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Kenneth Grant

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Born: May 22 1924

Died: 1414 01 20112011

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Kenneth Grant is the head of several important Thelemic orders and author of the influential “Typhonian Trilogies” series that includes The Magical Revival, Nightside of Eden and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.

In 1939, Kenneth Grant chanced upon Crowley’s Magick in Theory and Practice and a few years later began a correspondence with the author that would lead to him joining the Ordo Templi Orientis. In 1946, he was initiated into the Argentum Astrum and was confirmed as an IX° in the O.T.O.

Shortly after Crowley’s death in 1947 Grant met David Curwen. Also member of the O.T.O. Sovereign Sanctuary, a keen alchemist and a student of tantra, Curwen initiated Grant into “a highly recondite formula of the tantric vama marg.” This experience further deepened Grant’s interest in oriental mysticism and he detailed his work with the Advaita Vedanta in a number of essays for Asian journals in the early 1950s .

In 1948, Kenneth Grant’s wife Steffi wrote to Austin Osman Spare and the couple began an eight-year friendship with the artist. The bookseller Michael Houghton had already introduced Grant to Spare’s opus, The Book of Pleasure, and Spare elucidated his theories with letters and enclosures of manuscripts, with Kenneth acting as amanuensis. In 1954, Spare and Grant co-founded the Zos Kia Cultus: not a cult in the objective sense, but a designation given to the creative nexus of personal magical experience .

In the same year Grant founded the New Isis Lodge, with the intention of providing a conduit for “the influx of cosmic energy from a transplutonic power-zone known to initiates as Nu-Isis.” The group ran until 1962 and various accounts of the experiences of the group may be found throughout the “Typhonian Trilogies”.

Coetaneous with the New Isis Lodge, Kenneth and Steffi Grant began work on the Carfax Monographs. This series of ten essays was issued between 1959 and 1963 with the explicit intention to “elucidate the hidden lore of the West according to canons preserved in various esoteric orders and movements of recent times.” It was the beginning of a unique 50 year contribution to Thelemic literature and art that spans poetry, biographical works, fact and fiction.

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Books from Kenneth Grant

Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God

Nightside of Eden

Cults of the Shadow

Outside the Circles Of Time

Outer Gateways

Hecate's Fountain

Zos Speaks!: Encounters with Austin Osman Spare

Remembering Aleister Crowley

The Images And Oracles of Austin Osman Spare

UNIT: Nemesis 2: Agents of the Vulpreen

The General and other poems: First world war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon (War Poems Book 1)

Dearest Vera, A Kaleidoscope of Facsimile Holograph Letters to his friend, the Poet and Painter Vera Wainwright

Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs

Grist to Whose Mill?

Outer Gateways

The Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Nem Isto Nem Aquilo: Ensaios sobre a vida, a arte e a magia de Austin Osman Spare (Portuguese Edition)

Outside the Circles of Time

Against the Light