Written over a period of forty years and to over seventy different people, these letters include learned discourse with academics, exchanges of strange experiences with esoteric colleagues, and advice to seekers trying to find their path. The letters reveal extraordinary, entertaining and personal details of the life and work of a contemporary occultist.

"One fault of many occult students is to read too much … all too often the new student is so interested in reading the latest thing that he never gets round to actually doing any of it."

"I suppose you can at least feel what it is like to be 'a lone voice crying in the wilderness' … I think even John the Baptist, in time, would have packed up his traps, said 'Sod it' (or 'Sod them') and gone home, maybe to start a locust and wild honey farm."

"I am, I suppose, trying to pass myself off as a grand old man these days, after a long career as a slowly maturing and now possibly decaying enfant terrible."

"Your remark that the devil works by compromise and subtlety is altogether too glib a simplification. He works equally well through uncompromising 'principles' very often. The thing that bothers me though is your preoccupation with the insinuations of the devil, which seems at times to verge on 'old maid's insanity'. I get the impression – I hope wrongly – that I stand a good chance of being cast in the role of the serpent offering the poisoned, or forbidden fruit."

ISBN: 978-1-908011-05-3
Copyright: Gareth Knight
Language: English
Pages: 218  
Binding: perfect-bound paperback
Interior print: black & white
Dimensions: 229mm tall × 152mm wide (6 x 9 in)

Published December 10th 2010

£13.99

$21.99

"Recommended" — The Cauldron.

"Reading this book is like being in the confidence of the author! It is amazingly full of true esoteric teaching. Gareth Knight (Basil Wilby) has influenced a whole generation of Esoteric teachers and students for the good. Here it is most apparent what a wise, objective and experienced guide he is. As you read "Very Truly Yours," you share in this guidance. Well worth the purchase. A great addition to any serious library of the Western Mystery Tradition."
— Dr. Paul A. Clark, Steward of the Fraternity of the Hidden Light and co-author of "The Dark Brotherhood."