7×10 in., Hardcover, 340 pp.
Lavishly Illustrated
ISBN: 978-0-9843729-5-9
This book and its extremely loose and flexible system of magick (Called here ‘Pan Magick’ for want of a better name) is an intensely personal project. Let there be no doubt that it is an original system that draws from many wells, birthed from my interface with ‘Pan’. At the peak moments of this dance, like when “The Book of Gate” came to me, ‘I’ was quite absent. Still, here ‘I’ am and It seems a whole crew of ‘mes’ is penning this book and all are, of course, mere illusions and refractions. The act of somehow piecing together notes and rites and somewhat inchoate scribblings from 30 years worth of practice has me wondering what I’m doing. But The Great Pan has laughed and beckons me on and urges me to get it together and get it out there, so away we go.
Reviews
Wonderfully well written book, it was a pleasure to read, and I feel I learned a deeper connection to Pan because of it. The physical book itself was hard cover with no dust jacket surprisingly which is a shame b/c the material the hard cover is made from picks up dirt and oils and looks bad quickly. Had to make a paper book cover for it, which is too bad, I feel like I’m hiding my book when the art and font is really nice.
Amazon Review
This one is not only for modern “pagans” or magick practitioners, it’s also worthwhile for anyone interested in contemporary spiritual trends. How can we save ourselves and our lovely, endangered world? What this book is really about can help tremendously! As anyone with a clue knows, there is no “Devil” and this is about the deepest essence of All Things, the Oneness that many folks label the One, which is not exactly what monotheists mean by God. This is what inspired that, but then the monotheists lost their way sometime after Akhenaten! I’ve received my copy of THE BOOK OF THE HORNED ONE and I must say it’s exquisite and totally the Magick Cat’s meow 4 me right now! I’m forcing myself not to read it all in one sitting–it’s too tasty for that. Anyone at all interested in the Great God Pan or the Horned God, whether you are a ritualist or not, this is a masterpiece! Check it out, Brothers… + thanks to the Brotherhood of Pan for pointing this one out to me. It’s artistically gorgeous, brilliantly present,powerful and profound. This is what humanity & the planet really need right now, to reclaim our essentially wild, animal nature. This is about Nature and Nature’s God, which is what really matters to help us redeem human nature! My gratitude to Aion 131 for producing and sharing this marvelous work. Don’t hesitate to shell out a few clams for this one… highly recommended!
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Meet The Author & Artist
Aion 131, a writer, teacher and practicing Eclectic Ritualist, was first introduced to mythology and magick in New York where he grew up. He has since his early teens been accepted as a member of a number of initiatory groups and esoteric associations including Welsh Traditionalist Wicca, Pagan Way, Church of the Eternal Source, Church of all Worlds, the Typhonian OTO (ex-member), Q.B.L.H., Nath Tantric Lineage, Autonomatrix and Ordo Chaos among others and was a founding member of The Grove of the Star & Snake, the Horus Maat Lodge, Zos Kia Maati, Voxas Rimotae and the Nath Tantrika Emerald Zonule. He is an associate of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism (Green Tara and 21 Tara empowerments) and the Voodoo Spiritual Temple of New Orleans.
He was one of the founding editors of Mandragore, a journal of magick and eclectic ritualism published in New York, founding editor of Kalika, a Nath Tantric Journal, was an associate editor of Aeon Journal and was managing editor of Silver Star, an online journal of magick, for 5 years. He has an MA in Ancient History/Cross Cultural Communications and his research has included the magickal/religious traditions of Egypt, Sumeria, Greece, Rome, China, India, Europe and Pacific Northwest tribes (Kwakiutl). He has written for many different esoteric magazines as well as various magazines in Japan. He has engaged in extensive traveling and on-site research in 25+ countries all over the world and continues to do so. He is also an artist, clearly obsessed with sigils, glyphs and symbols, and whose main media are pen and ink and ceramics.
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a ChAOrder magician and Baphometic avatar, dedicated to the wo/manifestation of the Wyrd in the realms of the flesh. Vessels for this reification include hir own body as temple and template (tattoos as tantric cartography, self-sculpting, dance and song); iNSPiRALink. Multimedia Press (IMPress) publications; Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company (loosely based in Australia with performancy also in UK, Europe, US); and the ever-expanding digital archives of the Mutation Parlour.
Underlying these extant vessels is The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk, a global ChAOrder devoted to the overlap of magic and/as Art, counterpointing the solar scientific magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn with lunar, intuitive and Arachnean magics.
Orryelle’s current creative foci are the Tela Quadrivium, a fourfold alchemic bookweb being progressively published by Fulgur Limited (Conjunctio 2008, Coagula 2011, Solve 2012…), and the culmination of the Orpheus Working in various media.