New Title: The Many Faced Jewel
"The Many Faced Jewel", volume 1, by Frater Sabellicus, has been released! This work deals with Traditional Witchcraft, internal alchemy, Austin Osman Spare, the origins of the craft in medieval gnostic cults, and more. It includes both theory, history, and practice, spanning from esoteric Islamic gnosticism to Gerald Massey, and from sigils to highly structured rituals. It also examines the Toadstone in relation to the Grail and to esoteric physiology.
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Hermetic Behmenists
Writings from Dionysius Andreas Freher
and Francis Lee
Hermetic Behmenists brings to life the works of two of the most able commentators on Jacob Boehme's mystical philosophy. The writings of Dionysius Andreas Freher are, besides one publication, only found in manuscript form. Francis Lee was a founder of the Behmenist Philadelphian Society
A Sorcerous Anthology
Magical and Occult Writings from the Publications
of Robert Cross Smith
Robert Cross Smith (1795-1832) was an astrologer, magician, and geomancer. Smith founded the periodicals, “The Straggling Astrologer” and “The Familiar Astrologer”, which published magical material as well as astrological advice. These writings dealt with topics as varied as alchemy, charms, the virtues of herbs and stones, invoking spirits into crystals, evoking demons, evoking spirits into circles, necromancy, invoking the fairy king Oberion, writings about fairies, geomancy, palmistry, physiognomy, divination by the “Wheel of Pythagoras”, and Behmenist Theosophy.
“A Sorcerous Anthology” collects these writings, plus several pieces from Smith's other publications, and presents them for the first time in one place. Certain of the writings have not been in print since the 1840s, and none have been presented without the other content of the magazines.
History of Genii and Familiar Spirits
by John Beaumont
Written in 1705, the book presents a history of the personal genius and familiar spirits, from antiquity to the 18th century, including treatments of the second sight, dreams, and magic. The author draws on the Greco-Roman tradition as well as on foreign examples for cross cultural parallels.
John Beaumont, born c. 1650, died 1731, was a physician and antiquarian who lived in Somerset, in the southwest of England. Through his fossil collecting, as well as papers documenting new mining techniques, Beaumont became a fellow of the Royal Society. However, Beaumont also had a secret, one which he would expose first in his “History of Genii and Familiar Spirits” and later in “Gleanings of Antiquities”.
For years, Beaumont had conversations with entities that he publicly labeled “Genii”, but that in personal communications he labeled “Fairies”. These beings gave him advice and told him about their nature. Beaumont’s communication with these spirits, which he declares happened thousands of times over the course of many years, is what lead to the composition of “History of Genii and Familiar Spirits”, published in 1705. The book was written to vindicate the idea of a personal Genius or Familiar Spirit, who advises and guides an individual in all the vicissitudes of life, as a valid phenomenon, one not caused by mental illness or other physical disorder, and also not the work of evil spirits.
The Magitians Discovered
Excluded
Chapters from the "Discoverie of Witchcraft"
In 1665 an anonymous treatise was added to a book skeptical of witchcraft. That book, “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”, compiled by Reginald Scot and published in 1584, defended those accused of witchcraft. It also included so many examples of rituals and charms that it became popular with magical practitioners themselves. Although the “Discoverie” has since been reprinted several times, the anonymous material has not been available for over a hundred years. This material features a combination of ceremonial magic, Paracelsian thought, pagan folk rituals, and spirits from John Dee's “A True & Faithful Relation”, all mixed into a synthetic whole.
The Magitians Discovered consists of
Volume 1: The Analysis of the Whole
Volume 2: The Core Texts
Volume 3: Supplementary Texts from the Period that put the Core Texts in Context
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The Station of Man in the Universe:
Ebenezer Sibly on the Spirit World and Magic
by Ebenezer Sibly, introduction by John Madziarczyk
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