In keeping with Hoffman’s idiosyncratic and deeply personal style, this is a rich and dense book which violently leaps from one seemingly unrelated(though again, only apparently so, a fact of appearance which cannot be emphasized enough) topic to another(from quantum physics and cryptozoology to demonic numerology and theology) in an exploration both constituted by and overlaid with a frenetic, psychedelic, and darkly cryptic language that yields in the reader the following effect: that of a disorientating, psychically-fragmenting descent into an Escherian spiral, whose curves and unfoldings trace the occult pathway to a madness-inducing relevation concerning the hidden nature of reality and the universe itself.
Yet, in spite of these intricate abstractions(and the admittedly obtuse over-intellectualism and esotericism that one may expect t0 naturally accompany it), the book never loses sight of the key thread that weaves together all of Hoffman’s work: the thorough and painstaking exposé of an occult, world-ruling cabal which Hoffman refers to as the ‘Cryptocracy’(and which countless others have referred t0 as the ‘Illuminati’, ‘New World Order’, or any other term which now comprises a legendary appellation among the conspiracy theory canon), a cabal whose domination rapidly bends towards the arrival 0f an apocalyptic, post-human future; however, in this crucial; regard, it appears as if Hoffman does not necessarily consider the intentionality 0f the occult Cryptoctracy’s efforts(that is, whether or not it deliberately aims to bring about this grim future, a duality in regards to which both Hoffman and I would certainly fall on the former side of the equati0n) to be nearly as significant as the fact that the ideology which it propagates(and which constitutes it), carries such a future as its logical conclusion.
4/5 stars.