#67 / Peter Grey on The Two Antichrists

For episode 67 it is my great pleasure to welcome author Peter
Grey. Peter is also the co-founder of iconic occult publishers
Scarlet Imprint and joins us today to discuss
his new book ‘The Two Antichrists’.


“The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure
of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic
context.


Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its
relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working
of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and considers a series of
little examined texts from science fiction and the outer fringes
of Scientology which form a ‘Babalon Apocrypha.’ By reading
across these sources, the familiar story is revealed to have
hidden depths and dimensions. Exploring the role of Antichrist in
relation to Parsons and Hubbard, Grey provides insights into the
initiatory drama of Thelema: of Satanic rites, Abyss and Angel.
The Two Antichrists observes the long shadow cast by the monolith
of Scientology, and Parsons’ eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft.
Looking to the future, he envisions an emergent space witchcraft,
infused with the spirit of Do What Thou Wilt.


The book concludes with a series of non-denominational rituals
and revised Antichrist workings. The work is a fusion of
inspiration, research and ritual, from which Grey draws the first
lines of his vision of witchcraft in the dusk of our world.


The work stands as a companion to Lucifer: Praxis (forthcoming
2022), and continues the trajectory initiated with The Red
Goddess and pursued through Apocalyptic Witchcraft. The work was
completed on Winter solstice 2020.”


Enjoy


Show notes: https://scarletimprint.com