Codex Althaeban Malik - The Book of Aberrations

Codex Althaeban Malik otherwise known as The Book of Aberrations is an intermediary volume between Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Book of the Black Dragon. The premise for this intermediary volume entails orientating the sorcerer to the Proklosis Ring, this being the horizon of the Black Dragon. Extrapolating aspects mentioned in Volume 1, Codex Althaeban Malik uncovers the philosophy informing the overall Ëœwork as it has so far been presented. Addressing the positing of the sorcerer in relation to the Black Dragon, the Codex explores the idea of designators, signifiers and the signified, and explains that when these are understood conduits open which connect the contemporary practitioner to the first sorcerer of the Ophidian current Azi-Dahaka. It does not end there though, because as the author explains, it is not only Azi-Dahaka which is acknowledged as having a vital role in developing telluric sorcery, but his shadow: the Tenebrae Walker Althaeban Malik, who having been engulfed by dis