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[CROWLEY, Aleister, et al.] Sexual Magick (Amor Divina). Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis
[CROWLEY, Aleister, et al.] Sexual Magick (Amor Divina). Writings on the Sexual Praxis of Ordo Templi Orientis
Additional contributions by C. S. Jones; G.J. Yorke, Marcello Motta & Others. Edited by Coemgen la Vaughan
UK: Hell Fire Club Books, 2018 [2024]. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Limited to 42 hand-numbered copies in slipcase, this being No. 17. Bound in full red leather with gilt emblems to front, spine titled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with b/w figures and emblems. A lovely book production. Red cloth slipcase with inset of color image of the "Art" card from Crowley's tarot, painted by Frieda Harris. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket, in a fine slipcase.
This is a reprint of "Amor Divina", first published by Hell Fire Club Books in 2018. 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.