The Brazen Vessel By Alkistis Dimech & Peter Grey (Scarlet Imprint, 2019) Hardba

Description: Alkistis Dimech & Peter Grey. The Brazen Vessel. London: Scarlet Imprint, 2023. Hardback edition. 431 pages. Limited to 1225 copies. Condition: NewDescription from the publisher: The Brazen Vessel documents the creative, magical union of Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey from 2008 to 2018. It comprises selected texts, essays and presentations, including many previously unpublished works, essays which have fallen out of print and texts that were only published online. The anthology marks the first appearance in print of such pivotal texts as Rewilding Witchcraft, a translation of the critical goetic source Le livre des esperitz, and an extended and original treatment of the witches’ dance. The Brazen Vessel testifies to the prescient, provocative and influential nature of their work.From the invocation of Babalon, given at the Thelemic Symposium in Oxford in 2008 to the eschatology of Babalon given at Occulture Berlin in 2018, the 35 works gathered here give insight into the process, thought and praxis of the authors, both as individuals with distinct bodies of work, and as a dynamic magical union. The works in The Brazen Vessel cast significant light on ideas developed through The Red Goddess (2007), Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) and Lucifer: Princeps (2015), and prefigures some of the material in Lucifer: Praxis (forthcoming 2023).The texts reveal the continuities and evolution of the authors’ work over a decade. Taken as a whole, their work proposes unorthodox and undogmatic understandings of Lucifer and Babalon, as demonised divine figures and forces, as the sources of transmission of the western traditions of magic and witchcraft. A shared love of poetry and the magical power of the word is evident in their distinctive voices. Both have given primacy to the living body in their practice, through dance, performance, ritual and rites of devotion and ordeal. Both situate their magical work within the wider ecological and political environment. In a polyphony of texts, the ongoing dialogue between two practitioners is made apparent, and the innovative work of Alkistis given its due.During the ten years documented in the anthology, Scarlet Imprint led a nomadic existence, moving from Brighton to Dover, the French Alps and the Welsh Borders, and finally to West Cornwall; these liminal landscapes and their denizens people the book. The texts evidence a second web of journeys to conferences, gatherings and symposia in London, Glastonbury, Brighton, Cornwall, Scotland, Norway, Belgium, Portland and Seattle. Overlapping with these are a series of pilgrimages to sacred sites from Patmos to Cefalù, to standing stones, stone circles, cliffs, caves and the wilds.The Brazen Vessel is a work of process, experiment and risk, written by practitioners at the leading edge of the magical revival.ContentsPrefaceIncant! Incant! (After Salvator Rosa’s Cantata) The figures and the signs of night Invocation of Babalon Embodiment of mystery Rewilding witchcraft On sabbatic dance Raw power: Babalon, witchcraft & female sexuality Volant: The birdwoman The Luciferian revolt Lucifer in a walnut shell Death mask The face utterly unlike itself: The ecstasy and passion of Colette Peignot Strange suppers and spells diverse: Jack Parsons and the origins of The Witchcraft Beneath the rose Fly the light: A litany of shadows The book of spirits: A translation of Le livre des esperitz The stifling air The submerged word In the skin of the beast In the realm of the senses: Towards an embodied psychedelic consciousness Dynamics of the occulted body Forging the body of the witch Demonic voices Becoming no-man: The blooded path to Babalon Satan’s treasures: Dragons, books and the volatilised landscape The shining land: A foray into the ritual landscape of Cornwall The pact The witches’ dance Cocytus defrosted Black mass, bright angel The sacred conspiracy Seeing through apocalypse The Amfortas wound Outside the temple My time is come: An erotic eschatology of BabalonTimelineBound in red linen cloth charged with a cross potent in copper foil, textured white endpapers, white and red silk ribbons, and red-foiled copper dust jacket. Venus kamea insert.

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