![]() ![]() Grant and his work have been admired and attacked in equal measure, and it has been said that his work can infuriate as readily as inspire or illuminate, but as his former protégé, priestess of Maat Magick, Nema, has written: “These aren’t just books about Magick they’re books that are Magick.” Kenneth Grant had written and published steadily over five decades, leaving behind a substantial body of books and articles, including both fiction and non-fiction work, that have been a major contribution to modern occult literature. He was roundly considered the last living link to Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, and Austin Osman Spare had also been at least a partial witness to the contact between Crowley and Dion Fortune, and had been on familiar terms with the Occult Surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun, and involved with the enigmatic Alchemist and Tantricist David Curwen. With the death of British author and occultist Kenneth Grant in January 2011, we lost a figure who was both unique in his own right and also a link to some of the key figures of the modern Magical Revival in the mid-20 th Century. ![]()
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