EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS IS PROUD TO
PRESENT THE FOLLOWING NEW TITLES:
CLAVIS:
Journal of the Art Magical - Issue One
Publisher: Three Hands Press/Ouroboros Press
Standard
Edition: 80 pages, Softcover, heavy stock, with black and white and full colour
illustrations. Limited to 1,300 copies.
List Price:
$49.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Our inceptive
‘Journal of the Art Magical’ contains both modern, innovative occult content
and scintillant magical artifacts of centuries past.
We are proud to feature
the work of Johnny Jakobsson, that being “Nebiros et Ars Necomantica” an
extended investigation and reverie on the grimoire-patrons of the corpse and
burial ground.
Martin Duffy examines the gnosis of Judas Iscariot and his place
as a witch’s Saint of Opposition in “One Beyond Twelve: The Thirteenth Spirit,
Judas and the Opposer”.
Craig Williams issues an important magical caveat
emptor for the would-be cartographers of the qliphotic wastes in “Daath
Gnosis”.
The mysterious Grosvenor
manuscript is examined by Ben Fernee in “The Commonplace Book of Grosvenor”.
Daniel Schulke’s ‘Diablo Stigmata’ examines the perpetuity of the Devil’s Mark
as an accursed brand, setting the flesh of the witch apart from mankind.
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| 'Celestial Virgin' -D.O.M.A. Manuscript, 18th Century |
Also
featured are alchemical writings by Edward Kelley, George Ripley, and Frater
A.I., and illustrations by Tomasz Allen Kopera, Rima Staines, Ben Tolman,
Joseph Uccello, Tom Allen, Sasan Saidi, Hagen Von Tulien, Johnny Jakobsson, and
more.
EDITION 1
CONTENTS
·
Cover Art, by Tomasz Allen Kopera
·
Shaddai's Gate, by Frater A.I.
·
Nebiros Et Ars Necromantica , by Johnny
Jakobsson
·
One Beyond Twelve: The Thirteenth Spirit,
Judas and the Opposer, by Martin Duffy
·
Beyond the Paths of Frustration: Daath
Gnosis, by Craig Williams
·
Diablo Stigmata, by Daniel Schulke
·
The Vision of George Ripley, Illustrated
by Joseph Uccello
·
The Grosvenor Grimoire, an Ashmolean
Manuscript
·
Visionary Artwork by Rima Staines and Sasan
RECENT ARTICLES
·
Occult Aesthesis: Towards An Esoteric
Theory of the Art Object
·
An Alchemical Puzzle
·
The Seven Wanderers of Western
Esotericism, Part 1
·
Seven Wanderers, Part 2
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THE FOCUS OF LIFE (REDUX)
By Austin Osman Spare
Publisher: Fulgur Esoterica, 2012
4to (315mm x
250mm), 128 pages, inc. a full colour facsimile of the conceptual folio
A FACSIMILE of
the original 1921 deluxe
600 copies only;
Brown cloth boards, dust-jacket
Standard Issue:
List Price $69.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The Focus of
Life: The Mutterings of Aãos, is arguably the most biographically significant
of all Spare’s published works. Often obscure, magical and fragmentary, it
invites exploration of a strange Nietzschean landscape through what Spare
termed ‘the labyrinth of the alphabet.’ But the recent discovery of Spare’s
original conceptual folio for the book, once owned by the respected writer E.M.
Forster, has revealed an unseen series of powerful magico-erotic drawings –
termed by Spare ‘blasphemous Ideographs’ – that provide an important key to
understanding the ‘secret ritual of Self-Love’ that underlies this evocative
and deeply personal work.
This new issue
of The Focus of Life provides readers with a high quality facsimile of the 1921
first edition, together with a full colour facsimile of the newly discovered
conceptual folio for the project. Drawings too explicit for publication in 1921
have thus been reunited with the magical narrative, providing new insight for
those exploring the artist’s life and magical philosophy. These important works
are further augmented with critical essays from Phil Baker and Robert Ansell.
ARCANUM BESTIARUM
Of the
Subtil and Occult Virtues of Divers Beasts
By Robert Fitzgerald; Illustrations
by Liv Rainey-Smith
Publisher: Three Hands Press ; February 25, 2013
The book is 248 pages,
printed in two colour ink on heavy stock, and illustrated throughout. Standard
Edition: cloth hardcover, full colour dust jacket, limited to 1400 copies\
List
Price: $65.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Written in the
great tradition of the medieval bestiaries, Robert Fitzgerald's long-awaited
new work Arcanum Bestiarum re-imagines the animal menagerie in the context of
bestial mystery and atavistic power. Written for the modern magical
practitioner and zoophile, the 272-page volume examines the occult virtues and
totemic majesties of fifty animals, theriomorphs, and their kindred.
Correspondences with deific powers, atavistic wisdom, and mythopoetic emanation
are examined, especially in light of the tutelary powers all animals possess.
The Tetramorph –
essentially an animalic ‘crown of creation’ – is here transformed into the far
broader and innovative concept of the ‘Theriomorph’, or, the Zodiak Entire of
Creation as an apotheosis of the animal form and zoötype… One of the greatest
of virtues possessed by the Human is its bestial heritage, both spiritually and
genetically. These attributes are often seen as primitive, chaotic and
dangerous to civilized culture by the custodians of moralism and religion
today, but the fact remains that it is our animal heritage that makes us what
we are, or, more accurately, what we should and can be.
Special
attention is given to the zoomorphic aspects of alchemy, which historically
used the bestial emblemata as veils of the stages of the Great Work, as well as
shamanism and witchcraft, bodies of knowledge particularly rich in the lore of
animals as spirit-helpers. The work is an emergent strand of magical
investigation long part of the author’s private life, where he has worked in
the ecological field of wildlife rehabilitation, especially raptors.
The text is
graced with fifty-five original woodcut illustrations by artist Liv
Rainey-Smith, prepared especially for this title in close collaboration with
the author. Amongst the more ambitious renderings in the work are the occult
cryptofauna Homunculus, Manticore, Ouroboros, and Basilisk, as well as animals
prominent in the ancient dawn of magick: the Bear, Goat, Viper, Peacock, and
more. Completing the design elements is an original typeface designed for the
work by calligrapher Gail Coppock, serving to illuminate this grimoire of the
Magician’s Primal Eden.
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A Brief Guide to Pagan Etiquette
·
Some Tips for Aspiring Herbalists
·
Magical Ethics
·
Basic Circle Casting
·
Correspondences - Key of Solomon
·
Magickal Weapons and Tools
·
Spellcraft
·
The Oracle™
·
The Tree of Life
·
Temple Arrangement
·
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