One Hell of a book! Prim and proper Sir John Babcock joins the Hermetic Order of The Gold Dawn, an ultra-secret organization involved in cabalistic and magick activities. But, is anything really as it seems. Wilson’s book intriguing explores the nature of reality and gets James Joyce and Albert Einstein to do some sleuthing. Definitely one of the most creative novels I’ve ever read.

I love this book and return to it often.

It's been a long time since Iread this, but it's a book I've been interested in re-reading.

Guerrilla Ontology for the win!

It's a rich text, and Aleister Crowley is our guide. Doesn't get much better than that.

good

Funny story as allways by RAW but surely no Illuminatus Trilogy or Schrödingers Cat Trilogy

Very fun read. A tad indulgent at times but, for the most part, I recommend it. You will especially like it if you are interested in secret societies, nature of reality,magic, Aleister Crowley, OTO, Golden Dawn, cabbala, poetry, relativity. It works OK as just a mystery.

"Have we really been sitting here laughing like fools for three or four hours?"
"Something like that."
"Is it over yet?"
"I don't think so - do you see what I see?"

Thus the curtain falls on this novel whose sequel is the writing of Ulysses. An excellent - and literary - variation on the "I received instructions from Future Me on how to build this time machine, which has become commonplace in his era thanks to my invention" narrative loop.

Another one that I first read around 1990, and that holds up surprisingly well after all these years.

Sometimes a book feels like it was written just for you.