A Rose Veiled in Black: Art and Arcana of Our Lady Babalon

Aleister Crowley's magical philosophy of Thelema had a major transformative effect on modern occult studies, ushering in a new era of esoteric revelation for the twentieth century and beyond. Among Thelema's more enigmatic figures is the Lady Babalon, a manifold goddess embracing the powers of the Divine Harlot, Initiatrix, Creator and Destroyer. Her first appearance, however, was centuries earlier in the context of the anelic occult operations of Elizabethan Magus John Dee. 'A Rose Veiled ...