Elemental Magic
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Elemental Magic

Exploring earth, mineral, and plant magic as well as the magical properties of the earth’s cycles and power places, Nigel Pennick presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles, practices, and tools required to draw on the magic inherent in the natural world for personal development and spiritual empowerment.

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Erbario (forthcoming)
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Erbario (forthcoming)

Erbario is a large and extraordinary illustrated herbal created in Italy around 1400.This manuscript stands out for its unique combination of about 180 botanical illustrations and textual annotations, offering a rich glimpse into medieval and early Renaissance knowledge of plants and their medicinal uses. It features three distinct styles of illustration, each contributing to the manuscript’s layered and evolving character.

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Modern Green Gnosis (forthcoming)
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Modern Green Gnosis (forthcoming)

Anastasha Verde’s Modern Green Gnosis is shaped by her decades of work in the plant ecological sciences, magic and witchcraft. Answering the need for an approach grounded in animism, she opens a new path that elevates human and plant partners and their allies alike; a path where the distillate of contemporary logos ignites in praxis and leads seekers to a profound green gnosis and a living botanical praxis.

Publication 2025.

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The Devil’s Ointment (Forthcoming)
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The Devil’s Ointment (Forthcoming)

In the historical records of European Witchcraft, one of the most notorious allegations against the accused was the use of a magical salve to gain the power of nocturnal flight.

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Conjure Codex: Issue 4
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Conjure Codex: Issue 4

The fourth issue of CONJURE CODEX contemplates the occult symbolism and meaning of gold: from treasures to planetary attributions to alchemy. Our fourth issue boasts cover art by S. Aldarnay and interior artwork by Victoria Musson, JM Hamade, Mani C. Price, and Erzebet Barthold.

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Conjure Codex: Issue 2
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Conjure Codex: Issue 2

The emerald issue of CONJURE CODEX bursts forth as green shoots of spring, thrusting up through the decay of western civilisation, revealing the taproots of magic in a celebration of flourishing traditions, both old and new.

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Bounded in a Nutshell
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Bounded in a Nutshell

Bounded in a Nutshell: Lockdown, Magic and Infinite Space is a magical diary of the Covid-19 pandemic, covering 2020 to 2022.

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Wortcunning
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Wortcunning

This useful, pocket-sized book is presented as two books in one; in an intriguing ‘double-fronted’ format. The first side, A Folk Medicine Herbal, presents the medicinal herbal information and recipes as passed on to the author. He has complimented this material with the addition of the second, ‘reverse’ side of the book, A Folk Magic Herbal, giving the traditional magical uses for the same plants presented in the first.

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Nigon Wyrta Galdor: The Nine Herbs Charm
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Nigon Wyrta Galdor: The Nine Herbs Charm

Vibrantly animistic and remarkably hypnotic, Nigon Wyrta Galdor—the so-called Nine Herbs Charm—is an Old English healing galdor that invokes nine personified plants and the pagan god Woden to defeat a serpent before exploding in a psychedelic climax.

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Alchemy Rising
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Alchemy Rising

In The Green Book, Heliophilus shows how to practically confect spagyrical Tinctures, Elixirs, the true Primum Ens, Plant Magisteries and the Quintessence. Also covered are the Plant Stone of Hollandus, the Plant Phoenix, the Quintessence of Blood and the Homunculus.

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De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 1 - Natural Magic
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De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 1 - Natural Magic

In "Natural Magic," Agrippa discusses how virtue, or power and energy, is present in everything and flows down from the divine to the physical world. He believed that matter and mind are not separate but part of a single substance.

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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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Viridarium Umbris
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Viridarium Umbris

An extensive grimorium of wortcunning, or herb-magic, the Pleasure-Garden treats of the secret knowledge of trees and herbs as delivered by the Fallen Angels unto mankind.

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Ars Philtron
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Ars Philtron

First published at Midsummer 2001, this important work treats extensively of Sabbatic-alchemical gnosis as manifest through the medium of potion-making, expositing eight principal philtre taxa, their pharmacoepia, gnostic dominions, and formulation. Evocations to aspects of the Sabbatic Guardians Lilith and Tubal-Cain are also given to empower the revelation and reification of the Philtre Arcana.

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The Witch’s Cabinet
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The Witch’s Cabinet

The historical record of plant folklore includes a persistent group of plants associated with witches, aversion and baneful magic. Reflecting a hidden dimension of the vegetal world, these spells, rituals, and taboos serve as mantles of ominous attribute, warning of these herbs' sinister qualities, but also suggestive of their hidden powers.

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