Recent Occult additions Lux Mentis, Booksellers gain conventional employment were thwarted due to the widespread racism of the period. As a result, he Lux Mentis specializes in fine press, fine bindings, and played on his ‘exoticism’ in England as a self- esoterica in all areas, books that have been treasured and promotional tool – for example, claiming to have will continue to be treasured. As a primary focus is the been born in Egypt so as to enhance his reputation building and/or deaccessioning of private collections, our as a purveyor of esoteric wisdom. He was a familiar selections is diverse and constantly evolving. If we do not face on the 1930s Bohemian literary scene, counting have what you are seeking, please contact us and we will strive to find it. All items are subject to prior sale. Dennis Wheatley and Aleister Crowley amongst his Shipping and handling is calculated on a per order basis. friends, but struggled to provide a comfortable living Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding terms and/or for himself and his family, compelling him, on with any questions or concerns. occasion, to seek dubious forms of income. Ahmed was the author of two books - The Black Art (1936), a history of occultism and magic, and I Rise: The New Occult Material Life Story of a Negro (1937), an eloquent semi- 1. Ahmed, Rollo [Abdul Said Ahmed]; introduction autobiographical novel that moves from Guyana to by Dennis Wheatley. The Black Art. London: Liverpool to London, vividly portraying the struggles Jarrold's Publishers, [1968]. [First (New) Edition]. of a Black man in the 'mother country.'" Josiffe, Tight, bright, and unmarred. Discoloration on page Christopher (2014) British Voodoo: the Black art of 171 and foxing on edges, minimal bumping, Rollo Ahmed. Fortean Times (316-7). Originally exceptionally clean otherwise. Remarkable published in 1936, the Black Art is a comprehensive, dustjacket, unclipped, in protective mylar. Bound in biographical, and self-reflective history of black purple cloth with gold titling. Octavo. 320pp. with magic. Ahmed spends time re-telling the history of index. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. magic, the application and investigation of magic Hardcover. (#10425) $175.00 from a multi-cultural perspective. He also gives a dire warning about the glamour and lure of Relatively marginalized and unattributed Black practicing black magic, calling it 'fatalistic' and occultist and yoga instructor, originally from 'empty.' However, he was more apt than Wheatley to Guyana (Caribbean) and England. "Rollo Ahmed author a book on this topic (said by Wheatley), as he was a Guyanan national, born Abdul Said Ahmed c. was privy to ethnographic exposure having lived in 1898. He emigrated to England in the inter-war the West Indies and other 'non-Westernized' period, initially to work as a theatrical performer countries. His views are his own, and the description and latterly perform as a narrative rather than scholarly as a investigation. Supposedly, Ahmed's life experiences herbalist, were character sketches for many of Wheatley horror Yoga novels. Overall, a silenced voice in occult history, teacher, often underrecognized and shadowed during the time author, of early 20th century Occult Revival. lecturer and occultist. 2. Bessy, Maurice; Margaret Crosland and Alan Like other Daventry [translators]. A Pictorial History of Magic Black and the Supernatural. New York, NY: American immigrants, Heritage Press, 1970 [1964]. First [English] Edition, Ahmed’s Sixth Impression. Slight sunning, light shelf/edge attempts to Lux Mentis, Booksellers - LuxMentis.com - [email protected] Recent Occult additions wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth moved on to a reform college in household boards, white lettering to spine, white pentagram management in the Harz region of Germany at motif to front board, 4to, 318pp. Illus. Very Good. Reifenstein. At the age of 21, she entered Newnham No Dustjacket. Hardcover. (#10380) $30.00 College for Women in the University of Cambridge. A collection of illustrations and photographs After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge describing magic and supernatural occurrences [the Schröder Professor of German] and in 1936 throughout history. became a professor at the University of Manchester. Her works include a trilogy on ritual magic and the 3. Blavatsky, Helena. Studies in Occultism. occult, especially in the Faust legend (1948–1952). Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1980. The third volume of Butler's trilogy on historical First Edition. Tight, clean, and unmarred. Bound in ritual magic, and said to relate to many of Crowley's tan cloth with blue metallic titling. Small 8vo. ideas who she consulted with on the finer points. 212pp. Lacking dust jacket. Very Good+, no DJ. One of the early women occult scholars along with Hardcover. (#10352) $45.00 Margarat Murray. These articles originally appeared in "Lucifer" 5. Butler, Eliza Marian [E.M.]. The Myth of the between the years of 1887-1891. As defined by Magus. New York: Macmillan, 1948. First US Madame Blavatsky, occultism meant altruism, pure Edition. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and simple - the divine wisdom or hidden theosophy and unmarred. Black publisher's cloth, gilt to spine. within all religions. This collection contains: 8vo. 281pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Very Good. No Practical Occultism; Occultism versus the Occult Dustjacket.. Cloth. (#10360) $45.00 Arts; The Blessings of Publicity; Hypnotism; Black Magic in Science; The Signs of the Times; Psychic Eliza Butler, or Elsie (1885-1959) as she was more and Noetic Action; Kosmic Mind; The Dual Aspect generally known, was born in Bardsea, Lancashire, of Wisdom; The Esoteric Character of the Gospels; into an old Irish family. She learnt German initially Astral Bodies or Doppelgangers; and Constitution of from her Norwegian governess, and was sent at the the Inner Man age of 11 to a private school in Hanover. From there, at the age of 15, she went on to a college in Paris for 4. Butler, Eliza Marian [E.M.]. The Fortunes of British, American and French girls and, at 18, Faust. Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1952. First moved on to a reform college in household Edition. Minor shelf/edge wear, sunned, else tight, management in the Harz region of Germany at Reifenstein. At the age of 21, she entered Newnham bright, and unmarred. Dark blue publisher's cloth, gilt to spine. 8vo. 365pp. Illus. (b/w plates).Two full College for Women in the University of Cambridge. page plates, including the frontispiece, and eight After working in hospitals, she taught at Cambridge figures en texte. Indexed. Very Good. No Dustjacket. [the Schröder Professor of German] and in 1936 Cloth. (#10366) $45.00 became a professor at the University of Manchester. Her works include a trilogy on ritual magic and the Eliza Butler, or Elsie (1885-1959) as she was more occult, especially in the Faust legend (1948–1952). generally known, was born in Bardsea, Lancashire, This literary historical study explores the lives and into an old Irish family. She learnt German initially mythologies of many mystics and magicians history from her Norwegian governess, and was sent at the and literature including Madame Blavatsky, Gilles age of 11 to a private school in Hanover. From there, de Rais, Solomon, Christ, Rasputin, Zoroaster, at the age of 15, she went on to a college in Paris for Merlin, Simon Magus, Faust, etc. She traces the British, American and French girls and, at 18, development of magick with pre-Christian religious Lux Mentis, Booksellers - LuxMentis.com - [email protected] Recent Occult additions and mystic philosophers, in medieval sorcerers and Reuben Swinburne Clymer (November 25, 1878 - alchemists, through the eighteenth- and nineteenth- June 3, 1966) was an American occultist and modern century occult revival. One of the early women Rosicrucian Grand Supreme Master of the FRC occult scholars along with Margarat Murray. (Fraternitas Rosae Crucis), perhaps the oldest continuing Rosicrucian organization in the 6. Clymer, Dr. R(euben) Swinburne; Pascal Beverly Americas. He practiced alternative medicine, and Randolph. The Rose Cross Order; A short sketch wrote and published works on it as well as (his of the History of the Rose Cross Order in version of) the teachings of Paschal Beverly America, together with a sketch of the life of Dr. Randolph (1825-1875), alchemy, nutrition, religion, P. B. Randolph, the Founder of the Order. Also a sex magic and spiritualism. In either 1900 or 1904, short history of his persecutions and prosecutions, Clymer got into publishing with his Philosophical which resulted in giving him greater freedom Publishing Company, which he used to keep Paschal than he had before, and which trial proved that Beverly Randolph's books in print well into the 20th the things of which he had been accused were century. Clymer was deeply influenced by Randolph, absolutely false. History Repeats Itself. Allentown, of whom he created a hagiographic story of PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., [1916]. [First Randolph, using correspondence, court litigation Edition]. Bruised and feathered wear to extremities transcriptions and mentions in surrounding press and corners, endpapers and boards mildly cracked, and other correspondence (i.e. Annie Besant). but sound, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Few Regardless of the "accuracy" of Clymer's narratives spots to boards, small upper tear on p. 32, pen mark and primary source citations, Randolph's life is so to p. 205, staining to p.110, exceptionally clean marginalized by occult scholarship, it isn't until otherwise. Original blind stamped brown cloth with Deveney's biography and the work of the Joscelyn gilt title and author to spine and gilt "TRY" device to Godwin do we have much reference to the research upper board. Octavo. 208pp + 24pp "Catalog of and writings of an important Black American figure Rosicrucian and Soul Science and Success Books" at so intrinsic with occult teachings and alternative rear.