ADDENDUM: JULY, 2013
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EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS IS PROUD TO
PRESENT THE FOLLOWING NEW TITLES:
All prices subject to change without notice.
NEW FROM SCARLET IMPRINT:
SERPENT SONGS
Sylvan Edition
Edited by Nicholaj de
Mattos Frisvold
Sylvan edition,
750 exemplars, Olive cloth gold and black blocking.
Hardback, Custom
end papers, printed on archival quality paper.
Scarlet Imprint,
2013
List Price:
$74.50
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Serpent Songs
are the works and words of those who remain untamed, from Cunning Folk to
Exorcists to Pellars to Sorgin and Witches and Mystics.
A collection of
fifteen essays are introduced and curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
through whose contacts we encounter the worlds of lone practitioners and
tradition holders, from both family and clan, and are allowed a rare glimpse
into the workings of the more secretive proponents of the Craft.
Traditional
Craft is intimately bound to the spirit of the land. Serpent Songs contains the
works of genuine Cornish and Basque witchcraft, the relatively unknown Swedish
Trolldom, the persecuted Bogomils, and the oft misrepresented Italian
Stregoneria.
Members of 1734,
Clan of Tubal Cain, an ex member of The Companie of the Serpent-Cross are among
those who choose to share their experiences. Light is shed on such important
figures as Robert Cochrane, Evan John-Jones and Andrew Chumbley amongst others,
but more than illustrious ancestors, Traditional Craft is revealed as a living
throng.
These are the
voices of those who work the art and this book details their practices,
struggles and wayward journeys. Serpent Songs takes a crooked path through the
landscape, from historical studies to practical acts, from lonely stone stiles
set between deep hedges to the warm entrails of animals and forays into the
caves and woods. These tresses are woven into an undulating nest of serpents.
Serpent Songs is
a wide ranging work that deals with the issues of witch blood, taboo, the other,
the liminal state, fire, dream, art and need as vectors of the Craft. What
emerges is not a narrow definition of what it means to engage in Traditional
Craft, but a set of shared characteristics and approaches which become evident
despite the cultural gulfs in place and time. This is a book of praxis, beliefs
and their own definitions of the art itself rather than those applied to it by
outsiders. These are the voices who for the most part operate in silence but
now wish to be heard.
The standard
Sylvan edition is a large octavo book of 224pp bound in an olive cloth. Printed
in gold and black on archival paper. The
boards are blocked in gold and black. Finished with patterned endpapers.
CONTENTS
Prelude: The Other Blood - Nicholaj de
Mattos Frisvold
The Witch's Cross - Gemma Gary
The Spirit of True Blood - Shani Oates
Lezekoak - Arkaitz Urbeltz
A Gathering of Light and Shadows - Stuart
Inman and Jane Sparkes
The Fall and Rise of an English Cunning
One - Tony MacLeod
Stregoneria, A Roman Furnace - Nicholaj
de Mattos Frisvold
But the House of my Father will stand -
Xabier Bakaikoa Urbeltz
Bucca and the Cornish Cult of Pellar -
Steve Patterson
Exorcists, Conjurors and Cunning Men in
Post-Reformation England- Richard Parkinson
The Liturgy of Taboo - Francis Ashwood
Trolldom - Johannes Gardback
Bogomilian and Byzantine influences on
Traditional Craft - Radomir Ristic
But to assist the Soul's Interior
Revolution, the art of Andrew Chumbley and aspects of Sabbatic Craft - Anne
Morris
Passersby: Potential, Crossroads &
Wayfaring on the Serpent's Road- Jesse Hathaway Diaz
The Mysteries of Beast, Blood and Bone -
Sarah Lawless
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GATEWAYS THROUGH STONE AND CIRCLE
Standard Edition
By Frater Ashen F.:N.:F.:
Nephilim Press,
2013
List Price:
$54.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
"Gateways
Through Stone and Circle" is a compendium of personal experiences and
research from a traditional ceremonial magician working through a classical
book of magic. This volume is a complete
and in-depth study in the "Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals" as
found in Francis Barrett's, The Magus, and accredited to Trithemius of
Spanheim. Detailed research, personal
experimentation, and evoking each of the seven planetary archangels and
intelligences to visible and auditory presence are presented within.
You will find
descriptions of the seven planetary archangels as witnessed by author, instructions for building each of
the traditional implements and furniture to the specifications of the grimoire,
as well as detailed illustrations of the author's actual equipment. Items such as the infamous Book of Spirits or
Liber Spirituum are explained in detail so the reader will know how to make and
use one. Chapters also describe methods
for improving scrying abilities, working with a partner, and conducting the
entire ceremony from beginning to end.
Everything to make this art work is explained in incredibly vivid
detail.
**
THE BOOK OF GOING BACK BY NIGHT
Trade Edition
By Orryelle
Defenestrate-Bascule
Publisher: TWILIGHT
PRODUCTIONS, an IMPrint of iNSPiRALink.)
June Solstice,
2013
List Price:
$26.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Released
previously only as a 22-copy deluxe limited edition bound in midnight-blue goat-leather
and papyrus by Ars Obscura, this book is now available in a more affordable
large-format (27.6 cm x 21cm) edition with midnight-blue thick textured card
covers, printed with gold (right) and silver (left) pantone inks of the
hieroglyph of Hrumachis on the front and back.108 pages.
Printed with
solar power using 100% recycled materials by Black Rainbow, this handsome
volume is limited to only 444 hand-numbered copies.
The verses are
hand-calligraphed, introduced and illustrated by Orryelle; with an extensive
commentary by Orryelle and Nema.
The text of this
book is a transmission from the double-lion/ess Hrumachis Aker, through the
masks and forms of Sekhmet, of the Egyptian and Grecian SphinXes, and (in the
Third Chapter) of Babalon and the Beast.
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Voices from the
'future aeon' of Maat deliver information which intersects with the currents of
the Ancient Egyptian 'Book of Coming Forth by Day' (translated by E.A.Wallis
Budge as The Egyptian Book of the Dead) in the present.
The book is
esoteric and mytho-poetical yet has socio-political implications for our times.
The Nu Word of
IAHM and its formula and application are presented, as well as the AZOTh
casting and banishing system.
NEWS: Orryelle’s critically acclaimed “The Book of Kaos Tarot Deck”
is now back in stock!
SPECIAL EVENT; GEOMANCY WORKSHOP:
Taught by Kiyan Fox
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Time2:00pm until 7:00pm
Description:
Geomancy literally means “Earth Magic”. Specifically, what
will be taught and then practiced is ilm al-raml, the “wisdom of the sand”,
which is divination utilizing sixteen specific symbols that are chosen by a
random process and then interpreted via the creation of Geomantic charts.
What you’ll need: If you like you can bring your favorite
astrological reference book as well as a journal for notes, and pen or pencils.
Topics: Divination; A Brief Historical Overview of Geomancy;
The Figures; How to Make the Charts; Practicing the Craft; Interpretations
This workshop is now being divided into a basic workshop and
an advanced class (!!), which should happen in August.
Cost: $20 for a 5 hour workshop, $7 for a 24+ page pamphlet
(handouts provided for those who don't want the booket).
Time: Sunday July 28, 2013, 2pm till 7
Location: Edge of the Circle Books, 701 East Pike Street in
Capitol Hill
Bring your divination questions and a desire to learn a new
(though old) form of magic.
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