Stephen Skinner has been
interested in magic for as long as he can remember.
He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques
of High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with
"Oracle of Geomancy" and "Terrestrial Astrology"
which has become the standard work on Western
divinatory geomancy. Books on "Nostradamus" and
"Millennium Prophecies" followed in highly
illustrated editions. Stephen is also the author of
eight books on feng shui, including the first one in
English in the 20th century.
In the 1970s he was responsible for stimulating
interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by
publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's True and
Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers
between Dr John Dee and some Spirits´ He also
published Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on
the angelic language The Complete Enochian
Dictionary. Stephen lives in Johor Bahru, near
Singapore.
For more information on Stephen Skinner please visit
his website:
www.SSkinner.com
David Rankine has been practising magic for the last
25 years and writing about it for the last 17
years. During that time he has been involved with
Golden Dawn, Qabalistic and Thelemic groups, and
gives regular talks and workshops around Europe. He
has also written Becoming Magick, Magick Without
Peers, and Crystal Healing and Folklore, as well as
being a major contributor to the Enhancing Your
Mind, Body, Spirit partwork. David lives in London.
They discovered what happened to
Dee's most important manuscript, his personal book
of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and
how it was preserved and developed in the 17th
century into the full working Enochian system. Only
ten percent of this material reached the unpublished
archives of the Golden Dawn, and even this was
suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it did not
appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work. They
have traced the routes down which were passed the
classic techniques of invocation and evocation from
late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via
Ashmole, and the aristocratic angel magicians of the
17th century, via Frederick Hockley to the senior
magicians of the Golden Dawn.
For more information on David
Rankine please visit:
www.avalonia.co.uk or
www.ritualmagick.co.uk
