By Kenneth Grant. Starfire Publishing. 2022.

The reprinting of the Typhonian Trilogies continues with the sixth volume in the series, Hecate’s Fountain, which closes the second trilogy.

Hecate’s Fountain was first published by Skoob Publishing in 1992. A second edition was issued by Starfire Publishing in 2014. Freshly typeset, it incorporated corrections noted in Kenneth Grant’s personal copy of the book. The second edition appeared in an octavo format of 316 pages, with a colour frontispiece, a twenty-page section of half-tone and colour plates, illustrated endpapers and a full-colour dustjacket. Where possible, plates were rephotographed, many reproduced in colour for the first time.

This publication is a reprint of this second edition. 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.

Hecate’s Fountain is a highly original approach to contemporary Hermetic thought and experimental occultism. During the rituals of New Isis Lodge (1955-1962) it was noted that not all of them achieved the object for which they were performed. The exceptions had curious and often alarming side-effects which the author calls ‘tangential tantra’. It was discovered that these anomalies effected a rapprochment with highly charged dimensions existing between the realms of dreaming and dreamless sleep. This catalytic interface Grant calls the Mauve Zone. The weird nature of these phenomena suggested parallels with H. P. Lovecraft’s Cycle of Myths extrapolated in the fabulous Necronominon, and its affinity with Mauve Zone magick is here meticulously explored.

Many years of research then led to an interpretation, in terms of this magick, of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law. Also explored are seemingly related phenomena in the work of another contemporary, Michael Bertiaux, whose independent discoveries show evidence of traffic with alien beings of Intelligence and Power. Crowley saw contact with such entities as “the only chance for mankind to advance as a whole”.

The Magical Workings of New Isis Lodge have opened the gates to an influx of influences from Outside that will radically alter the direction of experimental occultism.