Kenneth Grant

This article is about the British occultist. For the Canadian Presbyterian missionary and Trinidad and Tobago educational pioneer, see Kenneth J. Grant

Kenneth Grant is a British occultist and head of the magical order which he calls Ordo Templi Orientis but which is commonly referred to as the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis to distuguish it from other branches of O.T.O.

Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian OTO

Kenneth Grant has claimed to be the true successor to Aleister Crowley, and is the founder of the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis, which is considered by its members to be the true OTO. The 'official' OTO regards Crowley's writing as scripture and believes that Crowley's pronouncements on magic, occultism and religion are the final word; The Typhonian OTO regard Thelema as a dynamic, changing, forward-moving current, which must be separated from Crowley to an extent if anyting valuable is to be become of it. The TOTO places much of what Crowley said and wrote in context in terms of culture and time period and doesn't see Crowley in such black and white terms.

Biographer of Austin Osman Spare

Grant was a great admirer and close friend of Austin Osman Spare and did much to bring his name into western occult society. Indeed, if it wasn't for Grant, it could be argued that Spare would still be languishing in obscurity.

Partial bibliography

The Typhonian Trilogies

The Magical Revival ISBN 087728217X
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God ISBN 0877282501
Cults of the Shadow
Nightside of Eden ISBN 1871438721
Outside the Circles of Time
Hecate's Fountain
Outer Gateways ISBN 1871438128
Beyond the Mauve Zone
The Ninth Arch

Other works on the occult

Remembering Aleister Crowley ISBN 1871438128
Hidden Lore: The Carfax Monographs by Kenneth & Steffi Grant
Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare
Zos Speaks! (about Austin Osman Spare)
At the feet of the Guru (A compilation of articles including those written for Man, Myth and Magic magazine, to be released in March 2006)

Poetry

The Gulls Beak
Black to Black
Convolvulous

Novellas and short stories

The Stellar Lodge
Against the Light
Snakewand and the Darker Strain
The Other Child and other tales
Gamaliel Diary of a Vampire and Dance, Doll, Dance