Conjunctio - A Graphic Grimmoire

by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

We are delighted to announce our first title from the artist, writer and performer, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. Orryelle draws upon a rich mythoscape of cross-cultural threads between different ancient traditions, interweaving them in hir work/play. Based in Melbourne Australia where he began the ever-expansive Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company, he has in recent years performed also in Europe and the UK; while travels to India and Egypt have furthered his spiritual explorations which fuel and inspire his transformative and often ecstatic drawings, sculpture, ritual theatre and magickal music (violin and voice). He is also a ritual tattooist, seeing the body as the mutable temple of the mutable soul.

A prolific sonic and visual artist, Orryelle also runs iNSPiRALink. Multimedia Press, which publishes DVDs of his Metamorphic Ritual Theatre, SilKMilK Magizain – a sampler of art, text and music from various members of the international HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk which he began – and his Book of Kaos Tarot Deck.

Orryelle’s MySpace page may be found here

Conjunctio presents mirrored pairs of Sacred Twins and Divine Lovers from various cultural pantheons coupled on facing pages. They are aligned in such a way that when the pages are turned the figures are United in holy conjunction by the alchemical reader. Different reflective relationships – alchymic opposites and complementaries – are explored b e t w e e n the pages.

Sequences of symbols and images interweave in a complex multi-directional pictorial and textual tapestry, as Gods, Goddesses and pantheons converge, paradigms coalesce and different magickal currents cross-pollinate in an orgiastic ancient and post-modern multicultural Sabbat of new Becomings…

4to, 210mm x 266mm, 80 pages, double-page graphic title, 53 full page monochrome plates, illustrations, descriptive text

The edition is strictly limited and available in three issues:

Super deluxe issue

Sixteen numbered copies bound in red quarter morocco, red cloth boards, dust-jacket stamped in gilt and silver, top edge gilt, with AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY THE ARTIST, signed by the artist, £195.00 + p&p SOLD OUT

Deluxe issue

Sixty-four numbered copies bound in quarter red morocco, red boards, dust-jacket stamped in gilt and silver, top edge gilt, signed and embellished by the artist, slipcase, £120.00 + p&p. LIMITED SUPPLY. Contact us here for details.

Standard issue

Six hundred and forty numbered copies, red cloth, dust-jacket stamped in gilt and silver, £25.00 + p&p

Customer Comments

“Conjunctio arrived yesterday. It’s gorgeous, electric, a feast for the eyes and soul(s). The individual godforms are powerful and witty, rejoicing and mysterious, and I’m totally in love with Ganesh. :-) The streams of gods returning are epic, reverse avalanches, thunderous tsunamis, sexual tornados, glorious hordes of divinity… Thank you for excellence.” Nema (author of ‘Maat Magick’)

“My copy of Conjunctio arrived yesterday, via a serpentine and circuitous route from London to West Coast, U.S. and back to the Midwest. It was worth the wait. It is a thing of beauty and power. Orryelle’s brilliant concept of a mirror-book of “Sacred Twins” and “Divine Lovers” could only have been manifested by a publisher like Fulgur, who clearly really cares about quality and execution. The pages line up perfectly, so that the hieros gamos is accomplished between the images. “Divided for Love’s sake, for the chance of Union”, indeed. I’ve had a lot of “grimoire dreams” over the years, searching for and finding a mysterious book of knowledge, opening it, and finding not just words but images that were alive and fairly lept from the page. This is the first time I’ve actually held a dream grimoire in my Hand and gazed upon it with my Eye. It came at the perfect time, of course, during a devotional working meant to accomplish a sacred psychic marriage in my Self. Thank you, Orryelle, for this.”

“I also received my copy, and it is indeed pretty spectacular. I’ve always admired Orryelle’s art (wish I had the knack!) and seeing it reproduced with such high production values is a right treat (Fulgur makes very nice books!). Rather impossible even to pick out favorite images, but his Shu and Tefnut are definitely way up there, as are Nuit and Hadit. The pairing of images is striking, and it is really important to keep turning the images around and checking them out from every angle (in fact, one of my strongest memories from first meeting Nema back in the 1970s was the way she turned every piece of art we showed her upside down). As a Grimoire it presents a virtually kaleidoscopic pantheon of the Dual Aeon, merging universal concepts originating in Egyptian, Hindu, Babylonian, Celtic, African, Norse and other forms to depict the living and cosmic archetypes which exist behind all their varied cultural forms, with excellent text to complement the flowing astral art which is so rooted, as with much of great art, in the miracle of the human body. It is absolutely one of the most magical books I have ever seen, and I have seen a few…”

“I wanted to let you know how impressed I am by the production of Conjunctio. Having now had a chance to look through it more carefully, I am astounded by the accuracy of the “conjunctions” between the pages… and yes, I did at first think what a shame it was that one page appeared to have accidental ink blots on it… until noticing the finger and thumb on the opposite figure. This latest work is not just another example of Fulgur’s fine book arts, but is I think a real advance in the arte of the book.”

“Conjunctio arrived on Friday afternoon - I am DELIGHTED with this new
Grimmoire !!! Please pass on my congratulations to Orryelle…”

“I am placing my copy with my AO Spare books- what those books will get up to when the lights go out is…..an amazing thought. This is powerful, potent, strong nu magick of the absolute highest order - this is a key grimoire and sigil a-bomb unleashing the nu illuminating energies of ALL aeons….at once. This book made me wild and hot and sublime and consumed me with the urge to HOWL” Aion 131/Denny Sargent (author of ‘Global Ritualism‘)

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