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dopesickinthebasement:

The Messenger. Alfred Floki. Reproduced in The Ninth Arch by Kenneth Grant.

874-8. where the gongs are sounding

The “inferior moon-pools” are, by implication, related to Leng and to the Mongol Current, if the initial supposition be correct concerning Leng’s locus on or near the Sino-Tibetan border. The verse number yields but a single clue; 8=Bah, a term designating the inundation of the Nile, which is a mystical euphemism for the lunar flood. Bah is also the name of the god eaten by the Shining Ones who dwell with hidden faces in the Temple of the Beetle. Could this be another hint at a conflict between the Children of Isis (beetle-things) and the Deep Ones, the “webbed-footed things” (batrachian) that claimed Awryd?
Go Kenneth, Go.
Source: dopesickinthebasement

graveyarddirt:

Songs for the Witch Woman, by John W. Parsons and Marjorie Cameron

There are few modern love stories as passionate and poignant as the relationship between rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his artist lover, Marjorie Cameron. At once a muse, occult student and primal force of nature – a woman he proclaimed as his ‘elemental’ in a letter to Aleister Crowley – Cameron fascinated, troubled and inspired Parsons.

Songs for the Witch Woman is a project born from this turbulent love story. A series of poems written by Parsons reveal his feelings toward his often absent lover. And beside these words are images from the hand of Cameron, illustrating and echoing the intimate themes.

After Parsons’ tragic death in June 1952 we find the notebook in which this work was recorded continues, as a bereaved Cameron keeps a diary of her magical working in Lamb Canyon, California. In the dark desert her words become a raw lament as she attempts to gain contact with her Holy Guardian Angel. And throughout the working, the memory of Jack is never far from her mind.

Now published more than sixty years after it was written, Songs for the Witch Woman stands as a testament to lasting power of love and loss. This book represents a creative collaboration between two of the most important names in 20th century occultism.

Source: fulgur.co.uk