EDGE
OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS
IS
PROUD TO PRESENT
THE
FOLLOWING NEW TITLES
DISTILLATIO
By
Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule
London:
Fulgur Limited, 2015. This edition is limited to 640 copies only a
Fine Premium Cloth Copy in Dust Jacket.
The fourth
volume of the "Tela Quadrivium " Series. Printed in full
color on Special Papers and bound in white cloth with white dust
jacket in keeping with the theme of the "White" volume.
List Price:
$69.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Distillatio
is the final volume in Orryelle’s four-fold Alchymic book-web The
Tela Quadrivium. For eight years Orryelle worked only in black and
white (with touches of gold and silver) for the previous volumes in
the series, but in the last few years he has been exploring the
alchemy of Colour in diverse media for this culminating volume.
Distillatio
explores the Colour phase of Alchemy, the ‘Cauda Pavonis’ or
Peacock’s Tail, and also the related Albedo or White phase. This
purified essence splits into a vivid spectrum of colours.
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The book
seeks out the alchemy of colour in a diverse array of media, from
semi-digital (incorporating photography by the artist) and gouache to
large oils on canvas with gold, silver and copper leaf, also
employing egg tempera for the Renaissance Misch-technique, including
the artist’s own new spin on the method using peacock-egg tempera
to reify an alchemical symbol with potent results.
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Each volume
of the Tela Quadrivium series connects into a multi-directional and
spiraling narrative of images, symbols and text to form a greater
whole which has now been distilled into completion. As the
culminating volume of the Tela Quadrivium, Distillatio provides the
reader with the final pieces in an intricate esoteric puzzle,
bringing together the book-web entire.
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VERDANT
GNOSIS:
Cultivating
the Green Path
Selections
from the Viridis Genii Symposium
Edited
by Catamara Rosarium, and Jenn Zahrt, PhD
Publisher,
Rubedo Press
Softcover ,
6 x 9
Illustrated,
b&w, 150 pp.
List Price:
$23.95
VERDANT
GNOSIS is a poetic rendering of the Latin expression, Viridis
Geniii, which refers to the collective spiritual intelligence of
our botanical environment. Viridis means ‘green, verdant,
growing’—all that is lush and nourishing; while genii is the
origin of the words ‘genius’ and ‘genie’—the spirit,
daemon, or guiding intelligence of an entity. Viridis Genii—the
verdant gnosis—is thus the spiritual path of working with the
intelligence of living nature.
Within this
volume you will find a selection of international authorities on the
Green Way, ranging from professional plant alchemists, shamanic
herb-masters, to bioregional animists. Herein you will learn the ways
in which you can communicate deeply with the mysterious intelligence
of the plant kingdom, breaking down the barriers of anthropocentric
thinking that separate humanity from nature.
Verdant
Gnosis: Cultivating the Green Path presents selected articles
from the inaugural Viridis Genii Symposium, which was held at the
Still Meadow Retreat Center in Damascus, Oregon (Friday 31
July—Sunday 2 August, 2015). For more information on the symposium,
its featured presenters, and workshops, please visit the Viridis
Genii Symposium website.
Table of
Contents
Introduction
—Catamara
Rosarium and Jenn Zahrt, PhD
Green Gold:
Alchemy in the Plant Realm
—Robert
Allen Bartlett
The Genius
in the Bottle: Bioregional Animism and the Viridis Genii
—Marcus
McCoy
Plant
Communication: Two Relatively Simple Approaches
—Sean
Croke
The Wisdom
of the Trees
—Julie
Charette Nunn
Benedicaria:
The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Woman
—Gail
Faith Edwards
Um Clarão
nas Matas: Working with Plant Spirits in Brazilian Quimbanda
—Jesse
Hathaway Diaz
Dream Grass
—Ryan
Wazka
Twenty-First
Century Visionary Medicine Woman
—Shonagh
Home
The Rose in
Sensorium
—Catamara
Rosarium
About the
Editors/Creators:
Catamara
Rosarium is a master herbalist, ritual artist, botanical
alchemist, and proprietor of Rosarium Blends. Her extensive herbal
experience is motivated by a deep attraction to plants, scents, and
how they impact the senses. She has undertaken numerous unique
training programs, including the Hermit’s Grove Master Herbalism
Program (Paul Beyerl), the Herbal Kingdom work at the Spagyrics
Institute of Practical Alchemy (Robert Bartlett), Hoodoo and Rootwork
(Catherine Yronwode), and the Arte of the Wortcunning Incense
Tradition (Leon Reed). For the past seven years, Catamara has
co-organised the Esoteric Book Conference, and is the founder and
convenor of the Viridis Genii Symposium. She has previously appeared
in Sorita D’Este’s Hekate anthology, Her Sacred Fires (2010).
More information on Catamara’s herbal work can be found on the
Rosarium Blends website.
Jenn
Zahrt holds a PhD in German literature and film from the
University of California, Berkeley. Zahrt is a professional
astrologer, writer, and an established editor of esoteric
scholarship, including titles for Rubedo Press, Sophia Centre Press,
Three Hands Press, and the journals Culture and Cosmos, CLAVIS, and
Diaphany. Her trek on the green path began in November 2010, during a
shamanic drumming ceremony in Marin County, California. In 2014 she
spent three months living in the Cape Floral Region in South Africa,
volunteering at a local organic farm and absorbing wisdom of the
bioregion shared with her by amaPondo and Swazi sangomas, both in
Cape Town and in their homesteads in the Transkei. She currently
lives in Seattle. www.jennzahrt.com
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H. P.
LOVECRAFT AND THE BLACK MAGICKAL TRADITION:
The
Master of Horror's Influence on Modern Occultism
By
John L Steadman
Paperback:
304 pages
Publisher:
Weiser Books (September 1, 2015)
List Price:
$22.95
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Explore
Lovecraft's Deep Connections to the Dark Arts~
Modern
practicing occultists have argued that renowned horror writer H. P.
Lovecraft was in possession of in-depth knowledge of black magick.
Literary scholars claim that he was a master of his genre and craft,
and his findings are purely psychological, nothing more. Was
Lovecraft a practitioner of the dark arts himself? Was he privileged
to knowledge that cannot be otherwise explained?
Weaving the
life story of Lovecraft in and out of an analysis of various modern
magickal systems, scholar John L. Steadman has found direct and
concrete examples that demonstrate that Lovecraft's works and
specifically his Cthulhu Mythos and his creation of the Necronomicon
are a legitimate basis for a working magickal system.
Whether you
believe Lovecraft had supernatural powers or not, no one can argue
against Lovecraft's profound influence on many modern black arts and
the darker currents of western occultism.
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ALCHEMICAL
TAROT RENEWED 4
By
Robert M. Place
Hermes
Publishing, 2015
79 card
Tarot Deck
List Price:
$30.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Born out of
the mystical vision of artist Robert M. Place, The Alchemical Tarot:
Renewed is a full 79 card Tarot deck that demonstrates the close link
between alchemical symbolism and traditional Tarot imagery and
illustrates that the Tarot, like the alchemical quest, is designed to
lead one to the gold of inner wisdom. One of the most beautiful and
sought after modern Tarot decks, the out of print first edition
Alchemical Tarot has sold at auction for over $2,000. Now it is back
in print at an affordable price.
The fourth
edition of The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed is a digitally redesigned
version of the original with improvements in the drawings,
reproportioned so that the art is more prominent, and colored with
transparent colors on a rich antique paper background, like antique
alchemical illustrations. The cards are 4.75 x 2.75 and come in a
tuck box. They are printed on heavy card stock with a durable finish
and die-cut edges. The deck also includes the original Lovers card
that was censored in the first publication along with the one that
was first published.
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The 4th
Edition has additional alchemical symbols added, such as the symbols
for the alchemical operations correlated with each trump card, and a
new card back. Each card in the fourth edition of The Alchemical
Tarot: Renewed is beautifully drawn and captures the enigmatic
symbols of alchemy that are natural vehicles for communication with
the unconscious mind. It can be used by Tarot readers at any level.
**
THE NEW
YORK LENORMAND
By
Robert M. Place
Hermes
Publishing, 2015
Semi-Traditional
Lenormand Deck (has Playing Card images inside the Lenormand Card
images)
List
Price:$20.00
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
The NY
Lenormand is a recreation of an historic Lenormand oracle in two
versions: one with traditional playing card correlations and one with
the equivalent Tarot cards.
From
the creator, Robert M. Place~
“The
inspiration for this deck came when I bought an original copy of The
Mystic Cards of Fortune, a Lenormand oracle deck that was published
by McLoughlin, in New York, in 1882. These cards were based on one of
the oldest German Lenormand decks, the Hoffmann and Kroppenstedt
cards, published in Berlin, in 1854. Each card was redrawn but
followed the original closely with some changes. For example, the
Ship card depicts an American brig flying the American Flag instead
of a German ship.
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My copy
has the line drawings without color (which would have been hand
painted) and the box at the top, meant to depict a playing card, was
left blank. I decided to reproduce the deck in its colored version
and to add cards at the top. The coloring is transparent as the
original watercoloring would have been. I made two versions of the
deck, one with a 19th century style playing card on each (designed by
me) and one with the equivalent Waite Smith card on the top.
The
Waite Smith cards that I have included are the black and white line
drawing for the pips and royal cards that are the equivalent of the
original playing cards with French suit symbols. These were first
published in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by A. E. Waite, in 1910,
and I have used them before in my book, The Tarot: History,
Symbolism, and Divination. The Waite Smith cards offer a figurative
image designed for divination and provide one interpretation for the
cards included with each image. The Waite Smith interpretation is
rooted in French occultism and the teachings for the British occult
society, the Golden Dawn, and are not necessary the same as the
German associations for these cards. At times they offer a pertinent
comment on the image and at times they seem to be going in a
different direction. However I have also found that the playing cards
originally included with each Lenormand subject do not always seem to
be in harmony with the image. I offer this deck with either the
Waite Smith cards or the French/German playing cards included so that
the associations may be observed and studied, but also, to further
the divinatory possibilities.
The
cards are printed on an off white paper with square edges and a blank
back, as was the original. They measure two and a half inches by
three and a half inches, and come in a white linen drawstring pouch.”
**
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