It's about "sexo-somniferous energies" and eating your own shit to raise the fire serpent. It also touches upon Voudon, Crowley, Lovecraft, AOS, left handed tantra, and all manner of weirdness. The occult practice of drinking menstrual fluid figures fairly largely in the book as well.
It changes subject from paragraph to paragraph, fabricates loads of historical 'facts', makes up words on the spot, and is at least 40% incomprehensible, even to someone who is fairly familiar with the subject matter.
But despite all this, I find it interesting and certainly worth reading for the weird ideas, intriguing concepts and very strange head space you have to enter in order to understand a single word of it.
Mr Morrison had this to say on the subject:
quote: Kenneth Grant's odd, cabalistic screeds are required reading for INVISIBLES fans who want to know what Sir Miles, Beryl and Tom O'Bedlam were up to in the 50s, by the way). The best Grant book in my opinion is 'Outside the Circles of Time' if you're interested. Pick up what you can find; they're all very strange and non-euclidean and they all have some weird occult mind-bombs embedded within the disorienting reasonstorm of bestial etymology and faux-Gematria |
