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"A word one should avoid using" --Initiations --"No experiment, a reliving" --The great work --The revisionist visionary --Lustra --1."Blasted into consciousness": Majic Ring, Trilogy, Amen, and the Air Marshall --Against the grain --The nameless initiates --The large star --One or two Zs --2.Dans l'ombre Des Cathedrales and Hermetic Definition: Other Bodies, Other Initiations --Initiation: The astral plane --Stars of day --The Sun --The other presence: "Grove of Academe" and "Aegina" --3."Don't let me forget this, when I wake up": The Luciferian Doctrine --Preamble: Irreconcilable worlds and monstrous birth in twentieth-century literature --The Luciferian Doctrine --Baphomet and Lucifer --Vale Ave: Doubles, semblables, angels, demons, error, and love --The esoteric doctrine of love --4.Theurgy, Helens, and the Nameless-of-Many-Names --The last page of "Sagesse" --Birth of the Ruach Elohim --Egregors --Practical magic, self-analysis --Black Helen, dark Achilles --5.Synthesis, Conclusions, Applications. "Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms, ' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography woven throughout her poetry, prose, and life-writing. The astral H.D. narrates the fascinating story of how she used the occult to transform herself, and provides surprising revelations about her friendships and conflicts with famous figures-such as Sigmund Freud and the Battle of Britain war hero Hugh Dowding-along the way"--
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