Gospel of the Worms

Author: Georgia Van Raalte

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This little book is a literary experiment in surrealism, automatism, mysticism, and mediumship. It is a surreal hagiography: life articulated through the occult mediation of symbol and sign. An absurd autobiography. A tiny worm's yell of liberation as it reaches the bottom of the compost heap. This is an act of self-creation. An alpha-libric initiation. A literary becoming. A magical record. A mystical treatise. A half-formed fairytale. A collection of (false) memories. A pillow book for my weary head. We are made up of stories and tides: this is an excavation, a mud-lark playing in the flotsam and jetsam, the imaginal detritus which has piled up at the edges of my abyss. Come, join me in my infernal excavations. Come, walk with me as we enter this chthonic temple.

About the Author

Dr Georgia van Raalte an academic researcher whose research focuses on occult and esoteric literature, contemporary magical practice, and the intersections of magic and sexuality. She is an esoteric theologian and the author of Approaching Babalon: Essays for the Abyss. She is a poet and an artist as well as a witch, magician, and a pagan priestess. Her academic research, artistic practice, and magical work are all concerned with initiation: with mystical, literary, and artistic provocations of transcendence, and the personal, social, and cultural transformations that are catalyzed thereby.