ADDENDUM: MID-JUNE, 2014
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EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS IS PROUD TO
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THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIBLE TITLE FROM XOANAN
PUBLISHING:
THE DRAGON-BOOK OF ESSEX
By Andrew D. Chumbley
Published, June 2014
Quarto format, 832 pp., single
volume. Containing numerous illustrations and sigillae by the author
throughout. Standard Edition: Limited to 808 hand-numbered copies, full
bookcloth over heavy boards, with gilt blocking on cover and spine. List Price $292.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
O’ Milcham-i-Azh’rail!
Lift Thou Thy blade to Heaven,
seven times tongued with flame,
there to cut open the heart of the Sun,
that its lifeblood may flow into Thy mouth;
thus to empower Thee as the Messenger Divine–
the catalyst for the translation of the Seeker’s Mind
into the Circle of the Seven Stars.
This substantial work expounds
the sorcerous ethos and praxes of the Crooked Path ritual system. Its contents
include a cycle of ten extensive Mystery-rites, each accompanied by adjunctive
solitary rituals and detailed commentaries. Additional texts relate the
intricacies of Sabbatic ritualization, as well as an extensive body of stellar
lore and ritual. The Sorcerous Formulae of Number and Sign are also
communicated, together with detailed exegeses of the Quadriga, the specific
covine-type of the Crooked Path. A detailed section on the Magical Weapons of
the Draconian Sorcerer complements the text. This work is intended as an entire
resumé of the ancestral and ophidian components of Traditional Craft Sorcery
and Sabbatic Gnosis. The Dragon Book of Essex originally comprised a portion of
the rites and practices of an inner conclave of the Cultus Sabbati known as The
Column of the Crooked Path.
Following the Azoëtia, The
Dragon Book of Essex represents the second work of Chumbley’s three-book
magical opus the Trimagisterion. From this period of work, Chumbley formulated
‘Crooked Path Sorcery’ as a trans-historical magical model, operant in a number
of systems of sorcery, most notably in the witchcraft of his native Essex. The
Crooked Path may be seen to mirror the zoötype of the Serpent, wending between
such magical antipodes as blessing and cursing, honour and treachery, Tabu and
its breaking. Its quintessential nature is transgressive, and through this
apostasy, the illuminant fire of the Serpent descends.
Central to the Draconian ritual
cycle is the enfleshment of the primordial Serpent of Eld both within the body
of the practitioner as the First Sorcerer Azha-Cain, and within the earth of
the World-Field as the Dragon Azhdeha. This dual-natured work is realised
through rites of bodily sacrifice unto the Serpent, and subsequently through a
year-long cycle of practices. These rites, being solar, lunar, and stellar in
nature, transfix the celestial attributes of the Dragon’s Body within the
telluric ritual arena and the sensorium of the practitioner.
A private initiatic edition of
ten copies, each having three volumes, was published in 1997. Subsequently,
other sections of the book were diffused through the Cultus’ outer sodality,
‘The Companie of the Serpent Cross’ for private study and solitary work. This
first public release of the Dragon-Book incorporates refinements to the text
made by the author in 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003, as well as corrections and
marginalia from his own personal working copy and never-before-seen
illustrations.
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