Description
Aleister Crowley
100th Monkey Press, USA, 2015. Boxed Set. Limited Edition, limited to 80 numbered copies, of which only 78 were issued to the public. Each of the individual booklets for the Rites is bound by hand, measures 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”, and is bound in a silk or marbled paper specific to each Rite. Endpapers for the Rites booklets are taken from photographs of the actual rehearsals and performances of the Rites. Decorative borders are featured throughout the booklets. Printed on a 70 pound text weight, acid-free paper specifically chosen for this project.
A quality, boxed set, edition of Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis, consisting of:
1. Seven hand-bound booklets, one for each of the Rites,
2. A hand-bound facsimile of Crowley’s “The Rites of Eleusis” used to advertise the Rites,
3. A hand-bound booklet of period newspaper articles concerning the Rites,
4. A facsimile of a handbill used to advertise the Rites,
5. A facsimile of the ticket sold to those attending the Rites,
6. Eight 6 1/2″ x 4″ photographs from the actual rehearsals and performances of the Rites,
7. A themed bookmark,
8. Special limited edition card,
9. All housed in a cloth-covered box.
“Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew: I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free.
Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips I will put a live coal upon your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword in your hearts, and ye also shall see God face to face.” — ALEISTER CROWLEY from “Eleusis”
