#nine angles

Despite others’ attempts to identify a certain number with Satan, it will be known that Nine is His number. Nine is the number of the Ego, for it always returns to itself. No matter what is done through the most complex multiplication of Nine by any other number, in the final equation Nine alone will stand forth.

The release date for my book has finally been set, along with the pre-order page.

Have you been looking for a serious book that combines weird tales (HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, etc.), semiotics, a postmodern (but rooted in the deep past) system of operative communication, and geometry? Look no further!

After the Quietus expose on the Moult and his associates, RM released a statement on his website and later on the Wyrd Sister blog (nothing says “I’m not involved with the ONA” like releasing a statement on Myatt’s sapphic wank fantasy blog). 

The later statement on the Wyrd sister blog explicitly stated he is no longer involved with the ONA and did not write any of the Dreccian Way:

On the very same blog Myatt has written a blog detailing the minor errors of several news articles, in one kindly confirming for interested parties that Richard Moult had indeed written a chapter of the Dreccian Way as Audun. Thanks to Dave for the confirmation that Dick is indeed a prolific liar and will continually mislead his collaborators, friends and family as to his involvement. 

Toby Chappell is a musician and writer currently residing in Georgia. He has been enamored with the esoteric and the strange for as long as he can remember, pursuing these as gateways into unraveling the mysteries of existence and self-awareness.

Some of Toby's interests include the connections between Starry Wisdom and the Left Hand Path, the study of how semiotics and language reflect and enhance effective thought and action, and the Northern European esoteric traditions including the Runes. Influenced by the treatment of the unusual, the esoteric, the imaginal and the mysterious by such authors as Fritz Leiber, Herman Hesse, Stefan Grabinski and H.P. Lovecraft, his quest is always to seek the deeper Mystery behind the things that capture his interest (knowing that the truth always remains partially hidden).

He is the author of the forthcoming Infernal Geometry and the Left Hand Path: The Magical System of the Nine Angles, which explores the history and development of angular magic within the early Church of Satan and then in the Temple of Set starting in 1975. Lovecraft, Pythagoras, geometry (sacred and otherwise), semiotics -- all these influences and more come together in this system first outlined in "The Ceremony of the Nine Angles" (written by Michael Aquino for Anton LaVey's 1972 book, The Satanic Rituals).

A member of the Temple of Set since 2000, Toby currently serves as the seventh Grand Master of the Order of the Trapezoid within the Temple. The Order, whose meaning and purpose reach far into the dim past, was formally consecrated as a Knighthood dedicated to the Prince of Darkness by Dr. Michael Aquino in 1982 at the Wewelsburg Castle in Westphalia, Germany. Toby has written numerous articles on Satanism, angular magic, the runes and H.P. Lovecraft in Runes, the private journal of the Order.

In the last decade he has given interviews on various magical and initiatory topics to the KHPR: The Voice of Darkness podcast, the Daimonosophy 2.0 podcast, and the Church of Mabus radio show.

It's been a while since I posted anythere here, but not for lack of interest or anything worthwhile to say. I've had three major (public) projects that have been taking the majority of my attention over the last few months:

Finalizing the manuscript and other details for my book Infernal Geometry and the Left Hand Path: The Magical System of the Nine Angles, which now has a release date of May 21, 2019.

Preparing a very limited printed version of some of the same ideas in that book, focusing on the essential elements. That small volume, Through Angles Mirrored With Thoughts: An Introduction to Angular Magic, is now available. However, it is only (outside of special circumstances) available from my personally in face-to-face settings. This is done partially to preserve the limited nature of the text (45 copies only), and also to have it function as in integral part of a mouth-to-ear exchange about the topics in the book rather than just another book showing up on your doorstep in a small cardboard box.

Page from Lapis Philosophicus cum suis rotis elementaribus—a handwritten manuscript on the esoteric and alchemy (Sir Isaac Newton, late 17th century).