The Book of Archai (Lords): On the Light of All-Things and No-Thing; With On Creation, Channeling, and the Watchers
McMurtry-Cornelius-Johnson Publications, 2025. First Edition. Limited Edition of 210 copies, of which this is number 74. Signed by Christopher Reed Johnson on the copyright page. Octavo, 366 pages, publisher's original, white-lettered black cloth covered boards. Profusely illustrated throughout in full color. *The Book of Archai (Lords)* by J. Edward “Jerry” Cornelius, with Christopher Reed Johnson’s essay “On Creation, Channeling, and the Watchers,” presents a remarkable body of early Thelemic and esoteric material drawn from Cornelius’s intensely productive notebooks of 1969–1976. During these years Cornelius produced more than twenty-five notebooks filled with visionary writings, tables, diagrams, symbolic studies, and occult drawings while developing his highly personal interpretation of Aleister Crowley’s sacred formula of ON and the magical currents of the New Aeon. The volume centers on a 200-page pictorial work, *The Book of Archai*, supplemented by 76 additional drawings selected from Cornelius’s surviving notebooks. Johnson’s accompanying study places this material within a broader framework of Thelema, Gnosticism, Qabalah, creation, channeling, the Watchers, sacred number, spiritual transformation, and the relationship between material and divine forces. Richly illustrated and deeply rooted in modern occultism, the book offers unusual insight into Cornelius’s evolving magical thought and will be of particular interest to collectors and students of Aleister Crowley, Thelema, ceremonial magic, Western esotericism, Gnosticism, Qabalah, and contemporary occult literature. In fine conditiion. Item #576
Price: $140.00