Deluxe edition limited to 13 copies only.
Leather cover with foil blocking to front, marbled endpapers, head and tail bands, slipcase.
A6 prayer book to transport/carry with ease. Black buckram, gold foil blocking to front.
Signed by author.
Accompanying Liber Eximo Carnem, a small prayer book is presented to those who wish to walk into the grave of their own unmaking. The small book provides meditative proses and supplication and is to be used during the time in which the initiatory phase is taking place.
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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.