Available now from www.tobew.com/SRBefore describing this item I will say that everything about it is AWESOME. From the cover and label artwork to the nice little touches in the presentation itself, this C.D. oozes class. It has been created with care and attention-to-detail and love (under will?) This item will appeal to serious collectors of Crowley and ritual magick because of it's scarcity. I've never seen it advertised anywhere else and with only 666 copies produced it's even rarer than King's original book (which had a print run of 4,000). It will also appeal to students of ritual magick (especially of Sex Magick; the book's theme) as many of the careless errors present in King's original book have been corrected. The presentation and page layout is also infinitely better than King's original book. It will also appeal to everyone in the above two catagories who would love to own a copy of King's book but who simply can't afford the £200 required to buy one. Finally, it appeals to the merely curious who would love to know what all the fuss is about but don't want to spend £200 to find out.The C.D. is in pristine condition. The original factory seal is still intact. It opens with a superb Flash Movie presentation (Very '2001 a Space Odyssey') giving lots of information about King's original book. The soundtrack to this is the spookiest (ritual type scenario) thing I've ever heard. (Watch out for the spinning 'O.T.O. New Media icon' in the top right corner of the screen: It's utterly hypnotic!)The C.D. itself is divided into Four sections:Section 1:Contains the complete text of Francis King's book 'The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.' but has been extensively updated to remove the -many- mistakes, errors, bad type-setting, syntax, grammatical and other annoying and careless bloopers that proliferate King's book. It also makes extensive use of font colours, bold, italics, etc., to clarify all sections of the text: Especially the rituals themselves, which were practically impossible to follow in King's original book. The C.D.s 'book' pages are rendered in HTML to simulate the look of sumptuous parchment pages, marbled boards and jewel-encrusted gold edgings. The presentation is accessed via the viewers default Internet Browser. Also included are:A fully searchable and zoomable PDF of this editionA fully searchable and zoomable PDF (printer friendly) editionHow to make your own McOTO - P. R. Koenig (1996) PDF. Section 4:Contains the same revised and updated version of the book as above. But rendered as Word Documents, which, as the cover-notes say: '...are ideal should the individual require a hard copy of the text'.Section 3:Contains a set of documents relating to the text of King's book. These include a list of suggested amendments and revisions, degree certificates and ritual notes. Plus copies of the C.Ds packaging artwork.Section 2:Contains three photo galleries of Crowley related stuff. There are several unpublished pictures in here, including one of Crowley and Leah Hirsig dining-out in Paris in 1924, and one of Crowley on his death bed. But, best of all... there are six new pictures of Leah Hirsig.One of these shows a very young looking Leah. In the second picture she is artistically posed, most likely in Crowleys apartment: circa 1918. A third shows her walking topless at the Abbey in Cefalu.Two others show an older (post-Cefalu) Leah posing, semi-naked, in a slightly tacky way and looking a bit rough! The last is a scan of a tasteful pencil sketch of Leah (again, naked): circa 1922, probably drawn by Augustus John.Let's be honest... these six photographs on their own are worth the price of the C.D.!All four sections are comprehensively linked. Navigation around them is made very easy by means of the well thought-out and simple menus and links. I don't know why O.T.O. have produced this C.D*. (Albeit it does say: 'Strictly for private circulation' on the cover), especially as they litigated so savagely against King's original publication. But it certainly blasts Francis King's book into the 21st Century with a bang and, as it's been produced in a deluxe, hand numbered edition, limited to 666 copies, it must be considered as an essential item on the wish-list of every collector of Crowley, O.T.O., or of sex magick rituals in general. It's certainly going to increase in value very quickly.

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