Description
Ansell, Robert
Fulgur Limited 2009. First Edition. Abraxas Issue 1 Special Edition, limited to 171 copies. This edition has been bound by hand in grey cloth and includes an original wood-engraving entitled The Garden of Proserpine by Francesco Parisi. An International Journal Of Esoteric Studies. Large quarto format, with 128 pages printed on high quality paper and richly illustrated in colour and monochrome. A rich variety of content from a range of authors, including a previously unpublished poem by Aleister Crowley. Authors include Daniel A. Schulke, Sarah Penicka-Smith, Stuart Inman, Francesco Parisi, Phil Hine, Edward Gauntlett, Stephen Grasso, John Callow, James Butler, and Aleister Crowley. A fine book in fine dust-jacket. From Publisher: Abraxas is a new independent journal of historical and contemporary occultism. Through its pages will be manifest the voices of working occult experience and the visions of esoteric artists, alongside keen insights of original scholarly research. Abraxas will offer the reader a rich resource of thought-provoking essays, vibrant art and poetic myth from some of the most inspirational thinkers, artists, writers, designers and practitioners working in the international occult community today. Here will be found perceptive articles, narratives of workings, mysterious photography, obscure magical text reprints, strange drawings and resonant lyric. Abraxas aims to be intellectually engaging, critically rigorous and visually inspiring. It will be a unique space where fresh insights emerge to feed the mind, imagination and soul. Nearly all the material is published for the first time. Here may be found inspiring essays from luminaries within the esoteric community, many of them written especially for the journal. Artists too are well represented, both established masters and emerging talents: a feast for the eyes and soul. Our poets include Allyson Shaw, Zachary Cox and, from beyond the veil, Aleister Crowley, whose evocative verse ‘Babalon’ finally finds itself in print more than sixty years after it was written. Produced in a large quarto format, with 128 pages printed on high quality paper and richly illustrated in colour and monochrome, Abraxas will offer you a strange mirror through which may be glimpsed the zeitgeist of the global occult community today.
