Composed over a period of fifty plus years, the Dark Liberation cycle so far comprises twenty four novels. Much has changed in that time, so that it cannot be expected that readers of today would have an interest in novels written in the 1970s or 80s, preferring – as seems to be the case – to focus on the later novels, written over the last decade or so. For this reason that I am publishing this concise esoteric background to the cycle in order to alert potential readers to the role of the earlier novels in preparing the ground for the distinctive elements that motivate the later works.