THE RITUALS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE GOLDEN ARROW

The NFP has just issued the first English translation of Maria de Naglowska's rituals and magical writings. This volume contains the original ideas of The Sophiale as well as some hints at the lesser known practices (like Pho-wa) engaged in by the Brotherhood.

The blurb reads,

Here are the rituals and magical instructions written by Maria de Naglowska from 1930 through 1936 for her Brotherhood of La Fleche d'Or. Her experiments with sensory deprivation, drug induced ecstasy and sado-magick are well known. Her regular appearances at the coffee houses of Montparnasse regularly drew the surrealists from Andre Breton to Max Ernst. She spent her afternoons in a chapel in Notre Dame Cathedral, meditating on the secret magic of the Third Term of the Trinity which had been divulged to her by masters in the Third Order. In St. Petersburg, Russia; Alexandria, Egypt; and Vatican City in Rome, the Sophiale had been led through a series of initiations. The Order was variously known as The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor under Max Theon, The Brotherhood of Eulis under P.B. Randolph in Boston and, led by Maria, The Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow in Paris.

For any sex magician who doesn't read Italian and French, this book is a must! Maria's extended essay, The Mystery of the Hanging, is the seminal work on the subject to be placed next to Crowley's IX OTO Unveiling of the Sangraal and De Arte Magica, Randolph's Magia Sexualis; and The Cosmic Revue of Max Theon.

The book is available through Lulu, Amazon, etc and, of course, at the New Flesh Bookstore.