Gods and Monsters
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Are Gods independent beings, archetypal Powers, masks assumed by consciousness - or something stranger still? What is a spirit? Why do certain places retain an atmosphere or presence? What happens when the magician deliberately awakens the monstrous, the divine or the dead within the field of experience?
Gods and Monsters brings together five distinctive explorations by members of The Apophis Club, approaching Gods, D mons, spirits and mythical beings not merely as objects of belief, but as living realities of magical and initiatory experience.
Moving between practical occultism, mythology, philosophy, consciousness and personal experience, this anthology explores the many ways in which humanity has encountered - and become transformed by - the Powers it has called divine, daemonic, monstrous and otherworldly.
Vampyric Alchemy - Steve Dee & Lucien von Wolfe
An exploration of the Vampyre and Lycanthrope as transformative archetypes, using shapeshifting, bestial consciousness and the Three Mages as instruments of initiatory alchemy and Self-transformation.
At the Left Hand of the Goddess - Matt Anon & Durga Mahavidya
A journey into Vama Marga, Shakti and Tantric practice, examining taboo, the feminine divine, serpent power and the Goddess as an expression of Chaos, transformation and the mysteries of existence.
The Dragon in Antiquity - Joyful Hydra
A detailed investigation of the Dragon within ancient Indo-Iranian and Indo-European traditions, including Azi Dahaka, Zahhak and Set-Typhon, revealing the Dragon as an enduring model of magical power, sovereignty and initiatory transformation.
Haunters of the Dark - Michael Kelly
Ghost stories and personal experiences of haunted places lead into an investigation of spirits, consciousness and the mechanisms behind hauntings, culminating in a practical necromantic experiment and an extraordinary dialogue with the shade of Elizabethan magician John Dee.
Remanifestations in Rheged - Jez Green
An exploration of landscape, ancestral consciousness and the old Powers embedded within place: from Belatucadrus and local wights to runes, Vikings, Sigurd and Fafnir, asking how forgotten patterns of myth and consciousness may be encountered - and Remanifested - today. Gods and Monsters
Together these essays cross the boundaries between occult philosophy and practical magic, mythology and lived experience, psychology and spirit work.
They do not insist upon one explanation for the Gods and Monsters.
They provide ways to encounter them for yourself.
Gods and Monsters: Initiatory Encounters with Gods, D mons and Spirits is an Apophis Club anthology for readers interested in practical occultism, Left-Hand Path spirituality, Draconian magic, spirit work, necromancy, Tantra, ancient mythology and the transformative power of the Otherworld.
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