In this book, Grant explores a mystical current he calls the Typhonian Tradition — an ancient body of occult knowledge that, he suggests, existed long before the great early civilizations and survived in scattered fragments of magical lore from ancient Egypt and the Far East. Over the centuries, this tradition became partially obscured or distorted due to the loss of initiates and conflicts with groups more interested in worldly power than timeless, consciousness-transcending wisdom. Nevertheless, traces of it persisted in Western alchemical texts and Eastern occult tantras, eventually enabling its powerful resurgence in modern times.
The text revisits and expands on ideas first introduced in earlier volumes of the Trilogies, linking them into a more developed thematic structure. Grant reasserts the otherworldly origins of disturbing metaphysical messages like The Necronomicon, and uses that framework to discuss Aleister Crowley’s reception of The Book of the Law, offering a reinterpretation of its meaning through the lens of the Typhonian Tradition. It also looks at phenomena sometimes labeled “E.T.” (extraterrestrial) as opportunities for humanity to integrate ancient stellar influences into consciousness.
The concluding portion of the work presents the “Wisdom of S’lba,” a transmission that Grant claims was received within the activities of the New Isis Lodge under unusual circumstances outside standard magical practice, and later rendered into terrestrial language.