Introducing Lectures I.: Prince of Darkness and Son of the Goddess Typhon: Antinomian Interpretations of Set in the Works of Temple of Set and Kenneth Grant
Lecturer: Mgr. Matouš Mokrý
Lecture Abstract:
In
the 1970s, the emerging Left-Hand Path esoteric current witnessed an
important rehabilitation of the Egyptian god Set as the patron of the
Left-Hand Path and antinomian mediator of personal liberation from
the restrictive norms of Christianity and other dominant spiritual
traditions. Surprisingly, this rehabilitation was led at the same
time independently by two ideologically very different actors –
Temple of Set in the USA and Kenneth Grant in Great Britain. Via
textual analysis of selected passages of Kenneth Grant's Typhonian
trilogies and the works of Michael Aquino and Stephen Flowers from
the Temple of Set, the paper searches for similarities and
differences between the individual antinomian formulations of Set.
These similarities and differences will then be interpreted in light
of the particular projects of liberation and the literary sources
used for the conceptualisation of this Egyptian deity.
