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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 of 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 shortforms, 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’.
Published
November 2009
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100 pages, 176mm x 250mm
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Michael Psellus on the Operation of Dæmons
translation 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's
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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448 pages 176mm x 250mm
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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. Commentary on all the manuscripts including the earlier Greek
manuscripts of the Key of Solomon are part of the
introduction.
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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
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2. A black and white trade edition is
published by Llewellyn ISBN 978-0-7387-1453-0, as a 448 pages
hardback. The content is the same, but this edition omits the colour printing and the leather binding.
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The
Complete Magician's Tables
Stephen Skinner
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 or any similar compilation.
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 sacred geometry, 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, Key of
Solomon, 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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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume III
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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 grimoires:
Liber Malorum
Spituum seu Goetia
Theurgia-Goetia
Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2)
Ars Almadel
This 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
edited by 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.
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, were the key parts of any 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 angel, whose name is also engraved on the
magician's Breastplate and Brass Vessel.
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292 pages, limited edition
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic
Series - Volume I
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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.
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384 pages, 176mm x 250mm
14 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.
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: February 2010
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