The Charmers’ Psalter
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The Charmers’ Psalter

The Psalms, mysterious in their origins and possibly far pre-dating their appearance within Judeo-Christian Scripture, have a long history of magical use.

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Silent as the Trees
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Silent as the Trees

Silent as the trees is a book exploring the old witchcraft, magical traditions and folklore nurtured amidst the village communities, hills, moors and ancient woods of Devonshire in South West England.

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Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis
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Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis

The Troy edition of the Little Key, more widely known as The Lesser Key of Solomon, includes all five books of the seventeenth century work, itself arising from manuscripts of earlier centuries.

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Study for a Portrait of Frank Letchford
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Study for a Portrait of Frank Letchford

Driven by a personal quest for the eccentric and unusual, the young art connoisseur Frank Letchford sought out Austin Osman Spare in 1937. Through twenty years of close friendship he became Spare’s student, amanuensis and benefactor and after the artist’s death sustained a tireless effort to further his work and ideas.

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The Devil’s Noctuary
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The Devil’s Noctuary

A homage to Qayin. The book situates the reader in relation to Qayin by leading you through a diverse range of adorations, that when realised impart the structure of an overall Rite. This book is witty, clever in its structure, and with swift of hand delivers a beauty to an impossible dilemma.

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Whoever Thought Thus?
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Whoever Thought Thus?

The Book of Pleasure is often regarded as Spare’s most important work. This brief essay is offers perspectives from many years research by the noted AOS authority, Gavin W. Semple.

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Zos-Kia
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Zos-Kia

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) was one of the most enigmatic artists of this century. His powerful and idiosyncratic art masks a philosophy of arcane beauty, often overlooked by the undiscerning eye.

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Anarch
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Anarch

Anarch is a profound work of sinister animism and sorcerous practice, a unique account of the path taken towards the dark sacred in a lifetime of personal struggle and artistic creation.

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(h)Aurorae
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(h)Aurorae

This alchemical treatise walks us through a startling expression of emotive gnosis… (h)Auroræ seeks beyond and above the all-too-human condition in order to understand it, and advance it vis-à-vis a sensual Sophianic psychology, witnessed in cogitation.

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Salomonic Magical Arts
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Salomonic Magical Arts

Amid the great genres of European magical books are the Scandinavian Svartkonstböcker or ‘Books of Black Arts’, the privately-kept practical manuals of magic used by rural charmers and practitioners of folk magic.

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Trutmezzer
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Trutmezzer

Trutmezzer traces the function of the magical blade as a hidden key of the spirit world, and contemplates its array of powers, which extend far beyond its better-known functions of cutting and division.

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Speculum Terrae
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Speculum Terrae

Speculum Terræ: A Magical Earth-Mirror from the 17th Century presents a detailed analysis of one of the rarest kinds of magical paraphernalia: an authentic magical earth-mirror from 17th century Germany

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Clavis Goêtica
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Clavis Goêtica

Clavis Goêtica presents a reference to the 16th-century tale of the first white magician, Johannes Beer, who is brought back from the dead in this book.

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Goetic Atavisms
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Goetic Atavisms

Written in mutual exchange between practitioners Frater Acher and Craig Slee, two radical views and explorations of applied goêteia emerge.

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Holy Heretics
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Holy Heretics

Holy Heretics is the third and final volume in the Holy Daimon cycle. Blending occult philosophy, magic and mysticism, Frater Acher guides the reader through the centuries with a series of practical exercises and rites which ultimately restore the powerful Olympic spirits to their original magical context.

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Black Abbot - White Magic
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Black Abbot - White Magic

Black Abbot · White Magic: Johannes Trithemius and the Angelic Mind is the second volume of Frater Acher’s Holy Daimon cycle, and focusses on the magical legacy of Johannes Trithemius.

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Holy Daimon
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Holy Daimon

Holy Daimon is issued in a new edition, with 18 illustrations by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. This first volume of Frater Acher’s Holy Daimon cycle is the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research,

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The Egyptian Rituals
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The Egyptian Rituals

In 1895 while immersed in her studies of Egyptian religion at the British Museum, Florence Farr was contacted by an "Egyptian adept". From the instructions of her contact Farr went on to form a working group drawn from the Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Egyptian Rituals are a series of five initiatory and dedicatory ceremonies to Osiris, Hathor, Thoth, Horus, and Nuit.

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Gramarye
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Gramarye

A concise anthology of those spells, charms, hexes, curses and other delicious turns of grammatical invocation that have thus far been lost to the sea of time’s dark caress.

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Die Kröte or The Toad
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Die Kröte or The Toad

This text, drawn from an obscure late 19th/early 20th century German occult publication, represents a fascinating look into the German cultural traditions, as well as those of neighboring European countries, surrounding the toad and its role in magic and the occult.

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