Description
Frater Shiva
Academic Services International, New Mexico, USA, 2012. Hardcover. 223 pages. First Edition. Limited Edition, limited to 200 copies. Signed by the author on a specially-made color bookplate tipped onto the inside front cover. As New/Fine.
The author, Frater Shiva, was a senior member of “Solar Lodge,” the 1960s US occult fraternity that drew many of its teachings from the works of Aleister Crowley. He eventually resigned his position as Grand Secretary General and his membership in the Lodge, and went on to forge his own path. Frater Shiva describes “Treatise On Naught” as “an exposition of insights that can be expressed in simple phrases – each of which contains the word NO, or Nothing, None, Never, Null, Nada, Nyet, Nein, Nay, Not, Knot, Naught, Zero, Zilch and Zip . This implies the Absence of Something or Anything or Everything, or some other form of the negative. These concepts hint at the third order of magnitude, the Supernal Triad, which is said to lie above and beyond the human mind. Only a madman or a disturbed person would attempt to explain this realm – except in contradictory or complimentary terms.” He describes the book as being “comprised of nine short chapters. If you wish, you may choose to think of them as a series of nine atmic bombs, one placed at each of the nine lower sephiroth (spheres). After the ninth sphere undergoes Shivatmadarshana, there is a Gallery of nine appendices, including Riding the Middle Pillar, Tuat Juarez, The Human Energy Field, Encounters with the Light, and The Age of Iron [Kali Yuga].”
