(h)Aurorae
Authored by: Gabriel McCaughry (CEO of Anathema Publishing Ltd.)
Published by: Anathema Publishing
(h)Auroræ is Gabriel McCaughry’s first published manuscript – a tome which correlates directly with Anathema Publishing’s mandate, along with his unique views and methodologies on alchemical book-making. This is very much a continuation in the spirit of his previous contributions to the PILLARS occult periodical (and elsewhere), but within (h)Auroræ, these concepts are fully developed and actualized. (h)Auroræ, is somewhat of an invitation for the attentive reader to explore, ponder, and puzzle over; it offers the fundamental keys and processes of Alchemical Self-Transmutation – still all too relevant today as a tool for developing mental individuation and spiritual apotheosis. Within (h)Auroræ, the Great Work seeks to describe mystical observations that are beyond mundane rationale, and certainly beyond the scope of common language and thought-patterns. However, since the Hólon is the Ineffable, absolutely indescribable, the text can only try to suggest nuances to the esoteric dialogue of the devoted pilgrim treading the Perennial Path of Return.
There is an interplay of polysemic thoughts and counter-intuitive terminologies explored in Gabriel’s writing, which shines brightest in the questions it raises, rather than the answers the mind tries to grasp (or wishes to impose upon the reader). (h)Auroræ is thus a vehicle meant to inspire, to help embrace the many alchemical nodes of transformation, and to calcine the whole experience into the reader’s very own crucible.
“This alchemical treatise walks us through a startling expression of emotive gnosis… (h)Auroræ seeks beyond and above the all-too-human condition in order to understand it, and advance it vis-à-vis a sensual Sophianic psychology, witnessed in cogitation. Mind in tandem with vision, incorporates a veiled process of subtle Jungian analysis leading to a Grail quest, of intent to remove the blindfold from the Holy Fool… A work of pilgrimage, conjunction and apotheosis, it directs the reader through pause, anticipation and intake. Sometimes rapturous, sometimes ponderous.”
—Shani Oates, Afterword, (h)Auroræ
“[(h)Auroræ is] a supreme work of Beauty, in every sense of that aesthetic. A sublime work of Arte, in every sense of that metaphysic. In short, a meditational treatise of transformative alchemy of – and for – the Soul.”
—Shani Oates
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Paperback Edition
Publication date: 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-989339-18-3
Original price: £24/CA$40/US$30
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Preface by: Denis Poisson (of the Foolish Fish YouTube channel)
Afterword by: Shani Oates
Physical description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5 inches.
Page Count: 320 pages.
Illustrative content: Thoroughly illustrated throughout. Full-Colour interior, with fully illustrated Endpapers.
Binding
Binding: German Binding. Velvet Matte (Scuff Free) finish + Red Metallic Foil stamped on cover and backcover.
Paper: printed on Rolland Opaque White 160M archive-quality paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Standard Edition
Publication date: 2018.
ISBN: 978-0-9949111-5-5
Original price: £53/CA$90
Copies printed: Limited to 553 copies (sold out)
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Physical description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5 inches.
Page Count: 304 pages.
Illustrative content: Thoroughly illustrated throughout. Colour interior, with fully illustrated Endpapers.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts, Tele Legatoria ‘Bronze’ bookbinding Cloth from Italy. Gold foil blocking on rounded spine and on the cover.
Paper: Printed on Cougar Natural 160M archive-quality paper. Individually hand-numbered.
Typography: Fine typography.
Collector’s Edition
Publication date/ copyright date: 2018.
ISBN: 978-0-9949111-5-5
Original price: £89/CA$150
Copies printed: Limited to 154 copies (sold out)
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Physical description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5 inches.
Page Count: 304 pages.
Illustrative content: Thoroughly illustrated throughout, Colour interior, with fully illustrated Endpapers.
Other physical details: Individually hand-numbered. Signed by the author.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts. Eurobound Black Flanders (bonded leather). Gold foil blocking on rounded spine and on the cover, plus blind-deboss on the cover.
Paper: Printed on Cougar Natural 160M archive-quality paper.
Typography: Fine typography.
Artisanal Edition
Publication date/ copyright date: 2018
ISBN: 978-0-9949111-5-5
Original price: £353/CA$599
Copies printed: Strictly limited to 15 copies (sold out).
Contributors
Illustrated by: José Gabriel Alegría Saboga
Physical description
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5 inches.
Page Count: 304 pages.
Illustrative content: Colour interior, with fully illustrated Endpapers. Interior shall feature handmade endpapers, in addition to those used within the standard hardcover edition.
Other physical details: Signed and glyphed by the author.
Binding
Binding: Hardbound 100pts, Three-Quarter-bound in genuine Black Galuchat Ray rawhide, and genuine white cow leather. Gold foil blocking on the cover, and blind-deboss on the back-cover.
Paper: Printed on Cougar Natural 160M archive-quality paper. Individually hand-numbered.
Typography: Fine typography,
Content note
Accompanying material: Featured one talismanic card. Each Talismanic Card have been hand-drawn and glyphed by artist Jose Gabriel Alegria Sabogal, and signed by author Gabriel McCaughry, fumigated and consecrated with a home-made incense blend of Daemonorops Draco Resin, Sandalwood, Abramelin’s Incense Blend, Myrrh, Pu’erh Black Tea, and Pure Virgin Olive Oil.
