ABRAXAS: International Journal of Esoteric Studies. Set of all Eight deLuxe Volumes, Numbers One through Six, plus the Special Cambridge and Film Issues. Eight Volumes, deLuxe.
London: Fulgur Limited, 2009-14. Limited DeLuxe Editions. A FINE SET in fine dust jackets, printed on a variety of premium papers, from sources around the world. Contents, eight volumes -- Volume One: contributions for this inaugural issue, they include: "The Green Intercessor Tutelary Spirits and the Transmission of Plant-Magic" by Daniel A. Schulke; "Caveat Anonyter! A Study of Flying Ointments and their Plants" by Sarah Penicka-Smith; "Sorceries of the Threshold: Transgression into the Between States" by Anon; "The Uncertainty of Illumination, Gnosis and Epistemology in Traditional Craft" by Stuart Inman; "Lucifer by Starlight :An Interview" with Francesco Parisi; "The Third Eye: The Fantastic World of Lobsang Rampa" by Phil Hine; "Transmutations of Good and Evil: Alchemy, Witchcraft and the Graal in the Work of Arthur Machen" by Edward Gauntlett; "Skip Witches, Hop Toads" by Stephen Grasso; and "A Dream of Witchcraft Turned to Nightmare: The Five Witches of Albrecht Durer" by John Callow. Volume Two: The Ritual Theatre of Hallucination by Allan Graubard; Brion Gysin: Shaman of the Beat Hotel by Jon Crabb; The White Goddess, A Personal Account by Grevel Lindop; Fossil Angels by Alan Moore; Lost Words / Ira Cohen (Holograph poem printed on Lokta paper); The Habit of Perfection / Ithell Colquhoun (Holograph poem printed on vellum/skinned colored paper); Invocation of the Horned God / Doreen Valiente; Interview with Joe Max by Amy Hale; Tesserae compiled by Gavin Semple; much else. 212 pages in this issue with more than a quarter printed on custom color stock, plus the Tessarae audio supplement. Volume Three: Art works by Uccello, Bertiaux, Bransford, Lambert, Caruso, Hannant, and others, "Aleister Crowley: The Palermo Collection" -- A group of newly discovered paintings by Aleister Crowley, further contents: Caves of Sorcerers: The American Beginnings of Crowley's Art by William Breeze; Crowley The Painter in Cefalù and the Origins of the Palermo Collection by Giuseppe Di Liberti; Aleister Crowley, Painting, and the Works from the Palermo Collection by Marco Pasi; and an Inventory of the Palermo Collection, compiled by Marco Pasi. Volume Four: Art works by Christine Odlund, Peter Dyde, Austin Spare, some rare Tarot prints in color, Anne Crossey, Susu Laroche, the extraordinary work of Agostino Arrivabene, Aleister Crowley, Francesca Ricci, and others. Eighty three color plates, plus black and white images. Volume Five: Olivia Robertson: A Visionary Life by Caroline Wise; A Brief History of the Use of Spirits in European Occultism by Stephanie Spoto; Mycology by Madeline Cass; De Vermis in Se by Max Razdow; John Augustus Knapp: Modern Master of Occult Illustration by Ken Henson; Marrasio's Masque translation by Merlin Cox -- illustrated by Gromyko Semper; Black and White & Gold All Over: An Interview with Panos Tsagaris with Pam Grossman; Musings on Breath by David Blank; The (Not Entirely) Lost 'Art of the Apothecary': Abramelin Oil and Ancient Perfumery by Ioannis Marathakis; Blind Love by K Lenore Siner; Victor Brauner at the Crossroads of Magic and Chance by Jon Graham; La Villa dei Misteri Arrington de Dionyso ; Esoteric City: Theological Hermeneutics in Plato's Republic by Edward Butler -- with photography by SF Said; Sonnet of Comte de Saint-Germain, translated by Sebastian Hayes; Nihilalia: In Conversation with Bea Kwan Lim with Randall Morris; A Brief History of Witchcraft: Inquisitors & Witches by Ian Pyper; Games of Fate: Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne, being Plate 23a Silvia Urbini; Oversoul by Joanna Pallaris; Hidden in Plain Sight: Joséphin Péladan's Religion of Art by Sasha Chaitow; Bené-Satan by Sasha Chaitow; Isis and Taweret with tomb of Hafiz by Adela Leibowitz; Meeting Le Maître: An Introduction to the Art of Michael Bertiaux by Ariock Van de Voorde; Antinous and Glykon: The Gods of Good Hair in Late Antique Anatolia by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus. Volume Six: Special feature: the surrealist painter and novelist, Leonora Carrington, whose long career exhibited a ripe, continued interest in the esoteric and the occult. Printed on a variety of custom papers, and is richly illustrated throughout in color and monochrome, presenting an eclectic selection of esoteric, alchemical, Voudon, magickal essays, poetry, significant interviews, plus a rare photography essay on Marjorie Cameron. Further List of Contents: Death and Roses: Sante Muerte, the Love Sorceress / R. Andrew Chesnut; The Alchemy of Liberation: An Interview with Penny Slinger / Anja Dorofeeva; Heartbreak Wolf Vodu / Arturo Desimone; Chasing Cameron's Light / Victoria Ballesteros; John Jacob Niles, Ambrose Bierce and Folk Song as Thoughtform / Michael Pursley; Hymn to Saraswati / Joshua Mostafa; The Hermes of Harlem: Harlem Esoterics, and the Secret Life of Robert T. Browne / Matt Marble; Leaden Turns Light / Liz Insogna; The Tomb of Pan / Lord Dunsany; Boy with Goat / Robert Kyle; Ella Young and Ross Nichols: Sourcing the Irish Gods / Mark A. Williams; Invoking the Numinous / Mary Vaughan; Sofia Returning to Jerusalem / Natalia Smirnov; A Birch Trunk Notched Times Seven / slippery elm; Saint or Satanist? Joseph-Antoine Boullan and Satanism in Nineteenth-Century France / Christian Guidice; The Guide Mosheks Introduces Lieutenant Radkovski to Female Friend / Arturo Desimone; Spirits of Shadows and Light / Kelly E. Hayes; The Black Magic Code / Leo Ruickbie; Love and Hate in the Same Man / Silvia Argiolas; The Aenigma Artists' Group 1918-1932 / Reinhold J. Fäth, Leonora Carrington and the Art of Invocation / Susan L. Aberth & A Visual World: Leonora Carrington and the Occult / Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Volume Seven [Charming Intentions]: Impurity, Auspiciousness and Power: The Tantric Transformations of Lajja Gauri at Kamakhya; Speculum Lapidum: Some Reflections on Sixteenth-Century Intaglios and Astral Magic; Open Secrets: Alchemical-Hermetic Imagery in the Ripley Scrolls; The Magician Triumphant: Occultism and Political Resistance in Victor Brauners' Le Surrealiste; The Magic of Time and Space: Occultism in the Films of Maya Deren. Volume Eight [Luminous Screen: Film, the Occult, and Possession]: subjects covered range from the early German expressionist cinema of F.W. Murnau, to the contemporary art house films of Lars von Trier. In each essay, esoteric themes within these works are identified and analyzed. 1296 pages. Tall 4to. Item #18551
Price: $950.00
