This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886-1950) was deeply immersed in occult matters from an early age. He joined Aleister's Crowley's Mystical Order A A (Astrum Argentum) at 23, and was acknowledged by the 'Great Beast' as his 'magical child'. Jones took the title Achad (Unity), and it was as Frater Achad that he published most of his most famous occult studies, including the ground-breaking 'Q.B.L., The Bride's Reception'. This work is a masterpiece, an occult investigation into the profundities of Qabalah, its arcane symbolism, and links to other esoteric systems such as the Tarot. But it is more than this - it is a book that offers both novice and adept alike a remarkably clear and understandable exposition of this otherwise recondite, confusing, and seemingly contradictory worldview. As The Occult Review stated on the book's publication in 1922 "we can only advise those who are able to do so to study Frater Achad's essay. Their industry will be well repaid." This is a must-read for all students of the mystic lore.

1923. Or the Crystal as a Stepping Stone to Clear Vision. A Practical Treatise on the Real Value of Crystal Gazing. Contents: The lesser crystal sphere; The greater crystal sphere; Universal crystalline sphere; A consideration of the ancient methods; Further considerations the methods of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly; Attainment of crystal vision; The ultimate crystal.

The collective tradition of mankind is endowed with a relative infallibility, and when rightly interpreted, must represent the largest truth, the most perfect beauty and the purest goodness known on earth. This transcendental truth and goodness and beauty represents the divine substratum of human nature, the ideal humanity which lies above and behind the aberrations of individuals, races and periods. It is not subjected, as are the latter, to Time and Circumstance or to the limitations from which the appearance of error, evil and deformity seem to spring. The Legend of Parzival is not subject to Time or Circumstance; it represents a glimpse of the Eternal Reality, the Everpresent Here and Now. The circumstances of its enactment and the place wherein the festival is beheld, need not be sought outside the Human Heart that has learned to beat in time and tune with the Soul of the World. All who are born of "Heart's Affliction" must eventually find their way to that spot where they "Scarcely move, yet swiftly seem to run" and having become one with "The Way, The Truth and The Life" they will discover that the shifting scenes of the world they had thought to be so real, will pass by them as a pageant until the Vision of the Grail Itself is presented to their pure Understanding. It is in the hope of awakening some spark of the smouldering fire of this inner consciousness in the hearts of those who may read these lines - not having previously understood the Legend - and from that spark enkindling a great fire that will burn up the veils which hide man from Himself - from God - that I have dared to add these fragments to the great mass of Grail Literature already given to the world.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Q.B.L. or the Bride's Reception, by Frater Achad. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591395.

THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Revival or the Ever-Coming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592022.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Revival or the Ever-Coming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592022.