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Sara Mulryan from the fantastic Oracle Occult magazine has just reviewed Liber Malorum in the latest issue 9. Wow, I'm well chuffed with what she had to say about it! Read on:

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“Do you have the courage to dream, create and destroy?
If your answer is no, please, read no further.”
Oath of the Conscious Metanoid
by Nathaniel J. Harris in Liber Malorum


So, just how do you begin to describe the Liber Malorum – is it a journey, an initiation, a revelation and an introduction to the mysteries? Could it be a ‘how-to’ manual; how-to join a cult, how-to clown, how-to renew your life, how-to lose your mind? Is it a collective of 23 cutting edge magickians, sorcerers and witches whose writing and life experiences have been woven together by a crazed fool into an 7th dimensional tapestry?

Is it a portal through which the innocent bystander can glimpse the workings behind the dashboard, gain a view of The Work at the edge of comprehension?


OR IS IT JUST A WORK OF
ENTERTAINING FICTION?

Follow up:

With this collection of 23 stories, we see facets of a magickal life mounted, showcased and reflected back at the traveller, for all to see. Magick isn’t just something for the weekend here sir. Oh no sir, the playfully anti-authoritarian warp of the main strands are interrupted by the intermissions and reportage of the weft, the contrasting colours burst through their seams, giving one a peek around the curtain. Life isn’t 2 sided, black and white; existence is the 457˚ experience in surround sound and full on technicolour.

Are these authors and characters aspects of Seani Fool’s mad imagination – surely that can’t be the real R.A.W.? Bernadette the hurt Unbeliever, the erstwhile rescuer of her beguiled lost love, undertakes the quest to rescue her squire in distress, becoming the voice of the innocent child pointing out the faults of the magickal worlds’ new clothes as we follow the trail through the occluded realms. This is no easy read for those in the community(s), the shortcomings, fears and paranoia’s are laid bare for all to see. Bernadette is the vessel on the journey to find herself as the story culminates with her metamorphosis …she encapsulates the beauty, love and possibilities that remain.

All we know Versus All we don’t know
Leads to self awakening

1 serpent; 5 sections; 7 illustrations, 72 chapters. Go! Run screaming for the 777. What’s the gematria here, give me a sign, show me the way, pass those apples I wanna be free!

Liber Malorum is a playful, serious, education, revelation, sexy, challenging, erotic, experimental, cinnamon-sweet, jackboot-hard, knowing, anti-authoritarian tome – [all the signs of a Work well made by an adept of the temple of life, love and liberty.] Don’t look for answers here, these may be results but all you’ll find are yet more questions WAKE UP! But you’ll get no role playing game rules to live by; this is a clarion call, the serendipitous moment, the chance glance, the edge of the precipice, the red or the blue? Which box is best Pandora’s or Schrödinger’s? Where does Malus go and are the Lizard Men really running things, they must be a myth, no?

And what did the poor apple do to deserve the epicentre of this maelstrom?

What will you overstand? Or becoming lost and overloaded, revert to human on standby; to consume, use and die?

Meanwhile back at the moot, somewhere in central London on a sunny Wednesday evening;

“If I were to write a book about Fool Sorcery” Seani continued, “it would be in the form of a myth or set of stories or contemporary fables. I would hope that by sharing it as a story, I could bring the system to life. My magic draws on so many different influences, I wouldn’t otherwise know where to start. In fact, if I were to write a book about Fool Sorcery, I’d probably get other people to write half of it for me.”

But I’d be a fool to believe that…

Sara Mulryan writing in
The Oracle Occult Magazine
http://www.oracleocccult.com