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Berwick, Me. : York Beach, ME : Ibis Press ; Distributed by Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003.
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New Age. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909 by Karl von Eckartshausen, a Catholic mystic and philosopher. The work was later adopted by occultists, given high status in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and drawing Aleister Crowley to join the order..
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When Aleister Crowley had just been first turned on to magic by reading Arthur Edward Waite's Book of Black Magic and Pacts, he wrote to the author to find out what he should study to become an occultist. Waite directed him to Eckartshausen's Cloud Upon the Sanctuary. A freely-edited version of
The rest of Eckartshausen's book deserves to be read in the same spirit, substituting a more wholesome Thelemic morality and metaphysic for the crypto-gnostic Roman Catholicism of the author. It does afford a surprisingly useful apprehension of the Eternal and Invisible Order that hath no name among men.
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Letter II from this book later became Crowley's Liber XXXIII: "An Account of A.'.A.'." in which Jesus Christ was replaced with V.V.V.V.V., and God with L.V.X.The rest of Eckartshausen's book deserves to be read in the same spirit, substituting a more wholesome Thelemic morality and metaphysic for the crypto-gnostic Roman Catholicism of the author. It does afford a surprisingly useful apprehension of the Eternal and Invisible Order that hath no name among men.
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German
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liii, 137 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0892540842 / 9780892540846
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