The Little Book of Viking Age Symbols
More referenced than ever in today’s popular culture, the Viking Age was a complex and vibrant period of history that left behind an incredibly lush landscape of imagery and literature. Yet navigating this material can be complex and difficult.
Nigon Wyrta Galdor: The Nine Herbs Charm
Vibrantly animistic and remarkably hypnotic, Nigon Wyrta Galdor—the so-called Nine Herbs Charm—is an Old English healing galdor that invokes nine personified plants and the pagan god Woden to defeat a serpent before exploding in a psychedelic climax.
Concerning Witches and Apparitions
Joseph Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus updated and revised. One of the most important texts concerning witchcraft and the paranormal in 17th century Europe. Ghosts, hauntings, witches, enchanted objects, poltergeist phenomena are featured.
The Coimbra Book of Saint Cyprian
In The Coimbra Book of Saint Cyprian we offer the English translation and Portuguese transcript of Ms. 2559, a Cyprian book of treasure-hunting.
The Book of St. Cyprian
A translation with extensive commentary of the Livraria Económica edition of O Grande livro de S.Cypriano ou thesouro do feiticeiro, present in the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon — a book so dangerous it needs to be kept in chains.
Opuscula Cypriani
Presented as a sequel to his first work, The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure, the Opuscula Cypriani is José Leitão’s most extensive and detailed exposition of the tradition of the Portuguese Cyprian Books to date.
Clearing the Water
In Clearing the Waters: A Monograph on Saint Cyprian Divination from the 17th to the 19th Century, author José Leitão collects an extensive corpus of divinatory and sorcerous practices from the records of the Portuguese Inquisition to unravel the mystery of Cyprian’s seafaring incantation, and how it has come to be associated with contemporary Cyprian divination.
Bibliotheca Valenciana
The Bibliotheca Valenciana contains translations of three of Jerónimo Cortez’s great works: the Non Plus Ultra Do Lunario, the Physiognomy and Various Secrets of Nature, and the Treatise of the Animals, presented and compiled for the first time into one English language volume.
Sigils For Magic
Sigils for Magic makes artisan magic accessible to all. The author adeptly outlines techniques for change with honesty and humour, providing examples of effective sigil magic.
Dark Magic
The writings of the celebrated American author of weird fiction H. P. Lovecraft are known for their groundbreaking innovation, particularly their treatment of ‘the other’ or otherness, incepting a palpable state of alienation in the reader.
The Blood of the Earth
In The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic & Peak Oil, John Michael Greer has written a challenging and radical work, fusing deep ecology with an adept’s understanding of magic.
The Magical Amulets of the Ancient Sages and Bibliotheca Necromantica
The Magical Amulets of the Ancient Sages and Bibliotheca Necromantica by Trithemius includes his compilation on the properties of magical amulets and an astonishing insight into the occult literature in circulation in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Tartaros
The magical doctrines of the ancient Orphics and Pythagoreans are poorly understood by modern scholars, in part because they were secretive in their own time. Well-known for speaking in riddles and complex ciphers, its adepts were bound by strict taboo and silence, the breaking of which was punishable by death.
The Fourth and Fifth Pyramids
In 2013 artist Jesse Bransford produced an exhibition for the Galveston Artist Residency. Titled The Fourth Pyramid, the exhibition was conceived at the prompting of founder/director Eric Schnell. From this prompt Bransford created a ‘spell’ for the city of Galveston, a large, multi-stage installation that operated with explicit magical intent.
A Book of Staves
Icelandic folk magic and magical texts — so-called low and high magic – combine as sources and inspiration for A Book of Staves by Jesse Bransford.
Theia Philosophia
Theia Philosophia: A Manual of the Royal Arte by Jason Arthur Green is a Theurgic system of training focused principally on achieving Henosis, the unification with the divine.
Artaud and the Gnostic Drama
In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), mythologised as an icon of failure and madness, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.
Ascend, Ascend
Written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church – the Star and Snake Arts Centre – Ascend Ascend is Janaka Stucky’s most powerful book to date.
The Sworn and Secret Grimoire
This ‘Guide to Grimoiring’ renders the grimoires comprehensible and ‘user friendly’ in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it.