Torn Letters of Otherness
Concerning Absence and Alogos
by Ian C. Edwards and Peter Hamilton-Giles
This first volume, borne from ideas that came to light while communicating with each other, looks at the notion of absence and the first word to be spoken: the alogos. Largely in response to the work of Chumbley and Azoetia, the first word is commonly referred to as the announcement of Self: I. And so it is that from absence, form comes into being as we begin find ways to articulate our knowing. Yet, these small volumes also explore distortions that come from using a language which is not fit for the purposes that the practitioner requires. Underwriting this approach is understandably an alternative rationale, which situates practitioners by proposing that they occupy those spaces which lie between designations. As a result of this our collaboration endeavours to address these subtle nuances that accompany the proliferation of distorted forms, in the hope that it may act as a gateway for practitioners to breach their fold.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Reflexive dilemmas and distortions
Absence and Alogos: A binding of ideation for the metaphysical
Towards a Sabbatic Wissenschaft:
From Writing about the Occult to Occult Writing
Torn by the Thorn: The dilemma of Absence and Alogos
An-0ther Beginning for Occult Philosophy
The T(h)orn - An Ontology and Path
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Standard Hardcover Edition - Limited to 500 copies
87 pages. Green cloth-bound hardcover, with gold foil block on front, spine and back cover. Black and gold endpapers.
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Press, reviews, endorsements
Book Review by Foolish Fish - watch on YouTube here
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About the Authors
Dr. Ian C. Edwards is a licensed psychologist in private practice and holds both administrative and clinical positions at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania. He describes his approach as “dialectical non-dualism”, where he infuses the act of writing with method and content, through a spiritual phenomenology that attempts to inscribe the sacred as a self-referential embrace that reconciles the psycho-spiritual spaces in which dualities and oppositions such as being and non-being, good and evil, self and other, are made manifest.
He is the author of the Being and Non-Being in Occult Experience series published by Atramentous Press, as well as “The Divine Hearth and Radical Hospitality,” which appeared in PILLARS - A Wayfarer’s Hearth (Vol. 2, Issue 3) and A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing: E. Graham Howe’s Secret Druidic Doctrine, both published by Anathema Publishing. He reads occult texts using a method that combines grammatology with a participatory epistemology that explores and describes ontologies of deific forms.
Peter Hamilton-Giles is an author and researcher of the esoteric, academically trained in anthropology and religious studies his primary interest is in occult philosophy. He is co-founder of the Dragons’ Column along with Andrew Chumbley. His first book was The Afflicted Mirror published by Three Hands Press in 2013, this was followed by The Baron Citadel also published by Three Hands Press in 2015, since then he has written many books for Atramentous Press, his first was The Witching-Other published in 2017 which was followed by Standing at the Crossroads in 2018. He is currently working on the long anticipated follow up to the Dragon Book of Essex (A. D. Chumbley, 2014), the Book of the Black Dragon Series. His primary interests are in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics and how these apply to an occult context.
