Description
Crowley, Aleister
Magickal Childe, New York, 1990. Paperback. First Edition. Some shelf wear; corners/edges are mildly bumped rubbed and soiled, but overall this is a highly desirable edition in very good condition. Crowley’s magnum opus, hailed as the greatest book written on Magick. ”My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Magic” an escape from reality. I myself was first consciously drawn to the subject in this way. And it has repelled only too many scientific and practical minds, such as I most designed to influence. But MAGICK is for ALL. So I have written this book to help the Banker, the Pugilist, the Biologist, the Poet, the Navvy, the Grocer, the Factory Girl, the Mathematician, the Stenographer, the Golfer, the Wife, the Consul – and all the rest – to fulfill themselves perfectly, each in his or her own proper function. Let me explain in a few words how it came about that I blazoned the word MAGICK upon the Banner that I have borne before me all my life”.
