"By the time we met, he was a newly ordained curate and I was
scratching a living in the esoteric world, had written a book on
the Qabalah and ran an occult magazine. We were thus inhabitants of
two worlds that were never supposed to meet - at least by popular
convention - or if they did, to be diametrically opposed to each
other." The catalyst for such a meeting of the minds was the
provocative poetry of Anthony Duncan, hitherto little known to the
world but privately praised by Kathleen Raine. Following on from
the "Lord of the Dance" chapter in his recent autobiography, I
Called it Magic, and various entries in his book of collected
letters, Yours Very Truly, Gareth Knight muses on the esoteric
resonances resulting from his unlikely friendship with the Reverend
Anthony Duncan. Their intellectual sharing of ideas led to Duncan's
The Christ, Psychotherapy and Magic and Knight's Experience of the
Inner Worlds, which have become companion texts of esoteric
Christianity often read and taught together. The pair had planned
to co-author a book before Duncan's untimely passing in 2003 so
Christ & Qabalah comes as a fulfilment of a long-held promise.
The book will delight admirers of both authors with its
intertextual interplay as well as a fresh exploration of the
differences and similarities between a cleric and an occultist.
Knight has described the book as an "organic process, almost an
initiation, that has left me with a somewhat expanded
consciousness." Readers are invited to share in the various
machinations that sparked this dynamic relationship - one that
keeps on giving.
General
Imprint: |
Skylight Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2013 |
First published: |
October 2013 |
Authors: |
Gareth Knight
• Anthony Duncan
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
222 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-908011-68-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-908011-68-8 |
Barcode: |
9781908011688 |
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