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CLOTH EDITION
of 200 Copies
96 pages, 176mm x 250mm
11 full colour illustrations
1 table
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The Grimoire
of St. Cyprian - Clavis Inferni
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
The Grimoire of
St. Cyprian - There have been many grimoires
attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch
due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his conversion to
Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as
the present manuscript.
This unique manuscript (unlike the more rustic examples
attributed to St Cyprian called the Black Books of Wittenburg,
as found in Scandinavia, or the texts disseminated under his name in Spain
and Portugal) is directly in line with the Solomonic
tradition, and therefore relevant to our present series of Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic.
It is unique in that instead of being weighed down with many
prayers and conjurations it addresses the summoning and use of both the
four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel
as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The later
are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a
resource unique amongst grimoires.
The text is in a mixture of three magical scripts, Greek,
Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) with many contractions and short forms, but expanded and made plain by the editors.
The title of the manuscript, Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona,
literally means‘The
Key of Hell with white and black magic as proven by Metatron'..
Now Published:
November 2009
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100 pages, 176mm x 250mm
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-2-2
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Michael Psellus on the Operation of Dæmons
translated by Marcus Collisson. Introduced by Stephen Skinner
Michael Constantine Psellus (1018 – 1178 C.E) was one of the
most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine
domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium
(Constantinople, modern Istanbul)
which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its intellectual legacies
helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that released a tide
of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe, particularly Venice. With them came
much of the magical and Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn
had inherited from the Egyptians. The Key of Solomon was one such
text. It is therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts
that one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of
daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the
ancient world, Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire
conception of the nature of daemons.
Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus’ career was an illustrious and practical one, serving as a
political advisor to a succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in
the transition of power between various monarchs. He became the leading
professor at the newly founded University
of Constantinople,
bearing the honourary title, ‘Consul of the Philosophers’. He was the driving
force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasize the
Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus
is credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist
tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music, theology,
jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history.
Publication: January 2010
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume IV
LIMITED EDITION
signed and numbered
BONDED LEATHER
448 pages, 176mm x 250mm
many full colour diagrams
talismans and tables
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ISBN: 978-0-9547639-8-5
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The Veritable Key of Solomon
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
** three entirely new versions of the Key of
Solomon in one volume, never before published **
NB:
there are TWO editions of this book. Both with 448 pages, and the same text
content:
1. A version with all the
pentacles in full colour as in the original
manuscript, hand bound in half leather and buckram, with marbled endpapers
and hand gold stamped, limited to only 350 numbered and signed copies which
is published by Golden Hoard Press. The is the
most beautiful and detailed grimoire ever
published. With detailed introduction by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine. This edition will only be available for
purchase online. This is a book that every practicing magician must
have.
The
source is two French manuscripts scribed for a French aristocrat in
1796. This is not the earliest, but it is the most detailed version
of the Key of Solomon. The book contains three separate versions of
the Keys, in order to cover as much of the material as possible. It
is much more complete than the Mathers edition
Commentary on all the manuscripts including illustrations from the earlier
Greek manuscripts of the Key of Solomon.
Now
Published.
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448 pages, 176mm x 250mm
USA US$65.00
CANADA CAN$74.95
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1453-0
Published in the US
by Llewellyn, and available from your usual supplier of Llewellyn books, or
direct from:
www.llewellyn.com
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2.
A black and white 448 pages hardback trade edition published by Llewellyn
978-0-7387-1453-0. It has the same content, without the colour
or the leather binding.
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ORDINARY EDITION
432 pages, 16
illustrations
hardback with dust
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ISBN: 978-0-9547639-7-8
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The Complete Magician's Tables
Stephen Skinner
The Complete Magician's Tables These more than 800 magical
tables are the most complete set of tabular correspondences covering magic,
astrology, divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels,
demons, pagan pantheons, religious and mystical correspondences ever
printed. They are more than four times larger and more
wide ranging than Crowley’s Liber
777.
The source of the data in these tables ranges from unpublished
manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano,
Abbott Trithemius, Albertus
Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers, (and the
editors of Mather's work, Aleister
Crowley and Israel Regardie), to the most modern
theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the
Lemegeton (Goetia,
Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel,
Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the
20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon.
All this material has been grouped and presented in a
consistent and logical way covering the whole Westerm
Mystery Tradition and some relevant parts of the Eastern tradition.
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The Goetia
of Dr Rudd
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
The Goetia is the most famous
grimoire after the Key of Solomon. This
volume contains a transcription of a hitherto unpublished manuscript of the
Lemegeton which includes four whole
complete grimoires:
Liber Malorum
Spituum seu Goetia
Theurgia-Goetia
Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2)
Ars Almadel
This manuscript was owned by Dr Thomas Rudd, a practicing
scholar-magician of the early seventeenth century. There are many editions
of the Goetia, of which the most
definitive is that of Joseph Peterson, but here we are interested in how
the Goetia was actually used by practising magicians in the 16th and 17th century,
before the knowledge of practical magic faded into obscurity.
Many practical techniques used in the past have since been
forgotten. The authors restore these using Dr. Rudd's manuscript. For
example, to evoke the 72 demons listed here without the ability to bind
them would be foolhardy indeed. It was well known in times past that invocatio and ligatio, or binding, was a key part of evocation, but in
the modern editions of the Goetia this key
technique is expressed in just one word ‘Shemhamphorash’,
and its use is not explained.
This volume explains how the 72 angels of the Shemhamphorash are used to bind the spirits, and the
correct procedure for safely invoking them using dual seals incorporating
the necessary controlling Shem angel, whose name is also engraved on the
breastplate and Brass Vessel.
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384 pages, 176mm x 250mm
14 illustrations
many diagrams, 10 tables
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-0-8
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Geomancy in Theory & Practice
Stephen Skinner
Geomancy - divination by earth - ranks alongside the tarot,
astrology and the I Ching as a major form of
divination. Since the Renaissance it has largely fallen out of favour for want of generally available information on its
practice. This is the first and most comprehensive book in English to cover
the full historical background and practice of divinatory geomancy, and
will therefore be invaluable to all those interested in divination, magic
and astrology. It is the only complete history in any language,
covering geomancy's various manifestations in
different cultures, as well as being a practical manual showing how to cast
and interpret geomantic figures.
Drawing on material from Latin, French, German and Arabic
manuscript and book sources, Stephen Skinner explores the roots of geomancy
in the Islamic raml divination of northern
Africa, which lead to Fa, Ifa
and voodoo divinatory practices on the West Coast and sikidy
in Madagascar. He examines the impact Islamic geomancy had on medieval Europe, where it rose to prominence and became, after
astrology, the prime method of divination. It even resulted in the creation
of an amazingly complex brass 12th century geomancy calculator. The part it
played in Renaissance thinking and in the great astrological revival of the
nineteenth century is followed by an examination of its use in the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn and its declining influence in the twentieth
century only to be revived again in the last decade. This western geomancy
is not, and has nothing to do with, feng shui.
The second section of the book is concerned with the practice,
manipulation and generation of geomantic figures as standardized in Europe, and gives practical examples as a guide to
the interpretation and practice of the art. Also covers astro-geomany
which relates astrology and geomancy as shown in the cover picture.
Publication: March 2010
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume II
255 pages
hardback with dust
wrapper
20 illustrations
Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 978-0-9547639-1-6
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The Keys to the Gateway of Magic:
Summoning
the Solomonic Archangels and Demon Princes
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
This work
includes the complete unabridged version with variants of The Nine Great
Keys, a vital early 17th century manuscript detailing the evocation of
the Archangels and the Nine Orders of Angels. The practical techniques of
summoning the Archangels, details of the hierarchies of spiritual beings,
and how the Enochian system fits in with the
Angelic and Demonic hierarchies are all covered, as well as the theology
and philosophy associated with Angelic magic, giving the context that the
pioneers of Angel magic were working within.
Additionally the evocation of the four Demon Princes and their
role within the system of magic which can now be seen to cover all
spiritual creatures from Archangels to Demons to Olympic Spirits and
Elementals is also presented in detail with rare manuscript material being
made available for the first time. Amongst the rare material is a
previously unknown and beautifully illustrated text dealing excusively with the Demon Princes.
Now Published.
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume I
292 pages
hardback with dust
wrapper
5 illustrations
Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 978-0-9547639-0-9
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The Practical Angel Magic of John
Dee's Enochian Tables
Tabula Bonorum
Angelorum Invocationes
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
From two previously unpublished 17th century manuscripts on
Angel Magic, with instructions for their use as used by Wynn Westcott, Alan
Bennett, Rev. Ayton, F L Gardiner and other early
members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The authors have discovered what happened to John Dee's most
important manuscript, his book of personal angelic invocations which he
kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed by 17th century
magicians into a full working magical system. How only a small part of this
material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880's. Even
this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, and it did not appear
in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order
rituals.
They have also traced how the classical techniques of
invocation and evocation drawn from late mediaeval grimoires,
were passed through John Dee's magic, via Elias Ashmole,
to the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, including some of
the most powerful and influential figures in England.
In the 20th century many fanciful constructions were added to
GD Enochian by writers such as Aleister Crowley, who were however all unaware of the
completely developed system that already existed, and which is here
published in full for the first time.
Full transcription of 4 key magical manuscript
in the British Library, and in the Bodleian Library. The 17th century
summation of John Dee's works.
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