STARFIRE

Volume 1 - Issue 1

— Great Dismal - Linda Falorio – a short story of the evocation of a creature from the chthonic depths of Great Dismal Swamp

— Going Beyond - Michael Staley – an essay on non-duality

— The Stélé of Revealing and the Abomination of Desolation - Stephen Dziklewicz – an essay considering the gematria and other aspects arising from these twin terms of The Book of the Law.

Volume 1 - Issue 2

— Cults of Cthulhu - Peter Smith – an essay on H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Gnosis

— The Hiss of the Serpent - Stephen Dziklewicz – considerations of the serpent and related imagery in The Book of the Law

Volume 1 - Issue 3

— Lam Statement - Typhonian O.T.O - Kenneth Grant

— Disciple of Dagon - Peter Smith

— Jack Parsons - the Babalon Working - with introductories by Michael Staley and Yukki Yaura

— Heart of Thelema - Michael Staley

Volume 1 - Issue 4

— Meditations on Liber AL - Lindsey Calvert – considerations of The Book of the Law

— Ciphers in Flesh - Mouse – on poetry as inspired text

— The Vision and the Voice - Michael Staley – an introductory essay on Crowley's 1909 Working.

Volume 1 - Issue 5

— It's An Ill Wind That Bloweth... - The Editors

— Consciousness & Liber AL - Robert Taylor

— Sanctum Sigillum - Paul Lowe

— Zos: The New Flesh of Desire - Gavin W.Semple

— Lam: The Gateway - Michael Staley

— Wisdom for the New Flesh - Andrew D. Chumbley

— Manifestations of Nu - Stephen Dziklewicz

— Morningstar: The Tradition and Odyssey of Austin Osman Spare - Randall K. Holmes

— Supping at the Angel & Feathers - Michael Staley

— Zero Equals Two - Frater Siva, 77 ∵

— In Nomine Babalon / The Serpents Kiss - Paul Lowe

Volume 2 - Issue 1

— The Dreaming Attention - Paul Lowe

— Bastrum-Enoi/Ast Rubi-Onem - Soror Pasht-akhti

— Ghostly Amalgam - Michael Staley & Soror Artemis 656 ∵

— Gerald Massey: His Life & Works - Rey Bowen

— Magick for Fools - Margaret Ingalls

— The Cult of the Divine Artist - Andrew D. Chumbley

— Two Poems - Paul Lowe

— Love Letters (for no-one that I loved) - Gavin W. Semple

— The Gnostic Intensive - Zivorad Mihajlovic-Slavinski

— The Lam-Serpent Sadhana - Michael Staley

— Magick & Imagination - Robert Taylor

— Marjorie Cameron: An Appreciation - Michael Staley

Volume 2 - Issue 2

— The Dreaming Attention - Damian Sinclair

— The Black Stone - Robert Taylor

— Iridescent Undulations and the Sacred Fire - Michael Staley

— How to Leap Forth by Standing Still - Nigel Aldrcroft-Jackson

— Chaos Magick and Maat Magick - Margaret Ingells

— Into the Depths of Severity and All Beauty - Nicholaj Frisvold

— Pax Nobilis - Damian Sinclair

— A Mantra for Evoking the Great Old Ones - Stephen Dziklewicz

— Opening the Way for the Daemons of the Void - Andrew D. Chumbley

— Transformation: Austin Spare and the Besz-Mass - Michael Staley

— Liber AL Intelligence - Simon Hinton

Volume 2 - Issue 3

— The Magic of Folly - Richard Ward – some considerations of ‘The Fool" card in the Tarot

— Sinister Shades in Yellow - Alistair Coombs – an essay on the work of novelist Sax Rohmer

— The Stone of Stars - Oliver St. John – a fascinating short story woven around a talismanic stone and the forces it calls down

— Tzaddi is not the Star - Elmet Caradoc – some considerations on the Thoth deck

— The Aphotic Oracle - Daniel Lett – on the rôle of the imagination in magic

— Nightmare Sorcery - Richard Gavin – utilising the powers of dream

— Maranatha: a Blessing or a Curse - Stephen Dziklewicz – an insightful analysis of this word

— The Altar - Peter Smith

— A Very Personal Tantrum - Joe Claxton – an account of consequences from some specific ritual work

Volume 2 - Issue 4

— Scintillations in Mauve - Michael Staley

— Images of the Mystery - Gary Dickinson

— The Unity ofToltec and Thelema - Eric N. Peterson

— On Toltec Art - Koyote the Blind

— Grid Sigil Magick - Robert Parsons

— Shades of Grey - Richard Gavin

— The Ophidian Sabbat - Daniel Schulke

— Maranatha and Beyond - Stephen Dziklewicz

— From Aiwass to Lam - Richard Ward

— The Emergence of Lam - Michael Staley

— Two Fragments on Ataturk - Ithel Colquhoun

— Echoes of Silence - Alistair Coombs

— Sermon From a Haunted Cellar - Richard Gavin

— Sleeping Buddha - Hector Djoun

Ecpyrosis - The Best of Volume 1

Starfire Publishing Ltd, London, 2010. Paperback, full-colour cover, sewn binding, large format, 304 pages, 2 colour plates.

Ecpyrosis is an alluring, informative and voluminous publication consisting of sixteen articles drawn from the first five issues of Starfire, together with the best of the artwork. Also included are two new colour plates: a frontispiece consisting of detail from the cover artwork by Kyle Fite, and an endispiece of the covers of the constituent issues of Starfire.Printed on a substantial coated paper in order to take the heavy blacks in much of the artwork, Ecpyrosis is a heavyweight volume is every sense of the word.

The first issue of Starfire was published in 1986, and the fifth issue appeared in 1994.  These years encompass Volume One, the constituent issues of which have long been out of print and appear but rarely on the second-hand market. This selection of articles and artwork from these first five issues is newly typeset, the articles have been lightly edited where necessary, and the artwork has wherever possible been freshly scanned and cleaned to give sharper and clearer reproduction. The result is an enthralling and substantial collection of articles and artwork that embody the best of Starfire. The cover reproduced here to the left incorporates beautiful artwork by Kyle Fite.