Lemuel Johnston: SSOTBME
£25.00Price
1979 96pp Nigel Grey-Turner trade paperback. Illustrated (Austin Osman Spare). VG+.
Or "Sex Secrets Of The Black Magicians Exposed!" An essay on magic, its foundations, development and place in modern life. Written by Ramsey Dukes and originally commissioned by Christopher McIntosh (author of Eliphas levi and the French Occult Revival) as an essay for a semi-academic collection of essays on comparative religion. That project never happened, but the material was expanded into a small book published by the author in 1974. The book was an immediate success with a new wave of practicing magicians in the UK, including Pete Carroll, Ray Sherwin and other members of what was to become the Chaos Magic movement.

