Hands of Apostasy
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Hands of Apostasy

Old-style Craft, also known as traditional witchcraft, endures as a distinct body of archaic magical practices in present-day Britain, North America and Australia. Originally nameless, such bodies are related to a variety of historical magical streams, most notably the practices of the Grimoires or ‘black books’, folk-healing, and popular magic of the early modern era.

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The Celestial Art
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The Celestial Art

It is a fact of history that the origins of magic and medicine are rooted in the Starry Wisdom of the ancients. Their intersection is evident at numerous and varied points on the timeline.

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A Rose Veiled in Black
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A Rose Veiled in Black

The Lady Babalon is one of the more enigmatic figures in the Cult of Thelema. She is a manifold deity in the sense that She is a divine harlot, an initiatrix, a creator and a destroyer.

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Saints of Magic (Forthcoming)
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Saints of Magic (Forthcoming)

Throughout history, certain individuals held renown for their power over the spirits, the forces of Nature, and their supernatural powers, through the practice of the arts of magic.

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Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)
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Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)

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

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Sabbatic Witchcraft (Forthcoming)
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Sabbatic Witchcraft (Forthcoming)

The figure of the witch in medieval Europe was strongly defined by her relation to the Sabbat: the phantasmagoric nocturnal rite where the living trafficked with the dead.

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Abraxas: Volume 1
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Abraxas: Volume 1

Abraxas Issue #1 offers 128 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard. Includes a Manifesto for Abraxas, printed in letterpress.

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Woodwose Homilies
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Woodwose Homilies

The Woodwose or Wuduwasa is an Anglo-Saxon form of the archaic Wild-man, an enigmatic figure clad and masked in leaves.

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Veneficium
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Veneficium

Its principal concern is the intersection of magic and poison, originating in remotest antiquity and reaching into the occult traditions of present day.

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Idolatry Restor’d
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Idolatry Restor’d

The translation of magical power to image is a matter well understood in so-called ‘primitive’ sorcery, in which occurs a mutual embodiment of re-presentation and the Represented.

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The Occult Reliquary
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The Occult Reliquary

The Occult Reliquary concerns the Richel-Eldermans Collection, an archive of some 2,000 magical images and artifacts housed in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall.

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Via Tortuosa
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Via Tortuosa

Crooked Path Sorcery is at once a magical philosophy impelling and arising from the magical historical witchcraft, as well as a set of practices deriving from the work of the Column, an inner cell of the magical order Cultus Sabbati.

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