Deluxe edition limited to 20 copies only. The deluxe consists of two-colour foil blocking to casement on front and rear, and single foil blocking to ribbed spine, with leather label insert. The deluxe is dressed in green goat leather, has a book ribbon, and head and tail bands. This edition's endpapers are marbled as found in the previous Codex Althaeban Malik. Comes in a solander box with quarter Moroccan leather and marbled exterior. Included with each deluxe is a unique and original piece of artwork by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles.
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Codex Ad Limina marks a further expansion of themes addressed in Volume 2 of Book of the Black Dragon. In this volume the author delves into the role the Black Bull has as a totem for the sinistral horn daemon emissary. His role as an afflicted form in shadow brings the sorcerer to the point of his/her initiation into the Olde Companie of Cunning Folke. Not only does the Codex interpret the language being used for substantiating the relationship between the sorcerer and the Black Bull, but it follows this by guiding the reader through relevant ritual workings that prepare the practitioner for his/her eventual immersion.
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Before Aleister Crowley, before Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s, 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
The comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, he described the minor suits in detail, and he provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.