MixedBetter than foodish. 3.5 out of five coffees. Amazing author biography, like one of the best of all time. But the writing could have been stronger.
Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword (Oriflamme Series) (2001)
Others: Mixed Written around 1950, these essays are now, decades later, still strikingly prophetic. His introductory essays on Magick and Witchcraft are classics of lucidity. This volume makes available for the first time all of Parsons' surviving essays, edited by his wife and student, Cameron, in collaboration with Frater Superior Hymenaeus Beta, the head of the O.T.O.
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- 9781561841165
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- 96 pages
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