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[SCHULKE, Daniel; FITZGERALD, Robert] Via Tortuosa: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery
[SCHULKE, Daniel; FITZGERALD, Robert] Via Tortuosa: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery
Hercules, CA: Xoanon Limited, 2018. First Edition. Date on title page reads MMVIII (2008) but this release is from 2018. Hardcover. Octavo. Limited to 486 hand-numbered copies. Bound in carmine cloth with gilt stamped serpent design to front and back (same design that is on the dust jacket, also front and back). 169 pages. Black and white illustrations by James Dunk at head of each chapter. A near fine copy in like dust jacket.
‘Crooked Path Sorcery’ is a term originating within the Cultus Sabbati, particularly within the ritual corpus of the Draconist, used to describe the antinomian and oppositional nature of its quintessence. This sorcerous ethos is extrapolated in such Cultus works as Qutub, The Dragon-Book of Essex, and Lux Haeresis, but its roots in fact are older, animating many historical strands of sorcery. Particularly relevant to witchcraft ritual and the perception-distorting powers of the Witches’ Sabbat, the book places especial emphasis on the ‘crooked’ figure of the witch and her Art, examining historical instances and their dispersion into the modern occult workings of the Sabbatic Current. Through the devices of magical analysis, exhortation and homily, the essence of the Crooked Path and its associated byways are directly explored, illuminating the mystical convolutions of the Arcanum.