“A Practical Treatise on the Real Value of Crystal Gazing”. Missing pages 38-39, 46-47, 80-81. Page 50 partially obscured.
Crystal Gazing, Occult Philosophy, and Thelema. This archival document is a complete digitized monograph titled “Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing” by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones), published in 1923 by the Yogi Publication Society in Chicago. Achad structures the work into seven chapters that progress from elementary crystal scrying to high-level occult operations and Thelemic cosmology. He details physical and subtle procedures for purifying, consecrating, and initiating a crystal sphere; contrasts modern manufactured glass spheres with natural hexagonal quartz crystals; and examines historical and grimoire methods, including the planetary invocations of Abbot Trithemius of Spanheim (via Francis Barrett) and the Elizabethan Enochian operations of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelley. The text incorporates excerpts from Achad’s own magical journals as a Neophyte in Aleister Crowley’s A∴A․ (Frater O.M.), featuring astral visions of the 17th Æthyr, an Alchemical salt vision coinciding with the 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland, and commentary on Star Consciousness (Khabs) within Liber Legis.
