Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Authored by: Peter Grey
Published by: Scarlet Imprint
In Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Peter Grey gives a compelling account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are encountered in a haunted and scarred land. The spectre of witchcraft is haunting the West, the dead giving up their secrets. This is a ritual unveiling of these mysteries. It is a vision and a revelation of the mythopoetic structure of the Art.
Apocalyptic Witchcraft is a bold project which does not seek to impose an orthodoxy on what is the heresy of heresies. Instead, it suggests a way forward. Apocalyptic Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. These are the core of our ritual practice. Dream, lunar and menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together into a single unifying vision.
Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems. The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an apocalyptic witchcraft, and this is a book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of the dark impasse.
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Of the Crows/Fine Edition
Publication date: 2013
Number of copies printed: 81
Physical Description
Dimensions: 240 x 156mm
Page count: 200pp
Illustrative content: 5 black & white images
Binding
Binding: Handbound in full gold hand-grained morocco, charged with a murder of crows, with blackened edges, and a silk ribbon.
Content Note
Other: Presented in a black cloth slip case; copies signed by the author.
Of the Doves/Hardback Edition
Publication date: 2013
Copies printed: 1000
Physical Description
Dimensions: 240 x 156mm
Page count: 200pp
Illustrative content: 5 black & white images
Binding
Binding: Bound in black linen cloth stamped with a dule of doves, embossed grey endpapers, screen printed dust jacket.
Paperback Edition
Publication date: 2013
ISBN: 9780957449299
Original price: £18
Physical Description
Dimensions: 240 x 156mm
Page count: 200pp
Illustrative content: 5 black & white images
Binding
Binding: Sewn paperback
Paper: 100gsm paper.
