Whilst researching an academic paper titled “The Books of Secrets…” the very last person that I expected to come across was Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
   Down to a sunless sea.

It’s confusing. Is this “subterranean bloodline” DEMONIC or UNACKNOWLEDGED?

Does this mean that the gnostic/occult/esoteric/hidden is something to FEAR and DESPISE?

Or is it a path that only a few have the open curiosity and lack of fear to follow?