Parzival: The Chalice of Ecstasy

by Frater Archad

Hardcover, 1976

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Available

Call number

133

Collection

Publication

Yoga Publication Society (1976), Hardcover

Description

In 1978, fourteen-year-old technology prodigy V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai invented email. From there, he would go on to manage email for the Clinton administration and create email-sorting software that would be used by some of the largest companies in the world, including Nike, AT&T, Toyota, and JC Penny. He discovered that incoming emails offered countless opportunities to mine data and solidify relationships with citizens and customers opportunities of which organizations everywhere were failing to take advantage. Through a series of case studies, this fascinating book demonstrates how organizations of all types and sizes can realize the infinite potential of email to strengthen their brands and reach their audiences in incredibly creative ways. From facilitating more effective and courteous customer service to mining useful information about their clients, from averting disaster by catching product defects early to understanding and managing their public image, companies will discover new and innovative uses for the contents of their inboxes.Don t miss another opportunity to connect with your clients. Let one of the great innovators of our time show you how to transform your info@ email account into a goldmine.… (more)

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The Chalice of Ecstasy is an early work by Aleister Crowley's disciple Charles Stansfeld Jones. It does not involve the novel qabalistic doctrines that Jones later developed (beginning in the appendices to the book Q.B.L., or the Bride's Reception). The story which Jones is subjecting to
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interpretation is the Parzival of Richard Wagner (the "drama" i.e. the opera libretto) rather than the ur-text of Wolfram von Eschenbach. The result is a faithful account of the initiatory path as defined through Crowley's A.'.A.'. system. This book should also be of special interest to participants in the Ordo Templi Orientis because of the extent to which symbolism in Parzival is congruent with that of the Order's central ritual, the Gnostic Mass.

I consider this book to be Jones' most valuable published work, and it demonstrates why Crowley identified him as a presumptive successor early in the younger' magician's initiatory career.
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Physical description

7.4 inches

ISBN

0911662596 / 9780911662597

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