The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain; or The Hymns of Melchizedek

ISBN-13: 9781483925868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 480 str.

Christopher of Detroit

Opis

"The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain; or The Hymns of Melchizedek" is a collection of a knight's erotic tales suffused in the wisdom of the Rosicrucian mystical tradition: a society of cabalistic warriors whose esoteric doctrine is built upon mystical laws that provide insight into the natural, the intellectual, and the spiritual realms of existence. Using two literary voices-one a confessional narrative, the other an abstract account of a subconscious netherworld-the knight travels through the inner-workings of a metaphysical madness. He modifies his psyche testing its mettle. He confronts fear through the experimentation of mind-expanding drugs, challenges sexual taboo, and overcomes death through spiritual initiation. Through this drama, the knight sees life as a conglomeration of interlocking symbols, motifs, and synchronicities that form a spiritual language. His libertine dream world becomes a replica of his waking life within the morally bankrupt, post race-riot cityscape of Detroit: an American ruin on the verge of collapse. Inside the entropy of this ruined city, the knight finds spiritual illumination in the loving embrace of a young woman. Every knight must have his maiden-a muse held in the highest regard-and the very act of experiencing the unobtainable virgin is the crux of the knight-errant's struggle with courtly love. This doomed romance changes the knight forever. This edition includes 13 illustrations and over 100 pages of additional material not found in the original printing.

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