Of Cosmogonic Eros
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Of Cosmogonic Eros

This monograph is dedicated entirely to an in-depth examination of the mysteries of Eros and the most powerful forms of ecstasy. Here Klages presents a pandaemonic vision of becoming which is inextricably linked to an Eros whose elemental power shatters everyday consciousness and mates the individual to the secrets of the cosmos.

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The Tarot of Leonora Carrington
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The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington is the first book dedicated to this important aspect of the artist’s work. It includes a full-size facsimile of her newly discovered Major Arcana

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The Art
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The Art

This is the third in the Geassa series of books, a compendium of techniques rooted in Traditional Witchcraft that combine ancient pagan, Hermetic and cunning folk teachings into a powerful system of practical magic. Detailed rituals, spells, and formulae are presented

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The Horns of the Moon
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The Horns of the Moon

So begins an enchantment drawing the Witch into realms seldom experienced by most people. Horns of the Moon is the second book in The Geassa trilogy, describing techniques in Traditional magical arts. Procedures designed to bring one in contact with other worlds not normally perceived, and with the beings who inhabit these

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The Willow Path
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The Willow Path

Deep in the New England forests a stone circle lays hidden, nestled in a clearing high atop a mountain of granite. Formed in the pattern of the many old stone walls which dot the region it is here that the Willow Path emerges from the land itself. In nature there exists an underlying current; a continuity of wisdom and consciousness that manifests in the Magical Arts.

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Eye of the Sun
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Eye of the Sun

Ancient Egypt has been the singular most important influence in the development of Western Magic as practiced today. Yet, few people understand the core teachings and techniques of this once great civilization. Now, more than twenty years after its original publication, this classic work on Egyptian Magic is being made available in a revised and expanded version that is more than double its original size and scope.

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Convolvulus and Other Poems
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Convolvulus and Other Poems

This is the long-awaited volume of collected poems by Kenneth Grant. Included here are two collections previously published as Black to Black and other poems (1963) and The Gull’s Beak and other poems (1970). Also included is a third collection, previously unpublished Convolvulus: Poems of Love and the Other Darkness.

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Against the Light
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Against the Light

Kenneth Grant began writing the novel in the mid 1980s. He developed it in order to explore, in a fictional setting, many of the themes of 'The Book of the Spider'.

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Snakewand & The Darker Strain
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Snakewand & The Darker Strain

This is the second volume in the series of novellas by Kenneth Grant. This volume consists of two stories, both of them concerning the voodoo Bultu, or Cult of the Spectral Hyanae.

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Gamaliel & Dance, Doll, Dance!
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Gamaliel & Dance, Doll, Dance!

The first, Gamaliel: The Diary of a Vampire, presents the history of a woman, Vilma, who attempts to invoke unseen Intelligences but takes a wrong turn. She loses her way in the Gamaliel, the Qliphoth of Yesod, and eventually succumbs to vampiric possession. The story unfolds as extracts from her Magical Diary, the editor of which makes a horrifying discovery as the Diary closes.

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The Other Child and Other Tales
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The Other Child and Other Tales

The first novella, The Other Child, is a tale of two brothers, one a Child of Light, the other of Darkness, and the struggle for a cataclysmic magical power which they each partially embody. A scholar of Ancient Egyptian studies is unwittingly drawn into the struggle, eventually assuming a priestly destiny as events unfold.

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Grist to Whose Mill?
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Grist to Whose Mill?

This is the rich and gripping first novel by Kenneth Grant. Written in late 1952 and early 1953, the typescript was thought lost for many years.

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At the Feet of the Guru
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At the Feet of the Guru

Collected for the first time as one volume, these penetrating essays on contemporary figures in Eastern Mysticism were written by Kenneth Grant from the early 1950s onwards.

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Remembering Aleister Crowley
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Remembering Aleister Crowley

Dedicated to the memory of David Curwen, this is Kenneth Grant’s memoir of his relations with Crowley, drawing on letters and diary entries. Grant first made contact with Crowley in 1944, first visiting him at the Bell Inn, Aston Clinton.

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The Ninth Arch
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The Ninth Arch

The Ninth Arch is the final volume of the Typhonian Trilogies. It comprises an extended analysis of and commentary upon “Liber OKBISh, The Book of the Spider”, a transmitted text which was received in the course of the Workings of New Isis Lodge in the 1950s.

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Beyond the Mauve Zone
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Beyond the Mauve Zone

Oblique to the paths that give on to other dimensions, and beyond them, there lies a region which the author has termed “the Mauve Zone”. Mystics, magicians, sorcerers, artists of many kinds have - over the centuries - skirted it, stumbled upon it, and fled from it.

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Outer Gateways
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Outer Gateways

The Typhonian Tradition discussed in this book matured and declined before even the monumental phase of the earliest civilizations. This is witnessed by fragments of magical and mystical lore once current in Egypt and the Far East. The Tradition lingered on and became corrupt with passing epochs and the gradual attrition of an ages-old lineage of Initiates.

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Hecate’s Fountain
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Hecate’s Fountain

Hecate’s Fountain is a highly original approach to contemporary Hermetic thought and experimental occultism. During the rituals of New Isis Lodge (1955-1962) it was noted that not all of them achieved the object for which they were performed.

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Outside the Circles of Time
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Outside the Circles of Time

Outside the Circles of Time explores a complex of such ideas, from Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, Crowley’s The Book of the Law, Lovecraft’s Necronomicon, and Frater Achad’s researches. It also explores the work of Soror Andahadna, a contemporary Priestess of Maat whose work has parallels with that of Frater Achad some decades previously when he announced the inauguration of the Aeon of Maat in April 1948.

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Nightside of Eden
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Nightside of Eden

There exists a map of consciousness, with its light and dark byways, in the form of a qabalistic glyph known as the Tree of Life. It has its roots in the primal earth of Eden, but its branches extend into extra-terrestrial dimensions.

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