1st 2013 252pp Three Hands Press. Illustrated. Full bronze cloth with design and titling foiled in copper. Dustwrapper age toned at edges else near fine in VG+ dustwrapper.
 
Ltd. ed. 163/625. On the Orphic and Pythagorean Underworld, and the Pythagorean Pentagram.
 
Exhuming the scattered fragments of the two elder doctrines of Tartaros and the Pentagram, Alm examines their reverberation as occult –and occluded-- concepts through centuries of philosophical thought, in a line connecting the shadowy teachings of such ‘dark traditions’ as the Orphics and the Pythagoreans, later penetrating the adyta of Neoplatonism. Arguing for a new undertanding of the Pentagram, he connects its fivefold mystery to the great powers of Tartaros, and also to such terrifying gods such as Hecate, Nyx, Erebos, Typhon, Cerberus, and the Erinyes. This strand of mystery touches upon such related concepts as the high theogony implicit within the Platonic Solids, the shadowy influence of the Cult of the Idaean Dactyls on Pythagoreanism, the Light which is rooted in Darkness, and the magical pathology of the ‘Unrooted Tree’.