Sigils For Magic
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Sigils For Magic

Sigils for Magic makes artisan magic accessible to all. The author adeptly outlines techniques for change with honesty and humour, providing examples of effective sigil magic.

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Dark Magic
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Dark Magic

The writings of the celebrated American author of weird fiction H. P. Lovecraft are known for their groundbreaking innovation, particularly their treatment of ‘the other’ or otherness, incepting a palpable state of alienation in the reader.

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The Blood of the Earth
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The Blood of the Earth

In The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic & Peak Oil, John Michael Greer has written a challenging and radical work, fusing deep ecology with an adept’s understanding of magic.

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Tartaros
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Tartaros

The magical doctrines of the ancient Orphics and Pythagoreans are poorly understood by modern scholars, in part because they were secretive in their own time. Well-known for speaking in riddles and complex ciphers, its adepts were bound by strict taboo and silence, the breaking of which was punishable by death.

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The Fourth and Fifth Pyramids
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The Fourth and Fifth Pyramids

In 2013 artist Jesse Bransford produced an exhibition for the Galveston Artist Residency. Titled The Fourth Pyramid, the exhibition was conceived at the prompting of founder/director Eric Schnell. From this prompt Bransford created a ‘spell’ for the city of Galveston, a large, multi-stage installation that operated with explicit magical intent.

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A Book of Staves
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A Book of Staves

Icelandic folk magic and magical texts — so-called low and high magic – combine as sources and inspiration for A Book of Staves by Jesse Bransford.

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Theia Philosophia
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Theia Philosophia

Theia Philosophia: A Manual of the Royal Arte by Jason Arthur Green is a Theurgic system of training focused principally on achieving Henosis, the unification with the divine.

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Artaud and the Gnostic Drama
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Artaud and the Gnostic Drama

In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), mythologised as an icon of failure and madness, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.

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Ascend, Ascend
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Ascend, Ascend

Written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church – the Star and Snake Arts Centre – Ascend Ascend is Janaka Stucky’s most powerful book to date.

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The Sworn and Secret Grimoire
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The Sworn and Secret Grimoire

This ‘Guide to Grimoiring’ renders the grimoires comprehensible and ‘user friendly’ in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it.

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The Rosicrucifixion
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The Rosicrucifixion

The Rosicrucifixion is a sideways look at matters Christian from angles which, while appealing to many occultists and heretics, may be as appalling to many supposed Christians.

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Pandaemonium
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Pandaemonium

Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues is truly a first of its kind, and a necessity for the further development of traditional magic in a modern context.

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Thus Spake Magnus Dictus
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Thus Spake Magnus Dictus

Thus Spake Magnus Dictus is the collected writings of Jake Stratton-Kent first published in The Eqiunox: British Journal of Thelema issues 1-8, spanning the years 1988-1994 and faithfully reproduced in a facsimile edition.

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Goetic Liturgy
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Goetic Liturgy

First published in The Equinox: British Journal of Thelema, Volume VII 9-11 as ‘Liturgical Approaches to Invocation & Evocation’, Goetic Liturgy concerns the art of invoking gods in order to conjure spirits by “the Egyptian formula”.

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The Testament of Cyprian the Mage
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The Testament of Cyprian the Mage

The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is the third work in the Encyclopædia Goetica series by Jake Stratton-Kent, comprehending The Book of Saint Cyprian and his Magical Elements and an elucidation of The Testament of Solomon.

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The True Grimoire
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The True Grimoire

The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. The True Grimoire comprises a coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.

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Songs for the Witch Woman
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Songs for the Witch Woman

There are few modern love stories as passionate and poignant as the relationship between rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his artist lover, Marjorie Cameron.

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