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Mandrake of Oxford Aleister Crowley: A Modern Master
Book SynopsisAleister Crowley''s appeal on the level of popular culture has been well catered for by a number of biographies that have appeared in recent years, but the more intellectual side to him, which is equally fascinating, has not received so much serious treatment. Crowley, a Modern Master is neither an account of his life, nor a straightforward presentation of his teaching, but an attempt to place him clearly in the context of modern ideas as well as a number of older traditions.
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Mandrake of Oxford Craft of the Untamed: An Inspired Vision of
Book SynopsisThe Craft of the Untamed sets out to present the main pillars of traditional witchcraft. Its premise is that a proper tradition is defined as a timeless unity. Outwardly the tradition bears a great diversity across different lands and spirit. Traditional witchcraft is found in various sodalities and groups across the world. Even so it is possible to discern several harmonious, shared themes. These themes are the land, the crossroads, death, night and the mountain of Venus. It is witchcraft where a human and angelic blood mingles to form a special pedigree that has shaped the archetypical image of the witch.
£21.25
Mandrake of Oxford Angelic Magick: A Guide to Angelic Beings and How
Book SynopsisThe visualizations here draw their imagery from classical grimoires and Qabalistic philosophy. Plus, they have a specific and useful goal. Each visualization takes you on a journey into the symbolic realm of an archangel, where you are introduced to the entity''s sigils and symbols and other sacred imagery before encountering the archangel himself. Each visualization builds upon those before it, until the aspirant has been led through the seven circles of heaven and has established a personal link to the archangel that governs each one. At the end, the aspirant will have learned to recognize the images, seals and symbols they will encounter in the Solomonic and other advanced systems of angel summoning. Such guided visualizations are certainly absent from the medieval texts about angels. So, why should I urge anyone who wishes to work with angels - even Solomonic practitioners - to follow the instructions in this book? Simply put, this book is based upon the same principle I described above: safely establishing first contact. It accomplishes this without resort to the full-fledged summoning ceremonies intended to call the angel down to the physical plane - an advanced practice the grimoires tend to jump into without preamble. This book even includes simple rituals by which you can submit petitions to the archangels in times of need - and these rituals are not entirely removed from the methods of the grimoires. Therefore, working through the steps outlined in this book can serve as a wonderful bridge between "square one" and the fully adept practices of angelic summoning. -- From Aaron Leitch''s Preface
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Mandrake of Oxford Rosicrucian Chess of the Golden Dawn
Book SynopsisThis is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess. Enochian Chess in part comes from the Elizabethan system of Enochian Magic originated by the Court Astrologer, Dr John Dee. It was developed into its current form in Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. This book includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina Mathers''s Alpha et Omega Enochian Chess papers together with a brief history of the game, notes on play and strategy, and instructions for Active divinatory methods utilised by this system. Notes and illustrations by Ithell Colquhoun (some previously unpublished) help explain this advanced system of magick in its own right. Originally it was only taught to Golden Dawn initiates who had risen to the rank of Zelator Adeptus Minor, and required a comprehensive knowledge of Tarot, Geomancy, Kabbalah, various magical formulae, the symbolism of the Candidate, the Ceremony of the Neophyte Grade, the art of Invocation and Banishing, Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, formation of Telesmatic Images, Sigils, and the Enochian Tablets. Enochian Chess subsumes other Passive systems of divination such as Tarot and astrology, and has powerful prophetic properties.
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Mandrake of Oxford Celestial Arcana: Precession, Tarot & the Secret
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Mandrake of Oxford Egyptian Magick: A Spirited Guide
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Golden Hoard Press Ltd The Master Key to Ancient Mystery
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and extensive grimoire.
£57.81
Mandrake Demonic Calendar ancient Egypt
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Mandrake Interview with a Wizard
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Mandrake Luban: Chinese Grimoire of Magic and Esoteric
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Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Dictionary of Indian Alchemy and Poly-herbal
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Oxford University Press, USA Religion Science and Magic In Concert and in Conflict
Book SynopsisEvery culture makes a distinction between what it perceives as `true religion' and `magic'. These essays explore the history of this tradition in Judaism and Christianity.Trade ReviewThis book is both interesting and a valuable contribution to the study of magic in its relationship to learning. * The Heythrop Journal *
£41.79
Oxford University Press Making Magic
Book SynopsisSince the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the idea of magic has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to the distinctly modern models of religion and science. As a category, however, magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative: rational-scientific, judicial-ethical, industrious, productive, and heterosexual. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientiTrade ReviewMagic has always been a marginal, umbrageous subject. Despite numerous attempts, no philosopher, scientific observer, or cultural theoretician has managed to describe its essential nature or to circumscribe its proper boundaries-and no wonder. The virtue of Randall Styers compelling study is not that it finally succeeds in defining magic with clarity-an impossible and patently misguided objective. Instead, through a meticulous and incisive examination of the major and minor writers on the subject, Styers shows that the highly pliable, always shifty, devious, and problematic category of magic has been an extremely effective device with which to define and to empower that which it is not: religion proper, (real) science, rationality, modernity. The result, then, is far from marginal. * Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan *
£38.47
Oxford University Press Daughters of Hecate
Book SynopsisDaughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture''s earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer''s Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, DaTrade ReviewThis impressive collection challenges the seemingly common-sense association between women and magic. Drawing on literary and material evidence from across the ancient Mediterranean world, it powerfully demonstrates that the gendering of magic is neither natural nor universal, but is conditioned by the dynamics of local conflict and given form by historically specific taxonomies of knowledge. * Ra'anan Boustan, author of From Martyr to Mystic *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection - Kimberly B. Stratton ; Part I. Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Literature ; 2. From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature - Barbette Stanley Spaeth ; 3. "The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic": Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources - Rebecca Lesses ; 4. Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of Misogyny and "Magic" - Annette Yoshiko Reed ; 5. Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature - Kimberly B. Stratton ; Part II. Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice ; 6. Magic Accusations Against Women in Tacitus's Annals - Elizabeth Ann Pollard ; 7. Drunken Hags with Amulets and Prostitutes with Erotic Spells: The Re-Feminization of Magic in Late Antique Christian Homilies - Dayna S. Kalleres ; 8. The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in Third-Century Cappadocia - Ayse Tuzlak ; 9. Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity - Nicola Denzey Lewis ; 10. Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell - Kirsti Barrett Copeland ; Part III. Gender, Magic, and the Material Record ; 11. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity - David Frankfurter ; 12. Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives - Pauline Ripat ; 13. Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli - Yaakov Elman ; 14. Victimology or: How to Deal With Untimely Death - Fritz Graf ; 15. A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) - AnneMarie Luijendijk
£56.05
Oxford University Press The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe
Book SynopsisThis is a study of magic in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Valerie Flint explores its practice and belief in Christian society, and examines the problems raised by so-called `pagan survivals'' and superstition''. She unravels the complex processes at work in the early medieval Christian church to show how the rejection of non-Christian magic came to be tempered by a more accommodating attitude: confrontation was replaced by negotiation, and certain practices previously condemned were not merely accepted, but actively encouraged. The forms of magic which were retained, as well as those the church set out to obliterate, are carefully analysed. The `superstitions'' condemned at the Reformation are shown to be, in origin, rational and intelligent concessions intended to reconcile coexisting cultures.Dr Flint explores the sophisticated cultural and religious compromise achieved by the church in this period. This is a scholarly and challenging book, which makes a major contributionTrade ReviewFlint's thesis is both significant and provocative ... a big, beautifully written, and wonderfully learned book. * The Higher *Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTION: THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY ; PART II. THE MAGIC OF THE HEAVENS ; PART III. THE MAGIC OF THE EARTH ; PART IV. THE MAGUS
£57.00
Oxford University Press Stealing Fire from Heaven
Book SynopsisDespite the dramatic expansion of modern technology, which defines and dominates many aspects of contemporary life and thought, the Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. How can we account for this widespread interest in ancient magical belief systems? In historical terms, Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Modern Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess.In this overview of the modern occult revival, Nevill Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief andTrade ReviewDrury is a skilled word craftsman, making his prose a pleasure to read. The many years he has spent researching this field are reflected in his masterly analysis, with information presented in a flowing, yet systematic fashion. I expect Stealing Fire from Heaven will immediately be recognized as filling an important gap in the literature. * James R. Lewis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tromso, Norway *Table of ContentsPREFACE; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
£42.27
Oxford University Press Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
Book SynopsisHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr offer the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century''s most distinctive occult iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a study in contradictions. He was born into a Fundamentalist Christian family, then educated at Cambridge where he experienced both an intellectual liberation from his religious upbringing and a psychic awakening that led him into the study of magic. He was a stock figure in the tabloid press of his day, vilified during his life as a traitor, drug addict and debaucher; yet he became known as the perhaps most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. The practice of the occult arts was understood in the light of contemporary developments in psychology, and its advocates, such as William Butler Yeats, were among the intellectual avant-garde of the modernist project. Crowley took a more drastic step and declared himself the revelator of a new age of individualism. Crowley''s occult bricolage, Magick, wasTrade ReviewIt is a balanced collection of well-selected essays by scholars and researchers who know their subjects, all of which are stimulating, and which succeed in showing why Crowley should be taken seriously [...] Not just recommended but essential reading! * Magonia Review of Books *Table of ContentsContributors ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Foreword - Wouter J. Hanegraaff ; 1. Introduction - Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr ; 2. The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the Magical Exploration of Edwardian Subjectivity - Alex Owen ; 3. Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley's Views on Occult Practice - Marco Pasi ; 4. Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon: Dispensationalism and Millenarianism in the Thelemic Tradition - Henrik Bogdan ; 5. The Great Beast as a Tantric hero: The Role of Yoga and Tantra in Aleister Crowley's Magick - Gordan Djurdjevic ; 6. Continuing Knowledge from Generation unto Generation: The Social and Literary Background of Aleister Crowley's Magick - Richard Kaczynski ; 7. Aleister Crowley and the Yezidis - Tobias Churton ; 8. The Frenzied Beast: The Phaedran Furores in the Rites and Writings of Aleister Crowley - Matthew D. Rogers ; 9. Aleister Crowley: Freemason! - Martin P. Starr ; 10. "The One Thought that was not Untrue": Aleister Crowley and A. E. Waite - Robert R. Gilbert ; 11. The Beast and the Prophet: Aleister Crowley's Fascination with Joseph Smith - Massimo Introvigne ; 12. Crowley and Wicca - Ronald Hutton ; 13. Through the Witch's Looking Glass: The Magick of Aleister Crowley and the Witchcraft of Rosaleen Norton - Keith Richmond ; 14. The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley and the Origins of the World's Most Controversial New Religion - Hugh Urban ; 15. Satan and the Beast. The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Modern Satanism - Asbjorn Dyrendal ; Index
£49.40
Lulu.com The Key of Solomon the King A Biography Concerning King Solomon His Magic Conjurations and Mythical History Biblical Pseudepigrapha Hardcover
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Lulu.com Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life How Cosmic Energy Affects Cyclical Change in Human Life and Health Hardcover
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Lulu.com Magick New Annotated Edition
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ReadHowYouWant The Voynich Manuscript
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Brill Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Time Space and the Unknown Maasai Configurations
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2004. Uncertainty is an aspect of existence among the Maasai in East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune, especially at their ceremonial gatherings, which exude displays of confidence, and generate a sense of time, space, community, and being. Yet their performances are undermined by a concern for clandestine psychopaths who are thought to create havoc through sorcery. Normally elders seek moral explanations for erratic encounters with misfortune, viewing God as the Supreme and unknowable figure of Providence. However, sorcery lies beyond their collective wisdom, and they look for guidance from their Prophet, as a more powerful sorcerer to whom they are bound for protection. This work examines the variation of this pattern, associated with different profiles of social life and tension across the Maasai federation.Table of ContentsPaul Spencer is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at SOAS and Honorary Director of the International African Institute. He has published extensively on age systems and pastoralism in East Africa; and the present work follows from his earlier books on The Samburu (1965) and The Maasai of Matapato (1988) both now reissued by Routledge.
£176.17
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 4 The Period of the Witch Trials v 4
Book SynopsisThe 15th to the 18th centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe. This volume brings this work together by summarising the history of the period in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved.
£69.99
White Willow Books Papa Gees Hoodoo Herbal
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CHASECHECK LTD Wicca
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Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. The Complete Magicians Tables
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Llewellyn Publications,U.S. The Goetia of Dr Rudd The Angels Demons of Liber
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Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Techniques of Solomonic Magic
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Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. The Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of
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Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Manifesting by the Moon
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Astral Magic in Babylonia
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The Mouse That Spins My Years of Magical Thinking
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The Mouse That Spins Thoughts on Abramelin 1
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Kaleidoscope Publications WORDS OF POWER and TRANSFORMATION 101 Magickal Words and Sigils of Celestine Light To Manifest Your Desires
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Kaleidoscope Publications Celestine Light Magickal Sigils of Heaven and Earth 3 Magickal Celestine Light Book 3
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Brutus Media The Dark Worship
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Scarlet Imprint Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
Book SynopsisExu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec's Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.Table of ContentsBenediction/Malediction Preface I Black Sun Rising II The King of the City of Dust III Wardens at the Gates of Night IV The Fig of Fire V The Shadows at the Graveyard VI Nocturnal Mercury VII The Legions of Hell Despacho Glossary Bibliography Index of Exus
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Arcana Europa Media LLC The Nine Doors of Midgard
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Alternative Universe The Miracle of New Avatar Power
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Pendraig Publishing Bucklands Domino Divination
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Martian Migraine Press When the Stars Are Right Towards an Authentic RLyehian Spirituality
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Lulu Press Magitians Discovered Volume 1
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Erebus Society The Greater Key of Solomon The Complete Books IIII
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