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Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
By Psyche | June 25, 2008
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While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword contains the bulk of published writing, but a new book has been released by Teitan Press, titled Three Essays on Freedom, which contains a new essay not published previously.
From the book’s description:
In addition to being a loyal devotee of Crowley’s creed of Thelema, a pioneering rocket scientist, and enthusiastic bohemian, Jack Parsons was also a staunch libertarian. He vehemently opposed racism, the suppression of women, religious intolerance, sexual repression and anything else that diminished the rights of the individual. This book comprises three essays by Parsons: the never-before published “Freedom is a Lonely Star,” his better known work “Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword” (previously published only in softcover) and a short piece entitled “Doing Your Will” (previously published only in a limited-circulation journal).
This edition will be limited to 418 copies.
Also released by Teitan Press is a new work compiled by Frederick Hockley with the lengthy title of: A Complete Book of Magic Science Containing the Method of Constraining and Exorcising Spirits to Appearance, the Consecration of Magic Circles, and the Form of a Bond of Spirits Transcribed from an Ancient Manuscript Grimoire. (Whew!)
The book is described as recently discovered:
Until this printing, the grimoire has existed only in manuscript form apparently derived from an ancient Latin manuscript, said to date from 1519. The work is clearly related to the book known as The Secret Grimoire of Turiel, although it is lengthier and contains much additional material. Occult scholar Frederick Hockley (1809-1885) made several manuscript copies of the original (which has since been lost) in the 1830s or 1840s. One of Hockleys manuscript copies, complete with beautiful color drawings of the sigils, magical circles etc., was recently discovered, and it is from this Hockley manuscript, that the Teitan Press edition has been prepared.
This first edition will be limited to 450 numbered copies.
Both titles are available from Weiser Antiquarian where the books are described in greater detail. I’ve already placed my order.
Via Weiser Antiquarian’s newsletter.
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