Description
Aleister Crowley
Sangreal Foundation Inc, Dallas, Texas, 1972. Second Sangreal Printing. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Preface by Israel Regardie. Tape residue with browning on fore/end papers and flaps with damage from removal to an otherwise remarkably intact dust-jacket. Ex-libris on initial leaf, and small “METAPHYSICAL RESEARCH GROUP” label below, notwithstanding otherwise Very Good.
“Vi Verum Universum Vivus Vici” – V.V.V.V.V. – “I have conquered the universe by the force of truth”. This magical motto of Aleister Crowley is his personal expression of the mystical heights he had attained through strict discipline and rigorous application of diverse techniques.
THE HOLY BOOKS are beautiful and delicate descriptions of these haunting experiences of devotion and ecstasy. Liber VII celebrates Crowley’s difficult crossing of the Abyss. This crossing is the disintegration and subission of the soul prior to its confrontation with God in acquisition of cosmic consciousness. Liber LXV is Crowley’s mature expression of spiritual understanding. Only through dedicated effort and true devotion was Vrowley able to unite with his Higher Genius. Liber Ararita is Crowley’s expression of spiritual attainment making ue f the Qabalistic Tree of Life in several different ways; posing thesis against antithesis, uniting them and transcending them by negating.
The real value of THE HOLY BOOKS lies in the extraordinary ability of Crowley to facilitate identification with his own dynamic experience. By sympathetic induction, the student is helped to participate directly in the same spiritual experience.”
