Deluxe 2nd edition 2008 86pp Xoanon. Illustrated by the author. Full midnight-blue goat, cover gilt-stamped with the Point and compassed with a blind-stamped sigillic talisman encompassing the Silent Mystery of the Opposer. Near fine in slightly marked, felt lined slipcase .
 
limited to 16/72. Qutub concerns the Arcanum of the Opposer, a doctrine of the Crooked Path concerning the powers of Self-overcoming. The book defines and illustrates the Design of Crooked Path Sorcery through a series of 72 arcane poetic verses. Arising from diverse initiatic currents and spiritual streams, this Wisdom encompasses the ancient Persian sorceries of the Maskarae and Yatukan; the pure mysticism and beauty of the Sufic Way; the Yezidis, collected Kurdish tribes comprising the “People of the Book”, and the modern-day exemplar of the Witches’ Sabbatic Cultus. Together, these sources inspire the verses of Qutub, Point and Axis of the World, weaving a rich tapestry to which is appended a scholarly commentary. This illumination ultimately comprises the body of the Dragon of Eld, the Ancient Serpent of Light whose totality manifests within the microcosmic earth as the Great Opposer, whose Rite is included in the book.