Illustrated Liber AL

[Manuel Herrera]

In the illustrations section of The Ninth Arch there are some paintings of an illustrated Liber AL by Steffi Grant. Does someone have more info about this?

Thank you!

[Michael Staley]

Steffi Grant wrote the text of The Book of the Law in calligraphy, and illustrated with watercolour and pen & ink drawings. The whole thing runs to 44 pages, and was done in the early to mid 1940s - one of the pages has a maginal note dated August 1944. Whilst staying at Netherwood in March to May 1945, Kenneth Grant wrote to Steffi almost every day, and some of the references in a few of the letters suggest that he had the calligraphic manuscript with him at Netherwood.

Writing to a correspondent in 1991 about Frieda Harriss, Grant remarked:

Shortly after I was married, Gerald Yorke brought Frieda to our flat to see my wife's work,
especially an illuminated ms of the Book of the Law, which sent Frieda into raptures. She
was a great hearted person; even Crowley found her hard going at times, as his diary entries
show during the period of their collaboration on Thoth.

The whole of the manuscript has been photographed to a high resolution, and the whole work will be published, though no date has yet been set for it.

[Manuel Herrera]

Thank you so much Michael!

I will wait for the publication and I am pretty sure that people will get crazy for purchasing after available!

[Michael Staley]

The whole thing runs to 44 pages

My mistake. I've just checked the photographs, and it runs to 33 pages, not 44.

[Manuel Herrera]

Jan 18, 2018 11:24:13 GMT Michael Staley said:

The whole thing runs to 44 pages

My mistake. I've just checked the photographs, and it runs to 33 pages, not 44.

The idea of you checking on the pages is making me twist of envy 😂

Thank you Michael I really hope to see this title soon in the Starfire list.