A Rose Veiled in Black (Paperback)

Robert Fitzgerald

ISBN 10: 1945147288 / ISBN 13: 9781945147289

Published by Three Hands Press, 2025

Paperback. Aleister Crowley's magical philosophy of Thelema had a major transformative effect on modern occult studies, ushering in a new era of esoteric revelation for the twentieth century and beyond. Among Thelema's more enigmatic figures is the Lady Babalon, a manifold goddess embracing the powers of the Divine Harlot, Initiatrix, Creator and Destroyer. Her first appearance, however, was centuries earlier in the context of the anelic occult operations of Elizabethan Magus John Dee. 'A Rose Veiled in Black' is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary anthology of twelve essays and rituals of Babalon by scholars, practitioners, artists and researchers of Thelema. Exploring occult themes of sacrifice, magical liberation, prophecy, witchcraft, and abomination, it marks a watershed publication for the discourse on this important and previously neglected aspect of Thelemic Studies. The written works are enhanced by an offering of original and visionary art from contemporary practitioners, each exploring the magical arcana from a ritually embodied perspective. Authors include Erik Davis, Gordan Djurdjevic, Amodali Zain, Daniel A. Schulke and Manon Hedenborg-White, author of the influential Babalon study The Eloquent Blood (Oxford University Press, 2019). A cutting-edge anthology on the Thelemic goddess Babalon featuring the work of a dozen writers including Erik Davis, Manon Hedenborg, Richard Kaczynski, Amodali and Gordan Djurdjevic.--Publisher Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781945147289

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Aleister Crowley's magical philosophy of Thelema had a major transformative effect on modern occult studies, ushering in a new era of esoteric revelation for the twentieth century and beyond. Among Thelema's more enigmatic figures is the Lady Babalon, a manifold goddess embracing the powers of the Divine Harlot, Initiatrix, Creator and Destroyer. Her first appearance, however, was centuries earlier in the context of the anelic occult operations of Elizabethan Magus John Dee. 'A Rose Veiled in Black' is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary anthology of twelve essays and rituals of Babalon by scholars, practitioners, artists and researchers of Thelema. Exploring occult themes of sacrifice, magical liberation, prophecy, witchcraft, and abomination, it marks a watershed publication for the discourse on this important and previously neglected aspect of Thelemic Studies. The written works are enhanced by an offering of original and visionary art from contemporary practitioners, each exploring the magical arcana from a ritually embodied perspective. Authors include Erik Davis, Gordan Djurdjevic, Amodali Zain, Daniel A. Schulke and Manon Hedenborg-White, author of the influential Babalon study The Eloquent Blood (Oxford University Press, 2019).

About the Authors: Robert Fitzgerald is a native Californian, and a writer on subjects of Thelema, Magical Philosophy, and the work of Elizabethan magus John Dee. His previous work, A Gathering of Masks, concerned the esoteric intelligences of Aleister Crowley's work Liber 231, and was published in 2009. A Rose Veiled in Black is the first work he has co-edited for Three Hands Press.

Daniel A. Schulke is the author of a number of books on occult philosophy and esoteric herbalism, including Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft and the Poison Path. He is the editor of the journal Wyrd, and of the Western Esotericism in Context series for Three Hands Press.

Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Awarded an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Södertörn University (Sweden). She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores issues of gender and sexuality in modern Western esotericism, occultism, and new religious movements. She is the author of The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, 2019).

Erik Davis is the author of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Nomad Codes, and the cult classic Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Davis currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He writes the Substack publication Burning Shore and has completed a history of LSD blotter art for the MIT Press. Together with Daniel Schulke he is the editor of Daimon and Pharmakon (Three Hands Press, 2013).

Gordan Djurdjevic holds a PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor, with Henrik Bogdan, of the collection of critical essays Occultism in a Global Perspective; and the author of Masters of Magical Powers, and India and the Occult. Djurdjevic teaches as a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Rose Veiled in Black (Paperback)
Publisher: Three Hands Press
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new