The Faceless God Tomas Vincente. Theion 2016. Hardcover 1st Edition VERY RARE

  
The Faceless God - Tomas Vincente. Theion Publishing 2016 Hardcover 144 pages. Limited standard edition of 700 copies printed. NB: This is one of the most desired Theion book titles published and is very hard to find. Book is in Very Good condition.

Please see photographs of actual copy for sale. Through the lens of Lovecraft's fiction, Dr. Vincente establishes hitherto unexplored connections between the European lore of the Witches' Sabbath and the archaic fertility cult of the ram-headed Banebdjedet, a totemistic representation of Osiris in his netherworld aspect - Osiris as the Black Sun. It is the daemon of the depths, the Faceless God, who serves as the bridge between these two esoteric currents. This dark psychopomp, who reveals the mysteries of the Black Sun, was fictionalized by Lovecraft as Nyarlathotep.

The Egyptians knew him as Anubis, and in European witch lore he is described as the black man of the Sabbath, the initiator of the witch cult. Thus the book has a triple focus - Lovecraftian, Egyptian and Sabbatic. It is not a question of extracting a complete occult system from Lovecraft's stories, or drawing exact correspondences between entities of his Mythos and gods and spirits of paganism.

There is no system to be decoded. Instead there are traces, insinuations, echoes of a genuinely primal vision. Supporting his arguments with the strategic use of qabalistic methods, Dr. Vincente achieves a careful balance between esoteric hermeneutics and scholarly methodologies, so that the reader is always drawn back to the concrete realities of magical practice. A set of powerful rituals of initiation, sexual gnosis and sorcery will enable the discerning initiate to operate effectively within the sinister dimensions of this counter current.