The Abyss — Leo Holmes (Fall of Man)

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Six years on from his acclaimed LeMULgeton: Goetia and the Stellar Tradition, Leo Holmes turns to the second great crisis of a magician’s path — the Ordeal of the Abyss, following the earlier attainment of Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Drawing chiefly on Thelemic literature but ranging freely across myths of descent, Gnostic and Eastern ascetic teachings, and Gothic poetry, Holmes traces the terrain where restriction becomes liberation and the self dissolves into what lies beyond it — an unflinching account grounded equally in personal experience and comparative study. Published by Fall of Man.