This was first published in typewritten form as a limited edition of 200 copies as The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw in 1953. This work was intended as a destructive critique of Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, but as Crowley wrote, it became transformed into a detailed, intensely readable and most amusing analysis of the Life of Christ, of the Gospels, and of Christianity itself - a definitive study of the orthodox religion of Europe and North America from the point of view of Crowleyan Magick. Francis King has included Crowley's Arte de Magica as an appendix to this volume. It seems out of place here but I think that King placed it here because he forgot to include it in his book 'The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.' which would have made more sense.

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.