Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond: Volume 1
Authored by: Peter Hamilton-Giles
Published by: Atramentous Press
The topic of ritual space is something that many of us are involved with, we may feel entrenched, or that we have succumbed to unspoken forces, we may on the other hand use it to express belonging while at the same time propitiating our sense of Otherness, and yet dynamics informing how we apprehend ritual space have for the most part gone unnoticed. Especially within the occult and esoteric world the notion of ritual space continues to be largely overlooked, assumed, or taken for granted, without there ever being a mention of it as a viable interface for encouraging contact with the unknown.
The first volume in what will be a short series of explorative conversations details the work of Edmund Husserl’s On the Phenomenology of Consciousness of Internal Time. However, this is not an in-depth examination of Husserl’s work but rather a conversation about how we come to apprehend ritual space by being conscious of internal time. Husserl is therefore used as a guide, as a partner to walk with, so that we might dance through shadows toward realms that have yet to make themselves known to us.
As something of an extrapolation, the book suggests the crooked path is an endemic reality. Regardless of designation, as intersubjective beings we position ourselves in relation to objects, space and time despite heritage or truth. In what might be considered a heretic turn, the first volume in The Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond contends that we are all in our own way members of the crooked path, that the notion of eclectics and truth are integrally based around how we sustain existence by comprehending prevalent disconnections.
For my part, I consider this to express a fundamental principle of sorcerous practice because the path is not set but twists and turns according to our current fascinations. In a sense, the Crooked Path distorts the known and thereby preferences internal dimensions of time that have no true physical equivalent. Unbound and unblemished by the known, Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond requests a reset on how to establish a point of communication through understanding.
This work is particularly helpful for those currently involved in the Black Dragon Series and the Baron Citadel series of volumes. But understand this, in no way is this open discussion designed to foreclose on other possibilities and expressions, instead the book intends to expose our comprehension of matter and anti-matter and all that dwells between and beyond by debating the extent of our consciousness of time.
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Standard Edition
Original Price: £65
Copies Printed: Limited to 333 copies.
Physical Description
Other Physical Details: Comes with a printed cover of artifacts found amongst the author’s ritual space.
Binding
Binding: Head and tail bands and book ribbon.
Special Standard Edition
Original Price: £75
Physical Description
Other Physical Details: Comes with a tip in photo of an initiatory Draku-Exu as used during ritual ceremonies in the Dragon’s Column with Andrew D. Chumbley. The icon is an original carving of a Yoruban Èṣù in its initiatory phase and dates to the early to mid 1900s, though it could be older than this. It’s inclusion in the Ritual Space book is due to it encapsulating the principle of the crooked path in how it has been appropriated and partially reassigned by applying retentive modifications of a crooked nature.
Binding
Binding: Midnight blue buckram cover with gold foiling to front, spine and rear of cover.
Deluxe Edition
Original Price: £450
Physical Description
Other Physical Details: Signed by author.
Binding
Binding: Swathed in midnight blue goat leather, foil blocked with original design not seen on the other editions. Gold foil blocking will be on front, spine and rear of cover. Head and Tail bands, book ribbon, with marbled endpapers. Comes in a slipcase.
