EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS
IS PLEASED TO PRESENT
THE FOLLOWING NEW ITEMS:
HOLY DAIMON
by Frater Acher
Publisher: Scarlet Imprint, 2018
Standard Hardback Edition, limited to 600 copies, bound in an earthen trey bookcloth stamped in black and gold, with embossed black endpapers.
List Price: $58.95
Bibliothèque Rouge Edition (Unlimited Paperback Edition)
List Price: $28.95
8vo (240 × 165 mm)
192 pp
13 black and white photographs by the author
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Holy Daimon is the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research, the book is comprised of three parts: History, Memory and Practice, providing a well-grounded introduction, as well as a practical path to creating communion with one’s holy daimon.
Rather than drawing on Abramelin or Crowley’s Liber Samekh, Frater Acher returns to the source, analysing the daimon as it was experienced in three cultures, Chaldean, Zoroastrian and Ancient Greek. These give a necessary overview to contextualise the material that follows, and restores the daimon to its central place in the journey of attainment.
Acher then gives a full account of his own personal communion with his holy daimon. As a magical record of a modern practitioner it is an important testimony for those embarking on the path, and a rare account given the secrecy within which most practitioners operate.
In the third and final section of the work Acher gives his streamlined exercises for attaining communion with the daimon; culminating in a fully restored rite from the Greek Magical Papyri.
Whilst the author's focus is on enabling hands-on magical work, the book is not a traditional grimoire or ‘grammar of magic,’ as the work is of deeply mystical nature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I: History
1 Among the Chaldeans
2 Among the Zoroastrians
3 Among the Ancient Greeks
Part II: Memory
Communion with my Holy Daimon
Part III: Practice
Systasis with your Holy Daimon
1 Trust
2 Joy
3 Darkness
4 Encounter
Selected resources
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STARMAN TAROT KIT
By Davide De Angelis
Publisher: Llewellyn/Lo Scarabeo, October 2018
Boxed kit (5¼ x 8) includes a 78-card deck (3 x 5½) and a 192-page color guidebook.
List Price: $36.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The most eagerly anticipated tarot kit of the year! In 1995, David Bowie and Davide De Angelis began collaborating on album art for Bowie's album Outside, a creative working relationship that endured for more than seven years and spanned a number of projects, including the development of art for the album Earthling and concepts for stage sets, books, products, and art shows. Inspired by their years-long creative collaboration, Davide De Angelis has produced a fascinating tarot deck, decades in the making, that expertly weaves together intricate sacred geometries, alchemy, magic, and the sacred teachings of the world's mystery traditions. This deck is a must-have for collectors and a perfect reading deck designed to help you connect with spirit or energize a creative project.
FROM THE CREATOR:
Starmen Travelling Through Time...
Journeying through innumerable transformations, the project somehow stayed potententalised across the years; building, evolving and vast in scope. And yet with all the strange twists and turns of life it seemed impossible to realise.
Then upon Bowie’s death in January 2016, Davide De Angelis was compelled by a series of powerful dreams to complete the project and finally bring the Starman Tarot to life for the world to experience.
Starman Tarot is a highly innovative and dynamic rendition – evolution - of the ancient Tarot System. Inspiration for the deck and its accompanying book evolved out of the potent visual vocabulary that De Angelis and Bowie created for albums such as Outside and Earthling. Through powerful archetypes and mesmerising dreamscapes - the deck speaks powerfully and directly about the turbulent times we are currently facing, and opens a portal to a vivid and miraculous future. It gives all who use it access to a vital form of creative expression, revealed wisdom and guidance. Just like Bowie himself, Starman Tarot is a living, shape-shifting system to be explored for countless generations.
To be willing to liberate your creative spirit - to never give up on the possibility of being astonished by life is a form of genius. The Starman Tarot Limited Edition is a prayer to the creative spirit. What are you willing to do.. to go beyond what you think... to realize your artistic potency? Every card is an invitation to explore what words cannot alone say... you will discover that you are truly miraculous.
Working with the Starman:
Davide describes his experience of working closely with Bowie:
“When I worked with Bowie, there was always a sense that something astonishing, something impossible was going to happen. I would cross into a realm where the ordinary became extraordinary, a realm where ideas appeared to have a visceral quality that I could touch and move. Bowie was a magnetic energy that attracted creativity. Reality became evermore sensitive to this energy and constantly gifted the unexpected.”
Bowie in turn described Davide’s artwork as, “Potent Visual Alchemy” and referred to Davide as "The Visual Alchemist”.
Their collaborations flowed across many platforms and mediums including, album art and design, art shows and installations, film and of course working on fantastical projects such as the Starman Tarot.
STARMAN TAROT KIT-DELUXE
- Special Limited and Numbered Deluxe Edition
by David De Angelis
Limited-edition boxed kit (6 x6) includes a 78-card deck (3x6) and 192-page guidebook in a deluxe package.
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo (1 December 2018)
List Price: $100.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The most eagerly anticipated tarot kit of the year! In 1995, David Bowie and Davide De Angelis began collaborating on a highly innovative and visually spectacular tarot deck. Bowie himself helped design the look and iconographic elements of the cards, providing notes and revisions before his untimely death. Expertly woven into their work are myriad references to Bowie's lyrics, intricate sacred geometries, alchemy, magic, and the sacred teachings of the world's mystery traditions. With larger, gilded-edge cards, an exclusive metallic paper portfolio, and authenticity of certification card, this limited-edition kit will have you dancing in the street.
Limited-edition boxed kit (6 x6) includes a 78-card deck (3x6) and 192-page guidebook in a deluxe package.
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