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Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.<br />

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.<br />

This e-text of <strong>Book</strong> 4 <strong>Part</strong> <strong>II</strong> was key-entered in June 2004, primarily from the 1998<br />

printing of the Samuel Weiser edition of <strong>Book</strong> 4 (parts I & <strong>II</strong>); this was in turn a<br />

facsimile of the 1969 Sangreal edition, with “An Interlude” and some paragraphs at<br />

the end of chapters V<strong>II</strong>I and X<strong>II</strong>I which had been omitted through editorial carelessness<br />

or stupidity, restored (earlier Weiser printings only restored the “Interlude”).<br />

Examination of typography and comparison with some photographs of pages from<br />

the first edition found on the Web (www.666books.com) suggest that the Sangreal<br />

edition, while repaginated from the first edition, was nevertheless a cut and past<br />

facsimile, putting two pages of the first edition on each page (the “Interlude” was reset<br />

when it was restored). Layout, pagination and style have been generally<br />

conformed to the first edition, based on this and on the marginal page numbers given<br />

in the 1994 Weiser “Blue Brick” edition of <strong>Magick</strong>: <strong>Book</strong> 4 parts I-IV (the main<br />

exception is that use of ligatures—æ, œ, etc.— has been made consistent throughout).<br />

The text was further checked against the version printed in the latter volume, which<br />

incorporated changes from the first edition errata slip and corrects some misquotations.<br />

A further misquotation from Liber 418 (on p. 105) has been corrected. Transliteration<br />

of technical Yoga terms, &c., follows Crowley’s use in the first edition. The cover has<br />

been reconstructed based on the photograph of the first edition mentioned above.<br />

The subtitle of <strong>Part</strong> <strong>II</strong> was originally printed as simply “<strong>Magick</strong>” but this was<br />

corrected to “<strong>Magick</strong> (Theory)” in the errata slip; this reading has been followed,<br />

although it was later referred to as “Magical Theory” (in the Blue Equinox) and<br />

“<strong>Magick</strong> (Elementary Theory)” (in <strong>Magick</strong> in Theory and Practice, presumably to more<br />

clearly distinguish it from that volume which was <strong>Part</strong> <strong>II</strong>I of <strong>Book</strong> 4).<br />

Most figures have been scanned from the Weiser edition of parts I-<strong>II</strong>; some scans<br />

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