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“The 'Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic' series is one of the most important series on ceremonial and grimoire magic in print today, rivalled only by the 'Magic in History' series, published Pennsylvania State University Press, and the 'Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic' series, published by Palgrave Macmillan.” ~ Boris Balkan.
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CLOTH EDITION
Pages : 680 H/B with d/w,
Illustrations: 26 B/W
Published: 28th September 2011
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-7-7
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Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (1583-1608)
Being a reset and corrected edition of a
True & Faithful Relation of what Passed for many Yeers between Dr John Dee...and Some Spirits...
Preface by Meric Casaubon
Edited by Stephen Skinner
This is a completely revamped and reader-friendly edition of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee... and some Spirits, transcribed and prefaced by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Now edited by Stephen Skinner, with a detailed introduction, appendices, extensive footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, and a Dee timeline.
This book contains John Dee's Spiritual Diaries for 25 years (1583-1608), now made available for the first time in an organized and readable form. For any scholar or practitioner of magic, easy access to Dee's Enochian system is one of the most important parts of the Western Esoteric tradition. This book covers Dee's invocation of the angels, the reception of their Enochian system of magic, his experiments in alchemy, and experiences in the courts of the crowned heads of Europe.
This book has been totally re-set, re-formatted and updated, incorporating corrections from the original notes of Meric Casaubon, Elias Ashmole and William Shippen, with reference to the original manuscript written by Dee. Sections which were originally missing from Casaubon's edition have been added. Angels, spirits, people, places, dates and times have been fully footnoted, and many of Casaubon's errors corrected. The reader will find this a much more accessible entrance to the world of Dr Dee's conferences with angels and spirits, and a welcome improvement.
Stephen Skinner was responsible for initially stimulating the renewed interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by first re-publishing Meric Casaubon's True and Faithful Relation... in 1973.
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CLOTH EDITION
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Key to the Latin of Dr John Dee‘s Spiritual Diaries
The Key to the Latin is a full translation of the more than 50,000 words printed in Latin in Dee's Diaries originally published in 1659 by Meric Casaubon as A True & Faithful Relation..., and fully corrected and republished by Golden Hoard as Dr John Dee’s Spiritual Diaries (see above).
Many of the insights provided by this text have never been picked up, or remarked on, by Dee's biographers in the past. This volume should be read in conjunction with the edited version of Dee's Diaries, illustrated below, which is available direct by using the PayPal button on the left, or from Llewellyn Books Worldwide.
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CLOTH EDITION
Pages : 376, HB with d/w
57 Illustrations, many in colour
23 Tables
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SWCM : Vol. 8
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The Magical Treatise of Solomon or Hygromanteia
Translated and edited by Ioannis Marathakis
Foreword by Stephen Skinner
This is the true ancestor of the Key of Solomon. Containing the full translation of the Hygromanteia, a Solomnike.
This book is sometimes called the Hygromanteia, and this book has hidden behind the mistaken idea that all of it is a work on water divination, a scholarly mistake that has hidden the true value of this book for centuries. Throughout history thousands of people have been fascinated by the grimoire the Key of Solomon. This is the original Greek book of magic that was the source of the Key of Solomon, and in turn the ancestor of most of the grimoire-based ceremonial magic practiced in Europe and the US today.
This is a ground-breaking work. For the first time (outside of a handful of pages in academic works) the full Greek original of the Key of Solomon appears in English.
Contrary to popular opinion the Key of Solomon was not translated from a Hebrew original. During the gradual decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire, this precious text, along with many others, was taken to Italy. This may even have happened when Constantinople was sacked in 1453. It is quite likely that it was taken to Venice, where parts of it were translated into Latin and Italian.
Abridged Latin copies entitled the Clavicula Salomonis circulated in Europe, going through many changes, languages and versions to become the Key of Solomon as we know it (some of those manuscripts are published as Volume IV of the present series). Now for the first time you can read the whole text (large portions of which were left out of the Latin translations) arranged clearly in the order in which it was meant to be read.
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CLOTH EDITION
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Published: 28th September 2011
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Liber Lunae - Book of the Moon
& Sepher ha-Levanah
Edited by Don Karr
Translation by Calanit Nachshon
Liber Lunae is a composite text containing three major sections:
- The Mansions of the Moon, describing the operations of the 28 constellations of the lunar zodiac, their magical virtues and their names.
- The Hours of the Day and Night, describing the operations of the 12 hours of the day and the 12 hours of the night, their names, virtues, talismanic images, and angels to invoke.
- The Figures of the Planets, describing each planet's magic square, virtue, suffumigation, magical directions, and inscription.
Liber Lunae is fully transcribed from a sixteenth-century English manuscript, annotated, edited, and supplemented by modernized English versions of 'The Hours of the Day and Night', 'The Figures of the Planets', and 'The Mansions of the Moon', combining both Liber Lunae and Sepher ha-Levanah.
Transcriptions of related material on talismanic images and on the virtues of different hours and their names from other sections of Sloane MS 3826 are also included.
The full introduction places the material contained in Liber Lunae into the general scheme of magical literature.
This volume also features a facsimile of A. W. Greenup's 1912 edition of Sepher ha-Levanah, a Hebrew version of Liber Lunae material. A full English translation of Sepher ha-Levanah prepared by Calanit Nachshon is included.
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324 pages, 176mm x 250mm
52 illustrations
many diagrams, 10 tables
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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.
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CLOTH EDITION
264 pages, 176 x 250mm
5 illustrations, 2 tables
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LIMITED LEATHER EDITION
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-5-3
Published: 2010
Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume VI
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Sepher Raziel - a 1564 grimoire
Don Karr & Stephen Skinner
Sepher Raziel - also called Liber Salomonis - is a full grimoire in the Solomonic tradition from a rare sixteenth century English manuscript. It is completely different from the Sepher Raziel ha-Melakh published by Steve Savedow, and is the oldest grimoire so far published in the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series, and shows clear signs of it Hebrew and Greek roots, quoting both Solomon and Hermes.
It contains seven treatises:
- Clavis, concerned with astrology and its use in magic, with precise interactions between planets, Signs, and Houses;
- Ala, outlining the magical virtues of stones, herbs, and animals;
- Tractatus Thymiamatus, which deals with incense, and perfumes used in the Art;
- Treatise of Times detailing the correct hours of the day for each operation;
- Treatise on Preparations on ritual purity, and abstinence;
- Samaim, on the different heavens and their angels; and finally,
- Semiforas or a Book of Names and their virtues and properties, being seven semiforas attributed to Adam and seven semiforas attributed to Moses.
The Sepher Raziel text is given in two forms: a literal transcription with no changes in spelling or wording, and a full modern annotated English version.
This volume also includes a foreword which offers an overview of Raziel manuscripts, which represent a number of independent traditions, an essay on the literature of Solomonic magic in English, an introduction to the Sepher Raziel manuscript itself, an appendix on incense names, botanical names and identification, a list of printed notices and manuscript sources of Sepher Raziel, and a full bibliography of printed works on Solomonic magic and items of related interest.
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CLOTH EDITION
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96 pages, 176mm x 250mm
11 full colour illustrations
1 table
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-1-5
Published: 2009
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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'..
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100 pages, 176mm x 250mm
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-2-2
Published: 2010
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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.
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume IV
448 pages
160 full colour diagrams
talismans and tables
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ISBN: 978-0-9557387-6-0
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The Veritable Key of Solomon
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
The Key of Solomon is the most important and influential of all European grimoires.
This is the most beautiful and detailed version of this grimoire ever published.
With a comprehensive introduction by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine.
This is a book that every practicing magician or scholar of the occult 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. It includes a full commentary on all the 144 extant manuscripts of this grimoire, including illustrations from the earlier Greek manuscript precursor of the Key of Solomon, which is also published by Golden Hoard (see The Magical Treatise of Solomon elsewhere on this site).
NB: there are TWO editions of this book, one in the US and one in the UK.
Both have 448 pages, and the same text content, but the US edition is black & white, while the UK edition is printed in Colour.
1 UK version with all the pentacles in full colour as in the original manuscript published by Golden Hoard Press.
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448 pages, 176mm x 250mm
US$65.00
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1453-0
Published in the US by Llewellyn, and available from your usual US supplier.
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US version published in black and white by Llewellyn.
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ORDINARY EDITION
432 pages, 16
illustrations
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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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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume II
255 pages
hardback with dust
wrapper
20 illustrations
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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
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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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