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The method of ‘pure psychic automatism’ was at first applied to literature. The artist Ithell Colquhoun was a member of several magical Orders and knew Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.” “Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express-verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner-the actual functioning of thought. Surrealist André Breton defined Magical Surrealism thus, in his 1924 Manifesto.
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This was created through a version of parsémage (scattering) oil pastel is grated over ground of the same medium and worked in with a palette knife. As with Surrealism, the idea is to defeat the inhibitions of the rational mind and achieve a union of natural and spiritual forces as well as a union of the disciplines of art and the occult. The forms and images are influenced by forces that are not under the artist’s conscious control. Some of the techniques used in the artwork of Dreaming Thelema are identical to those of Colquhoun’s super-automatism. Fusing the disciplines of occultism and fine art was pioneered by Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun. Alchemy is about the transmutation of matter, extracting the subtle from the gross, recombining the newly formed elements. It is never possible to entirely separate the artist from the artist’s environment. She created the paintings as the book was written, driven by the same essential Idea. The artist was not given a copy of a book and asked to illustrate it. The paintings are integral to the literary content, and were created in the same current of inspiration. The book is printed on photographic paper to preserve the integrity of the artwork. Two of the paintings are reproduced below. Art of Magickĭreaming Thelema features 17 paintings created for the book, using the Surrealist method of pure psychic automatism. The Appendices reveal the Qabalah of the Necronomicon, background information to Lovecraft’s stories, and tables of Greek and Hebrew number values. There is also included a concise guide to Thelemic cosmology and the Qabalistic Art of Gematria.
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The book includes three complete short stories by Lovecraft: Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos, and The Haunter of the Dark, plus a reconstruction of Lovecraft’s Necronomicon. The fearsome apparitions arising on the face of the deep, as typified in the writings of Lovecraft and Grant, are merely the reflection of man’s consciousness, his image of himself as he truly is. Humanity has opted to enter a new dark age, and cannot turn back now-indeed, ‘turning back’ would necessitate confronting the lurking horror that haunts the works of HP Lovecraft, the horror of the Abyss.
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The application of the sciences, “each straining in its own direction”, has by now irreparably harmed us and all other life on this planet. The disquieting prophecy was written almost a century ago. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The following quotation from Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu (1926) is oft used but we make no apology for repeating it here. Kenneth Grant made much use of Lovecraft’s work, using it to formulate his idiosyncratic postermodenist notion of Thelema. We know that American writer HP Lovecraft had no mystic pretensions, though he did say the dream that inspired the short story Nyarlathotep “might have been prophetic”. Dreaming Thelema of Kenneth Grant and HP Lovecraft puts forth an unusual perspective on the works of Kenneth Grant.