Editorial Reviews

The Ordo Templi Astartes (O.T.A.) follows its premier issue of The Seventh Ray (Book I, The Blue Ray ) with Book II, "The Red Ray," a 112 page, trade-quality book format, bound in red-printed parchment board covers with ivory interior stock. The journal is illustrated with many line drawings and a full color plate. This issue features The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita by Arthur Machen, a forgotten classic of Alchemical allegory; both humorous and profound. Newly illustrated exclusively for The Seventh Ray by occult artist Bob Cuneo. Next comes My Star Ruby by Frater IDOMME (Hal von Hofe, Ph.D.) a tribute to Aleister Crowley. In this article the author declares his version of the solution to the mysterious RPSTOVAL cypher in Liber Al, Chapter II, Verse 76; of special interest for Thelemic students. This is followed by New Tarot Trumps For An Eleven Sphere Tree of Life by Frater Thabion , which presents a new 25 Path System inspired by The Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript. This radical design provides a Path across the Abyss With Three New Tarot Cards in full color. Then we have The Enochian Watchtowers, An Analysis of the Documentation and Mathematics by Dana Ramsey A new decipherment of the Number Code (Gematria) hidden in Dee and Kelley s original Enochian Tablets; of particular interest to students of Enochiana. Return of the Dragon Lords by Frater Thabion is a dark descent into the depths of the Collective Unconscious to uncover the ancient alien presence behind our conceptions of demonology. The issue also features: A Priestess of Hygiea- by Frederick McLaren Adams, Pagan Afterlife; Reflections on the Ring of Nestor by Lady Svetlana of Feraferia, Adamson's Quest, Chapter Ten by Poke Runyon, The Melting Eye by Michael Johnson . . . In the Humor Department: Secrets of the World's Worst Writers (the Technique of Arthur Edward Waite), Nazi Bimbos and the Sword of Siegfried (the plot to re-activate Hitler's brain!) and The Seventh Ray's --C.H.S. Publications

Product details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Church of the Hermetic Sciences; 1st edition (February 15, 2000)

• Language ‏ : ‎ English

• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965488160

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965488167

• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces