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REASONANCES
By Carl Abrahamsson
Scarlet Imprint, 2014. Hardback, 163
pages. New. The Mercurial edition, 530 hand
numbered copies bound in a mandarin cloth.
List Price: $74.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Essays, lectures and interviews by
Occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson, who has deep links with TOPY,
Genesis P-Orridge, Anton LeVey’s Satanism and the counter-cultural
strand of contemporary magic.
Reasonances is a collection of essays
of Swedish occultist and artist Carl Abrahamsson, written over
thirteen years exploring questions and problems of the occult and
culture. The book includes also an interview with Sylvie Walder.
The unifying thread through
Abrahamsson’s writing is: how does magic hack culture? Or perhaps
even: what is the role and magic of the artist? He draws from TOPY,
Thelema and Satanism, and proposes that boundless creativity is a
necessary expression of Will. He suggests that we should be actively
producing culture, artifacts, music, artworks, happenings. And that
these ‘facts on the ground’ could be understood as a
Gesamtkunstwerk, the Mega Golem, that will leak into popular and
unpopular consciousness. Threads and themes in the essays include:
- The formula of Babylon as supra-sexual transformation
- The Mechanics of Magic
- Vision of a Magician engaged with counterculture
- Conversation with beat Avant-Garde filmmaker Conrad Rooks
- His personal and lasting bond with Church of Satan founder Anton LeVey
- His involvement with topyscan and topyeurope at the height of thee temple ov psychick youth
- Working with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: psychic tv/thee majesty and his own White Stains project.
Abrahamsson is the founder of The
Fenris Wolf journal and the publishing house Edda (with
Fredrik Söderberg). He is a writer, curator, photographer and
documentary film maker.
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TARA MORGANA
by Paul Holman
Publisher: Scarlet Imprint
Illustrations 31 black & white
photographs by Paul Lambert, 112 pp
Bindings Fine edition quarter bound in
black morocco, silvered and marbled end papers, ivory cloth boards
stamped with the device of the Blue She-Wolf: Standard edition bound
in ivory cloth stamped with the Blue She-Wolf, embossed black end
papers, dust jacket
List Price: $74.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Tara Morgana is a work of pure magical
writing. The title comes from the fusion of the Tibetan devi with
Morgan Le Fay who is pursued as a mirage throughout this haunting
text.
Part magical diary, part dreamscape,
part Situationist dérive through the landscape, Tara Morgana is an
enigmatic record of ritual practice from the poet, whose work has
been described as: indefinable … laconic, occultist, and attached
to the line of revolutionary and subversive yearnings. This is not a
book about magic, rather, it is a magical book. Contemplation of the
work reveals a wealth of hidden treasures, or as Holman says: each
dreamed text is a terma in the mind.
Paul Holman is a lucid poet whose
writing, with its concise yet elusive energy, takes us down into the
tunnels, ghosts broken urban spaces where decay is overwritten with
the ingress of the wild. He encounters denizens of the underworld,
the magical subculture and down and outs. It is a work of echoes and
memories whose reflections coalesce in dreams that can be recovered
and manifest in the present. In his Afterword, Holman spells out
aspects of the artistic and magical method he employs.
The book is splintered by a sequence of
photographic images: glimpsed spirit portraits, apparitions captured
in the play and decay of light, giving it an otherworldly aspect.
Tara Morgana is a truly esoteric and numinous text, a beautifully
realised work that leads us on two parallel journeys of poetry and
image, through the world and work of living magical artists. Both
poet and photographer are engaged in games of chance and fate,
applied as a discipline to the creative process. It is precisely this
rigour that gives both an intensity and a gnomic quality to their
respective works.
This is a text to be spoken aloud.
Mystical conjunction of word and image are resolved in the alchemy of
breath. The act of anagnosis opens the reader to the magical
operation through the transformative medium of sound, and returns us
to the mystery of beginning(s) and becoming(s).
As Holman writes in The Memory of the
Drift:
I had no choice
but to undo the spell
which language had cast
upon me when, in
the days of autonomia,
I first met one by whom I
was to be consumed
and then made
afresh: she taught me
that an operation
performed upon the
tongue must transform
the world.
The text is introduced by Andrew
Duncan, a respected poet and cultural critic, and by Peter Grey,
giving insights into both the literary and magical character of
Holman’s work.
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