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From: "Joseph Max.555" <maxx@slip.net>
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Subject: Re: Aurum Solis
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:58:17 -0700
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Josh Norton wrote:

> Maat Magick originates from a one-page manifesto that Frater Achad (Charles
> Stansfield Jones) issued shortly after Aleister Crowley's death...

<snip>

> ...inspired Maggie [aka Nema] to write several more papers giving more
> details about that Aeon and the magickal symbol-system that invokes it.
> These were all collected in _The Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial
> Magick_, Vol. 1 no. 5. (This issue is extremely rare now.)
>
> Maggie has put together a book about it recently, [_Maat Magick_] which
> accounts for the spate of interest. I don't know if these original
> documents are included in it.

As Maggie puts it, she had to "tone down" the original manuscripts
considerably, and leave out some of the more intense rituals -- I'd love
to see the one she called "The Feast of the Hive"!

Even in it's "softcore" version, Llewellyn rejected her manuscript.
Figures.

- J:.M:.555