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THE SACRED ALIGNMENTS & DARK SIDE OF
SIGILS
By Robert Podgurski
A limited
edition of 525 numbered copies.
Hardback, large
square format (12ins x 12ins), 222pp. Bound in a black subtle weave linen
finished paper and elegantly blocked in matt black on upper board and matt gold
on the spine.
Produced using
archival quality print upon a superb 110gsm acid-free, soft white, archival art
paper.
The work is
profusely illustrated throughout and has a comprehensive Index. List Price:
$126.95
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FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
An invaluable
manual and research tool for serious students of Magick and Western Esotericism
— a nexus spanning Enochian Magick, Ley Lines and Geomagnetism, Chthonic
Magick, Shamanism, and much more.
Sacred
Alignments is the next step in sigil magick — the development and use of
multidimensional sigils that can be simultaneously projected inwards and
externally beyond the immediate confines of the individual’s mundane sphere.
The Sacred
Alignments & Dark Side of Sigils is innovative amongst modern grimoires and
occult studies and introduces the reader to The Grid Sigil — an highly
developed magical tool that acts as a sigil, not just in the sense of Austin
Osman Spare’s notion of a sigil (as an internalized implement) but as an active
device for external applications such as dowsing, working with the four
elements, etc.
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The Grid Sigil
is a multidimensional tool that potentially acts as a catalyst to assist the
practitioner (through careful meditation and application) with work in
harnessing various spatial power zones and as an aid in comprehending the
relationship between microcosm and macrocosm.
Sacred
Alignments is not simply a manual of practical modern magick but a scholarly,
critical study of modern Sigil Magick and its underpinnings. It is rooted in
the thoughts of Robert Grosetteste, the medieval concepts of the Divine
Signature, and Eastern antecedents such as Tantric Philosophies on Yantra and Mandala.
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Latest news and
information from Robert Podgurski here: http://www.gridmagick.com
A MAGUS AMONG THE ADEPTS:
Essays and Addresses.
By William Wynn Westcott,
Edited and Introduced by Dr. R.A. Gilbert.
Publisher: The
Teitan Press
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
A Magus Among the Adepts is a wholly new
collection of thirty fugitive and unpublished papers by William Wynn Westcott.
In the public
mind Westcott is associated primarily with the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn, but that magical Order was the child of Westcott's life and work as a
Rosicrucian, and thus the twelve papers that comprise the first section of this
book are drawn from his magical, alchemical and Rosicrucian writings – including
three unpublished addresses to members of the Golden Dawn, and his
correspondence concerning Mathers and Crowley, brought together here for the
first time. Other aspects of Western Esotericism – symbolism, divination,
Kabbalah, the Mysteries and Freemasonry – are taken up in the thirteen papers
that make up the following three sections.
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In all of them Westcott’s facility
with his varied subject matter – Gnostic doctrines; Zodiacal signs; Egyptian
Mysteries; Kabalistic Cosmogony; and the Number 666, among much else – and his
mastery over its content, is clear. His deep knowledge of folklore and
mythology is demonstrated in essays on the Basilisk, the Mandrake and
"Mystical Animals of Antiquity," whilst the final section of this
collection contains two remarkable and entertaining essays – "Twelve
Years’ Experiences of a London Coroner" and "The Coroner and his
Medical Neighbours" – in which Westcott gives his personal memories and
reflections of his professional career. His life as a whole is encapsulated in
a new biographical introduction by Dr. R. A. Gilbert, who has drawn upon a
wealth of contemporary and personal archives to provide a rounded and detailed
portrait of every facet of this complex and enigmatic man.
The book is a hardcover, octavo size (9 x
6 inches, approx. 23.5 x 15.2cm), xxii + 242pp. Quality black cloth binding
with gilt facsimile signature on upper board, gilt titling to spine. Sewn,
printed on acid-free paper. Black and white frontispiece, index. Glossy dust
jacket.
Edition limited to 650 numbered copies.
Price: $54.00
CLAVIS ARCANA MAGICA
By Frederick Hockley, With an
Introduction by Alan Thorogood.
Publisher: The
Teitan Press
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Clavis Arcana Magica is an unusual text for
Hockley in that it is largely concerned with what might be considered
"black magic."
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As Alan Thorogood describes in his Introduction, it
gives instruction for the performance of a number of magical workings, the
details of which were said to have been obtained for Hockley via his seer Emma,
during a series of scrying operations undertaken between 1853 and 1856. The
workings are preceded by instructions including the form of the "call to
the crystal," the exorcism and the discharge. The first working outlines a
method to call the spirits of five material substances or organisms for the
purpose of receiving cognate visions, the second is a variety of praestigia for
the revivification of animal as well as plant species, the third outlines the
construction of a talisman which permits the operator to enter the “spirit
state” while asleep, and the fourth is necromantic ritual said to be "of
marvellous power and force." This first publication of the text comprises
an Introduction by Alan Thorogood, followed by a typeset transcription of the
text of the manuscript, with explanatory footnotes, etc., and a facsimile of
the original Hockley manuscript.
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Frederick
Hockley (1809-1885), was an occultist and freemason whose interests included
scrying, ritual magic, alchemy and spiritualism. In later life was associated
with the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley's peers considered him to be
one of the great occult scholars of his time in fact he was held in such high
regard by one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, W. Wynn Westcott, that he
posthumously claimed Hockley as one of the Order's most outstanding Adepts.
The book is a hardcover, Small quarto. (6
3/4" x 8 3/4") xii + 84pp. Bound in heavy black cloth with a gilt design
on the front cover, and gilt title to the spine. Colour frontispiece, black and
white facsimile of manuscript. Sewn, printed on acid-free paper. Black moire
"coffin silk" endpapers.
Edition limited to 650 numbered copies.
Price: US $54.00
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