Occult & Esoterica
[GRANT, Kenneth] The Magical Revival (Deluxe, Enhanced Edition, Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant)
[GRANT, Kenneth] The Magical Revival (Deluxe, Enhanced Edition, Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant)
London: Starfire Publishing, 2010. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. First Enhanced Deluxe Edition of 119 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 79. SIGNED BY KENNETH & STEFFI GRANT. 264pp. Quarter bound in black leather over marbled boards. Pictorial endpapers, frontispiece. With color and b&w plate section. Color dust jacket designed by Steffi Grant. This enhanced edition integrates the errata of the 1993 Skoob reprint within the text, and includes a new frontispiece and two new plates, as well as presenting many of the plates in color for the first time. 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 provides a detailed analysis of certain occult traditions which existed long before the Christian epoch, survived its persecutions and anathemas, and reappeared in recent times with renewed vigor. The continuity of this magical current as reflected in the work of Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Dion Fortune and others is here traced through the Tantrik Tradition of the Far East, the Sumerian Cult of Shaitan and the Draconian, Sabian, or Typhonian rites of the 'dark' dynasties of ancient Egypt.