Chassidism: Now Available!

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This short work is largely a look at the rituals and beliefs of Chassidic (or Hasidic) Judaism- dancing, song, marital rites, and so forth. It touches on the history of the sect, and its mysticism, and culminates in a suggestion that an actual state of Israel should be created- the work being notable in that it was constructed long prior to the same, in the middle of the first world war- an example of Zionist literature from the era.

39 pages

Jewish Folk-Lore of the Middle Ages: Now Available!

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This short text is a twofold effort; first, a few examples of actual Jewish folklore dating to the Middle Ages, and second, some various analysis of the subject itself and the same related tales, from an anthropological viewpoint. It should be noted that claims of King Arthur being a Jewish tale appear to be related to the upsurging Judaist class consciousness of the late 19th century.

34 pages.

Kabbalah, The Harmony of Opposites: Now Available!

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Kabbalah is one of the systems of mysticism which is of greatest interest to people, so I have completed several new works recently on the subject. Colville's edition, here, is a fairly broad one, ruminating on the mystic meaning of the Hebrew alphabet and number system, the Tree of Life, and other concepts within Jewish magical tradition. As Colville was associated with Theosophy and other orders, this book is a slightly Westernized but altogether coherent analysis of Kabbalah and its teachings.

127 pages.

The Poetry of the Talmud: Now Available!

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This volume (and the last edited work of 2021!) is a plethora of analysis regarding the Talmud and its content; it covers the hyperbolic and metaphorical nature of a great deal of Rabbinical opinion, and a number of little cautionary tales usually involving animals, as well as the Greek influence on some of the content, in which their stories were re-interpreted according to the premises of Judaism. It is heavily sourced both to the Talmud and to contemporary academic works.

156 pages.

The Sanitary Code of the Pentateuch: Now Available!

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This fine work is an academic and historical treatment of the various laws and rituals related to ancient Judaism in their Pentateuch, relative to dietary restrictions, the concept of sanitation, disinfection, and epidemic disease (specifically, leprosy.) It is quasi-revisionist in that the author spends some time attempting to explain the relevance of these practices from a then-modern late 19th century viewpoint (for example, swine being banned from consumption due to trichinosis, or single-crop field planting being related to crop rotation.)

46 pages.

Contentions With God, A Study in Jewish Folklore: Now Available!

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This short booklet is filled with interesting Jewish folklore. Almost all of it involves Rabbinical councils condemning God for contradictions in Torah law, sometimes to the point of "suing" their deity on behalf of aggrieved plaintiffs (it isn't certain how they are reimbursed by the losing party!) A slightly humorous depiction of the Jewish god ensues, and on one occasion, even death itself is bested.

40 pages.

The Religion of Ancient Palestine: Now Available!

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Here is another creation series work, one which I finished a week ago but which got caught up in Amazons' massively slow processing system. It is partly linguistic but unlike the last two titles is mostly about religious history and how the various spiritual systems that would contribute to Judeochristianity co-evolved and borrowed imagery and words and ideas from one another. It references, especially, Egypt and Babylon the most and speaks of some of the smaller local tribes of the Levant region.

77 pages.

The Talmud: Now Available!

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This little booklet is a fairly good guide to the basic understanding of the Jewish Talmud- rather than provide a massive and complex overview (as many works on Judaism) it condenses things pretty nicely and was meant mainly for the casual studier of religion more than for those intending to become experts- indeed the original edition had several dozen pages of ads for similar works- common at the time (which are useless now of course.)

It gives a bit of discourse on the difference between the Jewish writings themselves and the opinions and interpretations thereof, remarking that in many cases the latter is preferable as the former is so difficult to understand otherwise.

77 pages.

The Tabernacle: Now Available!

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And now it's time for a happy surprise- one final occult work to release before 2019 begins. It's quite a great one also- compiled from sermons and writings from the renowned Presbyterian George Junkin. It covers the architecture of the Jewish Temple in minute detail and offers (sometimes inferred) symbolism and other asides. Altogether it's painstakingly detailed, and the amount of content here would take up twice as many pages were it not for the compacted writing style. It is strongly recommended to anyone with interest in the era of Moses, even if some of the historicity is taken less seriously now than in the 1860s.

123 pages.

Jewish Mysticism: Now Available!

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One of a number of interesting spiritual works released by the same publisher in the 1910s, Abelsons' treatment of mysticism within Judaism here is quite good, expansive, and sometimes dense, but technically an introductory overview of magickal concepts within Kabbalah.

Speaking of the Yetzirah and Zohar among other works, it is somewhat a work of linguistic anthropology, which makes sense, since a lot of the theological and mystic concepts of Jewish spiritual lore are fundamentally derived from the Hebrew language and number systems.

123 pages.

The Biography of Satan: Now Available!

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This work comes courtesy of the spiritualist movement of the mid and late 19th century. It is at once an academic work, a work of general demonology and Satan-lore, and a social tract aimed at the fire and brimstone preaching of its era. The elaborate synthesis of its sources and its authors' opinions make it an important work within the historical cycle of late pre-modern Christian philosophy.

For those interested in the occult, the practice of magick, and demonology in a stricter sense, this work is best seen as a refutation of some of the symbolism and meaning used by those involved in the same; if the basis is unsound the practice is unsound, and a great many practitioners continue in the delusion that brimstone-and-smoke filled hallways populated by leathery little creatures with Pluto-esque pitchforks are very much real, and that Satan is a historical notion as opposed to one adapted from paganism. I strongly suggest this work as well for anyone desiring to rid themselves of the fear or Hellfire, since it is meticulously debased here and more or less totally defeated.

112 pages.

Semiphoras and Schemhamforash: Now Available!

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Now we turn to a work by Luppius; this time a lesser known gem of the occult literary world, usually combined with the Books of Moses into the same sort of philosophical bundle.

The overall system here is largely categorical and related to Judaist mysticism; it classifies the names of the Hebraic God, the names of his subordinate cosmic forces, the names of different stages of paradise, and so forth- through studying this work and praying fervently a person is capable of using, then, a series of incantations and prayers to protect themselves and do all manner of other powerful things. It has a great deal of similarity to the Ars Goetia in its classifications but provides no seals or sigils for the same, as they are unnecessary.

50 pages.