The Two Antichrists
Published on 30. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-912316-53-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context.
Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and considers a series of little examined texts from science fiction and the outer fringes of Scientology which form a 'Babalon Apocrypha.' By reading across these sources, the familiar story is revealed to have hidden depths and dimensions. Exploring the role of Antichrist in relation to Parsons and Hubbard, Grey provides insights into the initiatory drama of Thelema: of Satanic rites, Abyss and Angel. The Two Antichrists observes the long shadow cast by the monolith of Scientology, and Parsons' eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. Looking to the future, he envisions an emergent space witchcraft, infused with the spirit of Do What Thou Wilt.
The book concludes with a series of non-denominational rituals and revised Antichrist workings. The work is a fusion of inspiration, research and ritual, from which Grey draws the first lines of his vision of witchcraft in the dusk of our world.
Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and considers a series of little examined texts from science fiction and the outer fringes of Scientology which form a 'Babalon Apocrypha.' By reading across these sources, the familiar story is revealed to have hidden depths and dimensions. Exploring the role of Antichrist in relation to Parsons and Hubbard, Grey provides insights into the initiatory drama of Thelema: of Satanic rites, Abyss and Angel. The Two Antichrists observes the long shadow cast by the monolith of Scientology, and Parsons' eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. Looking to the future, he envisions an emergent space witchcraft, infused with the spirit of Do What Thou Wilt.
The book concludes with a series of non-denominational rituals and revised Antichrist workings. The work is a fusion of inspiration, research and ritual, from which Grey draws the first lines of his vision of witchcraft in the dusk of our world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dover
United Kingdom
Illustrations
1 black & white photograph
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-912316-53-3 (9781912316533)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has become the standard work on the goddess of Revelation. His Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) has been called the most important modern book on witchcraft, placing it in the mythopoetic context of the sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. His work has also appeared in numerous small journals and collections, such as The Fenris Wolf, as well as online. His collected writings, from 2008-2018, are published in The Brazen Vessel (2019) with those of Alkistis Dimech. His Lucifer: Princeps (2015), is a study of the origins of the figure of Lucifer; he is currently writing the second part, Lucifer: Praxis, which addresses working with the fallen angels of the Enochic tradition and their transvection into the grimoires and modern practice.
Content
1 A Vision from the Abyss
Past Futures and Futures to Come
Malachite Green
Triumph over the Moon
The Terrible Equation and the Aperture
2 The Babalon Apocrypha
The Perfect Initiate
The Triangle of Art
Unknown Pleasures
Admissions and Affirmations
The Atomic God-Man
Schemes and Pyramids
Eldritch Philadelphia
The Two Antichrists
The Manifesto of the Antichrist
Against God
Thelemic Witchcraft
Two Years of Fury
The Disastrous Star of the White Scribe
Alpha and Omega
Appendices
i. Tetelestai
ii. The Reformed Antichrist Rite
iii. The New Antichrist Rite
iv. The Remote Station
v. The Eleventh Hour
Bibliography
Past Futures and Futures to Come
Malachite Green
Triumph over the Moon
The Terrible Equation and the Aperture
2 The Babalon Apocrypha
The Perfect Initiate
The Triangle of Art
Unknown Pleasures
Admissions and Affirmations
The Atomic God-Man
Schemes and Pyramids
Eldritch Philadelphia
The Two Antichrists
The Manifesto of the Antichrist
Against God
Thelemic Witchcraft
Two Years of Fury
The Disastrous Star of the White Scribe
Alpha and Omega
Appendices
i. Tetelestai
ii. The Reformed Antichrist Rite
iii. The New Antichrist Rite
iv. The Remote Station
v. The Eleventh Hour
Bibliography