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      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Die Magie der verbotenen Märchen / The Magic of the Forbidden Fairy Tales

        by Sergius Golowin

        What do folk tales teach us today? Fairy godmothers, bitches, gnomes, dwarfs and many others are thoroughly described in this book. In his ethnic study Sergius Golowin explores the figures of the folk tales as symbols of our unconsciousness. Golowin decodes the symbolic language of fairy tales and enlightens the secret science of Celtic priests and the magic knowledge of Nordic warlocks. Golowin shows that mandrake, toadstool and monkshood were well known in past times. Those who knew their secrets had superhuman power and wisdom. The possibility to see new realities is shown as one of the oldest, but always banned knowledge.

      • Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought

        The Keys to the Gateway of Magic: Summoning the Solomonic Archangels & Demon Princes

        Being a Transcription of Janua Magica Reserata, Dr Rudd's Nine Hierarchies of Angels & Nine Celestial Keys, the Demon Princes : In Mss Sloane 3825 and Harley 6482 With Other Pertinent Discourses from Sloane 3821, Sloane 3824, Sloane 3628, and Rawlinson D. 1363

        by Stephen Skinner

        This work includes the complete unabridged version with variants of The Nine Great Keys, a vital early 17th century manuscript detailing the invocation of the Archangels and nine Orders of Angels. The full practical techniques of summoning the Archangels, details of the hierarchies of spiritual beings, and how the full 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 these magical practitioners were working with. It includes the evocation of the Four Demon Princes and their role within the traditional system of magic. The book deals clearly with the full continuum of spiritual creatures from Archangels through Angels to Demon Princes (Fallen Angels), to Olympic Spirits and Elementals. This is presented in practical detail, with much rare manuscript material being made available in print for the first time.

      • Mind, Body, Spirit

        Practical Angel Magic of John Dee's Enochian Tables

        From Three Previously Unpublished Manuscripts On Angel Magic, Being a Complete Transcription of Tabula Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes in Manuscripts Bl Sloane 307 and 3821 and Bodleian Rawlinson D1067 and D1363

        by Stephen Skinner

        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 written 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. and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic language The Complete Enochian Dictionary. With David Rankine, he 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 a full working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached the unpublished archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals and documents. They have also 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, and Frederick Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.

      • Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought

        The Goetia of Dr Rudd

        The Angels & Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis : With a Study of the Techniques of Evocation in the Context of the Angel Magic Tradition of the Seventeenth Century

        by Stephen Skinner

        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 practising 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. 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 'Shemhamaphorash', and its use is not explained. This volume explains how the 72 angels of the Shem ha-Mephorash are used to bind the spirits, and the correct procedure for safely invoking them using special seals incorporating the necessary controlling angel, whose name is also engraved on the breastplate and Brass Vessel.

      • Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology
        December 2014

        Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic

        by Stephen Skinner (Dr.)

        This is the first book in any language to analyse the Graeco-Egyptian Magical papyri in terms of the actual techniques used by Graeco-Egyptian magicians, utilising their own (Greek) terminology for the types of magic they used. Stephen Skinner holds a Ph.D in Classics, and has grouped together rites, according to their Greek headwords, making it much easier to understand the intentions, implements and procedures of the original magicians, from their point of view, rather than that of later commentators. 42 Illustrations and 61 detailed Tables. 978-0-956828569

      • Complementary therapies, healing & health

        Healing Plants and Animals from a Distance

        Curative Principles and Applications

        by Jim Pathfinder Ewing

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