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96 pages, 176mm x 250mm

11 full colour illustrations

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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series - Volume V

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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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
 

 

448 pages 176mm x 250mm

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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series - Volume IV

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

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ISBN: 978-0-7387-1453-0

 

Published in the US by Llewellyn, and available from your usual supplier of Llewellyn books, or direct from:

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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 Crowleys 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

 

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

 

 

 

 

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