Description
Aleister Crowley; Victor B. Neuburg; Mary Desti
Samuel Weiser, Maine, USA, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. 452 pages. A beautiful collectors edition, Fine with Fine un-clipped mylar protected dust-jacket.
The Vision and the Voice (Liber 418) chronicles the mystical journey of Aleister Crowley (18751947) as he explored the 30 Enochian aethyrs originally developed by Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 16th century. These visions took place at two times: in 1900 during his stay in Mexico, and later in 1909 in Algeria (along with his magical companion, Victor Benjamin Neuburg). Of all his works, Crowley considered this book to be second in importance behind The Book of the Law, the text that established his religious and philosophical system of Thelema in 1904. The Vision and the Voice is the source of many of the central spiritual doctrines of Thelema, especially in the visions of Babalon and her consort Chaos (the “All-Father”), as well as an account of how an individual ego might cross the Abyss, thereby assuming the title of “Master of the Temple” and taking a place in the City of the Pyramids under the Night of Pan.
In 1909, Crowley received and wrote down his visions in the Sahara. In them, he gives an account of crossing the Abyss and attaining the grade of Master of the Temple. The core of this book is a record of his visions of the 30 Aethyres of the Enochian Magick developed by John Dee and Edward Kelley. It includes Crowley’s own diagrams and the original typescript of the Commentaries. There is also a record of Crowley’s magical work conducted with Victor B. Neuberg, and includes the “Esoteric Record of the Paris Working” as well as “The Holy Hymns to the Great Gods of Heaven”.
