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‘The Sword of Song’ by Aleister Crowley
Sword of Song is a groundbreaking venture that still defies most categorizations. The temptation to parallel such an experiment with AC’s life is in some ways far too great to pass up on. (…) The book is a hybrid example of writing that entails much more than mere textuality may suggest. Hopefully Richard Kaczynski’s comprehensive edition will inspire revived and expansive interpretations of its contents for some time to come.
Harry Smith Cosmographies: The Naropa Lectures 1988-1990
For the student of Harry Smith’s life and oeuvre these lectures are an important living artifact. And for those new to his ways these talks are still able to transport and transform through their peripatetic power. When permitted to make sense in their own way, Smith’s wildly dancing ideas and energies of this collection remain powerful fetishes never to be reduced to any easily summarized or formally assessed school of thought.
‘Three Books of Occult Philosophy’, Translated by Eric Purdue
In his recent rendition of the Three Books, Eric Purdue has consulted Vittoria Perrone Compagni’s critical edition, which is based primarily on the 1533 version, all the while carefully comparing and contrasting it to the 1510 first edition, and the 1531 2nd edition as well as the first manuscript version Agrippa sent to Trithemius.
