A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. In short, it is a complete magical and philosophical dictionary—a key to all religion and practical occultism—an amazing work whose value has been recognized through many edition since its first appearance in 1909 and subsequent enlargement in 1955.

But I could see the connections and could tell that this is really powerful stuff to look into for anyone at a more intermediate level in magick. Aqui temos uma versão diferente da obra original, esta é a edição alterada por Israel Regardie que acrescentou uns capítulos de cabala no começo.El fondo se incrementó notablemente con la compra, en 1995, de la librería neoyorquina de Eliseo Torres, de más de un millón de volúmenes (literatura española e hispanoamericana, crítica literaria, exilio español, historia, arte, Galicia, etc.

This book is also useful for magical students as a reference for word-sympathy, from AB ("father") and BA ("to come") = 3 to ShDBRShHMOTh ShRThThN = 3321.It provides essential explanations of theoretical and practice Qabalistic number analysis and philosophy. I won’t pretend to act like I understood much of what I read, yet, but I am still a neophyte as far as Initiation into the mystery schools goes. This masterpiece has been meticulously Reprinted in 2019, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1909.

I can still remember this book by aleister when I flip through it thinking I had forgotten it over the years. Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. In Judaism, Kabbalah is a form of Torah commentary that was especially prominent in the sixteenth century via the book the Zohar.Sorry about the German edition -- for some weird reason this site doesn't list the English-language edition of Crowley's Qaballistic reference work. The Golden Dawn was in part an expression of Hermetic Qabalah, which was itself derived from Jewish mystical Kabbalah. In short, it is a complete magical and philosophical dictionarya key to all religion and practical occultisman amazing work whose value has been recognized through many editions since its first appearance in 1909 and subsequent enlargement in 1955. This could be very useful if one were creating a work of fiction - characters and plots pour out of these pages. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding.