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Theion Publishing
176 pages, 165×235 mm,
printed on wood-free high quality EOS paper in natural white (110gsm),
incl. 3 full-page greyscale illustrations by Mitchell Nolte.
Bound in Peyer Cabra (bonded leather) in dark nature (anthrazit-like, 2-colored),
front embossing, lettering on rounded spine, headbands, ribbon.
Limited to 840 copies.
Description
The Faceless God by Dr. Tomas Vincente is a singular work of occult scholarship and initiatic speculation, tracing hidden correspondences between the European lore of the Witches’ Sabbath and the archaic fertility cult of the ram-headed Banebdjedet, a totemic manifestation of Osiris in his netherworld aspect: Osiris as the Black Sun.
Standing between these currents is the enigmatic figure of the Faceless God — daemon of the depths, dark psychopomp, and revealer of the mysteries concealed beneath the surface of myth, dream, and magical tradition. In ancient Egypt, this presence appears through the chthonic offices of Anubis and the netherworld forms of Osiris; in Sabbatic lore, it emerges as the shadowed initiator of the witch cult; in Lovecraft’s fiction, it finds a nightmarish literary mask in Nyarlathotep.
Vincente’s study does not attempt to extract a complete occult system from Lovecraft’s stories, nor to force exact correspondences between the entities of the Mythos and the gods and spirits of antiquity. Instead, he follows traces, echoes, and insinuations of a deeper visionary pattern: a primal nocturnal current surfacing through ancient religion, witchcraft lore, and the imaginal worlds of modern horror.
Balancing esoteric hermeneutics with scholarly method, The Faceless God draws the reader toward the concrete realities of magical practice. Its rites of initiation, sexual gnosis, and sorcery open a path into darker dimensions of occult experience, where mythic interpretation becomes operative engagement.
This revised and expanded second edition includes a new introduction by the author and “Children of the Abyss,” an exclusive essay by David Beth. These additions broaden the scope of the volume while deepening its central inquiry into chthonic religion, Sabbatic initiation, and the abyssal dimensions of magical experience.
For occult scholars, magicians, and serious esoteric students, The Faceless God remains a rare investigation into the chthonic roots of witchcraft, daemonology, and nocturnal gnosis.
This meticulously updated edition includes a completely new introduction by the author, alongside other valuable additions. It also features an exclusive new essay by David Beth titled “Children of the Abyss”.
