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Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs
Available NEW from GatesPastBooks - Fulgur Limited, 2006. Limited to 777 copies (This copy out of series). A New, Unread copy, in Dust Jacket. Enclosed in Publishers Paper slipcase.. The Isis Edition/Limited. Cloth. New/New. Illus. by Steffi Grant, Austin Osman Spare. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
70 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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Kenneth Grant
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Kenneth Grant was the head of several important Thelemic orders and author of the influential “Typhonian Trilogies” series (1972–2002) that includes The Magical Revival, Nightside of Eden and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.
In 1939, Kenneth Grant chanced upon Crowley’s Magick in Theory and Practice and a few years later began a correspondence with the author (see Remembering Aleister Crowley, Skoob Books, 1991) that would lead to him joining the Ordo Templi Orientis. In 1946, he was initiated into the Argentum Astrum and was confirmed as an IX° in the O.T.O.
Shortly after Crowley’s death in 1947 Grant met David Curwen. Also member of the O.T.O. Sovereign Sanctuary, a keen alchemist and a student of tantra, Curwen initiated Grant into “a highly recondite formula of the tantric vama marg.” This experience further deepened Grant’s interest in oriental mysticism and he detailed his work with the Advaita Vedanta in a number of essays for Asian journals in the early 1950s (later published as At the Feet of the Guru, Starfire, 2006).
In 1948, Kenneth Grant’s wife Steffi (they were married in 1946) wrote to Austin Osman Spare and the couple began an eight-year friendship with the artist. The bookseller Michael Houghton had already introduced Grant to Spare’s opus, The Book of Pleasure, and Spare elucidated his theories with letters and enclosures of manuscripts, with Kenneth acting as amanuensis. In 1954, Spare and Grant co-founded the Zos Kia Cultus: not a cult in the objective sense, but a designation given to the creative nexus of personal magical experience (see Zos Speaks!, Fulgur, 1999).
In the same year Grant founded the New Isis Lodge, with the intention of providing a conduit for “the influx of cosmic energy from a transplutonic power-zone known to initiates as Nu-Isis.” The group ran until 1962 and various accounts of the experiences of the group may be found throughout the “Typhonian Trilogies”.
Coetaneous with the New Isis Lodge, Kenneth and Steffi Grant began work on the Carfax Monographs. This series of ten essays was issued between 1959 and 1963 with the explicit intention to “elucidate the hidden lore of the West according to canons preserved in various esoteric orders and movements of recent times.” It was the beginning of a unique 50 year contribution to Thelemic literature and art that spans poetry, biographical works, fact and fiction.
Copyright © Robert Ansell, 2007
http://www.fulgur.co.uk/authors/grant/
Kenneth Grant was the head of several important Thelemic orders and author of the influential “Typhonian Trilogies” series (1972–2002) that includes The Magical Revival, Nightside of Eden and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.
In 1939, Kenneth Grant chanced upon Crowley’s Magick in Theory and Practice and a few years later began a correspondence with the author (see Remembering Aleister Crowley, Skoob Books, 1991) that would lead to him joining the Ordo Templi Orientis. In 1946, he was initiated into the Argentum Astrum and was confirmed as an IX° in the O.T.O.
Shortly after Crowley’s death in 1947 Grant met David Curwen. Also member of the O.T.O. Sovereign Sanctuary, a keen alchemist and a student of tantra, Curwen initiated Grant into “a highly recondite formula of the tantric vama marg.” This experience further deepened Grant’s interest in oriental mysticism and he detailed his work with the Advaita Vedanta in a number of essays for Asian journals in the early 1950s (later published as At the Feet of the Guru, Starfire, 2006).
In 1948, Kenneth Grant’s wife Steffi (they were married in 1946) wrote to Austin Osman Spare and the couple began an eight-year friendship with the artist. The bookseller Michael Houghton had already introduced Grant to Spare’s opus, The Book of Pleasure, and Spare elucidated his theories with letters and enclosures of manuscripts, with Kenneth acting as amanuensis. In 1954, Spare and Grant co-founded the Zos Kia Cultus: not a cult in the objective sense, but a designation given to the creative nexus of personal magical experience (see Zos Speaks!, Fulgur, 1999).
In the same year Grant founded the New Isis Lodge, with the intention of providing a conduit for “the influx of cosmic energy from a transplutonic power-zone known to initiates as Nu-Isis.” The group ran until 1962 and various accounts of the experiences of the group may be found throughout the “Typhonian Trilogies”.
Coetaneous with the New Isis Lodge, Kenneth and Steffi Grant began work on the Carfax Monographs. This series of ten essays was issued between 1959 and 1963 with the explicit intention to “elucidate the hidden lore of the West according to canons preserved in various esoteric orders and movements of recent times.” It was the beginning of a unique 50 year contribution to Thelemic literature and art that spans poetry, biographical works, fact and fiction.
Copyright © Robert Ansell, 2007
http://www.fulgur.co.uk/authors/grant/
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May 9, 2013
This book was originally published in 1988 as "Hidden Lore: The Carfax Monographs," a collection of instructional monographs originally written for the Nu Isis Lodge by the late Kenneth Grant in the 1950s, and illustrated by his able wife, Stephanie. This edition is a more complete expansion of that book, a wonderful and concise overview of important concepts in Grant's Typhonian Magick Corpus. It is an absolutely beautiful edition, worth seeking out and keeping-- Not only will the student find Mr. Grant's monographs straightforward and easy to understand, but Ms. Grant's illustrations often communicate a great number of otherwise uncommunicated truths on the subjects being addressed that will be revealed for those who meditate upon them. It is one of the most lucid and direct books ever written by Mr. Grant, and will be instructive to Ceremonial Magicians of all traditions, not merely those within Mr. Grant's Typhonian Order.
January 23, 2022
Beautiful New Edition by Fulger Press. This edition has slightly larger formatting than found in the previous editions known under the names Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs and Hidden Lore: The Carfax Monographs. This really allows for Steffi Grants sketches to shine. Each piece of art is accompanied by a short essay written by either Steffi or Kenneth Grant.
This material was originally created by the couple during the 1950s so the work revolves around their early interests in The Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Austin Spare, and Tantra. Love Steffi Grant's work and it was nice getting a peek into her's and Kenneth's early years before they really took off.
This material was originally created by the couple during the 1950s so the work revolves around their early interests in The Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Austin Spare, and Tantra. Love Steffi Grant's work and it was nice getting a peek into her's and Kenneth's early years before they really took off.
May 31, 2019
Interesting, though rather nebulous - I don't really know much more about Kabbalah after reading it than before. Was put off by a couple of references to 'Adam's first wife Lillith' - Adam was not married and didn't have two 'wives' - do some research on where the Lillith idea comes from, as it is not in the Torah.
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