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WarriorchiefZulu:
I have taken a great interest in the Typhonian Order from what I have read about it online. My first question is does anyone have any recommended readings/books concerning this order? Secondly, I have noticed that nowhere have I found how a person joins this order. Is it a simple word of mouth membership or how does one go about joining? Thanks!

kidneyhawk:

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 does anyone have any recommended readings/books concerning this order?

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Starfire Publishing recently rereleased Kenneth Grant's Outside The Circles Of Time, which is a fine place to begin exploring the major themes of the Order and Current.


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 how does one go about joining?

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Contact Mr. Michael Staley at

starfire.books@btinternet.com

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Kyle

N.O.X:
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The soon to be released first volume of the Trilogies "The Magical Revival" would be the best book to start with, because it is the FIRST volume.  I can hardly wait for mine to arrive in the mail.  In the meantime, I recommend reading all of the articles on this webpage concerning the Typhonian Current:

http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/staley.htm

I also echo Kyle's statement about "Outside the Circles of Time".  It also wouldn't hurt to purchase the most recent, and excellent, issue of "Starfire" and some of the older issues, if you can find them.  The two soon to be published issues of "Starfire" should be purchased, as well.  His poetry and fiction titles are very good too.  If you could get your hands on "Against the Light" pick it up, it really is excellent!  The most important book, IMHO, would be "At the Feet of the Guru" because it is really the Key to all of Grant's other works.  I'd consider the works of Nema, Achad, Bertiaux, Chumbley, Spare, and Lovecraft as essential supplimentary reading material, as well.  There's a wealth of relavent reading material out there to suppliment Grant's writings.  So, besides the Trilogies, there is quite a bit of material listed here that you can learn a lot about The Typhonian Current from.

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michaelclarke18:
Whilst I admire the work of Kenneth Grant very much, I would warn that his books aren't the clearest works available; at times, they are both confused and confusing. Nor are they particularly Thelemic either, though they contain occasional ingredients of Thelema.

That said, the Kenneth Grant books I do own, are amongst my most treasured items.

MichaelStaley:

--- Quote from: "michaelclarke18" ---Whilst I admire the work of Kenneth Grant very much, I would warn that his books aren't the clearest works available; at times, they are both confused and confusing. Nor are they particularly Thelemic either, though they contain occasional ingredients of Thelema.
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Whilst I know what you mean, Michael, in my opinion it's largely a matter of perseverence. The first couple of volumes in the Trilogies are fairly straightforward, but I'm happy to concede that the volumes thereafter call for more application.

Not that this applies just to Grant, of course. Spare's works such as The Book of Pleasure and The Focus of Life can be difficult to assimilate for the first few readings. The first book by Crowley which I read, in the late 1960s was Magick in Theory and Practice, and I found it very heavy going at first; it became clearer with subsequent readings.

There is of course another aspect to this, which is that a book might seem impenetrable to us, but several years later when our understanding has changed, the text is now not only more comprehensible, but sparks further insights as we read it.

In 1980, for instance, when Outside the Circles of Time was first published, I found the book impossible to understand beyond the opening chapters, and put it aside. Many years later I came to the book again, and found it fascinating, though it took a few more years before I came to really appreciate it.

There is the principle that when the aspirant is ready, the guru appears. This principle of readiness can be applied to books as well, since our understanding transforms and what was formerly a "closed book" to us becomes more comprehensible.

Best wishes,

Michael.

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