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"The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon" is one of several
notebooks from the estate of Ebenezer Sibley, transcribed under the
direction of Frederic Hockley (1808-1885). Sibley was a prominent
physician and an influential author, who complemented his
scientific studies with writings on the "deeper truths" including
magic, astrology, alchemy, and hypnotherapy. Both Sibley and
Hockley were major inspirations in the occult revival of the past
two centuries, influencing A.E. Waite, S.L. Mathers, Aleister
Crowley, as well as the Golden Dawn, Rosicrucian, and Masonic
movements. This collection reflects Sibley's teachings on the
practical use of celestial influences and harmonies. "The Clavis"
contains clear and systematic instructions for constructing magical
tools and pentacles for many practical purposes. It includes eight
separate magical texts: The Mysterious Ring, Experiments of the
Spirits, Birto, Vassago, Agares, Bealpharos, The Wheel of Wisdom,
and the Complete Book of Magic Science. The manuscript reproduced
here is the most accurate and complete known, very beautifully and
carefully written complete with extraordinary hand-colored seals
and colored handwritten text. 282 color pages with a color fold-out
and a huge idex.
This handy, gorgeous new spell deck for contemporary Wiccans brings
together 100 key spells and rituals from the bestselling Modern-Day
Witch series. What magic do you wish to create? With 100 key
spells, this stunning deck from the expert authors of the
bestselling Wiccapedia books covers everything the modern witch
needs. There are spells for: Love; Self-Care; Protection; Healing;
Money and Career Success; Cleansing and Purification; Meditation,
Spirituality, and Sabbats; and Pets and Nature. An accompanying
booklet provides the necessary basics on Wicca, instructions, and
advice on using the cards. The beautiful, portable, keepsake box
features foil stamping, and each card is handsomely illustrated
with category "suits" on the back.
At age 18, Damien Echols was sentenced to death for a crime he
didn't commit. "I spent my years in prison training to be a true
magician," he recalls. "I used magick - the practice of reshaping
reality through our intention and will - to stave off incredible
pain, despair, and isolation. But the most amazing feat of all that
practice and study was to manifest my freedom." With High Magick,
this bestselling author shares his first instructional book on the
powerful spiritual practice that helped him overcome his struggles
- so you can learn how to transform your own reality. What is High
Magick? The tradition Damien teaches is not about stage tricks or
illusions - it is an ancient discipline of spiritual realisation
kept alive for thousands of years. Here he offers clear training
for modern audiences on meditations and practices such as the
Four-Fold Breath, the Qabalistic Cross, the Lesser Rituals of the
Pentagram, using sigils and talismans, and working with angelic
forces of creation. "Magick is a journey," teaches Damien. "It's a
continuously unfolding path that has no end - meant for
questioners, seekers, and those who desire to peel away the surface
of reality to see what lies beneath." If you're ready to discover
your untapped potential for co-creating your reality with the
energy of the divine, then join this extraordinary teacher to begin
your training in High Magick.
BYGONE BELIEFS - ALCHEMY, MAGIC, TALISMANS, ETC BEING A SERIES OF
EXCURSIONS IN THE BYWAYS OF THOUGHT By H.Stanley Redgrove
Originally published in 1920, this rare early work on ancient
beliefs is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.
Obscure Books Press have now republished it, using the original
text and illustrations. The author was an expert in the study of
superstitions and the occult, and wrote several books on these and
other related subjects, as well as being a prolific contributor to
The Occult Review. In this book he expounds on his opinion that
there is a reason for every belief, even the most fantastic, and
that it should be our objective to discover this reason. He
considers that it is too easy for the superficial thinker to
dismiss much of the thought of the past as mere superstition, not
worth the trouble of investigation: but that is not scientific. The
book's two hundred and twenty pages contain twelve comprehensive
chapters plus many illustrations: Some Characteristics of Medieval
Thought Pythagoras and His Philosophy. Medicine and Magic.
Superstitions Concerning Birds. The Powder of Sympathy: A Curious
Medical Superstition. The Belief in Talismans. Ceremonial Magic in
Theory and Practice. Architectural Symbolism. The Quest of the
Philosopher's Stone. The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine.
Roger Bacon: An Appreciation. The Cambridge Platonists. Everything
possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. William Blake. Many
of the earliest works on Folklore, magic, superstition and the
occult, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are
now extremely rare and increasingly expensive. OBSCURE BOOKS PRESS
are republishing many of theseclassic books in affordable, high
quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage-originally
published in 1900, translated by Samuel Mathers from a 15th-century
French document-was purportedly written by Abraham for his son
Lamech. Within this volume are three books. The first book is
Abraham's autobiography in which he speaks to his son. The second
book is an explanation of the purification rituals necessary to
bring the magician's personal demon under his control. And the
third book details what feats can be accomplished once the
practitioner is able to use a form of magic controlled and directed
through sigils of magic words written on a grid. Anyone with an
interest in the occult will find this an interesting, though
perhaps impractical, guide for exploring mystic arts.
Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can
remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of
High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy and
Terrestrial Astrology" which has become the standard work on
Western divinatory geomancy. Books on Nostradamus and Millennium
Prophecies followed in highly illustrated editions. Stephen is also
the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first one
written in English in the 20th century. In the 1970s he was
responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic
by publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's "True and Faithful
Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some
Spirits", and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic
language "The Complete Enochian Dictionary". With David Rankine, he
discovered what happened to Dee's most important manuscript, his
personal book of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and
how it was preserved and developed in the 17th century into a full
working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached
the unpublished archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
and even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it
did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order
rituals and documents. They have also traced the routes down which
were passed the classic techniques of invocation and evocation from
late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via Ashmole, and the
aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, and Frederick
Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.
Enter the World of Folklore, Myth, and Magic
Discover binding spells and banishing spells, spells for love,
luck, wealth, power, spiritual protection, physical healing, and
enhanced fertility drawn from Earth's every corner and spanning
5,000 years of magical history.
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