Rose Veiled in Black ~ Arcana & Art of Our Lady Babalon

DescriptionA Rose Veiled in Black is a potent gathering of 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. Each exploring Her magical arcana from a ritually embodied perspective.The Lady Babalon is one of the more enigmatic figures in the Cult of Thelema. 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. 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 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.”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 Wisex, Robert Fitzgerald, Timo Ketola, Daniel Schulke, Nicole DiMucci Potts, Hana Lee, Frater A.I., Sarah LindsayThree Hands Press ✢ 2016 Limited hardcover edition with dust jacket, Limited to 1,092 copies