(author of Thundersqeak, SSOTBME, Blast and other classics of Discordianism and Chaos Magick)
Is it ok for a national government to negotiate with terrorists? Should we be prepared to make a pact with the demon Terrorism - or should we remain forever sworn to the demon No Compromise? This is a book about demonolatry. It was never meant to be: it began as a cobbling together of all my essays and stuff written in the last twelve years. But it turned out to have a pretty consistent theme. A theme that begins with Crowley's ‘Aeon of Horus’ and the new, Thelemic morality. From that viewpoint demonic pacts are re appraised: are they not a negotiation with the demonic, as opposed to sworn allegiance? Many old and new demons lurk on these pages: black magic, sexism, elitism, satanism, publishers, prejudice, suicide, liberalism, violence, slime, old age, bitterness, war and the New Age. These demons hold keys to power and wisdom. They are prepared to negotiate. Are you? What they said about his last volume of essays
He appears more than ever a combination of Robert Anton Wilson and Tommy Cooper... The Peter Pan of the British occult scene, and long may he go on diverting us. Paul Geheimnis, Chaos International No 15
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'‘You can find the Immortals exploring the hidden delights of enchanted fairy grottoes, flower gardens, pine forests and pleasant autumn lakes. They walk on clouds, they sit in shady valleys enjoying the swirling mists and rest in the heart of the living midnight. You can meet them in the centre of yourself once you become empty enough. And you can meet them out here, walking in the world, disguised as mortals.’
In this book you will find a study of the divination system known widely as the I Ching, but here he presents it with all its magick intact and in a totally unique way. This leads naturally to an examination of the techniques of Taoist meditation and finally to a look at the divine entities that lie behind the system - the Immortals.
Anyone who has read Jan Fries's inspiring books - Helrunar, Visual Magick and especially Seidways: Shaking, Swaying and Serpent Mysteries, cannot have failed to notice that some of the magical techniques of the east and of the Taoist tradition are very close to his heart. Even when Jan is writing about the inner mysteries of the European Pagan and Celtic tradition, it soon becomes obvious that his eye is roving elsewhere and that he cannot resist inserting a nugget of comparative material that cast the lamp of the spirit to illuminate the magick. In this book Jan gives full reign to his Taoist heart - following three threads to their magical source.
220pp 1869928-504 £10.99/$19.99 illustrated
Some books are written to be read repeatedly. Much of Kenneth Grant's previous writings fall into this category, they require endurance, a keen memory and a subtle sense of humour. More so, they thrive on weaving strands of associations, on reading between the lines and on recognising the interplay of book, reader and the world manifesting around the two. With Against the Light, things do look somewhat different. Unlike most of Mr. Grant's books, this nightside narrative appears in the guise of a novel, but it might as well be classed as poetry. None of its contents pretends to be factual, and none needs to be taken seriously. this might put off serious students of the occult (they never die out do they?) believing that novels are only soft amusement to be enjoyed after a tough day struggling with scientific gematria. Appearances can be deceptive. Against the Light is a highly practical work for those who dare to enter a web of darksome intricacies, or who enjoy a mind-stimulating surrealistic kaleidoscope as their bedside reading. Its a books that breathes the morbid splendour of the swampland, the realm where firm ground and yielding morass alternate and the nature of the dreaming depends on the will of each reader. Its representation as a novel offers the author a great amount of freedom to shape the world subjectively, and to cast a spell of fascination. Unlike those books dealing with facts, the new Kenneth Grant novel provides direct access to a number of dream-gates, and as the work pertains to the magick and enchantment of the nightside, these gates are open to all who can tune in to the fascinating convolutions of the non-linear.
Set in South Wales during several periods of this century, the witchwoods of South England of the past, in the crowded, sunlit streets of London before the war and in the hidden temple of New Isis Lodge, all times and spaces come to merge in the network of tunnels and inner spaces that stretch between mind and memory, and lead in an irresistible flow beyong the outer gateways that comprise the limits of our thinking, This is none of the usual occult novels which have saintly adepts holding monologues of awesome depth and dullness, nor is it a story, a history in the common sense of the word. Having said this, I still can't tell you what its all about. It could have a dozen plots or none at all, could convey a dozen magical formulae and still perplex the mind of those who search for them. In these realms, as is typical for the nightside, consciousness dances along the labyrinthine pathways of the transpersonal and what emerges in the end is basically the portrait of each reader. Are you ready for utterly unusual perspectives? Enjoy the cornucopia of subjectivity and apply its secrets to the making of your own magickal universe. This may sound over the top, but having devoured the book twice and looking forward to the third reading I can only recommend that you set out to discover its hidden pleasures for yourself. - Jan Fries
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Aleister Crowley, otherwise known as the Beast 666, shared membership of the Golden Dawn with W.B. Yeats, and publishers with D.H. Lawrence. Now in a beyond-the-grave autobiography, he recounts his own vocation, his practice of sex magic, and his bruising encounters with his contemporaries.
The great magus, whose own world-conquering creed, The Book of the Law, was written in Cairo in 1904, was according to him, no murderer, but a prophet and practitioner of all kinds of sexual freedom and new magical systems.
The Wickedest Man in the World? Or Post-Christian Messiah? Read this book and judge for yourself.
Snoo Wilson is a writer and playwright who presented an apologia for Aleister Crowley in the TV series ‘Without Walls’. His previous novels are Spaceache and Inside Babel (Chatto). His play, More Light, about the heretic Giordano Bruno, is published by Mandrake of Oxford.
'. . . really good fun. Its not very kind to old Crow, and the language is a bit more vulgar than required (or than he would have used), but on the other hand. . . it does produce a charming caricature of Ye Great Beast that serves to perpetuate the myth. ...Dear 666 would have felt flatttered... What I liked about the book, part from its jokes and the invaluable occult illustrations, is the contrast between Crowley as a human being (and egomaniac) and the Master Therion, the perfect ego-less adept he would have liked to be . . . Its the difference as between a Thelemite and a follower of Crowleyanity. Symonds Great Beast was almost totally obsessed with the Demon Crowley, Wilson's novel is better balanced , it mixes the ego tripper with the Logos of the Aeon. This produces some confusion, and maybe this confusion is close to the conflicts that the real AC experienced. I suspect that he often got muddles up as to who was who in him and who cares, and put on his Great Magus Hat whenever his ego felt threatened and misunderstood. Considering that so many people are involved in the dull cult of Crowleyanity, and spend their time trying to be like the guru or wasting money collecting the master's underpants, a critical treatment of the person Crowley, such as you dared to inflict on the long-suffering public, is an excellent and much need magickal gesture.' - Jan Fries
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