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| Janus, by Erica (Raven) Branch Butler, 2018-ish |
ELCOME to the Edge of the Circle Newsletter. This newsletter has come about as an effort to reach out to the Pagan/ Occult community (particularly in Seattle where we are based) to inform the community of what events are happening at our store. Without further ado, welcome, and enjoy. Regards, Erica (Raven) Branch-Butler, Editrix- golanv1@yahoo.com
WHO WE ARE: Edge of the Circle Books is Seattle's resource for Paganism & the Occult. This newsletter seeks to provide the Seattle community with a place to list events, post articles, and do a bit of networking.
Edge of the Circle Books strives to be your ideal Magical Pagan store.
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Call: 206-PAN-1999
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ELEMENTARY TREATISE OF OCCULT SCIENCE:
Understanding the Theories and Symbols Used by the Ancients, the Alchemists, the Astrologers, the Freemasons & the Kabbalists
by John Michael Greer, Mark Anthony Mikituk, and Papus
Hardcover: 312 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (December 8, 2018)
List Price: $ 60.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
An Essential Work of 19th-Century French Occultism from the Leading Intellectual of the Era~
Explore Papus's Pivotal Teachings on the Secret History of the World, Symbols and Their Meanings, and the Nature of the Magical Universe~
Available in English for the First Time.
One of the most important books in the modern history of occultism, Papus's Elementary Treatise of Occult Science helped establish the shape of occult thinking and practice for decades...and its legacy as a source of spiritual philosophy continues today. Never before published in English, this work explores a fascinating interpretation of the history of the world and develops a powerful approach to decoding esoteric symbolism, a crucial skill for contemporary occultists. Papus also provides a stunning analysis of ancient mysteries, including Hermeticism, astrology, magic, alchemy, theosophy, signification of numbers, the astral plane, sacred geometry, Kabbalah, the tetragrammaton, the pyramids, and much more. This premium hardcover edition introduces the contemporary occultist to the ideas of one of history's most profound metaphysical thinkers.
Front Flap:
"Let us open the door and let us not be blinded by the light which escapes it, let us not be afraid to say that which must be said, because the masters wished that certain mysteries be revealed...What then have you seen on the occult side of the Universe?"―Papus
Elementary Treatise on Occult Science was one of the most influential books to emerge from the turn-of-the-century French occult revival―a detailed and readable description of the magical universe and humanity's place in it. Many important teachers and authors of the esoteric arts―including Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Manly P. Hall―were influenced by Papus's vision of occult philosophy and the hidden side of history. This volume, translated and annotated by Mark Mikituk with a foreword by John Michael Greer, provides a captivating view of Papus's visionary mind and his radical ideas.
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ONE TRUTH AND ONE SPIRIT:
Aleister Crowley’s Spiritual Legacy
by Keith Readdy, Vere Chappell (Foreword)
Hardcover: 436 pages
Publisher: Ibis Press (December 1, 2018)
List Price: $35.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Based upon academic research at the University of Amsterdam's Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, One Truth and One Spirit is a much-needed work that covers a previously unexplored history of the modern religious movement known as Thelema. This work details the theoretical framework of Aleister Crowley's spiritual legacy in the O.T.O. and the A?A? and covers the years of Thelema since Crowley's death in 1947.
One Truth and One Spirit approaches a complex topic with a complex history, with exhaustive citations and sources, but it is written for anyone interested in the subject of Thelema. The author utilizes published source material as well as previously unavailable information, which makes this a unique contribution to the available literature.
One Truth and One Spirit is expected to be of interest to the novice, the scholar, and the seasoned practitioner of Thelema. The work provides a general historical overview of Thelema from a theoretical vantage point, explores the historical development of the movement from the 1960s to the 1990s, and applies the author's own critical discussions on the topic itself.
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WEAVE THE LIMINAL:
Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft
by Laura Tempest Zakroff
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (January 8, 2019)
List Price: $19.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Create an authentic path of Witchcraft that works for you.
How does a modern Witch embrace tradition while navigating a complex contemporary life? How can you remain true to your own authenticity when you're surrounded by a whole world of magical theories, practices, deities, and paths?
Weave the Liminal explores what it means to truly be a Witch in the modern world. Through the accessible lens of Modern Traditional Witchcraft, Laura Tempest Zakroff helps you formulate a personalized Witchcraft practice and deepen your work with spirits, ancestors, familiars, and the energies of the liminal realm. This book is a guide to connecting to your deepest feelings and intuitions about your roots, your sense of time, the sources of your inspiration, and the environments in which you live. It supports your experience of spellcrafting and ritual, and teaches you about metaphysical topics like working with lunar correspondences and creating sacred space. Discover valuable insights intopractical issues such as teachers, covens, oaths, and doing business as a Witch.
Modern Traditional Witchcraft is a path of self-discovery through experience. Let Weave the Liminal be your guide and companion as you explore the Craft and continue evolving the rich pattern of your magical life.
Praise:
"Laura Tempest Zakroff has made Witchcraft accessible to beginners in a way that changes generations. You'll be recommending this book for decades to come."―Amy Blackthorn, author of Blackthorn's Botanical Magic
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TRANSFORMATIVE WITCHCRAFT:
The Greater Mysteries
by Jason Mankey
Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (January 8, 2019)
List Price: $19.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Beyond the Taboos, the Power of Magick Awaits
The rites and rituals of Witchcraft are life-changing experiences, but they are also steeped in mystery. Transformative Witchcraft delves into some of the most persistent mysteries of the Craft and provides insightful guidance for raising and directing magickal energy in accordance with your desires. Jason Mankey distills his decades of experience as he shares practical wisdom for raising a cone of power and detailed insights into creating powerful rituals for dedications, initiations, and elevations. In his chapter on drawing down the moon, he provides a vivid exploration of invocation and the subtle nuances in preparation and execution that can take the ritual to its most magisterial heights. This book also discusses one of the most mysterious of all the magickal rituals―the Great Rite. Whether you're interested in the Great Rite in token or in truth, there is much to be gleaned from the experiences related here on a topic that is frequently treated as taboo in much of the magickal literature.
Direct experience with the divine and the potent energies of magick are defining experiences in a life of Witchcraft. Filled with compelling personal stories, a fascinating brief history of modern Wicca and Witchcraft, striking original rituals, and a wealth of tips and techniques, this book provides the beginning or intermediate Witch with the practical and theoretical keys they need to unlock the mysteries of the Craft.
Praise:
"A remarkable and refreshing exploration that is a must-read for anyone exploring contemporary Wicca and Witchcraft. Through a combination of in-depth historical research and charming personal narrative, Jason Mankey provides candid insight into important rituals and practices that are often glossed over or minimally explained in other texts."―Laura Tempest Zakroff, author of Sigil Witchery and Weave the Liminal
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CROSSROADS OF CONJURE:
The Roots and Practices of Granny Magic, Hoodoo, BrujerÃa, and Curanderismo
by Katrina Rasbold
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (January 8, 2019)
List Price: $17.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Explore the Fascinating World of Southern Folk Magic~
Featuring an introductory look at Granny Magic, Hoodoo, BrujerÃa, and Curanderismo in the American South, Crossroads of Conjure provides a fresh perspective on folk magic. This authentic and powerful book demonstrates how these systems are interconnected, celebrates their sustainability, and dispels the myths and misunderstandings about them.
Learn about each path's beliefs, practitioners, history, and how its traditions are carried on in modern society. Discover the techniques practitioners use for healing, survival, protection, and more. This entertaining and informative exploration of folk magic also helps you determine which practice resonates with you the most.
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HIPPIE COMMIE BEATNIK WITCHES:
A Social History of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn
by Aidan A. Kelly (Author), Members of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (Contributor)
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Hierophant Wordsmith Press (March 4, 2011)
List Price: $19.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
HCBW is a social history of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn during its first decade, from 1967 to 1977. The NROOGD was founded by a group of friends in San Francisco as a way to participate in the new Witchcraft movement begun in England by Gerald Gardner. The NROOGD ar first was a "Pagan occult study and dancing society" that held Sabbats in public parks in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1969 NROOGD members formed their first coven, which evolved into a family of a dozen Gardnerian-style covens during the next decade. It has always held Sabbats open to the public, a practice that help inspire the Pagan festivals that began to proliferate in the late 1970s. In the mid-1970s, working with members of the Feri and other Traditions, NROOGD members participated in a series of extraordinary meetings that led to the formation of the Covenant of the Goddess, the first national church for Witches, in 1975, an event here documented in detail for the first time. Although Aidan Kelly, one of he founders of the NROOGD, is the primary author, HCBW contains contributions by another dozen NROOGD members, describing their experiences in the NROOGD and in the Craft, as well as how those experiences changed their lives. HCBW includes scripts for the basic NROOGD Sabbat ritual, which has influenced Craft rituals widely for the last four decades, and for the Sabbat held at Mabon to commemorate the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece, one of the NROOGD's most unusual celebrations.
About the Author:
“I imagine some people would write here some sort of advertising fluff about being the greatest writer since ink was invented. That's not who I am.
I have been writing for at least 61 years. I remember two short stories at about ages 10 and 14, two plays (one in German) at age 12, first attempts at poetry at 16, after hearing Blake's "The Tyger." My first poem to be published was in 1960, in Transfer, the San Francisco State lit mag. I did not think I had written much poetry over the last 52 years--until I counted, about two years ago, and discovered I have more poems than are in Yeats' collected poetry. Then I put together "Theodyssies and Paradoxologies." I had thought up that title many years ago. Unpack it; it tells much about what I explore.
Hippie Commie Beatnik Witches is who we were. That was worth writing, especially because there are few accurate and honest inside accounts of how a religious group was created. We did not need permission or authorization to do that, although I suppose we were touched by the little finger of the Goddess once in a while. I am also almost finished with Volume One of "A Tapestry of Witches." It will cover the first two decades of the history of the Craft in America. I've been collecting the materials for that since the 1970s.
Goddess Murder. My agent friends assured me that it was much too original, did not fit into any of the subgenres of the novel, that no publisher would touch it. And my silly mentors in the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State had told me that one should strive to be as original as possible. How very unrealistic that was--until now. I'm a little sorry to see the legacy publishers going bankrupt because they could not see this revolution coming, but I'm glad their monopoly on publishing has been destroyed.
The earliest material in the novel is from an apocryphal gospel I created in about 1971 out of the fragments of Gnostic writings I could glean from the ten volumes of the Ante-Nicene Fathers I found, with surprise and delight, at Holmes Books at Third and Market in San Francisco, diagonally across from the offices of Scientific American Books, where I was then a manuscript editor. I made a far more sympathetic case for those Gnostics than they had made for themselves.
I later created two more apocryphal gospels, one of Mary Magdalen in the 1980s, then "The Gospel of Diana" about 1991. It was very strange having the voice of a hereditary Italian Witch in the 1870s speaking in my head, telling me things I had not known about religious history. And then all insisted on becoming part of a love story, "A Tale of Love, Witches, and Gnostics," set in an alternative history. Can you imagine what a genuine interface that could integrate the Craft with a Gnostic sort of Christianity would have to be like? That's what Diana told me.”
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A TAPESTRY OF WITCHES:
A History of the Craft in America, Volume I (Volume 1)
by Aidan A. Kelly
Series: A Tapestry of Witches
Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: Hierophant Wordsmith Press; 1 edition (April 24, 2014)
List Price: $25.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A Tapestry of Witches is the first detailed history of the Wiccan religion in America based on primary sources; this first volume covers the history down to the mid-1970s. The author has been an active participant in the movement since 1967, in addition to being an editor, writer, and college teacher. He is the author Crafting the Art of Magic and of Inventing Witchcraft: A Case Study in the Creation of a New Religion.
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SONGS FOR THE GODS AND WITCHES
by Aidan A.Z. Kelly
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Hierophant Wordsmith Press; 1 edition (December 27, 2018)
Publication Date: December 27, 2018
List Price: $15.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Poems and songs about Gods and Witches. Includes translations from Greek, Kashmiri, and German.
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TAROT BOOKS:
TAROT INSPIRED LIFE:
Use the Cards to Enhance Your Life
by Jaymi Elford
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (January 8, 2019)
List Price: $17.99
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Create a More Meaningful and Spiritual Life through the Cards~
Make tarot the centerpiece of your spirituality with this brilliant guide to incorporating the cards into your daily life. Tarot Inspired Life is the perfect workbook to help deepen your tarot practice, enhance your creativity, and find greater purpose each day.
This book encourages you to befriend your deck, personalize your spreads, and create a tarot journal. It's not just filled with keywords, descriptions, or correspondences. Discover how to use the cards for creative writing, meditation, and connecting to spirit guides. Learn how your deck can be an agent of change through invocations and seasonal rituals. Jaymi Elford's guidance inspires you to think outside the norm, follow your own path, and honor your unique interpretations of tarot.
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NEW TAROT DECKS:
TAROT MALEFIC TIME
by Luis Royo (Artist), Romulo Royo (Author)
78 Cards, and Guidebook.
Publisher: Naipes Heraclio Fournier, SA. (Llewellyn Publications); Bilingual edition (January 8, 2019)
List Price: $26.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Set in a mythological realm of archetypes and apocalypse, this mystical tarot deck is designed as a guide to insights and choices as you journey through your own personal story. With art by the peerless innovator Luis Royo, creator of the Royo Dark Tarot Deck (978-0-7387-3361-6), this unique deck balances the dark and the light, showing you the creative power of unexpected challenges in your spiritual quest for connection and growth.
Boxed deck includes a 78-card deck and an instructional booklet.
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REMINDER: We buy used Occult Books! Our buyer is in on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays!
We also have classroom/ritual space-- please call for details.
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DON'T FORGET THAT WE HAVE MOVED!!!!
We are NOW located at: 1307 NE 45th St., between Brooklyn Ave NE and University Way NE, next to the Neptune Theatre, in the University District.
This concludes our Newsletter for this month.
Look For Us Again, FEBRUARY 1ST , 2019!!!
Raven, Editrix, Edge of the Circle Books Newsletter
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