Occult & Esoterica
[GRANT, Kenneth] Outside the Circles of Time (Deluxe, Enhanced Edition, Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant)
[GRANT, Kenneth] Outside the Circles of Time (Deluxe, Enhanced Edition, Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant)
London: Starfire Publishing, 2008. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. First Enhanced Deluxe Edition of 111 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 59. SIGNED BY KENNETH & STEFFI GRANT. 320pp. Quarter bound in black leather over blue papered boards. Decorative color endpapers, frontispiece, and a section of twenty-six plates. Includes an attractive full-color dust-jacket designed by Steffi Grant. The book has been newly typeset, with some of the original illustrations now in color, and augmented with previously unpublished artwork by Steffi Grant. Color plate at end of volume shows the DJ covers of all 9 volumes in the Typhonian Trilogies. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy in like dust jacket and slipcase. Scarce.
Of the enhanced editions which were issued between 2008 and 2016 (Outside the Circles of Time was the first one to be published), only two were signed by both Kenneth and Steffi (Outside the Circles of Time and The Magical Revival). The rest were signed by Steffi only since Kenneth passed away in early 2011. This work covers an extremely wide area and exposes “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”. Such ideas covered range from Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, Crowley’s 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 1948.