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B E GARETH HEWITSON-MAY Foreword by Kenneth Grant Dark Doorway of the Beast ‘DarkjDoorzuay of the ‘Beast GARETH HEWITSON-MAY Foreword by Kenneth Grant 9{ezu ‘World ‘Publishing First published in Great Britain 1992 by New World Publishing, Yorkshire Copyright © Gareth Hewitson-May 1991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other wise, without the prior permission of New World Publishing. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hewitson-May, Gareth Dark Doorway of the Beast 1. Occult Science I.Title 133 ISBN 1 873782 05 5 Printed by New World Images, Doncaster, Yorkshire Contents Acknowledgements Foreword by Kenneth Grant Preface 1 1 Seizing the Image 9 2 The Arrival of Thought 21 3 Along the Corridor of Death 33 4 The Ingression of Alien Forces 45 5 Schizophrenia, Past, Present and Future 59 6 The Dawn of Satan 85 7 The Funnel Effect 101 8 Inertia - The Energy from Beyond the Abyss 113 9 Sigils, Magical Keys in the Corridors of Mind 125 10 Duality, Refuge of the Many 135 11 Tantra, A Personal Approach 147 12 Mysticism, Rewarded by Death 155 13 Dreaming in the Icy Wastes 169 14 The Dark Doorway of the Beast 179 15 The Mark of the Beast 199 16 Thelema 215 Appendix 1 - The Tree of Life 225 Appendix 2 - Liber III 226 Appendix 3 - The Aspirant 227 Appendix 4 - Liber AL vel Legis 228 (The Book of the Law) Index 241 Bibliography I [Castrations Stealing the Fire from Heaven Austin Osman Spare Action of Positron Emission Tomography Liber Oz Aleister Crowley R’lyeh Latebra Heads Keith de Mendonca Dweller on the Threshold Michael Lyons Cthulhu Gelen Benson Witch Mother Austin Osman Spare Cover Design Latebra Acknowledgements I wish to gratefully acknowledge all those people, who by their interaction have made this book possible. To Kenneth Grant for his time and efforts in initially reading the manuscripts, for his objective commentary and for permission, as literary executor of Austin Osman Spare, to reproduce those plates which 1 determined applicable to this work. To Stephen Sennitt, editor of NOX magazine, for many stimu lating and fruitful conversations and for helpful suggestions during proof reading. To Frater S, who continually readdressed my perspec tive during the earliest and darkest of days. To the current director of the Esoteric Order of Dagon for his commentaries. To Keith de Mendonca, Michael Lyons and Galen Benson for permission to repro duce illustrations. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an Abyss, the Abyss will also gaze into thee. Friedrich Nietzsche I have told you that all avenues of escape are blocked, but in truth there is the doorway of becoming a monster, by becoming the beast, so that thereby you can escape by the very door they came through Michael Bertiaux Foreword I approached the Dark Doorway of the Beast with some trepidation as the author had asked me to write a Foreword. But the book went down easily, like an iced lager on a hot day, leaving in its wake a sense of satisfaction. On examining the text a little closely, I understood why: it reflects some of my own inner experiences and I had been lulled into supposing that I "knew it all before." Then came the shock, because although this was in a sense true, the book concerns states of con sciousness which, to my knowledge, had not previously been de scribed in simple, straightforward prose. That is where the deception lay! The author uses a minimum of technical terms and yet manages to explain with ease and fluency the more occult movements of the human psyche. This is a book that needed to be written, and I can say with genuine relief and conviction: thank God, Mr. Hewitson-May has saved me a job because I could have done it not half so well, if I could have done it at all. The beast’ is a symbol of non-human or cosmic consciousness and the author describes succinctly within a magical context the move ments of the Fire Snake (Kundalini) in all its violent disintegrative force as distinct from its mystical and integrative apotheosis in the
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