Seven Crossroads of Night
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Seven Crossroads of Night

In Seven Crossroads of Night, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.

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Saint Cyprian’s Deck of Cards
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Saint Cyprian’s Deck of Cards

Using as inspiration José Leitão’s work on the Iberian tradition of Saint Cyprian, artist Natalia Lee Forty has created a unique cartomancy deck meant to enter into conversation with the longstanding Lenormand and Sibilla tradition.

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Dreams & Letters
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Dreams & Letters

In this collection of two of Sédir’s works, Austin Avison introduces Paul Sédir, situating him in the exciting period of societal and cultural changes during the pre-war years in Europe, and provides a translation of Dreams: Theories—Practice—Interpretation and Magic Letters.

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22 Paths of Imperfection
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22 Paths of Imperfection

22 Paths of Inperfection: a flight manual for single-winged angels is a guide for traversing the corridors of doubt, depression, and elation.

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The Book of St. Cyprian
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The Book of St. Cyprian

A translation with extensive commentary of the Livraria Económica edition of O Grande livro de S.Cypriano ou thesouro do feiticeiro, present in the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon — a book so dangerous it needs to be kept in chains.

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Opuscula Cypriani
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Opuscula Cypriani

Presented as a sequel to his first work, The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure, the Opuscula Cypriani is José Leitão’s most extensive and detailed exposition of the tradition of the Portuguese Cyprian Books to date.

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Clearing the Water
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Clearing the Water

In Clearing the Waters: A Monograph on Saint Cyprian Divination from the 17th to the 19th Century, author José Leitão collects an extensive corpus of divinatory and sorcerous practices from the records of the Portuguese Inquisition to unravel the mystery of Cyprian’s seafaring incantation, and how it has come to be associated with contemporary Cyprian divination.

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Bibliotheca Valenciana
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Bibliotheca Valenciana

The Bibliotheca Valenciana contains translations of three of Jerónimo Cortez’s great works: the Non Plus Ultra Do Lunario, the Physiognomy and Various Secrets of Nature, and the Treatise of the Animals, presented and compiled for the first time into one English language volume.

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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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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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Speculum Terrae
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Speculum Terrae

Speculum Terræ: A Magical Earth-Mirror from the 17th Century presents a detailed analysis of one of the rarest kinds of magical paraphernalia: an authentic magical earth-mirror from 17th century Germany

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