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[GRANT, Kenneth] Hecate’s Fountain (Deluxe Limited Edition of 111 Copies SIGNED by Steffi Grant)
[GRANT, Kenneth] Hecate’s Fountain (Deluxe Limited Edition of 111 Copies SIGNED by Steffi Grant)
London: Starfire Publishing, 2014. Enhanced and Corrected Edition. (first published in 1992). Deluxe edition limited to 111 copies, this being No. 12, SIGNED by Steffi Grant. Hardcover. Octavo. Quarter leather over marbled boards with dust jacket and housed in a slipcase. 297 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. The book has been republished in a fresh typesetting, incorporating corrections made by the author in his own copy of the book. The plates have been rephotographed where possible, and some of the original artwork is now presented in color.
Hecate's Fountain is a highly original approach to contemporary Hermetic thought and experimental occultism. During the rituals of New Isis Lodge (1955-1962) it was noted that not all of them achieved the object for which they were performed. The exceptions had curious and often alarming side-effects which the author calls 'tangential tantra'. It was discovered that these anomalies effected a rapproachment with highly-charged dimensions existing between the realms of dreaming and dreamless sleep. This catalytic interface Grant calls the Mauve Zone. The weird nature of these phenomena suggested parallels with H.P. Lovecraft's Cycle of Myths extrapolated in the fabulous Necronomicon, and its affinity with Mauve Zone magick is here meticulously explored. Many years of research then led to an interpretation, in terms of this magick, of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law. Also explored are seemingly related phenomena in the work of another contemporary, Michael Bertiaux (there are many excerpts from Bertiaux’s hard-to-find course writings), whose independent discoveries show evidence of traffic with alien beings of Intelligence and Power. Crowley saw contact with such entities as “the only chance for mankind to advance as a whole”. The Magical Workings of New Isis Lodge have opened the gates to an influx of influences from Outside that will radically alter the direction of experimental occultism.