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EDGE OF THE
CIRCLE BOOKS IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE FOLLOWING NEW OBSCURE COLLECTOR’S
EDITIONS:
APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT
By Peter Grey
Publisher:
Scarlet Imprint, 2013
“Of the Doves”
edition; 1000 exemplars; Black linen cloth stamped with white dove devices to
front and rear. Starkly iconic.
Embossed grey
end papers, printed on archival quality paper.
List Price:
$74.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
The spectre of
witchcraft is haunting the West, the dead giving up their secrets. This is a
ritual unveiling of these mysteries. It is a vision and a revelation of the
mytho-poetic structure of the Art.
Apocalyptic
Witchcraft is a bold project which does not seek to impose an orthodoxy on what
is the heresy of heresies. Instead, it suggests a way forward.
Apocalyptic
Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt
as living experiences. These are the core of our ritual practice. Dream, lunar
and, critically, menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The
wolf, the Devil, and the Goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a
landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not
separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together
into a single unifying vision. Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic
prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems.
The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the
tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which
is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born
from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning
for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself
destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an Apocalyptic Witchcraft, and this is a
book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of
the dark impasse.
Tradition is not
static, it flows, and this work pours forth a vision for the future. Founded in
pilgrimage and ritual, encountered in dreams and gleaned from the conversations
of both doves and crows, a remarkable narrative unfolds. Its wings span from
pre-history, through the witch-panic and it emerges fully fledged into our
present moment of crisis. It offers a witchcraft for our time. Apocalyptic
Witchcraft is a controversial, luminous text. A shuddering paroxysm of eternal
renewal beneath the serpent moon.
It is neither a
how-to book, nor a history, rather it is a magical vision of the Art in its
entirety.
The standard Of
the Doves edition is an octavo book of 200pp bound in rough black linen cloth.
Limited to 1000 copies. The boards are stamped with white doves, whose hidden
meaning is elucidated in the text. Lyrical typography and carefully chosen
images communicate further understanding.
CONTENTS
Exordium
Apocalyptic Witchcraft
A Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft
She is Without
The Cup, the Cross and the Cave
A Spell to Awaken England
The Scaffold of Lightning
The Children that are Hidden Away
A Wolf sent Forth to Snatch away a Lamb
Fifteen
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
Peter Grey is
the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. His previous work The Red Goddess has become
the standard work (if there can be such a thing) on Babalon. Apocalyptic
Witchcraft represents his mature understanding of these mysteries, working in
conjunction with Lover and accomplice Alkistis Dimech. This is his second book
length work and the first title Scarlet Imprint has devoted to witchcraft.
GENUINE WITCHCRAFT IS EXPLAINED:
The Secret History of the Royal Windsor
Coven and the Regency
By John of Monmouth
Publisher:
Capall Bann
Bibliotheque
Rouge paperback edition; with plates of rare manuscript, illustrated. 488
pages.
List Price: $39.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
For some fifty
years, secrecy has surrounded the Royal Windsor Coven and the Regency which
operated from the 1960s to the 1990s. They have played a major role in shaping
modern witchcraft and paganism, not only in the U.K. but, in the USA and
Australasia. The Royal Windsor Coven gave birth to what is known as the
"Cochrane Tradition" in witchcraft, named after the pseudonym of one
of the coven's founders: "Robert Cochrane". The Regency, which was
the exoteric form of the Royal Windsor Coven, was the first group to hold
public, pagan celebrations, open to all-comers, in Britain and paved the way
for the public pagan festivals that culminated in the Stonehenge Festivals.
Together, these groups gave rise to the Clan of Tubal Cain and Y Plant Bran
strands of witchcraft in Britain and the 1734 and Roebuck covens in the USA.
They included amongst their members most of the famous names in witchcraft
today, including Doreen Valiente, Marion Green, Norman Gills, Bill Gray, Madge
Worthington, Joe Wilson and Evan John Jones.
In spite of
their importance, there is very little information in the public domain about
either of these groups and much of what is available is filled with factual
error and invention. As leader of the Regency, the author possesses a
collection of letters and documents that has never seen the light of day and
sheds interesting and detailed information about the activities, beliefs and
rituals of the Royal Windsor Coven and the Regency. The author also has over
forty years experience and membership of the Regency, together with anecdotal
information about the Royal Windsor Coven from its members who were close
friends and with whom he lived for many years. This is a history of the Royal
Windsor Coven and the Regency, which focuses on its members, beliefs and
rituals to demystify, inform and inspire.
ABRAXAS: ISSUE 3, SPRING 2013
International Journal of Esoteric Studies
Publisher; Fulgur
176 pages,
printed on a variety of papers; Standard Issue , sewn paperback
List Price:
$25.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Abraxas No.3
offers 176 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed
using state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard, Abraxas 3
is richly illustrated and employs a variety of papers.
Contributions
for this third issue include:
SPECIAL FEATURES
Aleister Crowley: The Palermo Collection:
Caves of Sorcerers: The American
Beginnings of Crowley’s Art
William Breeze
Crowley :The Painter in Cefalù and the
Origins of the Palermo Collection
Giuseppe Di Liberti
Aleister Crowley, Painting, and the Works
from the Palermo Collection
Marco Pasi
An Inventory of the Palermo Collection
Marco Pasi
ESSAYS, PLUS
The Secret School vol. I, II, III
Christina Mitrentse
Saint Spider
Francesco Dimitri
Stones
Tomáš D’Aradia
Do Me Dada Style
Adel Souto
Sufism: A Theurgic Perspective
Zaheer Gulamhusein
A Place Apart
Christina Harrington
POETRY, PLUS
Tread Well
Robert Yates
In the Bookshop
Stephen Alexander
Designing the Hermitage
Paul Cowlan
of the stars, and two
Paul Hardacre
Hunting Amber (For Johs Pedersen) Paul Cowlan
Casting Song
Siofra McSherry
IMAGES AND
TYPOGRAPHY
8 English Rituals
Sara Hannant
Initiation
Geraldine Lambert
Lamia
Santiago Caruso
Untitled
Rik Garrett
Paracelsus: of the Umbratick Evester
Joseph Uccello
INTERVIEWS
Jesse Bransford: An Interview
Pam Grossman
The Eglantine Breath: An Interview with
Denis Forkas Kostromitin
Robert Ansell
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