Showing posts with label grimoires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grimoires. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2020

General Update Time: 300 Editions, Time for Phase Three!

A happy announcement!

Now that the second phase of my great work is done (that of creating 300 different editions of occult literature to greatly enhance the availability of reasonably priced, properly formatted modern works of the type) it is time to move on to a smattering of important projects which I have amassed over time but had to perpetually hold off on til I had completed all of those works; namely, to produce a few authored editions and a half dozen or so collected works.

The former is simple; I have wanted to release a couple of intermediate-length works on semi-academic topics related to the works I have been releasing, for some time; the most important of these will be a sort of historical study of fortune telling and oracle systems, drawing both on the works I have edited and a half dozen or so additional works I have read but not yet completed. This will compare and contrast them and draw a sort of historical timeline about them. The second work I wish to make on the subject of alchemical literature.

I then intend to create Sickness in Hell II, a second volume of Morbid Stories, and a compiled grimoire, before moving on to, as I said, compilational works under single genres of occultism; these will contain extensive notes, expanded forewords, and be edited and reformatted into works which will comprise entire shorter works, collected together at an even lower price-per-work with substantial academic inclusions; what makes this exciting is that since I have already edited the works, this won't take too much time and the copyright issue is off the table because each component is already mine to use as I wish.

Onward!

Saturday, February 3, 2018

February 2018 Editing Update!

I am pleased to announce that at this time, the illustrations for my upcoming edition of the Ars Goetia have been completed by the artist (Rita Metzner, who has previously illustrated a couple of herbals for me.) The work is good and so far the formatting is going smoothly; the final edition should be a fairly standard length, perhaps a bit longer than some editions because I choose not to compress images to two-to-a-page so the finer lines are more easily legible. I expect to complete and release it this month; but it must be carefully done, because this is the ultimate big daddy of grimoires and will eventually be combined with the three other (authentic) works of the Lesser Keys in an edition of that as well.

I am also more than 80 pages into the Rosicrucian text I began editing in January; work has been slower since the beginning of chapter four, since now all remaining text is taken from other sources and compiled in this particular work by its author (read; it is in older English than the first two chapters with frequent quotations which are sometimes not entirely proper in format and must be reworked.)

Assuming both works are done before this month ends it will be time for a couple more herbal works I feel, and then work must begin on re-illustrating a half dozen prior editions.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Ars Goetia Update (And Other Stuff)

Alright literary world!

I'm happy to announce that the first slew of illustrations for the Ars Goetia have been completed as of yesterday; the illustrator sent them along. That's good, because there aren't a huge number more then to be processed- so the Goetia might be ready before the end of January and barring calamity will certainly be out by February sometime.

Meanwhile, my editing of the New Fortune Teller has been speeding along and it's almost done; I haven't yet decided on which work to do subsequent to it, but it will probably be alchemical in nature. Onward!

Saturday, July 1, 2017

General Update For July

As of right now I am juggling several good projects; Puckle's "Funeral Customs" is first on the list, rapidly approaching completion, and will be available probably within a week, indeed possibly two or three more days if I continue editing at the rate I have been for some time.

I have obtained several new works that fit within the herbal and homeopathic category; I still have the South Sea Herbal to work on as well, so that makes three more entries within that category for the fairly near future; one is a longer work, the South Sea Herbal is rather short, and another that is about 60 pages in length, a simple hand guide to some herbal species.

The tenth category to be added to this blog (specifically for cryptids and folklore) will be made subsequent to the next title being finished that will fit into the same category. I may eliminate the folk magic category and create a new one specifically for mysticism which requires shuffling a few titles around as well- into that category will go works like the Sepher Bahir, along with a few works currently in the Divination category which are more spiritual as opposed to some of the routine fortune-telling titles.

Over the coming months I hope to return to works of divination and, once the South Sea Herbal is illustrated and released, it will finally be time to unleash a stand-alone variant of the Ars Goetia on the world and, after that, a version of the Lesser Keys of Solomon; the most famous of all grimoires.

Friday, December 2, 2016

The Witches' Pharmacopoeia: Now Available!




And now at last we come to a great milestone in the catalog of works I have authored or edited; the 100th occult release (counting a half a dozen of my own works) and the first herbal/homeopathic work here, technically speaking; the very good "Witches Pharmacopoeia" by Robert Fletcher, who combines the Shakespearean with the burning times herbal and cauldron-stirring lore

This booklet is line after line of not only herbal inclusions into magick but contains also some brief coverage of other diabolical work; especially as it relates to the boiling of unbaptized infants or the use of hanged man fat in potions and rituals. You will probably know the latter best from the use of the Hand of Glory.

This work along with "Magic Plants" will be placed in a new ninth category for herbal, homeopathic, and medicine-related works as soon as at least two additional titles are available that would fit therein; likely the South Sea Herbal and "Weeds as Medicine." It will go under the Academic heading until the new category is crafted.

40 pages.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Bumpy Road Ahead: That Means A Redoubling of Effort

An unexpected situation has arisen here that means that over the coming months (assuming said situation escalates) my ability to work will be hindered slightly. As such, I have decided to vastly increase my pace of work for as long as possible. My to-do list involves releasing a half dozen new works and reformatting virtually all of my pre-2016 editions in an extremely short time span. This will be grueling but has to be done with all vigor and haste that can possibly be dedicated to this cause.

Don't worry; I will triple-announce any unexpected delays both here and on Youtube as well as my Facebook fan page. There is always the chance that this situation will defuse on its own.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

A Poll For You!


Up until now all of my releases have been self published paperbacks. What if I released, through a publisher of the arcane, a hardcover/fine binding edition of one of my works? Specifically, the work in question, the infamous Petit Albert of French fame? Of course, the softcover edition would remain available- it would be a licensed limited printing of my edition.

Have at it!

Monday, October 3, 2016

A Host of New Works I'll Be Working On

Little else makes me happier than acquiring new materials to edit and new ideas to write; honestly I think I've found my calling- or at least one of a more generally acceptable nature than analysis and banter on Youtube; admittedly, my latter effort is also skyrocketing in popularity. More copies of my literary works have sold in the first three days of October than were sold in the first four months of my editing back in 2015.

In the last few weeks I've been on an epic quest to bring in more literary content to release over time; and boy did the effort pay off; the following list is just a sampler of the things I'll be working through in addition to dozens of works I already had planned;

-Hull's "All About Devils": A short (60ish page) work of extremely zealous christian authorship.
-"Egyptian Secrets": Ascribed to Magnus but of the manufacture of deLaurence. A sort of Pow-wow style compilation work.
-"Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling" by Leland- a quasi-academic work.
-"The Pedigree of the Devil" by Frederic Hall. A typical late 1800s spiritual-academic fusion.
-"Phallism in Ancient Worships" by Westropp and Wilder.
-The Kebra Nagast, an Ethiopian holy book.
-"Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry" by Yeats: A collection of often paranormal folklore.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Sickness in Hell Update, And More!

Courtesy of the "Secret Book of the Black Arts" containing numerous references to other occult works, often philosophical and often historical, I have hit pay dirt once again and obtained five new works I was not formerly aware of, including King James' own Demonological manuscript; I will be releasing these over time along with all the work I already had going on.

Progress is swift on SIH so far; I'm half done with the fourth chapter and now getting into the meat and bones (figuratively and literally) of the story; without giving too much away, it's a festival of degraded morbidity already and I've only tentatively inserted a few grotesqueries so far out of a horde of vicious, slopping, cancerous abominations.

Today the heat wave came back and although I got necessary work done I didn't get any editing completed on any of the three works I'm plowing through as we speak; when it's 90 degrees with near 100% humidity, this state feels like southern Florida, and working under those conditions can be more difficult than when it's crisp and warm and the crickets are chirping happily outside to remind me that all living things rot away in due time.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Grimoires For Sale

The following is a continuously edited list of grimoires which I have edited and released. All links are to Amazon, where I have self published my works.

THE BOOK OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
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A new, improved edition of a classic work on black magic, talismans, charms, divination, and more.

LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
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A compilation of the Goetia, Theurgia Goetia, Paulina, and Almadel, and one of the most famous grimoires. Everything from summoning demons to communicating with angels.

ARS GOETIA
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An infamous dark grimoire containing a list of 72 demons and some demonic conjurations and more than a little of the grotesque.

GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON
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One of Mathers' compilations of Renaissance ceremonialism. Long and dense and infamous.

CLAVICULA SALOMONIS
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The original manuscript, unbridled from Ptolemy the Grecian's later work. Mostly invocations.

GRIMORIUM VERUM
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Possibly the darkest grimoire, containing mostly folkish rites, including the use of the hand of glory.

HEPTAMERON
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Conjurations and spells for every day of the week, mostly gray magick.

LIBER SALOMONIS (Sepher Raziel)
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An extensive categorization system for minerals, beasts, plants, and their uses according to astrology.

THE ARBATEL OF MAGICK
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A series of philosophical aphorisms related to the occult.

THE BLACK PULLET
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Strictly related to the crafting of Talismans, this enlightenment era French work contains a lengthy and detailed back story related to Napoleon's adventures in Egypt.

THE ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO
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Mostly a talismanic work with prayers, but containing a pact with Satan as well.

THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
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The most infamous of grimoires, containing a pact with a demon known as Lucifuge.

THE GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS
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A standard summoning and talismanic grimoire often conflated with the Sworn Book of Honorius.

THE BOOK OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE (OLDER VERSION)
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A Victorian era collection of charms, divination, mesmerism, seances, parlor magic, and talismans.

THE NOTARY ART OF SOLOMON
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The famous Ars Notoria, often bundled with the Lesser Keys.

THE PETIT ALBERT (English Edition)
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The most diabolical French grimoire, contains folk magick, talismans, and alchemical lore.

THE SWORD OF MOSES
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A series of invocations making use of sacred names related to the angelic.

POW WOWS: AN AMERICAN GRIMOIRE
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John George Hohman's 19th century tract- a combination of herbal medicine, folk magick, and protective charms from the Pennsylvania Dutch.

WITCHCRAFT DETECTED AND PREVENTED
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A technical white magic and folk magic grimoire similar to the Petit Albert.

ARS PAULINA
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Book three of the famous Lemegeton, detailing the summoning of angels and some astrological materials

ARS THEURGIA GOETIA
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Book two of the lemegeton dealing with natural spirits less malevolent than the former Goetia.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS EGYPTIAN SECRETS
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A long work of three volumes of folk medicine, black magic, and prayers. Related to Pow Wows and borrowing some from the Petit Albert.

BLACK MAGIC AND SPIRITS
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My compilation of seven grimoires containing diabolical material and black magic.

GRAND GRIMOIRE: IMPERIAL RITUAL OF MAGIC
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A compilation of magical content ranging from talismans and mediumship to summoning demons. Proposed to have been authored by Swineburne Clymer.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

A Slew of New Work

Coming soon: Johannes Trithemius' "The Art of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals"- a sort of short-ish grimoire and similar in infamy and length to De Septum Secundeis- these two works form the twin counterparts to the Steganographia and never obtained the level of fame of this much longer, Latinized work. I have already fully edited this manuscript and it will be released in two days.

In addition to this July release, I am looking forward to another double release; the Universal Fortune Teller, an 1860 work similar to the Oraculum, and a work on mesmerism and hypnotism of note from the 1930s which I scanned from my very own collection.

In addition to these two notable works of paranormal Americana, I want to begin the Nigromancia as soon as possible due to its fame, alongside beginning Sickness in Hell; it needs to take rough form before October, which is for obvious reasons the best month for editing works of darkness.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Napoleon's Oraculum - Coming Soon! (Plus General Announcement)

It's a happy day for those interested in fortune telling, zodiacs, astrology, and general mysticism. One of the best works ever to be crafted that deals with these things (with a surprisingly massive number of types of fortune telling included within its pages) is now virtually done- I have completed my edition of the famous Oraculum of Napoleon; also called the Dream Book, or Book of Fate. This work, released three times in three forms, is largely based on, but expands greatly upon, the Philosophical Merlin of 1822 English fame. Two of these editions provide an enormous oraculum (long enough so the resulting pages of fortunes run into symbols) with little else, but the American version from the 1880s adds in numerous sections of additional material; fortune telling and divination by cards, dice, dominoes, moles, and the standard Zodiac as well. Thus, it was this edition I chose, with its simplified, shorter actual Oraculum section.


The main sheet of the oraculum.

The Oraculum is 76 pages in length, about half of which is the Oraculum itself, the rest being dedicated to other variants of divination. A very brief half page section on the day of the week a child is born and what it prognosticates, present in the third but not the 1880s American edition, has been added in the notes for continuity as well.

In other, more general news, I have decided how to organize this blog; instead of adding links to each discrete work I have produced (there are too many to add to make the blog still look good) I have decided to break the works into four groups; alchemical works, grimoires, philosophical works, and miscellaneous works in their own fourth category. Thus, four new links will be added to the left hand side of the blog below the video series' own links, and posts will be made collecting the works in each category and briefly summarizing them as in my previous general post of edited works for sale. In this manner, navigation will be substantially improved.

Sunday, March 13, 2016

General Update: April Break/ Upcoming Works

Thanks to my new illustrating system it's somewhat easier to create substantially better-quality illustrations for my works and as such it should be fairly simple to re-edit a couple of the older works I've released and bring the illustrations there up to my new standards. I took a look at the Grimorium Verum and determined that its own images were actually fine, which surprised me because for some reason I remembered one of them being crooked, as in, the hand drawn, scanned and digitized image seemed slightly "off" to me. Somehow, it was my eyes playing tricks on me.

Going forward into April I'll be taking a week or two off at that time to relax and will be doing very little work; I have my own (fortunate and happy) things going on at that time and it's about time to take a quick breather so I can get back into editing and writing mode for the summer.

Before this happens I intend to edit and release the Fourth Book of Agrippa; I've already reformatted and half-edited my way through it (it's not a very long work) and merely need to illustrate it thereafter. Once that's done, I have to re-edit and re-release two slightly poorer-format editions I created fairly early on in my editing streak, and I should probably retitle the Enchiridion, since it's apparently better known as the grimoire of Pope Leo, not the enchiridion, it therefore makes sense to switch the title and subtitle for better overall attention from the occult-buying literary audience. If I have time to do so, I want to release an edition of the middle-length Clavicles of Solomon as well. This will require far more extensive artwork so it may take a while.

After my quick April break it's onward to a slew of new releases; several by Hollandus, the three (true) books of Agrippa, the five books of the Lesser Keys (individually, I plan a complete critical edition some time thereafter), and an extremely interesting book called Napoleon's Oraculum. This fortune telling system is similar to the Philosophical Merlin, the latter probably being partly based on the same.

I intend to also re-edit Fruits of Eden; I was satisfied with the final result as apparently were others but I'd like to redesign the interior format of the images. I have ideas for many fiction and nonfiction works also in my head waiting to be written.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Liber Salomonis: Sepher Raziel, Now Available




At long last one of the most important grimoires is here; the infamous Liber Salomonis, the so-called Sepher Raziel (which doesn't have much in common with the actual Kabbalistic text of the same title.)

As aforementioned on this blog it is arranged into seven treatises, all subjected to astronomical and Lesser Keys-style angelic names and powers. Like many grimoires, it arranges things into categorical systems using numbers like 24 (the hours of the day), 7 (the days of the week), and so forth. It contains thus a list of 24 sacred stones like topaz and sapphire, a list of 24 sacred beasts in four elemental categories, a list of 24 herbs and their powers, seven types of incense used as fumigation, seven angels, and such, all subject to the four elemental classifications.

A great proportion of this work dwells upon calling, expelling, or securing answers from "airy spirits" and devils of various kinds- not exactly a diabolical work per se, as all of these workings and enchantments are in turn subject to the practitioner remaining "clean and chaste" and fasting while praising the various names of the judeochristian deity. Interestingly, it alludes as well to transfigurations and other workings popular at the time- such as the use of a simple enchantment which is able to make a building seem flooded by water using only a squid and a bucket of sea water, the same being true of snow, blood, or apparently any other fluid.

I have modernized the text without changing its meaning and have left much of the invocation material in old english for continuity- elsewhere I have attempted to translate sometimes unused, archaic terms to their modern equivalent. For example, most of the herbs and animals are referred to either by their old-time name or even in Latin (like psyllium.) I have removed the Latin headers which once existed there because they merely echo the english in the subsequent paragraph for no reason.

82 pages.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Coming Soon: Liber Salomonis

I am now three quarters of the way through editing the (extremely antiquated) Liber Salomonis; a Hermetic era compilation of treatises masquerading as a Kabbalistic work from the times of Solomon or (as the text claims) even the times of Adam under the name "Sepher Raziel." I have already discussed in brief the obviously falsifiable claim of its ancient origin, but as a purely European text merely deriving content from Hebraic material it does not disappoint; it's extremely dense, and sometimes you will see the same word spelled in four or five variations in a single treatise, but the resulting material, once edited into an easier form, is quite good.

Perhaps the most important part of the work, the Ala or wings, which I have completed already, dwells upon the natures of twenty four each of herbs, beasts, stones, and letters, as well as speaking of the elements and principle virtues and powers behind the same. It gives lengthy passages on the creation of incense used to fumigate oneself, or a home, or a tomb, or anything else, and by means of the same work various enchantments. Interestingly, most of the "fish" spoken of (whales, dolphins, squid) aren't fish, biologically speaking; quite telling, regarding its date of origin.

A few of the species of herbs mentioned in this work I covered in Fruits of Eden and the use thereof and the virtues or evils from each species appear to largely agree with the other materials I consulted for writing my own herbal- marjoram and chicory are mentioned frequently both in the herblore as well as the creation of seven specific fumigations each for one day of the week and each with its own power and purpose.

Funnily enough, while this work speaks of Solomon and Hebrew letters, at the time it was made the jews, in Europe, were being frequently outed by kingdom after kingdom, migrating around the continent as worried christians remarked that they were causing outbreaks of plague or poisoning wells and fields alike.

In other news the; Stone of Urine, by Hollandus, is already fully edited, but I have not yet illustrated the same; I'm too focused on the Liber Salomonis and I'm still suffering from the end of a mild cold; sneezing on ones' illustrations is not a good way to spend your time productively!

Saturday, January 16, 2016

The Petit Albert In English, Now Available!




And now the moment you've all been waiting for- or at least those of you gobbling up all the occult literature you can find.

The Petit Albert is perhaps the best of all grimoires; longer and more in depth than the Red Dragon, more diabolical (at times) than the Grimorium Verum, and significantly more refined than the Black Pullet for talismanic workings. Unfortunately, until today editions of this same work have fallen into three categories; those in the original French (useless to most of the English speaking occult world), limited English editions, often expensive, which often seem to make wild claims notably that it was the "Grimoire of Marie Laveau", and ebook-only editions that seem never to allow a preview; that this may indicate a lower quality product is clear.

As such I took the liberty of translating, editing, and illustrating this edition myself line by line- my French skills are intermediate with regards to written material (and far less than intermediate in speech!) but it wasn't particularly difficult- the similarities of the French language to English made it simple to translate the headers of each section and proceed from there with help from a French-English dictionary and copious amounts of caffeine. I have held the price of the edition down specifically because I want my name associated with what might be the first "good" English release of the work.

The content can be roughly arranged into the following; passages with folk rites (mostly medicinal), alchemical passages with a utilitarian purpose in mind, and talismans. The talismans include as well an extremely simplistic expose on planets, days, and hours, and associate with a variety of perfumes (fumigation) used to consecrate the symbols themselves. While some of the chemical workings here are blatantly hazardous (the work admits this, especially where it suggests cooking with arsenic!) most are fairly easy to understand. We even see here recipes for what we might amusingly consider fertilizer among other things, and the use of saltpeter as a medicine is rampant.

It's origin appears to have centered around a person or person's at the time which compiled material both domestic and foreign, old (at the time) and then-modern. I make the claim here that this represents the first truly cosmopolitan grimoire; we see many of them in the modern age; many of the recently authored works we see from some of the occult publishing firms of the world combine, for example, Vedic spiritual systems with western esotericism- which is decried by purists and applauded by many a modern mage. Opinions aside on the subject it hardly matters whether the reader even believes in the occult, because the academic, here, can clearly see a cross section of the early enlightenment period and the cosmopolitan nature present in this literature, drawing its inspiration from (and explicitly crediting some of the material to) rites and practices from around Europe and beyond.

I've now edited a great many occult works from the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods and released them, and after the translating was finished for the Petit Albert I think this may be the finest of them all.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Grimorium Verum Now Available


After some time acquiring new occult materials in order to release editions of yet more grimoires, the first of a half dozen or so works is now complete; the infamous Grimorium Verum, one of the more diabolical works within the sphere of such modest-length occult works from the Renaissance through the early 20th century.

Also known as the "True" grimoire, this specific work contains a strange mix of typical angelic or white workings (numerous allusions to the power of Adonay and other divine or angelic names) as well as a limited amount of astrological material mixed in with several rather dark rituals; one involving animal sacrifice, the other involving the decapitated head of a human being and some beans, used to summon a spirit for divinatory purposes.

The work is fully illustrated and edited; I have removed archaic language and modernized it, with a few exceptions for continuity, and simplified the first three illustrations which apparently serve no purpose except to illuminate the topic at hand, because the three marks (or sigils) given for, respectively, Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Astaroth, are not directly used in any of the summoning herein. The work can be taken as an extremely interesting mixture of traditional and folk magick, or else as a steganographic work which I explain to some depth in the introduction. Strangely at least one other edition has a fifth section tacked onto the end from the OTO, the Book of the Black Serpent, which is of an entirely different occult school and which no serious occultist would consider as having anything to do with Crowley's nonsensical treatment of older traditions. This edition, obviously, omits this and other occasional attempts by the dishonest to cheapen the work. I have also finally corrected the all-too-obvious problem within the human head ritual, which calls for seven black beans but only accounts for five; the solution is simple- the original passage apparently forgets to notify the operator that not one but two beans are to be place in each eye. This otherwise minor oversight would be a severe problem for anyone actually attempting to use the work in a ritual form (I obviously do not condone the attempted use of decapitated human heads in rituals.)

Friday, October 23, 2015

Edited Works Currently For Sale: Grimoires and More!


GRIMOIRES:

CLAVICULA SALOMONIS
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The original manuscript, unbridled from Ptolemy the Grecian's later work. Mostly invocations.

GRIMORIUM VERUM
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Possibly the darkest grimoire, containing mostly folkish rites, including the use of the hand of glory.

HEPTAMERON
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Conjurations and spells for every day of the week, mostly gray magick.

LIBER SALOMONIS (Sepher Raziel)
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An extensive categorization system for minerals, beasts, plants, and their uses according to astrology.

THE ARBATEL OF MAGICK
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A series of philosophical aphorisms related to the occult.

THE BLACK PULLET
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Strictly related to the crafting of Talismans, this enlightenment era French work contains a lengthy and detailed back story related to Napoleon's adventures in Egypt.

THE ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO
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Mostly a talismanic work with prayers, but containing a pact with Satan as well.

THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
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The most infamous of grimoires, containing a pact with a demon known as Lucifuge.

THE GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS
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A standard summoning and talismanic grimoire often conflated with the Sworn Book of Honorius.

THE NOTARY ART OF SOLOMON
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The famous Ars Notoria, often bundled with the Lesser Keys.

THE PETIT ALBERT (English Edition)
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The most diabolical French grimoire, contains folk magick, talismans, and alchemical lore.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL MERLIN
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A British work from 1822 dealing with astrology and divination.

THE SWORD OF MOSES
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A series of invocations making use of sacred names related to the angelic.

THE ART OF DRAWING SPIRITS INTO CRYSTALS
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One of Trithemius' foremost works, detailing a simplistic conjuration method using a pedestal, a crystal, and various invocations.

THE TRUE PETITION OF THE JESUITS
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A strange grimoire, containing rituals possibly designed to slander the Jesuit order. Through its rites, the calling forth of infernal beings is considered very possible, along with obtaining hidden treasure.

POW WOWS: AN AMERICAN GRIMOIRE
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John George Hohman's 19th century tract- a combination of herbal medicine, folk magick, and protective charms from the Pennsylvania Dutch.

SPIRITUAL WORKS:

AN EPITOME OF THEOSOPHY
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Touches upon Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as basic Theosophical tenets.

CORPUS HERMETICUM
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The premier work of all Hermeticism, containing mostly philosophical treatises.

DE SEPTEM SECUNDEIS
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An extremely interesting part-prophetic and part-historical work by Trithemius.

FOURTH BOOK OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY
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A work spuriously attributed to Agrippa, detailing the natures and categories of certain spirits and forces both good and evil.

OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
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A strange Theosophical work detailing the overlap between the spiritual and such topics as atomic energy, cell structure, and the organs of a human body.

REMEDIES OF THE GREAT PHYSICIAN
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A work of christian healing, containing what may be seen as white magick invocations.

SEMIPHORAS AND SCHEMHAMFORAS
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An elaborate categorical system overlapping astronomy with divine numbers and names.

THE LIFE AFTER DEATH AND HOW THEOSOPHY UNVEILS IT
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A guide to reincarnation, purgatory, and death in general, from a Theosophical point of view.

FEMALE PREEMINENCE
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One of Agrippa's works- this time not spurious. A social tract applauding the sacred feminine, the symbol of the heroine, and female capabilities in prophecy and the occult.

BOOK OF TOBIT
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An Apocryphal work relating the story of Tobias on his quest (with help from the archangel Raphael) to defeat Asmodeus, the demon of lust, in order to get married and heal his father's blindness.

FOLKISH WORKS/MISCELLANY:
 
ARADIA: THE GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES
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An anthropological work regarding Tuscany, which contains some spells and rites. Charles Leland's finest work.

SEPHER BAHIR
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An elaborate work of Kaballah containing the opinions of scholars within Judaism related to Hebrew lettering, numerology, and cosmic lore.

SEPHER YETZIRAH
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An extremely important work within Kaballah with a series of statements on creation itself and how it parallels Hebrew letters and numbers as well as astrological lore.

THE TESTAMENT OF SOLOMON
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An exceptional and old work, technically a grimoire but mostly apocryphal demonology.

THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER
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The premier work of all Gnostic lore, coupled with the Hypostasis of the Archons.

NAPOLEON'S ORACULUM
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An elaborate system of fortune telling, which also contains charms and divination-related practices which use nothing more than playing cards, dominoes, and other simple things. Pure Americana.

THE UNIVERSAL FORTUNE TELLER (1860)
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A series of charms and astrological divination. Also Americana.

REGIMEN SANITATUM SALERNITANUM
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One of the foremost guides of the Medieval era with regards to diet, healing, and sanitation. Contains many herbal remedies and sign-of-the-times practices.

THE UNIVERSAL FORTUNE TELLER OF MRS BRIDGET (1790)
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A longer, earlier fortune teller including palmistry, astrology, card tricks, dream interpretation, and more.

ALCHEMY:

THE CHEMICAL ART
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Ficinus' philosophical work containing an extremely interesting conversation between a necromancer and Satan among other things, with regards to alchemy.

A TRACT OF GREAT PRICE
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An interesting philosophical work of unknown authorship. It relates the generation of metals to the ascension of vapors and their mixing with other materials.

CONCERNING THE TINCTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
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A spurious Paracelsian work of note, openly threatening the enemies of "true" alchemical lore.

THE AURORA OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
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Paracelsus' work relating the occult to past civilizations and attempting to refute errors in then-modern alchemical philosophy.

THE GOLDEN CHAIN OF HOMER
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A series of statements regarding reality and the practice of creating and transmuting.

THE ROSARY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
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The longest alchemical text; a series of intricate illustrations and partly metaphoric chemical experiments; equal parts philosophy and physicality.

THE THREE ELIXIRS OF ALCHEMY
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A short work attributed to Hollandus- speaks of the creation of elixir, a universal medicine of cosmic capabilities.

THE TWELVE KEYS OF BASIL VALENTINE
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Mostly philosophical and part metaphor- almost certainly a spurious work of later date. This version omits the attractive but useless woodcuts of later editions.

THREE TREATISES ON ALCHEMY
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The Transmutation of Metals, The Celestial Ruby, and A Fount of Chemical Truth by Philalethes.

THE MIRROR OF ALCHEMY
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Roger Bacon's hands-on experimentation with replicating natural forces to create metals.

A WORK OF SATURN
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Details the creation of universal medicine through purifying and processing lead.

APHORISMS OF URBIGERUS
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A series of 100 alchemical aphorisms which detail the creation of elixir.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Coming Soon: Edited Works

For those who are not yet aware (which may be most of my readership, since I haven't really talked about it here much!) I have released more than just my own works that I myself authored. Some time ago it became clear that there was a relatively large and untapped market for "people who want occult material but want it in paperback, but don't want it poorly made."

Because much of the less expensive occult content on Amazon and elsewhere was composed of (as reviews frequently alluded to) poorly scanned books which were not edited beyond slapping them together in a few hours at most, and because properly made occult texts sometimes run up to 15 dollars just for a simplistic 40 page booklet and up towards 50 dollars or more for a short book (far more if hardcover or leather bound,) I realized that there was an entire category of people being shorted on such material- those who want an attractive but inexpensive final product.

I set out to complete such a work, focusing first on the infamous Red Dragon (generally referred to as the Grand Grimoire.) Reception has been good enough to justify continuing to edit old grimoires and other works perpetually, and I don't intend to stop until I have released many hundreds of such works.

I am currently 2/3 of the way through editing the Sepher Bahir and will be working on two other similar works very soon; when the three are done (because they have such similar content, I love continuity) I will make a post with links to every occult work I have edited- the list is growing rather quickly because these works require less work than something written from scratch for the first time.

I am no expert with cover design or interior design for that matter, but the products I am making for sale are, at least, inexpensive and not simply crappy scans of existing works. Tip to buyers; ALWAYS remember to use the "look inside" function to check if it's just a photocopied work, which will always be off center, spotty, and contain any imperfections retained from the original copy scanned in the first place. If you want fully edited, fully reformatted, sometimes re-illustrated works with attractive covers, and you don't want to pay for something released by a self proclaimed magister or warlock, then I have what you need, or will in the future.

Incidentally anyone who wishes for me to edit and release an older work (generally speaking the author has to have died a century ago at least for it to be out of copyright) they can mention it to me, if the quality of other work they've seen pleases them. Sales are rising quickly so be assured the flow of new literature will be continuous.

I am working on two new works of my own making as well, and will still be editing the now (unfortunately) infamous "Fruits of Eden." This is likely to come right after the three kabbalist works are done- which shouldn't take long at all.