Via Tortuosa: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery — by Daniel A. Schulke & Robert Fitzgerald

Via Tortuosa is a grimoire of Crooked Path Sorcery, a current of antinomian witchcraft developed within the inner teachings of the Cultus Sabbati tradition. Framed through essay, allegory, and visionary doctrine, the work explores a magical philosophy in which opposition, inversion, and paradox become tools of operative transformation.

At its core, Crooked Path Sorcery is presented as both a historical expression of witchcraft and an initiatory method arising from the “Column,” an inner cell of the tradition. It draws upon the mythic structure of the Witches’ Sabbat and the metaphysical logic of reversal, where opposing forces are unified in acts of will and magical reorientation.

The text is divided into three sections — Exegesis, Prayer, and The Parables of the Exiled — and examines key motifs such as the Opposer, the Serpent of Eld, the Crooked Step, and the transfiguration of the practitioner through encounters with the Other. These themes articulate a worldview in which magical practice is inseparable from transformation of perception, identity, and ontological position.

Illustrated with original artwork by Jim Dunk, the book visually reinforces its themes of distortion, liminality, and hidden divinity within the crooked forms of the tradition.

Via Tortuosa will appeal to readers of traditional witchcraft, Sabbatic magic, and antinomian esoteric systems, particularly those engaged with the works of Andrew D. Chumbley and the wider Cultus Sabbati lineage.

Standard edition
160 pages · 10 illustrations
Full carmine cloth binding with letterpress dust jacket
Limited to 496 hand-numbered copies