Qutub
The Point
There is a stream of initiatic power which flows through the Body of Gnosis, moulding the Image of the Adept, casting the Shadow-form of the Great Opposer. Here its path is traced, from the Yatukih Sorcery of Ancient Persia, through the Yezidic Cult of Shaitan and the widdershins dance of the Sufi, to its present-day recension within the arcana of the Sabbatic Tradition. Defining the focus of the Magical Current of the Opposer, Qutub reflects the Design, a web of interconnection through which the Current manifests. The book unfolds as an evocatory poem of 72 verses which articulate the transmutative process of the Crooked Path. Eleven talismanic illustrations combine to express the telesmata of the Way; a commentary demonstrates in microcosm the Macrocosmic Pattern of the Design; the Rite of the Opposer reveals the Gateway to the Path through the Flesh.
The book was first published by Fulgur for Xoanon Publishing at Midsummer, 1995
1st Ed - Standard edition
Midnight-blue boards and gold-printed dust wrapper, 78 pages, limited to 500 copies.
Original Price £12
1st Ed - Deluxe edition
Midnight blue boards with black quarter morocco, midnight blue wrapper and slip-case; limited to 36 copies. Each copy was signed by the author and accompanied by a numbered hand-drawn talisman.
Original Price £30
1st Ed - Special edition
Full black morocco, gilt edged pages, and midnight-blue slip-case. Each copy signed by the author and accompanied by a hand-drawn talisman. Limited to 5 copies for private distribution.
2nd Ed - Standard edition
Hardbound in black cloth with blue endpapers limited to 700 copies.
Original Price £38
2nd Ed - Deluxe edition
Hardbound in midnight-blue morocco, slipcased and bearing on its face a cipher of the Wisdom of the Opposer, limited to 72 copies.
Original Price £90
Photograph of Qutub: 1st Edition Deluxe © Thompson Rare Books.
