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‘Mutabor’ by Frater Acher
Frater Acher leads us through a series of exercises to allow us to realise that “human flesh” is far broader than we might at first think, and that in fact, the medium of magic is “spirit contact”. Then he makes the extremely valid point that while a human may be performing a ritual for a particular purpose “the eyes of the Others, however, are not fixated on the ostensible human message but on the establishment of a new channel in the ubiquitous medium.”
‘The Tarot of Marsilio’ by Christophe Poncet
Card by card, Poncet meticulously takes us through the process by which he recovered the iconographic provenance of each card’s imagery based upon primary artistic materials, close observation of fine detail, and comparative historical and textual research. Poncet performs a virtuoso exercise in iconographic connoisseurship to create an evidential chain that convincingly explains the origins of the Tarot de Marseille tradition.
‘Arriton’ by Ayis Lertas
The powerful agitation this book achieves has been a primary revelation; the pain of recognition, then non-recognition is a firm strike of the disciplinarian’s rod to let these figures speak for themselves. The journey this book invites its readers to embark upon is certainly not of universal appeal. Yet, for those intrigued by the power of visual culture and willing enough to surrender to the taciturn spirits Lertas has conjured into these images, a profound pilgrimage awaits.
‘Betwixt God and the Devil’ by Richard Ward
Betwixt God and the Devil writer, Richard Ward, is certainly bewitched by the narrative spell of the muse throughout this book, fashioning a wonderful arch that elucidates the history of magic and witchcraft in the English county of Essex. Indeed, as the subtitle suggests, the book’s contents delve recommendably deep into Essex folk magic from the sixteenth century to the present day.
‘IO Typhon’ by Harper Feist
From within its pages beats the vibrant presence of the encounters from which this book was born. This typhonic pulse is as unmistakable in Harper Feist’s book as it is in the works of Austin Osman Spare, Andrew Chumbley, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, or Gast Bouschet. IO Typhon is a donkey’s skull your thoughts feed with blood while reading.
‘IO Typhon’ by Harper Feist
IO TYPHON is an exemplary literary and theurgical text; a striking and original expression of contemporary esoteric thought and praxis that unfolds in eight distinctive movements. Its combination of subject (the draconian current) and context (that of ritual invocation) provides compelling subject matter.
