Introducing Two More New Authors
We have been quite busy discussing book projects and reviewing manuscripts (not yet fully through) and thus we are very pleased to announce two more new authors publishing fascinating titles with Theion in the future: welcome Ian C. Edwards and Stewart Clelland!
Ian C. Edwards, PhD
Ian obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in 2006 and is a licensed psychologist in private practice. He is the author of several titles published by Atramentous Press and Anathema Publishing Ltd., respectively.
A complete list can be found on his author’s profile.
Furthermore, Ian is the Acquisitions Editor for Fount Uldt. and Editor of the forthcoming Black Tide: Occult Reflections on C.G. Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus (Fount Uldt.)
Forthcoming work for Theion (expected late 2027):
Songs of the Sanctified Devil
What if the Psalms were not merely prayed but inverted? What if the sacred songs of the biblical tradition concealed another voice, waiting to emerge from the abyss of being?
In Songs of the Sanctified Devil, Ian C. Edwards presents a daring and unprecedented occult scripture: a complete inversion of the 150 Psalms of the King James Bible. Similar in structure to Aleister Crowley’s The Book of Lies, each inverted psalm is accompanied by a brief occult commentary, offering philosophical reflection, symbolic interpretation, and practical guidance for magical praxis. The result is not merely a grimoire, but a radical experiment in spiritual and existential transformation.
Drawing deeply from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ludwig Klages’ Lebensphilosophie, Martin Heidegger’s meditations on Being, the Abgrund, and the Other Beginning, and Andrew D. Chumbley’s Crooked Path Sorcery, Edwards constructs a visionary mythology centered on the figure of the Sanctified Devil. Neither demon nor deity, the Sanctified Devil emerges as a “dancing contradiction”; a symbol of creative self-overcoming, ecstatic rebellion, and the alchemical union of opposites. Here, contradiction is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.
The book advances the provocative thesis that the Sanctified Devil may serve as a new imago Dei for the magician and seeker: not an image of transcendent perfection, but an image of perpetual becoming. Through inversion, transgression, laughter, and self-creation, the aspirant is called to “become Magick” itself.
Part occult psalter, part philosophical manifesto, part magical handbook, Songs of the Sanctified Devil invites readers to descend beneath inherited certainties and encounter the abyssal ground from which new gods, new values, and new possibilities emerge. It is a work intended not merely to be read, but embodied; an untimely scripture for those willing to dance beyond good and evil beneath the Great Noontide Sun.
Stewart Clelland
Stewart is a Scottish researcher, writer, educator, and independent scholar whose interests span religious studies, Western esotericism, history, and cultural heritage.
His work explores the ways in which religious, philosophical, and esoteric ideas have shaped individuals, communities, and wider society, with particular interests in Freemasonry, mysticism, symbolism, and the history of ideas.
A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Trustee of the Boleskine House Foundation, Stewart has undertaken research in archives and special collections across the United Kingdom and Europe, working with a range of historical manuscripts, journals, and unpublished sources. His research interests include the history of religion, Western esoteric traditions, mountaineering history, folklore, and the relationship between belief, culture, and historical memory.
Alongside his scholarly work, Stewart is an experienced educator and public speaker. Through research, writing, translation, and public engagement, he seeks to make historical and esoteric subjects accessible to wider audiences while contributing to ongoing academic and cultural conversations.
Forthcoming work for Theion (expected Summer 2027):
Failure of the Will
Stewart Clelland’s Failure of the Will presents the first complete English edition of Jules Jacot-Guillarmod’s diary from the 1905 Kangchenjunga expedition with Aleister Crowley, fully annotated and accompanied by critical commentary. Set against the brutal grandeur of the Himalaya, the book follows an expedition where colonial ambition, occult will, human frailty, and the gods of the mountain collided. More than a Crowley episode, it restores Jacot-Guillarmod’s eyewitness record as a vivid account of command breaking down at altitude, under ice, illness, fear, and the immense pressure of Kangchenjunga itself.
Further Updates
We are also currently working on upcoming titles by Caroline Tully, Peter Mark Adams, and Erin Kalashnikova, each of whom will bring new depth and range to our publishing programme.
In addition, another particularly exciting project is now taking shape behind the scenes and we will share more about this in due course.
Finally, a brief note for collectors of rare and exquisite books: Only the final 5 Auric Edition copies of Seán Jefferson’s The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy are still available at the time of writing.
