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

  • Being and Non-Being in Occult Experience (Volumes I-IV, Atramentous Press, 2022-2024),
  • co-author (with Peter Hamilton-Giles) of Torn Letters of Otherness: Absence and Alogos (Atramentous Press, 2023),
  • Crooked Confessions: An Ophidian Philosophy of the Sanctified Devil – Blades of Grass After the Scythe (Atramentous Press, 2025),
  • “The Divine Hearth and Radical Hospitality” in: PILLARS: A Wayfarer’s Hearth (Vol. 2, Issue 3, Anathema Publishing Ltd., 2022),
  • A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing: E. Graham Howe’s Secret Druidic Doctrine (Anathema Publishing Ltd., 2023).

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.ure of Kangchenjunga itself.