The Game of Saturn
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The Game of Saturn

The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck.

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The Two Antichrists
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The Two Antichrists

The Two Antichrists is a monograph on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context.

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The Red Goddess
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The Red Goddess

The Red Goddess is an ecstatic journey through the history of Babalon, the goddess of Revelation, a provocative vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. From the Revelation of St John the Divine, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magical current. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magic and the transcendent power of Love.

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Lucifer: Princeps
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Lucifer: Princeps

Peter Grey’s Lucifer: Princeps is a seminal study on the origins of Lucifer and the fallen angels, the foundation myth of the Western occult tradition.

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Apocalyptic Witchcraft
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Apocalyptic Witchcraft

In Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Peter Grey gives a compelling account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are encountered in a haunted and scarred land.

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Tara Morgana
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Tara Morgana

Tara Morgana is a work of pure magical writing. Part magical diary, part dreamscape, part dérive, Tara Morgana is an enigmatic record of ritual practice from poet Paul Holman.

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Babalon and Other Plays
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Babalon and Other Plays

Babalon and Other Plays comprises ten works by Paul A. Green, written and performed from 1972 to 2005. The plays provide a crawling map of the modern occult, written by an insider who charts one of its most febrile periods.

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Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones
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Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones

Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones is an initiate’s account of this much maligned cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the prenda, the cauldron containing the human skull or bones, reanimated by living spirit.

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Ifá: A Forest of Mystery
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Ifá: A Forest of Mystery

Ifá: A Forest of Mystery by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is a major study on the cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and divination system of Ifá, written by a tradition holder and member of the council of elders, known as the Ogboni society, of Abeokuta, Nigeria.

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Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
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Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire

Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire is the companion to Pomba Gira. Together they give the most complete account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec’s Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.

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Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila
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Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila

Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila is a significant study on the cult of Pomba Gira, the most comprehensive work in the English language on the Devil’s mistress, whose Brazilian cult has bewitched so many.

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Crossed Keys
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Crossed Keys

Crossed Keys is a chimeric binding of the Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III by grimoire magician Michael Cecchetelli.

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Trinity Star Trinity
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Trinity Star Trinity

Katy Bohinc’s Trinity Star Trinity is a long poem dedicated to the divine feminine, written in response to her experiences and encounters with faith and divinity during a sojourn on the islands of Lesvos, the home of Sappho; Samos, the birthplace of Hera; and Patmos, where St John wrote the Book of Revelation.

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Magister Officiorum
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Magister Officiorum

Magister Officiorum: The Ceremony of Solomonic Magic is an essential text for those who practice Solomonic magic; the result of extensive magical work, this is a record of attainment informed by the Western magical tradition, Espiritismo and Obeah.

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The Blood of the Earth
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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.

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Artaud and the Gnostic Drama
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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.

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The Testament of Cyprian the Mage
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The Testament of Cyprian the Mage

The Testament of Cyprian the Mage is the third work in the Encyclopædia Goetica series by Jake Stratton-Kent, comprehending The Book of Saint Cyprian and his Magical Elements and an elucidation of The Testament of Solomon.

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The True Grimoire
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The True Grimoire

The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. The True Grimoire comprises a coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.

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Alchemy Rising
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Alchemy Rising

In The Green Book, Heliophilus shows how to practically confect spagyrical Tinctures, Elixirs, the true Primum Ens, Plant Magisteries and the Quintessence. Also covered are the Plant Stone of Hollandus, the Plant Phoenix, the Quintessence of Blood and the Homunculus.

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