The Gospel Of Pandemonium

[The Double-Wanded One]

Has anyone read this one?

www.amazon.com/Gospel-Pandemonium-Edward/dp/0990970000


It's coming from more of a post-Setian (I.E. Aquino) context, rather than Typhonian, but it is a contemporary LHP commentary upon our holy Liber Al Vel Legis. 

I was fascinated when I heard an interview with him on Aeon Byte (which I don't usually like) a few years ago but still haven't purchased the book.

[stephen]

Well, this is my second go at a reply, I had completed my last one and then lost my internet connection, and the post; so bear with me while I attempt to recreate.

What? yet another LHP revelation on the true import of Liber AL.

I have of late been doing some in depth research on the nature of the Qlippoth in general, and revisiting the Qlippothic Genii of Liber CCXXXI, in particular. Regarding the latter it is remarkable how many LHP adepts there are online plugging their websites and books in which they will tell you all about how to invoke the Sentinels of the Tunnels, and all about their many attributes and powers and the way in which they can bestow these upon you to make you a Living God!

This is all quite some way from the original ethos of Liber CCXXXI as a Thelemic Holy Book and even the Typhonian gloss that Kenneth Grant placed upon it in "Nightside of Eden", although in more ways than one it was that seminal text that loosed the Qlippothic Genii from their cells and gave them a life of their own. They appear to have become the contemporary equivalent of the goetic demons of the medieval and later grimoires who will grant all of your egotistical desires.

And the lists of LHP revealed texts and grimoires seem to reproduce every time I look online. This 'Gospel of Pandemonium' may be better or worse than the rest. If you consider that you have a good working grasp on what KG is endeavouring to convey on these matters in his Trilogies as some sort of comparison in which to approach this book, then by all means go for it, otherwise there are more worthwhile things to do with one's time, at least as far as I am concerned.

 There, done.

[The Double-Wanded One]

All I wanted was a pdf of it initially but couldn't find one, so I brought the book and it arrived this week. I found it had less commentary upon Liber AL Vel Legis than I hoped it'd have, though it's got some nuggets of insight at points.
Ultimately I think that the next best commentary after Crowley's own will always be Kenneth Grant's Hecates Fountain, well at least until the Typhonian tradition starts mutating and expanding again.

[The Double-Wanded One]

I take this book by Edward to be part of an ongoing metacommentary (much like Peter Grey's work) between Thelema and the infant communities/movements it spawned. In the case of this particular book it comments in regards to LaVey, Aquino, Kenneth Grant and Soror Nema in particular - in light of Liber Legis. In the case of Peter Grey's work he comments in regards to Witchcraft and Scientology - in light of Liber 418 and the Babalon Working.
I don't particularly find Edwards work indicative of my own perspectives though, although I have found him to present a few insights I never considered before.