EULIS: AFFECTIONAL ALCHEMY, THE HISTORY OF LOVE, ITS WONDROUS MAGIC, CHEMISTRY, RULES, LAWS, MOODS AND RATIONALE. BEING THE THIRD REVELATION OF SOUL AND SEX AND A REPLY TO "WHY IS MAN IMMORTAL?" — BY PASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH, WITH EXTENSIVE NOTES BY R. SWINBURNE CLYMER — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1930 — Sex Love Alchemy Hermetic Rosicrucian Occult Publisher: The Confederation of Initiates, Quakertown (1930)
Very scarce edition of EULIS: AFFECTIONAL ALCHEMY, by two very well noted occultists and prominent members of the Rosicrucian Order, Paschal B. Randolph and R. Swinburne Clymer. First edition from 1930, in well preserved condition. Brown boards with gilt decorations; 230 pages with beautiful frontispiece. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for a few places where paragraphs have been noted with mark in margin. Please see below for information about the authors, Randolph and Clymer.
Pachal Beverly Randolph and R. Swinburne Clymer
Paschal Beverly
Randolph, an African American, carved his own eccentric path in the
mid-nineteenth century from the slums of New York's Five Points to the courts
of Europe, where he performed as a spiritualist trance medium. One of first black
American novelists, Randolph also helped enlist black troops during the Civil
War, and assisted freedmen in Louisiana during Reconstruction. His enduring
claim to fame, however, is the crucial role he played in the transformation of
spiritualism, a medium's passive reception of messages from the spirits of the
dead, into occultism, the active search for personal spiritual realization and
inner vision. From his experiences in his solitary travels in England, France,
Egypt and the Turkish Empire in the 1850s and 1860s, he brought back to America
a system of occult beliefs and practices (the magic mirror, hashish use and
sexual magic) that worked a revolution. The systems of magic he taught left
their traces on many subsequent occultists, including Madame Blavatsky and her
Theosophical Society, and are still practiced today by several occult
organizations in Europe and American that carry on his work. Randolph authored
more than fifty books and pamphlets on magic and medicine. In his best known
work, "Eulis! The History of Love," he promulgated the first formal,
albeit cryptic, system of organized spiritual training.
Reuben Swinburne Clymer (November 25, 1878 -
June 3, 1966) was an American occultist and modern Rosicrucian responsible for creating the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, perhaps the oldest
continuing Rosicrucian organization in the Americas. He practiced alternative
medicine, and wrote and published works on it as well as (his version of) the
teachings of Paschal Beverly Randolph, sex magic, vegetarianism, religion,
alchemy, and Spiritualism. This led to a number of conflicts with Harvey
Spencer Lewis and the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, FUDOSI, Aleister
Crowley, and even the American Medical Association. [Wikipedia]
