The Invisible Histories Of The Spiral Mountain; Or The Hymns Of Melchizedek

The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain; or The Hymns of Melchizedek is a collection of a knight's erotic tales suffused in the wisdom of the Rosicrucian mystical tradition: a society of cabalistic warriors whose esoteric doctrine is built upon mystical laws that provide insight into the natural, the intellectual, and the spiritual realms of existence.Using two literary voices?ne a confessional narrative, the other an abstract account of a subconscious netherworld?he knight travels through the inner-workings of a metaphysical madness. He modifies his psyche testing its mettle. He confronts fear through the experimentation of mind-expanding drugs, challenges sexual taboo, and overcomes death through spiritual initiation.Through this drama, the knight sees life as a conglomeration of interlocking symbols, motifs, and synchronicities that form a spiritual language. His libertine dream world becomes a replica of his waking life within the morally bankrupt, post race-riot cityscape of Detroit: an American ruin on the verge of collapse.Inside the entropy of this ruined city, the knight finds spiritual illumination in the loving embrace of a young woman. Every knight must have his maiden? muse held in the highest regard?nd the very act of experiencing the unobtainable virgin is the crux of the knight-errant's struggle with courtly love. This doomed romance changes the knight forever.This edition includes 13 illustrations and over 100 pages of additional material not found in the original printing.

• • Author: Christopher Of Detroit
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Feb 08, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 480 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1483925862
• • ISBN-13: 9781483925868