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From Pat Deveney's database:
Magickal Link, The. Approximately 113 issues appeared; issues beginning in
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| University of Texas, Austin; LOC; University of London, Warburg; Northwestern University. | |
| Magickal Link V1 N1 Jan 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N2 Feb 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N3 Mar 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N4 Apr 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N5 May 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N7 Jul 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N8 Aug 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N9 Sep 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N10 Oct 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N11 Dec 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V1 N12 Dec 1981 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N10 Oct 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N11 Nov 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N12 Dec 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N1 Jan 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N2 Feb 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N3 Mar 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N4 Apr 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N5 May 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N6 Jun 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N7 Jul 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N8 Aug 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V2 N9 Sep 1982 | |
| Magickal Link V3 N1 Jan 1983 | |
| Magickal Link V4 N11 Nov 1984 | |
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Magickal Link is a late, living document of the corpus's occult tail: the newsletter of the Ordo Templi Orientis in its early-1980s 'Caliphate' revival, written 'From the Caliph' -- Grady McMurtry, Aleister Crowley's designated heir to the American O.T.O. Where most of the IAPSOP holdings are Victorian and Edwardian, this is Thelema as a going concern two generations after Crowley: initiation, dues, deck-and-order business, and instruction all at once. Its content is unmistakably ceremonial and Thelemic -- the Book of the Law quoted by verse, the Tree of Life walked chakra by chakra, gematria worked against the Sepher Sephiroth and the 777 tables, and the Thoth Tarot read as a map of the psychic body rather than a fortune-telling device. It reads as practical magic for members: less exposition of doctrine than transmission of technique, wrapped in the wry, initiatory voice of a teacher addressing a working order. For the archive it marks the throughline from the nineteenth-century magical revival to the American occult counterculture of the late twentieth. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Ceremonial Magic and Thelema | Divination (Tarot, Cartomancy, and Numerology) |
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