ADDENDUM:
SEPTEMBER, 2013
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SPECIAL
EVENTS AND NEW COLLECTIBLE BOOKS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 7 PM
Cosmos,
Chaos, and the Traditional Gnosis of the Left-Hand Path
In this talk,
Dr. George Sieg addresses the Traditionalist reception of Left-Hand Path ideas,
and the Left-Hand Path reception of concepts of tradition.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH
Black
Lotus Kult presents:
BLK Celebration 2013 – “LOVE KULT”
An evening of
Art, Music, and Ritual featuring; Hagen von Tulien, Kindle Cimmerian, Twilight
Bellidanse, Dawn Von Nagy, Raqs Steady Eddie, Ariock Van de Voorde, Scarlet
Marie and More!
The 5th
Annual “BLK Celebration” will be a semi-public event on September 16th at Edge
of the Circle Books and will include events at the store from 6-9PM.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
6:00-7:00PM – Meet and Greet and Book
Signing. Open to
public. A chance to converse and get some books/journals signed. Writers/Artist
on hand will include Hagen von Tulien, Johnny Jakobsson, Dawn von Nagy, Ariock
Van de Voorde and more. A VERY limited edition “BLK Celebration” print designed
by Hagen will be made available. Wine and snacks will be served.
7:00-9:00PM – Ritual/Performance.
Semi-Private.
Invited guests may convene in the ritual chambers for an evening of evocative
entertainment from Black Lotus Kult and Friends. Space is limited, and once
invited guests are let in, we will allow additional attendees to enter as room
permits. Performances will include the premier of a song from a Michael
Bertiaux/Black Lotus Kult collaboration!
9:00PM--? – Carousing. Open to Public. After the performances are complete, we
will head one door down to The Honey Hole (703 E Pike) for shenanigans.
EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS
IS PROUD TO
PRESENT
THE FOLLOWING NEW COLLECTOR’S TITLES
FROM THREE HANDS PRESS:
All prices subject to change without notice.
OCCLITH 0: OMNIFORM
By Joseph Uccello
Occlith Omniform
0 is 272 pages, printed on heavy art stock, Standard Hardcover
Full heavy
gunmetal cloth with dust jacket, limited to 555 hand-numbered copies
List Price:
$68.00
“ Know therefore that severall and various
chips
or
fragments fell out in the cutting or carving of
the great
mysterie, whereof some became flesh,
of which there are infinite sorts and formes:
others were
Sea-monsters, of wonderfull variety also;
some became herbs; others fell into wood:
abundance
into stones and metalls.”
— PARACELSUS
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
“Since 1992,
Xoanon and its sister publishing house Three Hands Press have pioneered the art
of occult publishing, their practice driven by the philosophy that a truly
magical book transcends the medium of its material embodiment. In part, this
has been achieved through sublime qualities of exceptional content and
artistry: original text, image, and type design which are undeniably possessed
by the inspiring spirits which animate the volume. In the most potent of
instances, the book coalesces by a hidden and vital anatomy, whose heart
pulsates with life. Historically, the phenomenon of the magical book has
appeared at the confluence of magic, mysticism, artistic inspiration and high
craftsmanship. Nowhere is this as evident or beguiling as in the corpus of
European alchemical texts, created in the ascendancy of movable type, where
individual spiritual revelation came to inform both how the Royal Art of
Alchemy was understood, and how books were made.”
“In
collaboration with The Viatorium Press, and in the spirit of furthering the
modern tradition of the Magical Book, we are pleased to announce Occlith
Omniform 0 from award-winning artist, typographer and printer Joseph Uccello.
Containing essential texts of the Paracelsian School of Alchemy, the whole serves
as an animated sourcebook of essential Hermetic philosophy and Natural Magic,
vivified through the letterpress-inspired type design and Uccello’s masterful
ink and brush drawings. In addition to the lavishly-illustrated alchemical
texts, Omniform includes an essential lexicon of alchemical terms, and an
original Introduction by Uccello serves as the portal of ingress into this
Corporeal Book.”
SALOMONIC MAGICAL ARTS
Translated and Introduced
by Fredrik Eytzinger
Late August,
2013
Octavo, 280
pages, Salmomonic Magical Arts is illustrated throughout with sigils and rare
photographs. The sigils and magical seals were drawn by Maria Olsson after the
original source documents, especially for this first English edition.
Standard
Hardcover , Full black cloth with dust jacket, limited to 1200 copies.
List Price:
$64.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
“Water, I exhort you olansgält. Lucifer,
I exhort you with all your company, that you will bring my belongings back
again. May the thief never come to peace, neither at night nor at day, sleeping
or awake, riding or on foot or by any means, until he returns what he has
stolen…”
--From A Spell
To Catch Thieves
Amid the great
genres of European magical books are the Scandinavian Svartkonstböcker or
‘Books of Black Arts’, the privately-kept practical manuals of magic used by
rural charmers and practitioners of folk magic. Incorporating charms, prayers,
and curses, as well as medicine, alchemy and physical experiments, many of
these books survive today in universities and private collections. While
bearing some relationship to the corpus of
European grimoires which feature angelic and demonic magic, the
Svartkonstböcker as texts of magic are in a class all their own.
Salomonic
Magical Arts consists of two such volumes, originally handwritten in the early
eighteenth century. Named The Red Book
and The Black Book by one of their owners, they passed through the hands of priests
and cunning men before coming to rest in academic institutions. Invoking a
variety of spirtual powers ranging from Christ to Beelzebub, its magical
formulae, numbering in excess of 450 individual receipts, serve as a testament
to the endurance of sorcery in the early modern era. First published in Swedish
in 1918, Salomonic Magic Arts is here published in English for the first time.
Introducing the
work is a substantive introduction by the translator, which places the book in
its cultural and magico-historical context, including Swedish cunning-folk
traditions (trolldom) the European grimoire tradition, traditional magical
healing, pagan belief, and the relationship between folk magic and the church.
BY MOONLIGHT AND SPIRIT FLIGHT:
The Praxis of the Otherworldly Journey to
the Witches’ Sabbat
Three Hands Press Occult Monograph No. 4
By Michael Howard
56 Pages - 6 Illustrations
Standard Cloth
Hardcover with Letterpress Dust Jacket, limited to 1,000 copies.
List Price : $36.50
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
The Devil read out a roster of those
present from a black book. A fire was then lit and the Horned One sat on a
throne to receive the worship of his followers. At his side was the leading
female witch, a woman known as the Queen of the Sabbath. The witches saluted
the Devil by means of the osculum infame or ‘obscene kiss’, which was given
under the tail…
As has been
established by historians such as Dr. Carlo Ginzburg and Éva Pócs, the
topological elements of the medieval Witches’ Sabbat –the ecstatic nocturnalia
of the lamiae — carry relics of the ancient spirit-cults and localized
folk-beliefs of Europe. Elements haunting witchcraft-practices included the
night-roving denizens of the Wild Hunt, the exteriorised or shapeshifted
spirit-double, and the profaned sacraments of Christianity itself. Of
particular interest in the present essay is the phenomenon of nocturnal
spirit-travel and its connections to present-day occult practice as manifested
within the Sabbatic Cultus of traditional witchcraft.
In this fourth
book in the Three Hands Press Occult Monograph Series, British folklorist
Michael Howard casts an eye over such elements as the ancestral horde, the
flight of the Furious Host, and the entheogenic Witches Salve, each of which
played a unique role in the Sabbat of the Witches. The mythos of the Sabbatic
conclave, containing infernal and diabolical elements, is taken beyond its
Christian pathology to connect it with actual practices in folk-magic.
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