The Magical Revival [Starfire Publishing Limited, 2010] 978-1-906073-03-9

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The Magical Revival [Starfire Publishing Limited, 2010]
978-1-906073-03-9

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GRANT
Kenneth

Table of contents :
Dustwrapper - front ......Page 1
Flyleaf - front ......Page 2
Flyleaf - rear ......Page 3
Endpapers - front ......Page 4
Frontispiece: Profile of the Author ......Page 7
Short Title ......Page 8
Other titles by Kenneth Grant ......Page 9
Title Page ......Page 10
Printer's imprint ......Page 11
CONTENTS ......Page 12
Illustrations ......Page 14
Key to Endpapers ......Page 15
Dedication ......Page 16
Foreword to the 1991 Edition ......Page 17
Quotation from Mahavakyaratnamala ......Page 18
Introduction ......Page 20
1. Return of the Phoenix ......Page 24
2. Metaphysical Bases of Sexual Magick ......Page 45
3. Dark Dynasties ......Page 70
4. Centres of Power ......Page 89
5. Drugs and the Occult ......Page 106
6. Barbarous Names of Evocation ......Page 123
7. Star Fire ......Page 143
8. Blood, Vampirism, Death and Moon Magick ......Page 162
Plate 1. Aleister Crowley at the age of fifty-six ......Page 168
Plate 2. Liber OZ (The Book of Strength) ......Page 169
Plate 3. The magical seals of Crowley’s occult organizations ......Page 170
Plate 4. Magical designs of the Vault of the Adepts ......Page 171
Plate 5. Lam, an extra-terrestrial Intelligence in astral contact with Crowley ......Page 172
Plate 6. Aleister Crowley in 1910 by A.O. Spare, from memory, 1953 ......Page 173
Plate 7. The Stélé of Revealing ......Page 174
Plate 8. The Death Posture, A.O. Spare self-portrait ......Page 175
Plate 9. Formula of Zos vel Thanatos ......Page 176
Plate 10. The Self in Ecstasy ......Page 177
Plate 11. NU-Isis ......Page 178
Plate 12. Black Eagle, A.O. Spare's Familiar ......Page 179
Plate 14. The Magical Thought-Stream ......Page 180
Plate 15. Self-Portrait with Rodent, by A.O. Spare ......Page 181
Plate 16. A.O. Spare ca. 1954 ......Page 182
Plate 17. Preliminaries to the Witches’ Sabbath ......Page 183
9. Strayed Gods ......Page 192
10. Dion Fortune ......Page 216
11. Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus ......Page 223
12. The Death Posture and the New Sexuality ......Page 243
13. Conclusion ......Page 254
Diagram: The Qabalistic Tree of Life: initiated Occult Tradition ......Page 258
Diagram: The Qabalistic Tree of Life: Crowley’s reorganized system of grades ......Page 259
Glossary ......Page 260
Bibliography ......Page 278
Index ......Page 283
Endpapers - rear ......Page 301
Dustwrapper - rear ......Page 303