Title: A ROSE VEILED IN BLACK: Arcana and Art of Our Lady of Babalon
Author: Robert Fitzgerald & Daniel A. Schulke
Publisher: Three Hands Press / Xoanon
Year: 2016 Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 222Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: In like-new condition: the book doesn't seem to have been read. The Lady Babalon is one of the more
enigmatic figures in the Cult of Thelema. She is a manifold deity in the sense
that She is a divine harlot, an initiatrix, a creator and a destroyer. In
representative form, the letters of Her name encompass an heptogrammic star;
yet She lies beyond mere representation, and Her star signifies only the powers
of Her train and not the station of Her immanence. She is the unsignified, a
cipher conveying manifestation, and yet the veritable seal of the invisible
Order of Illuminated Adepts. In Her subtle and etheric anatomy flows the
life-blood of the Saints – the All-Living – and in this is Her deepest mystery,
for, as it is written, in the Gospels, and in Aleister Crowley's Liber 418, "The Blood is the Life." A ROSE VEILED IN BLACK is the second
volume in Three Hands Press' Western Esotericism in Context Series which began
with Hands of Apostasy. The book is a potent gathering of twelve essays and
rituals of Babalon by scholars, practitioners, and allies of Thelema, dedicated
wholly unto the manifest contemplation of Her Mystery. Exploring occult themes
of sacrifice, magical liberation, prophecy, witchcraft, and abomination, it marks
a watershed publication for the discourse on this important and previously
neglected aspect of Thelemic Studies. The written works are enhanced by an
offering of original and visionary art from contemporary practitioners, each
exploring Her magical arcana from a ritually embodied perspective. Contributors include:
Amodali
Gordan Djurdjevic
Richard Kaczynski
Manon Hedenborg-White
Erik Davis
Liv Rainey-Smith
Robert C. Stein
Barry William Hale
Grant Potts
Mitchell Nolte
Linda MacFarlane
Caroline Wise
Robert Fitzgerald
Nicole DiMucci Potts
Timo Ketola
Daniel A. Schulke
Hana Lee
Frater A.I.
Sarah Lindsay
