The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 7
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 7

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 6
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 6

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 5
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 5

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 4
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 4

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 3
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 3

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 2
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 2

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 1
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The Equinox: Keep Silence Edition, Vol. 1, No. 1

This edition based on new scans from a copy of the 1909 first edition. All of the images used to create this book were created by taking scans of a first edition copy and then digitally enhancing the black ink and removing the paper texture from the background. The images printed in half-tone were run through a special descreening process to remove the moiré patterns.

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The Dance of Sun and Moon
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The Dance of Sun and Moon

Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe’s 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation

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Enchanted Modernities
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Enchanted Modernities

The syncretic nature of Theosophy encouraged individualism in belief, fitting well the popular notions of freedom and personal agency used to characterize the American West.

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Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over
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Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over

Trans- States is an experimental, transdisciplinary conference held at the University of Northampton that seeks to bring about a valuable convocation of esoterically-inclined minds: a meeting of academics, independent scholars, magical practitioners and artists with shared interests in both the study and production of contemporary occulture.

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The Key of Necromancy: Volume 2
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The Key of Necromancy: Volume 2

The second volume of the Key of Necromancy continues with the translation of the 18th century German magical texts Nigromantisches Kunst-Buch, Der Schlussel von dem Zwange der Holle and Experimentir Buch whose first part was published in the first tome.

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The Key of Necromancy: Volume 1
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The Key of Necromancy: Volume 1

The Key of Necromancy is a two-volume work that attests to the continuity and changes that underwent the German magical literature through the late 17th to mid-18th century. It stands as an example of the unique techniques and spirit lists that circulated around the Holy Roman Empire that would later consolidate in what today is known as the Faustian Tradition.

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Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis
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Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis

The Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis was a popular grimoire in 18th Century Germany centering around the legend of Doctor Faust, to whom it was pseudo-epigraphically attributed.

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Mightiest Sea-Spirit
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Mightiest Sea-Spirit

Dr. Faust's Mightiest Sea-Spirit is an anthology of four Faustian Grimoires dealing mainly with the subject of spirits of the sea and of the water.

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Praxis Magica Faustiana
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Praxis Magica Faustiana

The Praxis Magica Faustiana consists of 14 full-color lithographs that date to the mid-19th century. These were faithfully copied from an earlier manuscript of the same name attributed to Dr. Johannes Faust.

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Terrors of the Night
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Terrors of the Night

This volume presents essays on the history of dreams and nightmares, in particular focusing on how these have been visualised; and how and why these visualizations change.

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Liber Eximo Carnem (Forthcoming)
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Liber Eximo Carnem (Forthcoming)

The primary focus is on crossing the threshold and the candidate being led blindfolded and bound to the chamber of his/her unmaking. Much of what is being written here relies on the vignette of becoming undone and therefore unmade.

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The Vampyre
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The Vampyre

The Vampyre is the first Vampire story published in English, a novella written by John Polidori, physician to Lord Byron. The Vampyre appeared in England’s New Monthly Magazine in April 1819.

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