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Scarlet Imprint
Frontispiece : Satan in his Original Glory: ‘Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee.’ William Blake, c.1805.
Three drawings by Blake of the Book of Enoch
Bound in scarlet silk, cropped black dust jacket, stamped with a gold pentagram, embossed black endpapers. Printed on fine 150 gsm paper.
8vo (240 × 156 mm), 248 pp
Limited to 1000 copies total
Contents
Contents
Proem
The Angelic Principate
The Prince of the Power of the Air
Hostile Forces
The Abominations of the Earth
Venite Lucifer!
The Hourglass
Black Star
Milton’s Teeth
An Archangel Ruined
Epilogue
Description
Opening with ‘The Angelic Principate,’ Grey examines the twenty named angels of 1 Enoch, giving their genealogies and functions, and revealing them as tutelary spirits and teachers, elemental forces and sublunary epiphanies of wind and storm, immanent in starlight, stone, flora and fauna. Grey emphasises the power of storytelling, place and ritual to evoke and commune with these spirits, and gives oaths, initiations and protocols.
Subsequent chapters examine magical authority and practice through such figures as St Paul and Simon Magus, as the daimonic is actively demonised and exorcism becomes a tool of eschatology and conquest. Proposing a Luciferian praxis, Grey provides rituals for engaging with spirits at different time depths, patterned on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Solomonic grimoires. Particular attention is given to the Ars Goetia, the Livre des Esperitz and the Red Dragon, with revised conjurations for those who wish to operate outside the dominant Christian paradigm.
Lucifer enters the modern era through the line of prophecy as revolution shakes England, Europe and America. The archetype transforms from the rebel against God into the scourge of tyrants. William Blake’s visionary assault on John Milton’s sublime Paradise Lost gives permission to the Romantic poets to invoke Lucifer as illuminator and liberator.
Lucifer: Praxis is both a scholarly and poetic guide, offering a framework for magical practice that is rooted in historic precedent yet contemporary; an innovative fusion of Enochic lore, the line of prophecy, and contemporary ritual craft. Grey charts the emergence of a new Luciferianism which blooms from the ritual texts and revolutionary fire that have shaped our modern world.
