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Crowley assumed the mask of the Beast 666 to frighten away the shy, the reticent, the cowardly. Lovecraft has warned us against these dark mysteries in the most dramatic terms. The Enemy, the Other, the Adversary, He who inhabits the undiscovered territory which must be charted and mapped by any who wish to consider themselves worthy explorers of the psyche. What else would the reader expect from that Dark Lord who inhabits the most primal and hidden depths of the unconscious? The Lord of the Shadow Realm, whose very existence has been hysterically lambasted as an evil aberration, who has been conceived as blasphemous and terrifying since people first sat around campfires near the openings to their caves, whose devotees have ever been feared and hunted. THIS IS A WORK OF HERESY, a book meant to challenge. I am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than I.Ģ7. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.Ģ3. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore.ġ8. Now shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of the Spirit, the Lord of Creation. Printed in the United States of A mericaĬhapter Five: SONS OF GOD, DAUGHTERS OF MENġ7. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Nicolas-Hays, Inc. Rosaleen Norton artworks copyright © Walter Glover.Ĭover painting reproduced by kind permission.Īll rights reserved. The reader may expect to be introduced to Yoga and Buddhism, Gnosticism, And he plumbs the depths of Lovecraft's fears. Levenda explores the roots of the beliefs and doctrines Crowley utilized to develop his system. Lovecraft, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Charles Stansfeld Jones (âFrater Achadâ), Grant formulated a system of magic that expanded upon that delineated in the rituals of the OTO: a system that included elements of Tantra, of Voudon, and in particular that of the Schlangekraft recension of the Necronomicon, all woven together in a dark tapestry of power and illumination.Īuthor Peter Levenda posits a mystic alliance between the thematic content of Lovecraft's fiction and the magical writings of the primary exponent of the Law of Thelema, Aleister Crowley.
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Using complementary texts from such disparate authors as H. One of the least understood manifestations of Thelemic thought may be found in the works of Kenneth Grant, the British occultist and one-time intimate of Aleister Crowley, who discovered a hidden world within the primary source materials of Crowley's Aeon of Horus. Traveling through the worlds of religion, literature, and the occult, Peter Levenda takes his readers on a deeply fascinating exploration on magic, evil, and The Dark Lord as he investigates of one of the most neglected theses in the history of modern occultism: the nature of the Typhonian Current and its relationship to Aleister Crowley's Thelema and H.P. It is for Thelemites, as well as lovers of the Lovecraft Mythos in all its forms, and for those who find the rituals of classical ceremonial magic inadequate for the New Aeon. Lovecraft, and the Necronomicon, uncovering further meanings of the concepts of the famous writers of the Left Hand Path. The Dark Lord follows the themes in the writings of Kenneth Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Charles Stansfeld Jones ("Frater Achad"), Grant formulated a system of magic that expanded upon that delineated in the rituals of the OTO: a system that included elements of Tantra, of Voudon, and in particular that of the Schlangekraft recension of the Necronomicon, all woven together in a dark tapestry of power and illumination. Using complementary texts from such disparate authors as H.P.
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One of the most famous - yet least understood - manifestations of Thelemic thought has been the works of Kenneth Grant, the British occultist and one-time intimate of Aleister Crowley, who discovered a hidden world within the primary source materials of Crowley's Aeon of Horus.