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First published in 1975 by Samuel Weiser, New York, this is the SCARCE SECOND EDITION, the Australian reissue, published in 1990, with a NEW EDITORIAL (ix-xiii) with a "Rogue's Gallery", where "we continue our policy naming those people who claim to represent Thelema without proper Authority". Title page full title: "The Commentaries of AL: Being The Equinox Volume V No. 1 - Second Edition - An LXXXVII Sol in 0 0' 0" Libra - September 23, 1990 e.v. 6h 57m". Includes the introduction to the first edition by Marcelo Ramos Motta. Second edition stated. Illustrated with two full-page colour plates following the introduction. Also includes facsimile of the original manuscript of Liber AL. Full Table of Contents as follows: Editorial, Introduction, The Title, The First Chapter, The Second Chapter, The Third Chapter, The Comment, (then) Appendices with Liber HAD, Liber NV, The Mass of the Phoenix, Liber Artemis Iota, Liber OZ, The O.T.O. Manifesto, One Star in Sight, Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of Liber AL, plus index. From inner dustjacket flap: "The Commentaries of AL has as its core LIBER AL vel LEGIS (The Book of the Law), a Book communicated in 1904 e.v. through Aleister Crowley. It is more than mere literature; it has been described as: 'The foundation of public and private morality for the next thousand years.' In The Commentaries of AL, the text of LIBER AL vel LEGIS (printed here in boldface) and the initiated annotations of both Aleister Crowley and Marcelo Motta were presented together for the first time. Crowley's Commentary (here printed in roman type) was, for the most part, written in the 1920's (e.v.). This has been edited by Marcelo Motta, who removed material that was, in the opinion of the Master of the Temple, magickally worthless. To this Mr. Motta has added his own extensive Commentary (here printed in italic, to distinguish from the work of Aleister Crowley). During his life Marcelo Ramos Motta contributed significantly to Thelemic Literature with his illuminating and modern Commentaries to the Works of Aleister Crowley. Modern students of Thelema have profited greatly from his published Annotations. The Commentaries of AL is his first work of this kind, originally published in 1975 e.v. It has been out of print for over a decade and has, until now, been extremely hard to obtain". Bound in original purple cloth with bright gilt lettering & symbol to front board & spine, grey endpapers, in publisher's original unclipped white dustjacket with gold lettering & design. Slight handling wear, dustjacket with mild wear, trivial marks & two small closed tears which have been tape-repaired from the inside, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear Bro-dart cover. xxii + 456pp + 2pp ads. RARE.
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