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Title: |
The Book of
the Goetia. |
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Lower Cover:
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State (a): |
1
copy printed on vellum.1
Bound in vellum with black silk ties.2
(This was Crowley’s personal copy and currently resides
in the Warburg
Institute Collection). |
State (b): |
10
copies printed on Japanese vellum.1
Bound in white Japanese vellum turned-in wrappers.1
Upper cover lettered in
gold, ‘GOETIA’ in the center, and surrounded by the
legend ‘GOETIA VEL CLAVIVULA SALOMONIS REGIS’ frequently
repeated.1
Spine
lettered in gold vertically down the spine
‘GOETIAVELCLAVICULASALOMONREGIS’.3
11
1/2” x 8 3/4”.3
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One copy rebound by Zaehnsdorf in full red morocco leather.3
Bottom of interior upper cover is stamped in gilt ‘BOUND
BY ZAEHNSDORF’3
Spine
has five raised bands and is lettered in gilt
horizontally across the spine
‘GOETIA
| CROWLEY | 1904’.3
Interior has dentelles stamped in gilt enclosing a
panel of red silk which faces a half-lining
also of red silk.3
Double lines stamped in gilt on all outside edges of
upper and lower covers. A series of short double
lines stamped in gilt in a semi-circle along the top and
bottom of spine, following the curvature of the spine.3 |
State (c): |
200
copies printed on machine-made paper.1
Bound in green
camel’s hair wrappers.1
Upper cover lettered in red, ‘GOETIA’ in the center, and
surrounded by the legend ‘GOETIA VEL CLAVIVULA SALOMONIS
REGIS’ frequently repeated.1
Spine
lettered in red vertically down the spine
‘GOETIAVELCLAVICULASALOMONREGIS’.3
11 1/2” x 8 3/4”.3 |
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Publisher: |
Society
for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).1 |
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Printer: |
Chiswick
Press.1 |
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Published At: |
Boleskine,
Foyers, Inverness.1 |
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Date: |
1904.1 |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
x + 66.3 |
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Price: |
Priced at
21 shillings5 raised from the subscription price of 10 shillings. |
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Remarks: |
The material
in this book was translated into English by Macgregor Mathers
(Credited by Crowley as
“A
Dead Hand.”).
It was apparently acquired by Crowley during his raid of the
Golden Dawn's Second Order Headquarters in April 1900.
Crowley contributed
the emendations, introduction, and notes.4 |
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Pagination:1 |
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[
i] |
Half-title |
[
ii] |
Invocation in Greek |
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Blank |
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Frontispiece |
[
iii] |
Title-page |
[
iv] |
Magical square |
[v-vi] |
Prefatory Note |
[vii-ix] |
Preliminary Invocation |
[ x] |
Blank |
[1-65] |
Text |
[
66] |
Colophon of The Chiswick Press |
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Contents: |
-
Prefatory Note
- Preliminary Invocation
- The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic
- Lemegeton Vel Clavicula Salomonis Regis
- Goetia |
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Author’s
Working
Versions: |
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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Occult Publishing House, Chicago, 1910. |
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de
Laurence, Chicago, 1916. |
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Ram Importers, New York, 1970. |
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Health Research, California, No Date. |
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Sut Anubis, Northampton, England, 1985. |
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Magickal Childe, New York, 1989. |
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Mandrake Press Ltd. England, 1993. |
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
1. |
L. C. R.
Duncombe-Jewell, Notes Towards An Outline of
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Aleister Crowley, The Works of Aleister Crowley,
Volume III, Appendix A, Gordon Press, New York, 1974, p.
238. |
2. |
Clive Harper, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister
Crowley (Expanded and Corrected), Aleister Crowley,
The Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and
Writings of Gerald Yorke, The Teitan Press, York
Beach, Maine, 2011, p. 50. |
3. |
Personal observation of the item. |
4. |
Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life
of Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,
California, 2010, p. 135. |
5. |
Aleister Crowley, Mortadello,
Catalog “The Works of Mr. Aleister Crowley,”, bound in
back of book, Wieland and Co., London, 1912, p. 117. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
... (There
is always occult opposition to the publication of important
documents. It took me over three years to get my The Goetia
through the press, and over two years in the case of 777.
This is one of the facts whose cumulative effect makes it
impossible to doubt the existence of spiritual forces.) . . .
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 176.
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The
condition of my soul is clearly indicated by my output. The
fount of lyric poetry had run completely dry. I had not touched
the unfinished Orpheus; wrote nothing new. I no longer
aspired to become the redeemer of humanity. I doubt whether I
should have been able to attach any meaning to any such words.
After returning from Edinburgh, I do not seem even to have kept
a record and I remember nothing about my doings. July is however
the date of an essay “The initiated interpretation of ceremonial
magick” which I prefaced to my edition of The Goetia. I
had employed Mathers to translate the text of The Lesser Key
of Solomon the King of which The Goetia is the first
section. He got no further; after the events of 1900, he had
simply collapsed morally. I added a translation of the
conjurations into the Enochian or Angelic language; edited and
annotated the text, prefixed a “Preliminary Invocation”, added a
prefatory note, a Magical Square (intended to prevent improper
use of the book) and ultimately an Invocation of Typhon when the
First Magical War of the Aeon of Horus was declared.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 362.
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My
activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had
issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter
through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press
Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as
to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British
public. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them
myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation
of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The
Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King,
Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus,
Gargoyles and The Collected Works.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 406.
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I was
still entirely “off” The Book of the Law. I had with me
my unique vellum copy of The Goetia and I proposed to use
the Preliminary Invocation. . . .
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 517. |
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