APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT By Peter Grey
The spectre of witchcraft is haunting the West, the dead giving up their secrets. This is a ritual unveiling of these mysteries. It is a vision and a revelation of the mythopoetic structure of the Art.
Apocalyptic Witchcraft is a bold project which does not seek to impose an orthodoxy on what is the heresy of heresies. Instead, it suggests a way forward. Apocalyptic Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. These are the core of our ritual practice. Dream, lunar and, critically, menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together into a single unifying vision. Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems. The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an apocalyptic witchcraft, and this is a book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of the dark impasse.
Tradition is not static, it flows, and this work pours forth a vision for the future. Founded in pilgrimage and ritual, encountered in dreams and gleaned from the conversations of both doves and crows, a remarkable narrative unfolds. Its wings span from prehistory, through the witch panic and it emerges fully fledged into our present moment of crisis. It offers a witchcraft for our time.
Exordium
Inanna ascends
Apocalyptic Witchcraft
This is War
A Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Who sings this?
She is Without
The Cup, the Cross and the Cave
This dance for Inanna
A Spell to Awaken England
The knives are out
The Scaffold of Lightning
Venus phosphorous flare
The Children that are Hidden Away
Midnight Sun
A Wolf sent Forth to Snatch away a Lamb
Flayed by sun rays
Fifteen
This the blood cup
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!
Whore star of heaven
Inanna ascends
Apocalyptic Witchcraft
This is War
A Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Who sings this?
She is Without
The Cup, the Cross and the Cave
This dance for Inanna
A Spell to Awaken England
The knives are out
The Scaffold of Lightning
Venus phosphorous flare
The Children that are Hidden Away
Midnight Sun
A Wolf sent Forth to Snatch away a Lamb
Flayed by sun rays
Fifteen
This the blood cup
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!
Whore star of heaven
