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Post by artilect on Oct 17, 2015 17:13:57 GMT
I agree with the last comments made by Marc and Vadge, in that reading Grant’s works allows the current to penetrate one’s own psyche…at present I am reading the typhonian novellas, and these carry a very pointed message in that the current is active and very much alive. Having read Snakewand and read and re-read Against the Light, I recently acquired all of the novellas. Given the season and that halloween is almost upon us, it seems fitting to crack open some of these stories. Setne: could I encourage you to, if you are inclined, to post or create posts on your thoughts and observations concerning the novellas as you read them? Commentary on Grant's fiction is relatively scant and these works in general are under-represented in my opinion. I promise to chime in too and hopefully others will follow suit. |
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Post by Michael Staley on Oct 30, 2015 15:16:41 GMT
I think it would be a good idea to add the novellas to the Reading Circle.
I'm going to restruture and relaunch the Reading Circle soon, and will add the novellas then.
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Post by Ariock on Mar 27, 2016 5:57:21 GMT
A little late to the discussion, but here is a bit of Grant's lengthy embellished signature, which includes "IX° I.B.A." Attachments:
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Post by Gregory Peters on Mar 28, 2016 16:54:51 GMT
Better late than never, particularly with such a fine specimen! What is this from Ariock?
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Post by Ariock on Mar 30, 2016 2:37:19 GMT
It is from a book that was formerly in Grant's library, currently in the BLK Library.
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Post by Michael Staley on Mar 30, 2016 12:47:30 GMT
There are several books from the late 1940s in Grant's ibrary that have similar inscriptions. I don't know any details of the Order I.B.A., alas, apart from the fact that IBA is a Hebrew word appearing in Crowley's Sepher Sephiroth with the meaning 'He Shall Come'.
There is a plate in Hecate's Fountain with "Manifesto" along the top and "IBA" pn the right-hand edge, and described as the cover of a manifesto circulated in New Isis Lodge. The cover still exists, but I've not come across the Manifesto anywhere in Grant's surviving papers, alas. It is of course possible that the Manifesto is one of the two Manifestos of 1952 referred to in Kenneth Grant: A Bibliography by Henrik Bogdan as items F3a and F4a, pp.63-64.
It might of course also be possible that IBA on the cover refers not to the Order but to the Hebrew word, and that this is in fact the cover to the Manifesto listed as Key to the Pyramid, item F3a in the Bibliography.
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Post by The Double-wanded One on Jan 1, 2021 1:47:53 GMT
Bump
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