NEW FROM ATRAMENTOUS PRESS! (With Corrections)

Book of the Black Dragon - Volume II: 

THE HEADLESS ONE - Part I 

by Peter Hamilton-Giles, with illustrations by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles 

List Price: Standard Edition $124.95 

Buckram cover, two foil blocked colours to front and back with single foil block to spine. Each book will come with a ribbon bookmark and head and tail bands.

Entitled Book of the Black Dragon: The Headless One, the work examines the role of the Black Dragon’s sinistral horn as a physical and yet liminal position between physical and metaphysical realities. Building on the work of Volume 1 and Codex Althaeban Malik, Volume 2 underscores the development of telluric sorcery by addressing three primary totemic manifestations of telluric ophidian sorcery, these are the black bull, the raven, and toad. All three are presented among these forthcoming pages as aspects of the Black Dragon when contextualised by the sinistral horn.

Focused on crossing liminality, the work highlights a particular verse from the working grimoire and then explores an understanding of it. Divided further by the daemon emissary of the sinistral horn, the totems are accompanied by familiars who also take on the responsibility of conveying more subtle meaning to these motions, for when passing through the initiatory undergrowth onto the common ground, these are responsible for producing an open ritual expanse for summoning the Black Dragon.

A further device, one which hearkens back to the author’s involvement in the Dragon’s Column, is brought into relief by using physical points. In this way, the Black Dragon along with the relevant entourage are offered the temple of flesh as a site of congress, and yet in doing so the very visage of the Black Dragon manifests itself as headless. Thus, form is sacrificed for the formless, and in doing so the stage is set for what will be the making of the sorcerer through his or her disarticulation.

Being & Non-Being in Occult Experience - Volume II: 
THE CHIASMATA OF AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE - Towards A Participatory Epistemology Of The Flesh 

by Ian C. Edwards, illustrated by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles 

Printed full colour cover, Head and Tail Bands, Book Ribbon; Limited to 333 copies.

List Price: Standard Edition $86.95 

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Themes to highlight is how Spare's Book of Pleasure speaks to a wider audience who have attempted to make explicit unknown dimensions. Building on and from Spare's understanding of Kia (for example), Volume 2 draws on the work of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Lacan to exorcise key contingents embedded within Spare's understanding of image and word. Evolving from what has come before, Ian Edwards embarks on an intense exploration of Being and Non-Being from the position of Spare, and in doing so accomplishes the greatest feat: the creation of an innovative and unique perspective of Spare. Hence, Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare dispenses with vague celebration and replaces it with a revolutionary zeal that is so capable that it imbibes the reader with shock and awe for what is and for what is not.

Ian comments on his work that “I think the volume itself will situate Spare within a new way of understanding "tradition" that includes thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, John of the Cross, etc. without extracting him from the occult and artistic tradition(s) that call him their own. Rather than indicating that any of the aforementioned are either "Philosophers" , "Mystics," "Psychoanalysts," or "Occultists," 

the participatory epistemological and occult grammatological approach that I have developed situates thinkers less in terms of any school or tradition they represent but more along the lines of themes and ideas they address in their work.”

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