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Book four liber aba book, 1997 by aleister crowley. See more ideas about sacred geometry, magnum opus and occult. On the last page, as a colophon, is a fourpointed star, very luminous, and this is to be identified with the eve of shiva, and the book pertains to the grade of 7degree 4square. A beginners guide to crowley books aleister crowley youtube. It is a lengthy treatise on magick, his system of western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including eastern yoga, hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like eliphas levi and helena blavatsky, and his own. Book 4liber aba by aleister crowley, leila waddell. Edited, annotated, and introduced by frater hymenaeus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Book four iiv the diaries of aleister crowley diary fragment 1907 liber dccclx john st. Feb 17, 2005 aleister crowley 18751947 was the most widely read author in 20thcentury occultism.
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