by Kenneth Grant

The Hardback is sewnbound in black cloth, with endpapers printed in black & white, protected by a full colour dustjacket.

The reprinting of the Typhonian Trilogies continues with the eighth volume in the series, Beyond the Mauve Zone, which is the second volume of the third and final trilogy.

Beyond the Mauve Zone was first published by Starfire Publishing in 1999. A second edition was published in 2016. Freshly typeset, it incorporated corrections noted in Kenneth Grant’s personal copy of the book. The second edition appeared in an octavo format of 334 pages, with a colour frontispiece, a twenty-page section of colour and half-tone plates, black and white illustrated endpapers and a full-colour dustjacket. Where possible, plates were rephotographed for the second edition, many reproduced in colour for the first time.

The forthcoming publication is a reprint of this second edition. As with all volumes in this series of reprints, it will be available in two formats: hardback, bound in black cloth and with a dustjacket; and paperback, with a sturdy cover. Both formats will be sewnbound on good-quality paper.

Oblique to the paths that give on to other dimensions, and beyond them, there lies a region which the author has termed “the Mauve Zone”. Mystics, magicians, sorcerers, artists of many kinds have - over the centuries - skirted it, stumbled upon it, and fled from it. Very few have penetrated beyond it and survived, or cared to leave any record of the experience. Those that did, have had to present their accounts as fiction, or discover a new means of communication - via weird art, symbols, hieroglyphics, signs which fellow pilgrims alone might recognise.

Access to the Mauve Zone has been facilitated in more recent times by the use of magical systems developed by occultists such as Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley, both of whom established contact with inter-dimensional entities possessed of trans-human knowledge and power. Both systems involve the use of sexual magick to open hidden gates that have remained sealed for centuries.

The present book contains references to these systems, as well as to the explorative work of skilled contemporary Adepts such as Michael Bertiaux, Margaret Ingalls (Nema), Jeffrey and Ruth Evans, and the Patriarch of the “Ecclesia Gnostica Alba”, Zivorad Mihaljovic, which places them in the forefront of present-day practitioners.

There is also included a detailed account of the Cosmic Energy in humanity, known anciently as the Fire Snake, the Kundalini of Oriental arcane tradition which it is necessary to awaken if access to the Mauve Zone, and beyond, is to be achieved successfully. The account is based upon a rare Tantric work which provides veritable keys to the Mauve Zone and to the magico-mystical formulae designed to surpass it.

“Beyond the Mauve Zone” paves the way for the final volume, “The Ninth Arch”, in a series comprising three Typhonian Trilogies.