire Club Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 304pp. Hand bound in full creamy English goat vellum, prepared by William Cowleys (established 1860). Gold tooling to front, gilt title and devices to spine, yellow Kashgar silk endpapers, dark green and gold headbands. Limited to only 31 hand-numbered copies. This is copy #11. Black and white and a few color illustrations throughout. From the collection of Clive Harper. Publisher’s sheets laid in advertising other books, one having a short inscription to Clive, and signed by the publisher. A near fine copy, issued without dust jacket, in a fine slipcase.
The simplest, most direct and most powerful of all magick ceremonies is the eucharist, it is quite literally the transmutation of the material being into the divine, filling the individual with Love, leading eventually to becoming a divinity oneself. This book is a long and profound study of Aleister Crowley’s Gnostic Mass, the most magnificent ritual celebration of the secrets of Invocation, Consecration, and Transformation. It has been written to aid all in their experience of intimate devotion, intense worship and profound Truth, and shewing forth in dramatic form the central Sexual/Magickal Secret of the IX° of the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis).