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Frater Acher 8/31/25 Frater Acher 8/31/25

‘The Faceless God’ by Thomas Vincente

[…] The key here is that the idiom of the Faceless God is precisely that: something which is not bound by literalism. That is, it is not enough to refer to the figure as mere metaphor but, as Vincente discusses, it appears to be a phenomenological experiential reality which the author traces throughout such manifestations as ram-headed Egyptian deity, Sabbatic Devil, Black Pharaoh, or Osirian cult as manifestation of the Hidden Sun.

Frater Acher 8/29/25 Frater Acher 8/29/25

‘Hekate Ochetos’ by Harper Feist

Harper Feist’s Hekate Ochetos is an exceptional and exemplary text. It’s a rare privilege to be invited inside a practitioner’s most private moments; those that are encountered during the conduct of a theurgical retreat involving consecutive rites of invocation to, in this case, the goddess Hekate.

Craig ‘VI’ Slee 10/27/21 Craig ‘VI’ Slee 10/27/21

‘The Cult of the Black Cube’, 2nd Edition, by Arthur Moros

[…] This then, is where the Black Cube shines most darkly; for all that Moros presents us with scholarly analysis, and historic and new rites to encounter the Saturnine Deity in our own lives should we wish closer congress, it is his obvious intimate embrace of, and his deep suffusion in such a Saturnine Gnosis which wells up.

Craig ‘VI’ Slee 7/14/20 Craig ‘VI’ Slee 7/14/20

‘Of Cosmogonic Eros’ by Ludwig Klages

For Klages, the mystery of the enthusiasm is magically potent – as potent as the Mysteries of the pagan cults. […] In Of Cosmogonic Eros we are presented with a subterranean labyrinth of language which may return us to Soul at its centre – if we have the courage to engage.