SPECIAL
ADDENDUM II, MARCH, 2014
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PROUD TO PRESENT
THE FOLLOWING NEW COLLECTIBLE TITLES!
THE
TESTAMENT OF CYPRIAN THE MAGE
Encylopædia
Goetica Volume III,
Comprehending
The Book of Saint Cyprian, His magical Elements,
And an
Elucidation of The Testament of Solomon
By
Jake Stratton-Kent
Scarlet Imprint, 2014
Starry Heaven edition, Limited to 800 exemplars.
A pair of royal octavo books comprising 592pp bound in a
lapis night sky cloth, spangled with stars, with dustjackets.
Printed in black and red throughout on archival paper, and
finished with embossed endpapers.
List Price: $181.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is a two-volume work by
Jake Stratton-Kent, comprehending The Book of Saint Cyprian and his Magical
Elements and an elucidation of The Testament of Solomon.
The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is a two volume work of
approximately 600 pages endowed with charts, tables, seals etc. and punctuated
by specially commissioned pen and ink illustrations by Oliver Liebeskind.
Lavishly bound and printed in red and black ink throughout, this is a work of
enduring importance and a resource to accompany your ongoing study.
This is the final work in Stratton-Kent's acclaimed Encylopædia
Goetica series which begin with The True Grimoire, a working reconstruction of
the Grimorium Verum, and was followed by the monumental two volume Geosophia:
The Argo of Magic which explored the necromantic Greek origins of Goetia.
The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is a fitting climax to
this endeavour which has placed the author at the forefront of modern magic
with a body of work that is both scholarly and aimed at practical application.
All are standalone texts though benefit from being read as aspects of a single
thesis: the importance of Goetia as the oldest continuous tradition of Western
magic.
As Stratton-Kent affirms, 'Goetic Magic ... if properly
understood would regenerate Western magic and underline its immense cultural
significance, on a level equal to any spiritual tradition in the world.'
This understanding is clearly given in two volumes of lucid
and fascinating exegesis with clear extracts from all the necessary works.
The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is an ambitious and
far-seeing work, addressing two ends of the magical spectrum: the Testament of
Solomon and a version of the Iberian Book of Saint Cyprian. In doing so, key
aspects of magical practice are revealed.
This work draws upon these texts to create a clear
understanding of the practice of grimoire magic, not as a discrete or
degenerate subset of ceremonial magic, but one which is integrated with folk
magic and witchcraft. In particular we discover a shared dramatis personae, the
infernal pact, and a common terrain of Wild Hunt and Sabbat.
Within the text we encounter the Chiefs, Kings and Queens of
the grimoire tradition; the magical role of the Decans and their stones and
plants; lunar magic and magical animals; the gods of Time; the Sibyl and the
Hygromanteia; Asmodeus and Oriens; Angelology, Theurgy, Conjunction and the
Pact, the Angelic Vice-regent and thwarting Angels; Asclepius, Iamblichus and
Neo-Platonism; Paracelsus and the Elemental Spirits; Necromancy, and the
principles of spell work.
As Jake writes, 'A
primary purpose of this book is to explore the implicit mythology of grimoire
spirits and the contexts from which it derives.' It does far more. This is
a fundamental revisioning of magic with profound implications for the magical
revival which we are all engaged in.
Jake Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 1972,
making more than forty years of continuous goetic practice. His practical work
integrates the magical papyri, Italo-French grimoires in particular the
Grimorium Verum and African traditional religions with a focus on Quimbanda and
Magia Negra. His interest in magic spans the ancient, medieval, renaissance,
and modern as well as stretching from the West to the Middle East and
crucially, the New World. His scholarly approach is backed with a personal
relationship with the spirits, which is rare to find in the modern world.
LIBER
THAGIRION
Draconian
Grimoire of the Black Sun
By
Asenath Mason
MONOGRAPHIC GRIMOIRE SERIES
“Veritable
œuvres de la Magie” 4
Aeon Sophia Press, 2014
73 pages, 120 grams paper text block, cloth bound hardcover,
sigil stamp on front cover
List Price: $56.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"Liber Thagirion" is a small grimoire which was
written especially for the Monographic Grimoire Series by Aeon Sophia Press.
The book includes rituals and meditations that will guide the reader through
the mysteries of the Black Sun from the perspective of the Draconian Initiate
and are designed for a solitary practitioner of Draconian self-initiatory
magic. Among them you'll find invocations of Sorath, Belphegor, meditations
with the Black Sun and rituals of the Adversary.
CHTHONIC
PROSE & THEORY
By
Vadge Moore
Aeon Sophia Press
Paperback, 190 pages
List Price: $ 32.50
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
From the pen of
Vadge Moore, one of American counterculture's most notorious debauchees, comes
a tome devoted to all the base, depraved, wicked and vile aspects of the animal
Man. Asserting that the savage, primal elements of the human spirit are, in
fact, the proverbial Lead from which spiritual Gold can be spun, Moore takes us
on a tour through Hell; the passage of which - for those bold enough to
undertake it - can lead to a Heaven of a decidedly different nature than that posited
by orthodox religion.
To achieve his
aims of sanctifying the depraved, Moore takes as his starting-point the ancient
Greek concept of the chthonic - a term denoting Hell, Hades or the Underworld,
and all those aspects of Man himself which are associated with such places. To
Moore, the chthonic is an impetus from which to trace the myriad manifestations
of the primitive, primordial, uninhibited beast in Man throughout history; and
also the means by which to tie them together into a cohesive, practical
philosophy. Throughout Chthonic: Prose & Theory, Moore explores all things
chthonic in the history of art, literature, philosophy and religion, tracing
its lineage from the Bacchanalian and Dionysian cults of Ancient Greece and
Rome, to Eighteenth Century France and beyond. He analyzes the chthonic in the
works of the notorious Marquis DeSade, and its influence on the post-modernist
muse Georges Bataille, as well as in the lives and philosophies of Twentieth
Century icons such as occultist Aleister Crowley, psychologist Carl Jung and
Church Of Satan founder, Anton LaVey.
Through
cross-disciplinary scholarly research, Vadge Moore presents a solidly-grounded
philosophical worldview centered around the chthonic - an unapologetically
dark, nihilistic mysticism which does not require the dependent counterbalance
of a benevolent "God" to assert itself. Chthonic: Prose & Theory
delineates Moore's idiosyncratic, previously unexplored means by which to
approach an all-inclusive understanding of the Absolute; not by self-effacing
penitence and sublimation to a supposedly munificent God, but through the
sin-drenched Left-Hand path of the Devil. Join him in the descent!
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