Hekataeon
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Hekataeon

The Hekataeon is beautiful grimoire presenting a complete system of self-initiation into the mysteries of Hekate, the Maiden-Serpent-Wolf who stands at the crux of the crossroads of all realms and realities.

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Taro as Colour
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Taro as Colour

In 1977, a series of 78 strange enamel works were exhibited in a small gallery in Cornwall. The vibrant images were modestly grouped together in five large frames. For the curious viewer the artist provided a page of explanation, affirming that these ‘psycho-morphological’ studies were, in fact, designs for a Taro. Within a few weeks, the exhibition was gone.

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Decad of Intelligence
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Decad of Intelligence

Building on Colquhoun’s work with the kabbalah, the Decad of Intelligence was developed during the 1970s and is based on the list of sephirotic intelligences as set out in the Sepher Yetzirah.

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Into the Mylar Chamber
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Into the Mylar Chamber

Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York’s Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s.

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Torn Letters of Otherness
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Torn Letters of Otherness

This first volume, borne from ideas that came to light while communicating with each other, looks at the notion of absence and the first word to be spoken: the alogos. Largely in response to the work of Chumbley and Azoetia, the first word is commonly referred to as the announcement of Self: I.

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A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing
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A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing

Imagine a man who influenced the likes of Alan Watts, was a friend of Krishnamurti, whose work was lauded by Henry Miller, and had the audacity to challenge the great psychiatrist, C.G. Jung, during one of Jung’s own seminars.

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Queen of the Seven Crossroads
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Queen of the Seven Crossroads

In Queen of the Seven Crossroads, history and myth come together to create and continuously develop the definitions and the interpretations about who or what the Queens of Quimbanda are.

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Maria de Padilla: Queen of Souls
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Maria de Padilla: Queen of Souls

A personal, practical, and historical work, Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls is a detailed account of the life and death of the Spanish queen María de Padilla, her rise to popularity in the witchcraft of Spain and Portugal, and her later migration with the exiled witches to Brazil where she would become the queen of the souls in Quimbanda.

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Daemonology
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Daemonology

In Dæmonology: An Introduction With a Selection of Texts, Humberto Maggi brings together numerous threads into one cohesive whole, addressing the diverse uses of the concept of the intermediary spirit in the history and practice of Magic, and its correlates in other cultures.

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Kenneth Grant: A Bibliography
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Kenneth Grant: A Bibliography

With a substantial Introduction by Henrik Bogdan surveying the development of Grant’s published work, a Preface by Steffi Grant and a Foreword by Martin P. Starr, this book is sure to become the standard volume of reference for details of Grant’s work.

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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 4 - The Fourth Book
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De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 4 - The Fourth Book

This final section of "The Three Books of Occult Philosophy" includes new translations of extracts from Agrippa's work "De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum" (1530) and the potentially apocryphal "Liber Quartus de Occulta Philosophia" (1559), which also contains the Heptameron, or Elementa Magica de Petri de Abano.

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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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