Occult & Esoterica
[ACHER, Frater; SLEE, Craig; FRATER U∴D∴] Goetic Atavisms (Deluxe Edition)
[ACHER, Frater; SLEE, Craig; FRATER U∴D∴] Goetic Atavisms (Deluxe Edition)
Hardcover. Quarto. 270pp. Deluxe edition limited to 72 hand-numbered copies. Bound in full black leather with large red-stamped design to front and back covers. Marbled endpapers, text printed in black and red, page marker ribbon. Illustrated throughout in coor and b&w. Laid-in are three decals. All housed in a sturdy red cloth slipcase stamped with titles in black ink. A hole on each side of slipcase which allows partial view of the cover design (as issued). Some light wear to marbled endpapers (see photos). Otherwise a fine copy in like slipcase.
Written in mutual exchange between practitioners Frater Acher and Craig Slee, two radical views and explorations of applied goêteia emerge. This tête-bêche book can be read from both sides; behind one cover containing the chapters by Acher, behind the other those by Craig Slee, and where they meet in the middle a preface by Frater U∴D∴.
In their own unique voices, the authors draw the reader in and call on them to bring goêteia to life in their own flesh. Over twelve chapters, packed with historic detail and practical experimentations, the reader is guided to take a fresh look at such diverse bodies of goêtic work as Zosimos of Panopolis, Germanic and Old Iranian folklore, Goethe’s Faust and the Earth Spirit, Austin Osman Spare’s œuvre, as well as modern forms of corporeality such as pornography, tattoo culture, and bodily disability. Goêtic Atavisms was written not only to be a sensual experience, but to facilitate magical touch.