Kenneth Grant
Outside the Circles of Time
Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis
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Kenneth Grant Outside the Circles of Time Starfire Publishing Ltd 2007 starfire.books@btinternet.com or by post from: Starfire Publishing Ltd BCM Starfire London WC1N 3XX United Kingdom |
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Starfire Publishing Ltd announces with great pleasure the forthcoming republication in Spring 2007 of Kenneth Grant’s Outside the Circles of Time. First published in 1980 by Frederick Muller Ltd, it has long been out of print and highly sought-after, consequently commanding high prices on the second-hand market.
The fifth volume in the series of Grant’s Typhonian Trilogies, this is a work that covers an extremely wide area and exposes [ to quote from the cover of the 1980 edition ] “a network more complex than was ever imagined: a network not unlike H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision of sinister forces lurking at the rim of the universe”. The book is most famous, perhaps, for showcasing the work of Soror Andahadna, a contemporary Priestess of Maat whose work had parallels with that of Frater Achad many decades previously. Some Thelemites have problems with the Aeon of Maat. As far as they are concerned, each Aeon lasts 2,000 years; we are at the beginnings of the Aeon of Horus, so Maat is a way off yet. They may have little hesitation therefore in echoing Crowley’s famous retort to the young Grant when pressed: “Maat can wait!”Outside the Circles of Time puts the matter in a much more interesting light: But the book is about much more than the Aeon of Maat. It is a potent weaving of a host of apparently diverse strands into a single, broad and powerful current. Though Grant’s volumes in the series have each a unique flavour, Outside the Circles of Time seemed to herald a jump into a different dimension. To close this pre-publication notice, the following paragraphs are taken from the Introduction to Outside the Circles of Time. They convey the direction and flavour of this profound book: It is well known that scientists and mathematicians have evolved a cryptic language, a language so elusive, so fugitive, and yet so essentially cosmic that it forms an almost qabalistic mode of communication, often misinterpreted by its own initiates! Our position is not quite as desperate, for we are dealing primarily with the body-mind complex in its relation to the universe, and the body-aspect is deeply rooted in the soil of sentiency. Our minds may not understand, but in the deeper layers of subconsciousness where humanity shares a common bed, there is instant recognition. Similarly, a magician devises his ceremony in harmony with the forces he wills to invoke, so an author must pay considerable attention to the creation of an atmosphere that is suitable for his operations. Words are his magical instruments, and their vibrations must not produce a merely arbitrary noise, but an elaborate symphony of tonal reverberations that trigger a series of increasingly profound echoes in the consciousness of his readers. One cannot over-emphasize or over-estimate the importance of this subtle form of alchemy, for it is in the nuances, and not necessarily in the rational meanings of the words and numbers employed, that the magick resides. Furthermore, it is very often in the suggestion of certain words not used, yet indicated or employed by other words having no direct relation to them, that produce the most precise definitions. The edifice of a reality-construct may sometimes be reared only by an architecture of absence, whereby the real building is at one and the same time revealed and concealed by an alien structure haunted by probabilities. These are legion, and it is the creative faculty of the reader - awake and active - that can people the house with souls. So then, this book may mean many things to many readers, and different things to all; but to none can it mean nothing at all, for the house is constructed in such a manner that no echo can be lost. Further details of this and all other publications from Starfire Publishing Ltd can be obtained from this email address: starfire.books@btinternet.com or by post from: Starfire Publishing Ltd BCM Starfire London WC1N 3XX United Kingdom Back to the main page about the Typhonian O.T.O. O.T.O. Phenomenon navigation page | main page | mail What's New on the O.T.O. Phenomenon site?
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