Happy New Year- Final 2021 Update!

2021 was an eventful year- mostly for the worse, but for literary work by yours truly, it was amazing; 63,136 copies of my paperback literature sold since the year began (a few more copies will be sold today, but it's New Years' Eve so I don't expect sales to be particularly high.) My first nine compilations are done, and my first hardcover is currently in review- of course, it is a hardcover version of the "Book of Forbidden Knowledge", which alone has sold several tens of thousands of copies since I edited it years ago. I expect this release will be quite popular.

I was not able to get to hardcover work done for my compiled titles, but that is not a problem- it was a decent tradeoff to complete an extra five edited works and literally complete half of 2022's work before the year even switches over. Anyways, I plan to create a couple more compiled works, so it makes sense to wait anyways, to soothe my raging OCD. I was also able to obtain a half dozen more works to edit- and I am well on my way to completing the next slew of edited releases, which should all be done before January ends.

Good as though 2021 was (for literature anyways) I expect 2022 will be astronomically better- onward!

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 Apocryphal Books of the Old and New Testament: Now Available!

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This book is a detailed analysis of every book of the Apocrypha, written a full four decades prior to the Dead Sea Scrolls being discovered. It speaks about the content, purpose, authorship, and dating of each work- not just the well known ones like the Book of Enoch, Gospel of Nicodemus, or the books of Maccabees, but also lesser-known ones like Bel and the Dragon and the Book of Judith. It is fairly comprehensive and academic in tone.

127 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.

Lectures on Witchcraft: Now Available!

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This excellent volume is a mid 19th century look at the Salem Witch Trials which was initially several lectures which were transcribed. Upham lays out some of the trial transcripts and remarks on the causation of the witch panic, and the brutal methods by which persecution was enacted. At times, he waxes a bit (overly) optimistic about the advancement of civics, evidence, reason, and religious tolerance regarding this and similar issues of superstition and criminality.

147 pages.

The Original Norwood Gipsy: Now Available!

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This little text is one of a number of divination titles ascribed to the infamous Norwood Gypsy, briefly mentioned in the Salem Witch Trials. It is a standard fortune teller, with tea leaf reading, physiognomy, lucky and unlucky days, and fortune telling using a deck of cards, all mentioned. It is brief but complete and may have been the basis for plagiarism from later works repeating it near-verbatim.

33 pages.

Identity of the Religions Called Druidical and Hebrew: Now Available!

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This little work of religious history delves into the cultural as well as the linguistic, with its main focus being on correlating ritual and language between the Druids and Hebrews, positing a common prior origin, Antediluvian in nature. It goes into some detail about other contemporary spiritual and cultural groups as well, and while this kind of theory has largely been discarded in modern academia, it is more because of its religious connotations than any prevailing counter evidence.

70 pages.

Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman: Now Available!

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This poetic volume is a telling of the story of Lilith (derived from Sumeria) from her incarnation as the compatriot of Adam, and the first female (prior to Eve being born) and her fall from grace, by desiring equality- then, her subsequent pairing with Eblis (or Iblis) and slowly becoming an enemy to mothers and infants. It is a romanticist work, and interprets this legend somewhat differently than certain works; Lilith may be seen as a tragic and largely unwilling participant in evil, or as a malevolent demonic force.

74 pages.

Israfel: Now Available!

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This little work is yet another A E Waite poetry compilation, mostly one long work, delivered in a series of "visions" and "letters", and dealing with the nature of the archangel of Revelation, of note within both Christian theology (sometimes under the title "Raphael") as well as within Islam. It is a very theatrical and romanticist work, sometimes near hyperbolic in its descriptions of glory and of the Avalon of Arthurian legend.

87 pages.

A Defense of Freemasonry: Now Available!

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This text is a mid 19th century refutation of some of the contemporary attacks on the Freemasons- especially by Catholic sources. It specifically refutes a half dozen major premises, most notably the concept that members had to swear oaths which were against British law. The Vatican is repeatedly condemned for its near incessant diatribe against secret societies- a phenomenon which, it must be noted, went far beyond merely the Freemasons themselves.

109 pages.

A Method of Chierognomy: Now Available!

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This heavily illustrated little work is a good fortune telling system mostly overlapping the practice of palmistry. It does not really mention the lines of the hand (except in terms of degrees of smooth or rough) but focuses mainly on finger and hand shape and size, and the various "mounds" of the hand used to determine various types and degrees of character.

40 pages.