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[SCHULKE, Daniel; FITZGERALD, Robert] Via Tortuosa: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery (Special edition of only 19 copies, SIGNED by both Authors)
[SCHULKE, Daniel; FITZGERALD, Robert] Via Tortuosa: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery (Special edition of only 19 copies, SIGNED by both Authors)
Hercules, CA: Xoanon Limited, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 169 pages. Inscribed to "Soror A" and SIGNED by Daniel Schulke and Robert Fitzgerald on the title page. This is the Special Edition limited to only 19 hand-numbered copies, this being copy no. 3. Bound in full crimson goat with gilt stamped serpent design to front and back. Black and white illustrations by James Dunk at head of each chapter. A fine copy in like slipcase, issued without 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.