Hecate’s Fountain offers a fresh and original contribution to modern Hermetic philosophy and experimental occultism.
Grant reflects on the magical workings of the New Isis Lodge (active from 1955 to 1962), noting that some rituals did not produce their intended results but instead led to unexpected and often startling effects. He terms this phenomenon “tangential tantra.”
From these irregular outcomes, Grant identified encounters with intense dimensions that lie between dreaming and dreamless sleep. He names this intermediary framework the Mauve Zone, and the book explores this strange interface in depth.
In examining the Mauve Zone’s phenomena, Grant draws intriguing parallels with the mythic worlds of H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction, especially themes extrapolated in the mythical Necronomicon, and investigates how this unusual kind of magick resonates with these cosmic motifs.
Over the years, this research also influenced Grant’s interpretation of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law through the lens of Mauve Zone magick.
The book additionally discusses similar types of anomalous phenomena observed in the work of Michael Bertiaux, whose independent explorations suggest interactions with intelligent and powerful non-human entities — a kind of contact that, according to Crowley, represented possibly “the only chance for mankind to advance as a whole.”
In Grant’s view, the magical activities of the New Isis Lodge have opened gateways to influences from outside ordinary realms, with implications that could significantly change the trajectory of experimental occultism.