Andrew D. Chumbley

(Deceased)

Andrew D. Chumbley (15 September 1967 – 15 September 2004) was an English practitioner and theorist of magic, and a writer, poet and artist. He was Magister of the UK-based magical group Cultus Sabbati. Chumbley published several limited edition books through his private press Xoanon Publishing, and had many articles printed in occult magazines. Their subject was the doctrine and practice of a tradition of sorcery which he called 'Sabbatic Craft', a term which, according to Chumbley, "describes the way in which elements of witch-lore, Sabbath mythology and imagery were being employed in the cunning-craft tradition into which I was originally inducted". He claimed that this tradition was founded in two lineages of traditional witchcraft, both pre-dating "those modern revivalist forms of witchcraft, which have become generically nominalised as 'wicca'". Chumbley's early articles were published in the chaos magic journal Chaos International; later articles appeared in Starfire, journal of the Typhonian OTO, and in the long-established British witchcraft journal The Cauldron.

Publications

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Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

The Lexicon of Witchcraft is an illustrated compendium of witchcraft terminology, encompassing rituals, symbols, spirits, objects, and other specialized concepts of witchcraft.

Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

Andrew D. Chumbley, Three Hands Press, The Leaper Between, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

The Leaper Between

Andrew D. Chumbley, Three Hands Press, The Leaper Between, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

Known to rural folk magicians and secret societies such as the Society of the Horseman's Word, the exacting ritual of killing a toad to obtain the bone of power has been documented in various forms and cultural milieus for two millennia, though its origin is likely far older.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Three Hands Press, The Leaper Between, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Mysticism, Dreams

Mysticism, Initiaton and Dream

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Mysticism, Dreams

Written as an undergraduate as SOAS University of London in 2001, Mysticism: Initiation and Dream would foreshadow the concerns of Andrew Chumbley's later doctoral research on the transcendental nature of the magical dream.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Mysticism, Dreams

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Opuscula Magica

Opuscula Magica Volume 2

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Opuscula Magica

Opuscula Volume Two contains ten essays written between 1992 and 2000, including one previously unpublished. Expanding upon themes developed in Opuscula Volume I, the book also treats Crooked Path Sorcery, a transcendental ethos of traditional witchcraft having parallels in such traditions as Petro Voudon.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Opuscula Magica

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Crooked Path, Traditional Witchcraft, Opuscula Magica

Opuscula Magica Volume 1

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Crooked Path, Traditional Witchcraft, Opuscula Magica

Opuscula Volume One contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron. The essays reflect a degree of magical insight, clarity of vision, and creativity seldom equaled in occult writing to this day.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Three Hands Press, Crooked Path, Traditional Witchcraft, Opuscula Magica

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Khiazmos

Khiazmos

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Khiazmos

A Book Without Pages is a Sabbatic Wisdom Teaching of Alogos Dhul’Qarnen Khidir, originally written between 1993 and 1999 but unpublished at his death in 2004.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Crooked Path, Khiazmos

Andrew D. Chumbley, Gavin Semple, Peter Hamilton-Giles, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, The Dragon-book of Essex, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

The Dragon-Book of Essex

Andrew D. Chumbley, Gavin Semple, Peter Hamilton-Giles, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, The Dragon-book of Essex, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

This substantial work expounds the sorcerous ethos and praxes of the Crooked Path ritual system. Its contents include a cycle of ten extensive Mystery-rites, each accompanied by adjunctive solitary rituals and detailed commentaries.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Gavin Semple, Peter Hamilton-Giles, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, The Dragon-book of Essex, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

Andrew D. Chumbley, Daniel A. Schulke, Gavin Semple, Robert Fitzgerald, The Psalter of Cain, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft

The Psalter of Cain

Andrew D. Chumbley, Daniel A. Schulke, Gavin Semple, Robert Fitzgerald, The Psalter of Cain, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft

The Psalter of Cain consists of a series of devotional magical works to Cain, holy ancestor of sorcerers. Its magical foci are dedicated specifically to the Ancestral Manes of the Sabbatic Current, the shade-mothers and fathers of the Companie of the Wise.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Daniel A. Schulke, Gavin Semple, Robert Fitzgerald, The Psalter of Cain, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Traditional Witchcraft, The Satyr's Sermon, Sabbatic Witchcraft

The Satyr’s Sermon

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Traditional Witchcraft, The Satyr's Sermon, Sabbatic Witchcraft

Completed in early 2004 and published by Xoanon in 2009, The Satyr’s Sermon formed a portion of the Monadic Transmission Series of texts originally issued in hand-written, hand-illustrated editions of one copy only.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Traditional Witchcraft, The Satyr's Sermon, Sabbatic Witchcraft

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, One, Traditional Witchcraft

One

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, One, Traditional Witchcraft

This unique grimoire was published in the year 2000, marking the cusp of the old and the new chiliad. It is the first full grimoire-text to treat specifically and from personal account of the Traditional East Anglian ritual called ‘The Waters of the Moon’: the solitary initiation of the so-called ‘Toad-witch’.

Andrew D. Chumbley, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, One, Traditional Witchcraft

Xoanon Limited, Fulgur Press, Andrew D. Chumbley, Qutub, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Poetry

Qutub

Xoanon Limited, Fulgur Press, Andrew D. Chumbley, Qutub, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Poetry

There is a stream of initiatic power which flows through the Body of Gnosis, moulding the Image of the Adept, casting the Shadow-form of the Great Opposer.

Xoanon Limited, Fulgur Press, Andrew D. Chumbley, Qutub, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Poetry

Andrew D. Chumbley, The Azoëtia, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

The Azoëtia

Andrew D. Chumbley, The Azoëtia, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

Azoëtia or ‘The Book of the Magical Quintessence’ has become one of the most sought-after new magical works of our time and may be regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition.

Andrew D. Chumbley, The Azoëtia, Xoanon Limited, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Traditional Witchcraft, Crooked Path

Fulgur Press, Robert Shehu-Ansell, I:Mage, Agostino Arrivabene, Barry William Hale, Ithell Colquhoun, Austin Osman Spare, Peter Dyde, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Andrew D. Chumbley, David Chaim Smith, Amy Hale

I:Mage

The first I:MAGE was a seven day interdisciplinary exhibition and events programme, curated by FULGUR at The Store Street Gallery, London. The venue was chosen due to it’s proximity to Treadwell’s Bookshop, who generously offered facilities for ancillary events associated with the programme. Over the course of a week, more than 300 people attended.