Description
Kuntz, Darcy; Gilbert, R.A.
Holmes Publishing Group, Edmonds, Washington, USA, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Limited Edition, limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this copy being number 66. Bound in white with gold blocking to spine and front cover. With signed and numbered certificate (illustration on verso by Darcy Kuntz). Illustrated. Golden Dawn Studies series I. Minor external soiling, faint pencil marks to cover. A beautiful edition, Near Fine.
The first translation of the Symbolic Ciphers that propelled the Order of the Golden Dawn onto the magical scene in the London of the 1890’s. The Cipher Manuscripts are a collection of 60 folios containing the structural outline of a series of magical initiation rituals corresponding to the spiritual elements of Earth, Air, Water and Fire. The “occult” materials in the Manuscripts are a compendium of the classical magical theory and symbolism known in the Western world up until the middle of the 19th century, combined to create an encompassing model of the Western Mystery Tradition, and arranged into a syllabus of a graded course of instruction in magical symbolism. It was used as the structure for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
