The Anatomy of the Body of God,: Being the supreme revelation of cosmic consciousness, explained and depicted in graphic form

by Frater Achad, Will Ransom (Illustrator)

Being the Supreme Revelation of Cosmic Consciousness explained and depicted in graphic form with designs showing the formation, multiplication, and projection of the Stone of the Wise.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Mythology, Thelema

111 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (1886-1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to A∴A∴ (the 20th to be admitted as a Probationer, in December 1909) who "claimed" the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He also became an O.T.O. initiate, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia. He worked under a variety of mottos and mantonyms, including V.I.O. (Unus in Omnibus, "One in All," as an A∴A∴ Probationer), O.I.V.V.I.O., V.I.O.O.I.V., Parzival (as an Adeptus Minor and O.T.O. Ninth Degree), and Tantalus Leucocephalus (as Tenth Degree O.T.O.), but he is best known under his Neophyte motto Achad (Hebrew "unity", אחד), which he used as a byline in his various published writings.

Reviews

[Jeff]

Dizzying interpretation of the 'Tree of Life', the primary structure of Qabalist belief. Geometry, numerancy, symbology... whooee! Conservative assigning of three stars, because it does take a leap of faith to embrace what's offered here. But then, as the book says, ultimately, all stars are the same.

[さやか むらさと]

I take it as a personal insult that someone dared attempt to explain the shape of gee oh dee without as much as mentioning Fibonacci or Higgs boson.

[ekari]

i am NYAT educated enough on this to have understood half of it but i liked it regardless—got me thinking a lot

[C]

Originally read a bad print on demand edition. This was better this time. Still lots to come back to but gave me a lot of food for thought.

[Bryan]

great book on qbl

One of the great books on qbl, an absolute classic next to the cube of space: the container of creation