Okay, brace yourselves.

The Sacred Magician: A Ceremonial Diary is a firsthand account of a six-month Abramelin operation. This was the demanding ritual intended to contact the Holy Guardian Angel and subdue the demonic forces of the self. Written under the pseudonym Georges Chevalier, this diary documents the discipline, monotony, hallucination, failure and breakthrough of actually attempting the working rather than merely theorising about it.

Originally issued by Paladin in 1976, this first paperback edition sits in the lineage of Crowley’s The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, but swaps grandstanding for boredom, obsession, hunger, and the strange bureaucracy of the occult. It’s as much psychological record as magical text, and one of the few sustained diaries of the ritual ever published.

Weird! Love it. Reminds me of Joe Mellen's 'Bore Hole'. Priced because first edition Paladin occult paperback, v. desirable. (Still a bargain)