New PDF release: To Perfect This Feast: A Performance Commentary on the

By James Wasserman,Nancy Wasserman,Aleister Crowley

ISBN-10: 0971887039

ISBN-13: 9780971887039

ISBN-10: 0971887071

ISBN-13: 9780971887077

Aleister Crowley wrote the Gnostic Mass in 1913. He defined it because the primary ritual, private and non-private, of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). it's a mythic hymn to the marriage of medical fact and non secular aspiration; the celebrant is inspired to depart superstition and dogma on the door and take part an ecstatic tribute to the wonderful nature of fact. The Gnostic Mass deals a very sleek spirituality and it really is being played regularly in the course of the civilized world. 

The authors—both longtime O.T.O. participants and consecrated bishops of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholicae (EGC)—share among them over part a century of training the Mass. Their passionate devotion to the ceremony used to be rewarded in 2006 with a major, long-sought perception into the complicated geometry of the ritual. In 2009, they released their study within the first variation of this ebook. in accordance with a continual sequence of understandings, a good extra exact moment version used to be created in 2010. This 3rd and ultimate version solves last subtleties within the choreography of the 5 officials and the final end of the rite. 

The specific directions offered the following not just give you the lacking functionality keys to the geometrical puzzle of the Mass, yet provide a window into the broader workings of magical ritual.  

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