"Book Zero" through the Years: The First Two Editions of Peter Carroll's Liber Null.

This paper presents an analysis of the first two editions of Peter Carroll's Liber Null (1978, 1981). Along with Ray Sherwin's The Book of Results (1979, 1980, 1981), they shape the earliest corpus of chaos magic literature. Often overlooked due to their rarity and the availability of the mainstream...

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Publicado en:Aries Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 25 - 56
Autor principal: Meletiadis, Vasileios M.
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2025
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