Edited with an Introduction by Martin P. Starr. Foreword by Soror Grimaud (Helen Parsons Smith) A collection of Aleister Crowley's writings on occult medicine, particularly on Amrita, ‘the central Secret of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).’ Contents. A. M. R. I. T. A. ; The Elixir of Life: Our Magical Medicine; The Elixir of Life (I); The Elixir of Life (II); The Order of the Purifications on Waking; Remarkable Experiment with the Elixir of Life; AMRITA; Additional Cases; IT; On Food. Kings Beach CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 60pp. Limited edition of 1000 copies. No dust jacket as issued. Original purple cloth, gilt decoration to front, gilt lettering to spine, purple endpapers, colour frontispiece by Daniel Gunther, the upper boards is quite faded along the top edge, spine faded, a few other light marks to the cloth, offsetting to endpapers, a slight scent of incense to the paper, small Temple Press sticker to the rear pastedown, text clean. Overall, a very good copy.