Extensive pencil notes and quotes to front free endpaper and half-title, bookplate to front pastedown; sunning to section of cloth; jacket badly worn with loss.
Plates.
Provenance: Sir David Fleming (armorial bookplate).
£250
or The Voice of Osiris. Set down in the House of El Eros-El Erua, they being male-female, born according to the laws governing the Dhuman-Adamic race, this being their fourth incarnation
London, Rider & Co., [1925].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 16′-.
Hugh Clayton Randall-Stevens (b. 1896), a British esotericist who wrote as “El Eros” / “El Eros-El Erua” and later founded the Order of the Knights Templars of Aquarius. The text purports to be automatic writing and automatic drawings received over a period in 1925, dictated by the Egyptian deity Osiris – a cosmological narrative of the gods, the destruction of Atlantis and Lemuria, and the spiritual history of the “Dhuman-Adamic race.”
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