The Chalice of Ecstasy

About this book

A chalice holds more than wine in Frater Achad's esoteric imagination. It becomes an emblem of ecstatic consciousness and the quest to move beyond the familiar self.

Charles Stansfeld Jones, writing as Frater Achad, develops mystical ideas connected with Thelema, Qabalah and his own understanding of spiritual attainment. His symbolic arguments can be demanding, but they reveal the intensity of a thinker wrestling with an experience he believed ordinary language could scarcely contain. The book is a distinctive document of the Crowley-era occult world.