On Tuesday twilight I went to a publicize called Kenneth Grant: Dracula's Tantric Rituals. The envoy was Alistair Coombs and the incident was at Treadwell's bookshop, in London. I've heard Alistair publicize before - at the book commence for Beelzebub and the Bully at Treadwell's a few months ago - and I knew he was an sugary and wise person spokesperson. Until now, I came away from this week's publicize realising I dependent territory to do above reading up about Kenneth Reward.Alistair described Kenneth Reward as "the highest cool occultist of the later unfinished of the 20th century". Reward was untrained on 23 May 1924 and died on 15 January 2011, he worked with Aleister Crowley due to the previous man's ultimate days, and went on to assimilate his principles and reassemble them in a pleasingly creative mode, Alistair explained. Reward formed an Ordo Templi Orientis - or OTO - group in 1951, which finally became the Typhonian Decipher. Reward down for the count a long way away of his life living in London.Each Crowley and Reward were during sex magic. In his 1975 book Cults of the Unhappiness,Reward compound Crowley's Thelema with Tantra (which is a form of ritual yoga and meditation if at all possible than peculiarly sex magic). Alistair Coombs said: "This amalgamated with principles from witchcraft, amid the eminence of the female and the Kali and lunar cycles."It has to be alleged the Kenneth Grant's books are completely deliberate a bit peculiar. Host of his highest important books were at the start published sequence the time of the 1970s - when peculiarity was counterculture high paper. He amalgamated magic with tangible from science creation and tales of apprehension, such as the Cthulhu Mythos of HP Lovecraft.As I alleged before, I came away from this week's publicize sophisticated that I dependent territory to do above reading up about Kenneth Reward. I found the publicize fascinating, but realised I don't know plethora about this expensive London occultist. Oh well, learning everyplace one has a gap in one's knowledge is flush learning. And I underhanded I'll be import a few above books to refill that gap."The photo shows Alistair Coombs and Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell's bookshop. Treadwell's is at 33 Mound Road, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. http://www.treadwells-london.com/"Acquaintances and creative applicable postshttp://www.treadwells-london.com/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kenneth-grant-writer-and-occultist-who-championed-aleister-crowley-and-austin-osman-spare-2231570.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth Granthttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/11/melissa-harrington-on-aleister-crowley 19.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/steve-ash-on-great-old-ones.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/an-appointment-with-beelzebub-and-beast.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/08/history-of-magic-in-modern-age.htmlCults of the Unhappiness (Skoob Esoterica)
