THE KABBALAH, MAGICK, AND THELEMA
(Selected Writings, 2)
By Phyllis Seckler (Author), David
Shoemaker (Editor), Gregory Peters (Editor),
Rorac Johnson (Editor), Lon Milo
DuQuette (Foreword)
Publisher: College of Thelema of
Northern California / The Teitan Press; 1ST edition (2012) First Edition Hardcover. 8vo. xvi +
288pp. Blue cloth with gilt title etc. to spine. Dust jacket.
Frontispiece photo portrait, black and white photo insert, Index.
Edition limited to 666 numbered copies.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Phyllis Seckler ("Soror
Meral:"1917-2004) was introduced to the teachings of Aleister
Crowley in the late 1930s and became a regular participant in the
activities of Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis in California,
and rose to become a Ninth Degree member of the "Sovereign
Sanctuary of the Gnosis," and an Adeptus Minor of the A.'. A.'.
"
The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema"
is the second volume of writings by Phyllis Seckler to be published
by the College of Thelema of Northern California in association with
The Teitan Press. Like the first volume, this collection is edited
and introduced by three of Seckler's former students: Rorac Johnson,
Gregory Peters, and David Shoemaker, but this second volume
additionally includes a short Foreword by one of her best-known early
A.'. A.'. students, Lon Milo DuQuette. In common with Crowley,
Seckler found short, pithy essays, written in the form of "letters,"
to be an excellent and powerful teaching method, and the main body of
this work comprises a series of these letters, covering diverse
topics from kabbalah and the practice of ritual magic, through
philosophy and spiritual enquiry to commentary on the Thelemic
culture of the time.
Originally published in Seckler's
journal "In the Continuum," they are here presented for the
first time in book form, accompanied by redrawn and corrected
diagrams.
The book also reproduces a number of
important letters that passed between Seckler and other significant
figures in the history of post-Crowleyan Thelema, including Karl
Germer, Israel Regardie, Grady McMurtry, Gerald Yorke, and Marcelo
Motta.
These letters, which cover matters as
varied as the leadership succession of the O.T.O. and the thefts at
Karl Germer's library, are published here for the first time, as are
a number of related photographs. New Book. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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ABRAHAM THE JEW ON MAGIC TALISMANS
( To be engraven on the Seals of
Rings made of various metals,
under the influence of the Fixed
Stars and the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon )
By Frederick Hockley, With an
Introduction by Silens Manus.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
York Beach, Maine, USA: Teitan Press,
2011. First Edition Hardcover. Small Quarto. xvi + 46pp (vi), MS
40pp. Bound in high quality black cloth, with a gilt design stamped
on the front cover, blind rules, and gilt title etc. on the spine.
Printed on acid free paper, sewn, Color frontispieces. Edition
limited to 650 numbered copies.
The text of a previously-unpublished
manuscript by Frederick Hockley, probably transcribed by him in circa
1850 from an earlier work.
The manuscript deals with the creation
of talismans, and is divided into two parts, the first of which
details methods for their manufacture "under the fixed stars"
and the second "under the twenty-eight mansions of the moon."
Both sets of concepts were popular in medieval and later European
astrological and magical practice, having apparently been
incorporated into them from Arabic astronomical and astrological
treatises composed during the "Golden Age" of Arabic
science from the middle of the eighth to the middle of the thirteenth
centuries.
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This first published edition comprises
an Introduction in which Silens Manus explores the history of the
manuscript, and its relationship with other early magical works,
notably those of Cornelius Agrippa. It is followed by a typeset
transcription of the text of the manuscript, with explanatory
footnotes, etc., and a reproduction of various relevant passages from
the 1651 edition of Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult
Philosophy."
The final section is a facsimile of the
original manuscript, printed on special coated paper that gives a
photograph like quality to the reproduction. Frederick Hockley
(1809-1885), was an occultist and Freemason with an interest in
Spiritualism who 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. NEW book, fine condition. No dust jacket
issued.
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A BOOK OF THE OFFICES OF SPIRITS.
The Occult Virtue of Plants and Some
Rare Magical Charms & Spells Transcribed
... from a Sixteenth Century
Manuscript on Magic and Necromancy.
From a manuscript by by John Porter,
transcribed by Frederick Hockley, With an Introduction by Colin D.
Campbell.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A Book of the Offices of Spirits is
the first ever publication of this Solomonic text or grimoire which,
in common with the better-known "Goetia," is essentially a
catalog of demons, giving their name, description, rank in the
infernal hieararchy, number of attendant legions, offices
(abilities), as well as a variety of magical rituals for their
conjuration and other purposes. The text has its origin in a magical
manuscript written by one John Porter in 1583, which was itself
probably drawn from earlier European sources. In the early nineteenth
century the Porter manuscript came into the possession of the British
occult fraternity, "the Mercurii," and a transcription of
key sections was compiled by John Palmer. Palmer's transcription was
in turn copied by the renowned occult scholar Frederick Hockley, and
this transcription, along with another anonymous late nineteenth
century manuscript copy, for the basis for the present work.
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Frederick Hockley, and this
transcription, along with another anonymous late nineteenth century
manuscript copy, for the basis for the present work. Frederick
Hockley (1809-1885), was an occultist and Freemason with an interest
in Spiritualism who 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. Colin D. Campbell, author of The Magic Seal
of Dr. John Dee has edited and written an Introduction for the book
in which he examines the history of the manuscript, its place in the
Goetic canon, and its relevance to contemporary occultists.
The book is a hardcover, Small quarto.
(6 3/4" x 8 3/4") 102pp. Sewn, printed on acid-free paper.
Bound in heavy black cloth with a gilt design on the front cover, and
gilt title to the spine. Black "coffin silk" endpapers.
Text printed in red and black.
Edition limited to 800 numbered copies
WE ALSO HAVE WONDERFUL NEW STATUARY!
They are ( from left to right) : The
Horned God Cernunnos Bust by Neil Sims, The Goddess Hekate (Hecate)
Statue based on the art of Marc Potts and The Mother Goddess Danu
Bust by Neil Sims.
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