Occult & Esoterica
[HAMILTON-GILES, Peter] Codex Ad Limina: Hallowing the Broken Ground (Deluxe Edition of 40 Copies, with Icon Cards)
[HAMILTON-GILES, Peter] Codex Ad Limina: Hallowing the Broken Ground (Deluxe Edition of 40 Copies, with Icon Cards)
Illustrations by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles
[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2023. Deluxe Edition, limited to 40 copies. SIGNED by Peter Hamilton-Giles. Two colour foil blocking to front and back of cover on black goat leather. Foil blocking to inside and rear page borders, marbled endpapers, head and tail bands. Paper stock: Munken Smooth. Gold foil blocked edging to book block. As with previous volumes the deluxe book is encased by a solander box which is made to look like a book. The solander box has quarter Moroccan goat leather with gold foil block edging, wooden slatted and strengthened spine over which the goat leather is placed. Includes Codex Icons, a set of illustrated cards from drawings in the book. A fine copy in like solander box.
Codex Ad Limina concentrates on the first of the totem that falls under the auspices of the sinistral horn. Primarily the book discusses the return to the threshold, which if you recall the sorcerer retreated from in the previous Volume 2. And while there is a brief mention of a return in Volume 2 it does flesh out the sorcerer’s relationship to the totem.
The Black Bull is seen as emerging from the telluric domain, and embodies the strength required to undergo the initiation of the sorcerer. The book describes the interrelationship between the two and does so in such a way that the sorcerer begins to understand the role of becoming detached has when undergoing an initiation.