THE ATLAS OF THE ALIEN SPARK

VALIS

nature

A novel in which the author appears twice — as himself and as "Horselover Fat" — trying to work out whether the information beam he received in 1974 came from God, from a satellite, from Rome, or from his own broken mind. The Exegesis appendix is presented as tractates.

The most honest modern document of gnosis as an EVENT rather than a doctrine, precisely because it refuses to decide whether the event was real.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.

rhymes with

sephirahdaat

whyDaat is knowledge that changes the knower — including, here, in ways the knower cannot evaluate from inside.