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THE PSALTER OF CAIN
By Various Contributors
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
February 2012
By desire was the Nail brought to
earth,
A ferrous fruit plucked
from the boughs of the heavenly
tree,
Thus did the mysteries of metal and
fire fall unto man.
The Psalter of Cain consists of a
series of devotional magical works to Cain, holy ancestor of
sorcerers. Its magical foci are dedicated specifically to the
Ancestral Manes of the Sabbatic Current, the shade-mothers and
fathers of the Companie of the Wise.
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Historically, the figure of Biblical
Cain is known from the context of Italian witchcraft and Romany
magic, as well as esoteric orders of Freemasonry and the Society of
the Horseman’s Word. However, it is from the British
witchcraft-lineages of the Cultus Sabbati that Cain has come to
modern occult prominence as the especial patron of the Witch’s Art,
the embodiment of Exile and Opposition explicit within the Elder
Craft. In its rarefied embodiment of Crooked Path Sorcery – the
ever-deviating path of Bane and Blessing, the power of Cain arises
from his mythic forms of Transgressor-against-God, First Murderer,
Wandering Exile, and First Tamer of the Horse, among others. These
Cainite arcana received their highest ritual and literary expression
in Andrew D. Chumbley’s Dragon-Book of Essex.
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The Psalter of Cain is the first public
work of joint authorship of the magical order Cultus Sabbati, its
pages drawn from the collective work of its present initiatic body.
As a work of devotional rite, charm, and incantation, the book
manifests the transcendant Sabbatic vision of Cainite Gnosis: the
radiance which illumines the Nocturnal Eden, the light of
vision-anointed eyes.
The book features new contributions from the following authors:
The book features new contributions from the following authors:
Andrew D. Chumbley
Robert Fitzgerald
Frater A.B.A.
Soror T.A.
Frater A.Z.
Daniel A. Schulke
Soror I.S.
Soror S.I.
Frater A.A.
Frater R. I.
In addition, The Psalter also features
works from the outer sodality of the Cultus, the solitary companions
of The Companie of the Serpent-Cross. Its progression of rite and
charm is incepted by a Poem by Andrew D. Chumbley, and a Consummatum
by Daniel A. Schulke. The book is produced to the highest Xoanon
standard, with a design wholly apposite the Cainite Arcanum. 110
pages, octavo format, printed letterpress, and illustrated by Fraters
A.A., Soror T.A. and Frater A.H.I.
The book is available in the following
edition: Standard hardcover edition: in crimson linen, with gilt
blocking, and limited to 701 copies.
List Price: $132.50
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MYSTICISM: INITIATION
AND DREAM
By Andrew D. Chumbley
Three Hands Press
Monograph No. 1 – January 2012
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
“We might symbolise the process of
oneiric spiritualisation as a "siderealisation" — a
translation of the flesh to the stars — back to the domain of the
Gudean goddess, back to the domain of the primordial smaragdine book”
Written as an undergraduate as SOAS
University of London in 2001, Mysticism: Initiation and Dream would
foreshadow the concerns of Andrew Chumbley's later doctoral research
on the transcendental nature of the magical dream.
In the course of his exposition, the
concepts of the Initiatic Dream are traced to furthest antiquity,
epitomized by the participatory nature of the Mystic within the
Oneiric Realm. The axiomata of Dream Reification and Rarefaction are
introduced as defining processes of this twilight pilgrimage, both of
a gnostic and illuminative character. At the time of his
matriculation, Chumbley had already established a solid reputation as
an occult author and practitioner of widely varying spiritual
disciplines. His highly-acclaimed books Azoëtia (1992) and Qutub
(1995) arose not only from the solid foundation of magical practice
and theory, but also from a highly complex mystical dream-praxis,
perfected for many years.
Though forming the core of his
coursework, Mysticism - together with the bulk of his SOAS essays -
were written in a transcendent dialogist style altogether in concord
with the body of his occult work. Drawing upon sources as diverse as
the dream-vision of Christian saints, Sufic oneiric texts, and Bonpo
termas, Chumbley here presents an arcane cartography of the dream as
the eternal vessel for the perichoresis of matter and spirit.
56 pages, Standard hardcover with dust jacket,
limited to 1,000 copies: $52.50
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