The Red Goddess: Pearl Edition – Peter Grey (Scarlet Imprint)

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The Red Goddess — Peter Grey (2021 Pearl Edition, hardcover)

The 2021 hardcover reprint of Peter Grey’s The Red Goddess, published by Scarlet Imprint — freshly typeset for this edition and introduced with a new preface by Alkistis Dimech, the book having been unavailable in hardcover for over a decade. First published in 2007, this is an ecstatic history of Babalon, goddess of Revelation, tracing her from the Ishtar Gate and the Book of Revelation through to a living modern magical current. Grey moves from John Dee’s angelic workings to a searching account of Aleister Crowley’s excesses, the immolation of Jack Parsons, and his entanglement with L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, with a full supporting cast of Solomon, Simon Magus, Mary Magdalene and more. Thirteen closing essays address roses, mirror magick, BDSM, aphrodisiac drugs, and the meaning of apocalypse — a passionate account of living magic and the transcendent power of love.