Limited Edition of 700 copies

Our civilisation is in crisis.
as we confront ecological collapse, political control, wars of terror, and wars onconsciousness, we are seeking emergence from this state of emergency.

XVI proposes gnostic strategies for liberation.
some will consider this a dangerous and inflammatory book.

it is.

these provocative essays from the most radical contemporary occult thinkers reveal a creative and passionate engagement with the world.

attacks on our freedoms can lead to freedom, the sudden enlightenment, the lightning path and the initiatory crisis that the tower also represents.

XVI seeks to raise magickal awareness of the unique times we find ourselves in, whilst being open to the resourcefulness and indominatable nature of the human spirit to find solutions and responses to it.

this is magick attuned to the zeitgeist.

Sex, drugs, art, initiation rites, calls to arms, ritual actions, aeonic plans, revolutionary witchcraft and apocalypse converge in our new title, XVI.

Contents:

• john michael greer - magic and the end of history the shape of time
  the myth of progress and the fall of civilisation
  
• ramsey dukes - XXXII not one tower but two
  the forbidden pleasures of 9/11 and the fight for freedom
  
• carl abrahamsson - everything must go...on!
  metaprogramming the future through art
  
• eric k lerner - the tower
  shango, santeria, phallic magick and the tarot
  
• raven caldera - being the change
  the path of a trans- gender plant shaman, from permaculture to bdsm
  
• michael idehall - the tower of babel
  qliphothic initiation on the averse path and the astral realm
  
• peter grey - seeing through apocalypse
  john dee, babalon, brain chemistry and apocalypse denial
  
• dr george j sieg - occult war for the aeon
  aeonic warfare from, iot, oto, ona, to evola and the church, as civilisations clash
  
• james wasserman - defeating a vile threat
  advocating patriotic thelemic resistance to attacks on our liberty
  
• hafiz batin - orgy in matter
  the spiritual warfare of an ismaili gnostic in the west
  
• dr dave evans/francis breakspear - twin infinities
  chaote on crowley, car crashes and identity crises
  
• stephen grasso - things fall apart
  fighting dystopian doomsayers with vodou
  
• kyle fite - falling into fire
  an initiates journey through burroughs, blake, hesse, crowley and bertiaux
  
• julian vayne - the ecstatic state
  the war against some drugs and the ritual use of ketamine, toad venom and foxy methoxy
  
• orryelle defenestrate bascule - the tower crashes
  direct artistic intervention, babble babel, and both theatrical and ecological action
  
• peter j carroll - eschaton
  the godfather of chaos magic enchants for the eschaton
  
• alkistis dimech - coup de foudre
  woman and revolutionary witchcraft from the sabbat to collapse, from michelet to jack parsons to now
  
• a call to arms

the text is riven by images from:

• stafford stone
• kyle fite
• fredrik soderberg
• orryelle defenestrate bascule
• hafiz batin
• michael idehall
• eric k lerner

XVI is bound in natural linen cloth.
280pp comprising sixteen (and one) original and significant essays.
the cover is impressed with a sunken panel holding a striking letterpress rendering of the tower by occult artist kyle fite.
xvi is printed throughout in red and black ink on heavy paper stock.

the babel edition of XVI comes in a strict edition of 700 copies.