Best of
Magick

2011

Celtic Lore & Spellcraft of the Dark Goddess: Invoking the Morrigan


Stephanie Woodfield - 2011
    Discover the hidden lessons and spiritual mysteries of the Dark Goddess as you perform guided pathworkings, rituals, and spells. Draw on the unique energies of her many expressions—her three main aspects of Macha, Anu, and Badb; the legendary Morgan Le Fay; and her other powerful guises.From shapeshifting and faery magic to summoning a lover and creating an Ogham oracle, the dynamic and multifaceted Dark Goddess will bring empowering wisdom and enchantment to your life and spiritual practice.

Pomba Gira and the Quimbanda of Mbumba Nzila


Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold - 2011
    Her plant allies among the nightshades are described in a full herbarium.The attractions and dangers for both men and women who make cult to her are presented, as are her many faces. Pomba Gira has origins in the witchcraft of Portugal, the Basque Country as well as Congo and the native influences of Brazil.The witchcraft fusion makes her cult particularly accessible to Westerners whose own traditions share much ground with Quimbanda.Frisvold carefully unravels the skeins, revealing her origin in historical figures such as Maria Padilha, but more deeply still through archetype and myth to the very essence of her skin shedding nature.He finds the origin of her name in Congo, the cult of divine possession amongst the slave camps of Brazil, and brings us through to her more modern manifestations and his personal work with the Queen of the Fig Tree in Hell. As an initiate and devotee, he gives an insider's view with the same respect and experience he demonstrates in Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones.We walk through the Queendoms of Lyre, Cemetery, Sepulchres, Streets, Crossroads, Wilderness, Soul, Oceanshore and Calunga.The workings of twenty four different Pomba Giras are given, from Cigana the gypsy to the split skull face of Rosa Caveira.Through the razor blades in honey, the cigarette smoke and the sweet anisette spilt in the graveyard, Pomba Gira takes seductive shape.Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is an anthropologist and psychologist who over the course of the last fifteen years been studying, both academically and practically, African and Afro-derived cults in the New World. This has led to a multiplicity of initiations into Vodou, both from Benin and Haiti, Santeria, Kimbanda, Palo Mayombe and Ifá. He makes part of the council of elders in the Ogboni society of Abeokuta, Nigeria. This is a significant expansion of the material first presented by Frisvold in his early work on the subject Kiumbanda which focussed on Exu. He has for the last decade lived in Brazil where his studies and involvement in traditional forms of metaphysics, faith, cult and witchcraft is a constant theme in his life.

Llewellyn's 2012 Magical Almanac


Llewellyn Publications - 2011
    For more than twenty years, this trusted guide has inspired and enlightened magical practitioners of all skill levels.Get organized with the handy calendar section-shaded for easier "flip-to" reference. It features world festivals and holidays, 2012 sabbats for both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and Full Moons. You'll find the Moon's sign and phase, plus each day's color and incense correspondences. Thirty-six original articles offer creative ideas for using elemental energy to maximize the power of your spellwork in 2012.—Make your home a magical haven using sacred geometry—Stir things up (in a good way) with a magical air altar—Dispel negativity with a cord-cutting ritual—Manifest, inspire, and heal with bathtub spellsPublished annually for over twenty years

Tarot of the Silicon Dawn


Egypt Urnash - 2011
    Egypt Urnash's distinctive style--comic book imagery with a futuristic sci-fi edge--vividly captures a rapidly changing world where humankind lives symbiotically with technology and media. Featuring ninety Arcana, this unique and engaging deck pushes the boundaries of traditional tarot- taking you to new depths of personal insight and reflection.Includes 99 full-color cards and a companion guide.

Ask Baba Lon: Answers to Questions of Life and Magick


Lon Milo DuQuette - 2011
    This is DuQuette at his best and most outrageously candid. "There are no stupid questions..." he laments..."just stupid people." (Later he makes a half-sincere apology for that remark.)Peppered generously with DuQuette's drawings and magical verses, "Ask Baba Lon" is guaranteed to delight, entertain and (if YOUR turban isn't wrapped too tight) ENLIGHTEN you.This book was edited by David Cherubim from the Aleister Crowley Foundation and the cover artwork is by Constance Jean DuQuette.

Wiccan Shadows


Lori J. Schiele - 2011
    Alex and her Sisters of the Laurel Tree Coven must work against the clock—and the hidden evil that wants to destroy them—in order to discover the mystery behind Celia’s disappearance before Samhain, when the world as they know it might just come to an end. In her search for answers, Alex finds herself torn between her live-in partner, Glenn, and Dan, a sexy animal control officer, with far too many dark and dangerous secrets of his own. Soon Alex realizes that one of these men is out to kill her. If she chooses the wrong one, she’ll unleash pure evil upon the world.

Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet


Candace C. Kant - 2011
    

Crystal Visions Tarot


Jennifer Galasso - 2011
    Crystal Visions Tarot remains true to the classic Rider-Waite 78-card system in much of its symbolism, as well as in card and suit names. The luscious card imagery also illustrates the elemental aspects of each suit in order to aid the novice in forming associations with the cards.The Crystal Visions Tarot deck includes 78 cards with an additional unknown card for gazing into future situations that have not yet been revealed, or for exploring issues with deeper insight. The instruction booklet offers both upright and reversed meanings.

Grimoire of Aleister Crowley: Group Magick Rituals


Rodney OrpheusHoward White - 2011
    This book is the first comprehensive presentation of group-oriented rites for modern magicians inspired by the works of Aleister Crowley. It contains rituals written by Crowley for his own magic circles, many of them unpublished during his lifetime, plus rare ancient texts that were Crowley's own inspiration.The rituals are newly edited and explained by Rodney Orpheus, who brings to this volume decades of experience in performing and teaching Aleister Crowley's rituals within Crowley's magical order Ordo Templi Orientis. He introduces each ritual with a clear overview, setting each in its historical context and explaining its function and mode of operation, and includes detailed notes on the setting and performance of each one.Whether absolute beginner or seasoned expert, magicians of all paths will find this volume to be an eminently workable and extremely powerful grimoire spanning centuries from ancient Mithraic and Bacchanalian rites, Goetia, and Gnosticism, right up to present day Crowleyan invocations and sexual magick.

Through the Mists of Faerie: A Magical Guide to the Wisdom Teaching of the Ancient Elven


The Silver Elves - 2011
    Not the magic of chants and spells and ceremonies, of which we've already written quite a bit, but of the Quest to become like those kindred of ours who we, and others, call the Shining Ones, and which most folks think of when they fantasize about what elves are-even when they deny that we are elven or that elves exist at all. The Shinning Ones are the evolved beings who guide the elven people upon their spiritual Path. If you would enter Faerie, or Elfin as we often call it, this is a book about the Path that leads there.

Magical Knowledge Book II - The Initiate


Josephine McCarthy - 2011
    This second book in a series of three, guides and advises, informs and introduces the serious magician to rarely discussed areas of visionary an... Full description

The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way


Penny Billington - 2011
    Discover how to embark on this sacred green path and enrich your life with its ancient wisdom.Practicing Druid Penny Billington offers a clear and structured course of study grounded in Celtic history and mythology, and highlights the mysteries and modern practice of this nature-based tradition. Each chapter begins with an evocative visualization and captivating Welsh mythic tales from the Mabinogionare woven throughout, introducing lessons and key concepts. A series of hands-on exercises will help you internalize these truths, develop a spiritual awareness rooted in nature, build a relationship with the multi-dimensional world, and ultimately adopt a druidic worldview to guide you in everyday life.Archetypes Animal energy The elements The Nwyfre Symbols The Wheel of the Year The Otherworld Trees as teachers and healers Shapeshifting From joining a druidic community to starting out as a solitary practitioner, this unique spiritual guide offers advice on everything you need to know about practicing Druidry today.Praise: I loved this rich and intuitive approach to the study of modern Druidry. Penny's book is full of wisdom and insight. The comprehensive course is accompanied by beautiful visualizations and carefully crafted inspirational exercises.--Barbara Erskine, bestselling author of Lady of Hay

The Witch's Bag of Tricks: Personalize Your Magick & Kickstart Your Craft


Melanie Marquis - 2011
    The first book of its kind to offer solitary eclectics a solution to the problem of dull or ineffective magick, The Witch's Bag of Tricks will help practicing Witches boost creativity, improve abilities, and cast powerful spells that work. Whether your rituals have become rote or your spells just aren't working, you don't have to settle for magickal mediocrity!Designed for the experienced eclectic practitioner, this guidebook offers advanced spellcasting techniques and practical hands-on exercises for personalized magickal development. You'll gain the skills and knowledge you need to custom-design your own spells and advance your mystical development. Breathe fresh life into your practice and take your magickal skills further than ever with The Witch's Bag of Tricks.Praise: Full of useful information, thoughtful questions to ponder, and clever suggestions for how to put the zip back in your magickal life. Belongs on the shelf of every practicing Witch.--Deborah Blake, author of Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook

The Plant Spirit Familiar


Christopher Penczak - 2011
    Learn about the alchemical, magickal, and homeopathic uses of plants and experience the transformative power plant spirits have to offer us for health, wisdom, and spiritual growth.

Tuning In: A Journalist, 6 Trance Channelers and Messages from the Other Side


David Thomas - 2011
    He was so taken with his first encounter that he arranged for in-depth interviews with six of the most prominent trance channelers practicing today and made a documentary about them, the critically acclaimed film Tuning In. In the book Tuning In, Thomas takes us behind the scenes as he and his cameraman Matthiew Klinck travel across the country, sharing their adventures and experiences meeting and interviewing these six remarkable men and women. We not only get to know both the filmmakers and the channelers as people but also to watch as Thomas transforms from skeptical journalist to true believer. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Tuning In shows how this channeled material answers many of life's most basic yet elusive questions in profound ways: Why are we here? And, how can we create fulfilling lives for ourselves? This is a book about real people, real lives, with real advice for us all. Tuning In features Lee Carroll (Kryon), Darryl Anka (Bashar), Geoffrey Hoppe (Tobias), Wendy Kennedy (Pleidian Collective), John Cali (Chief Joseph), and Shawn Randall (Torah).

Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly: A Journal of New Orleans Voodoo, Hoodoo, Southern Folk Magic and Folklore (Volume 1, Issue 2)


Denise AlvaradoWinsom Winsom - 2011
    Volume 1 Issue #2 explores home protections and wards, New Orleans Gris Gris, the Gree Gree men of New Orleans, Mama Moses (Harriet Tubman) and the Conjure tradition of the Underground Railroad, growing a Botanica in your backyard, Mississippi Death Conjure, Spirit Dolls, GLBT issues in the Lavender Passage, Crossroads legend, Red brick Dust, Indian Spirit Hoodoo, International Conjure, making a Business Elegba, Saint Anthony, Altars, Pomba Gira, Women of Power, the folklore of Plate Eye and Br'er Rabbit, an offering ritual for Archangel Iophiel, book reviews and a fabulous selection of spells and formularies and more!

Herbal Alchemist's Handbook: A Grimoire of Philtres, Elixirs, Oils, Incense, and Formulas for Ritual Use


Karen Harrison - 2011
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Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain


Charles D. Laughlin - 2011
    -The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds. -Communing with the Gods surveys anthropological theories of dreaming, what we know about how the brain produces dreams and why, and lucid dream research and how the notion of lucidity applies to dreaming of traditional societies. It explores the ways that societies encourage, evoke, experience and interpret dreams, as well as how people act in response to information obtained in the dream state. A comprehensive theory of brain, culture and dreaming is presented that explains the neurobiological functions of sleep and dreaming, the evolution of dreaming, the universality of, and cultural variation in dream elements, and the role of dreaming as a system of intra-psychic communication. -This theory is then applied to an examination of dreaming in modern society. The book discusses how modern dream-work may ameliorate wide-spread alienation, spiritual exhaustion and despair in modern society."

CBD Tarot de Marseille


Yoav Ben-Dov - 2011
    Rather than create an exact replica of the original, Ben-Dov has adapted Conver's images to modern printing and artistic sensibilities, and made a crisp and high quality Marseilles deck.

Morrigan's Harvest


Kaiya Hart - 2011
    And it is also a day of war that ends with the slaughter of innocents.When Shea's mother - the witch of Darkwood - dies from a mysterious illness none can explain, she leaves her daughter with little more than lies, half-truths, and an elf guardian who hates her from the first moment he sees her. Galen thinks his new charge is foolish and spoiled. Shea thinks he is cold and heartless. Then Shea's village is attacked. The people she's known her entire life, including the man she loves, are enslaved or murdered outright.

An Elfin Book of Spirits: Evoking the Beneficent Powers of Faerie


The Silver Elves - 2011
    It also reveals a system for using stones to find a spirit at random, which is what the authors most often do when seeking the aide of a spirit. These are Elfin spirits, so they command the powers and influences of Faerie and in addition to helping the conjuror fulfill hir Will, they will also ever seek to guide the magician to the fulfillment of hir Destiny and the progress toward the perfection of hir True S'elf.

Ecstatic: For Dionysos


H. Lewis - 2011
    For a significant portion of his life H. Jeremiah Lewis (perhaps better known by his religious name Sannion) has struggled to understand the ways and nature of this elusive ancient Greek deity of wine, vegetation, madness, drama, liberation and much else besides. In the course of his study and explorations he has produced an immense body of writing which has been gathered together in this unique volume for the first time ever. In addition to learning about Dionysian history, mythology, symbolism, and methods of worship both ancient and modern, the reader will gain a first-hand glimpse of what it's like to know and love a god as strange as Dionysos. Of special interest to Dionysians and occultists, this volume sees the first publication anywhere of a new oracular system involving the myths, symbols and associations of Dionysos with a concise explanation of how to use it.

The Witch's Heart: The Magick of Perfect Love & Perfect Trust


Christopher Penczak - 2011
    Award-winning author Christopher Penczak offers a wealth of magickal workings and wisdom for everything from reclaiming sexual power and arousing passion to banishing ties to an unrequited love relationship.Written for Witches, Pagans, and other magickal people, this guide tells you how to first build self-love and self-esteem, then use that energy to find a partner or rekindle the passion in your current relationship. It offers instruction on making love spells, potions, and talismans, and features a materia magica of flowers, herbs, stones, and metals to empower them. The Witch's Heart also explores divine inner alchemy, love deities, sexual healing, fertility, the ethics of love magick, twin flames and soul mates, and how to heal a broken heart.

A Green Witch's Formulary


Deborah J. Martin - 2011
    Doctors or healing priests were usually too far away to consult except in extreme circumstances. In addition to directing the planting & maintenance of the garden, she had an herb room (later, a stillroom) where she dried the harvest and made the necessary medicaments from herbs. Of necessity, she would compile herbal recipes and other practical information used to treat the illnesses and injuries of both family and retainers. This information would come from a variety of sources: her mother & other relatives, neighbors and travelers. Following the tradition of her forebears, Ms. Martin has compiled helpful information on over thirty common health complaints and fifteen magical situations. As her ancestors would have recorded, she includes information on growing your own herbs and how to make herbal preparations.

Easy Tarot Reading: The Process Revealed in Ten True Readings


Josephine Ellershaw - 2011
    Josephine Ellershaw, the author of the international bestseller Easy Tarot, presents an easy, effective, and enjoyable way for anyone to learn to do amazingly accurate, helpful Tarot readings.Ellershaw illuminates the Tarot reading process by inviting you to virtually sit in on her readings with ten individuals. Card by card, spread by spread, she reveals her thought process behind each interpretation and decision, and tells how to make the connections that add clarity and depth to a reading. These compelling and memorable accounts of ten very different readings, along with follow-up documentation of how relevant each reading proved to be, result in a powerful and completely unique approach to learning to do Tarot readings.Easy Tarot Reading also includes tips on the following topics:Ethical guidelines and responsibility Conducting email and telephone readings Delivering bad news Seeker involvement and icebreakers Frequency of consultations Indicators of success, secrets, and skullduggery Praise: A truly unique book...This engaging and honest behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of Tarot will delight and inspire both Tarot enthusiasts and curious newcomers alike.--Lisa Finander, author of DisneystrologyI absolutely adore this book...Ellershaw presents the 'story' that a reading really is in fine fashion!--Bonnie Cehovet, Aeclectic TarotIf you've never read cards before, this is the book to start with. If you're already reading cards, this is the book that will help you fine tune your skills.--Anna Jedrziewski, TarotWise.com

Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly: A Journal of the Magickal Arts with a Special Focus on New Orleans Voodoo, Hoodoo, Folk Magic and Folklore (Volume 1, Issue 1)


Denise AlvaradoH. Byron Ballard - 2011
    Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly magazine shares historical and contemporary information about the conjure arts, including magico-religious practices, spiritual traditions, folk magic, hoodoo, and religions with their roots in the African Diaspora and indigenous herbology. Each issue of Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly magazine brings you original and traditional formulas, spells, tutorials, root doctor and conjure artist profiles, and more!

Geomancy in Theory & Practice


Stephen Skinner - 2011
    While serving as a practical manual, it will be invaluable to all those interested in divination, magic, and astrology.Geomancy--divination by earth--ranks alongside the tarot, astrology, and the I Ching as a major form of divination. Stephen Skinner explores the roots of geomancy, Islamic geomancy's impact on medieval Europe, its role during the Renaissance, and its use in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The book also gives practical examples for interpreting and practicing the art, and covers astro-geomancy, which combines astrology and geomancy.

Working with Inner Light: The Magical Journal of William G. Gray


William G. Gray - 2011
    As the New Age seemed to explode into being, everything spiritual had to be Eastern. Psychedelic artwork showed Glastonbury Tor overshadowed by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, or Stonehenge sending its energies up to Lord Krishna - imagery which William G. Gray summed up quite simply as "Balls." He was working hard to make sure that our weakened (or slumbering) Western Traditions would survive. Among his endeavours at the time was this guide to the inner and outer practicalities of ritual magic, which includes instruction on god-forms, words of power, magic circles, initiation, extension of consciousness and raising power through ritual. Previously unpublished, Working with Inner Light is the first new book by William G. Gray since the author's death in 1992. Written in the form of a journal or magical diary, it includes his original sketches, and forms a detailed course in modern Qabalistic magic which will be of immense value to esoteric students and practitioners working within the Western Mysteries today.

Astral High Magic: De Imaginibus of Thabit Ibn Qurra


John Michael Greer - 2011
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Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries: 1583-1608


John Dee - 2011
    John Dee's Spiritual Diaries. Completely revamped, reorganized, and corrected, this reader-friendly version of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for Many Years between Dr. John Dee . . . and Some Spirits . . . covers Dee's invocation of the angels and the reception of their Enochian system of magic, his experiments in alchemy, and experiences in the courts of the crowned heads of Europe. Magic scholars and practitioners will be delighted to find a preface by Meric Casaubon, extensive footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, a Dee timeline, and sections which were originally missing from Casaubon's edition.

Tempest Child


Laura Eno - 2011
    Now she must put her life at risk to save her Kingdom. Armed with only a staff, a bow, and her wits, Skyla's world is turned upside-down when she enters the Crossroads and encounters the beast she's destined to kill. Does she have the courage to sort truth from lie, or will she die not knowing who betrayed her?

Visceral Magick: Bridging the Gap Between Magick and Mundane


Peter Paddon - 2011
    But they are the very things that breathe life into magical systems, the secret key that makes the magic actually work.Peter Paddon, author and Witch, has had the fortune to encounter these techniques and practices in several forms, and here he documents his own journey - and the results - as well as laying out exercises and practical applications to enable the reader to stop visualizing and just plain see. Magic is a real force, one that will raise the hairs on the back of your neck, and become a living breathing part of your everyday life. This book will show you how to get there.

Magical Candle Crafting: Create Your Own Candles for Spells & Rituals


Ember Grant - 2011
    Ember Grant takes you through each step, from mixing and pouring the wax to choosing magically potent ingredients to charging your candle with energy. Learn to craft candles for rituals specific to the elements, days of the week, chakras, moon phases, planets, and all sabbats on the Wheel of the Year. Discover how to make spell candles for prosperity, love, romance, healing, inspiration, and each of your goals. Further empower your creations with timing guidelines, plus:Inspiring design and decoration ideas Recipes for meditation, rejuvenation, grounding, and mood enhancement Suggestions for herbs, essential oils, crystals, chants, symbols, and other helpful correspondences

Creating Sacred Space: A Guide to Cleanse and Bless Your Home Using Goddess Energy


Brandi Auset - 2011
    By revitalizing our surroundings we create a positive flow of energy that radiates across our lives and into our hearts.Using a combination of spiritual cleansing methods and Goddess evocations, your home can be transformed from a simple shelter into a sacred space of peace, happiness, and prosperity. In this step-by-step guide, Priestess Brandi Auset explains how to perform a physical and spiritual cleansing of the home, and how to simply yet effectively bless each room with Divine Feminine energy. The ‘How-To’ Series is a sequence of mini-eBooks written by Brandi Auset, based on her many metaphysical classes and spiritual workshops. These brief yet informative eBooks are designed to instruct both beginning and advanced practitioners.

Traditional Witches' Formulary and Potion-making Guide: Recipes for Magical Oils, Powders and Other Potions


Sophia diGregorio - 2011
    It is an excellent reference for augmenting potions, making substitutions for ingredients or creating your own formulas for a wide variety of purposes.All of the formulas given here employ natural ingredients with the exception of old traditional potions from past centuries and those that call for food dyes as colorants. The author has, also, tried to choose ingredients or suggest substitutions in such cases that are safer and may be readily obtained.Why make your own potions when you can buy them off the shelf ready-made?When you purchase a ready-made potion, you have no way of knowing what's in it or under what conditions it was. On the other hand, you have a distinct advantage when you make your own formulas because you can ensure that they are made properly and you can customize them to your or your client's specific needs.Furthermore, many of the powerful formulas in this book cannot be found anywhere else. A long list of herbs and their attributes is provided so you can ensure that your potion has the most suitable ingredients for your particular purpose.

A Book of the Offices of Spirits: The Occult Virtue of Plants and Some Rare Magical Charms & Spells


John Porter - 2011
    The text has its origin in a magical manuscript written by one John Porter in 1583, which was itself probably drawn from earlier European sources. In the early nineteenth century the Porter manuscript came into the possession of the British occult fraternity, "the Mercurii," and a transcription of key sections was compiled by John Palmer. Palmer's transcription was in turn copied by the renowned occult scholar Frederick Hockley, and this transcription, along with another anonymous late nineteenth century manuscript copy, for the basis for the present work.

Village Witch


Cassandra Latham-Jones - 2011
    The first part of the book documents the tortuous and sometimes harrowing journey to achieve this unusual occupation. It is a tale that ultimately moves through surviving and into thriving. Cassandra’s past experiences directly inform her present practice and are intrinsic to being a wisewoman – she acquires wisdom from actively experiencing and observing the vagaries of life. As part of her work she travels around the country giving talks about her profession, and without exception is asked each time what brought her to become a village wisewoman.Many people want to hear about that journey and this is one of the reasons for deciding to write the book. Following on from this, Cassandra tells of the practice of her craft, which includes many stories and observations regarding the day-to-day experiences of a traditional wisewoman including her personal approach to magic. At present the market is flooded with ‘how-to-do’ books on witchcraft and associated themes. Almost without exception they inform in an authoritative way often including a cookbook of spells. There is far more to the Craft of the Wise than simply following someone else’s recipes for performing magic. It entails old-fashioned qualities such as hard work, discipline, dedication and commitment. This book differs in that it describes the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ and in that sense challenges the reader to question and explore their own experiences of the worlds magical.

Visions & Voices: Aleister Crowley's Enochian Visions with Astrological & Qabalistic Commentary


James A. Eshelman - 2011
    At once beautiful, horrible, and inspiring, these inner world explorations (and two earlier ones) were published in 1911 as The Vision & the Voice .A classic, both of the Enochian magick of Elizabethan wizard John Dee and of Crowley's then-emerging Thelemic magick, The Vision & the Voice remains a living work, its value increasing with each generation.Astrologers also will find a previously unexploited treasure in this collection: Most of the visions include exact dates, times, and places they were received, providing a unique opportunity to study astrology's relationship to magical vision.This research bonanza lay untapped for nearly a century.In Visions & Voices, James Eshelman joins the text of Aleister Crowley's Enochian visions with horoscopes for each. To this he adds a masterful astroogical and Qabalistic analysis, expanding and deepening his original landmak study (1997-2001). It is his most mature work to date, blending rare expertise in many subjects.Preliminary chapters provide a valuable introduction to Qabalistic and astrological topics including: the Four Worlds, the Tree of Life, Qabalistic psychology, Enochian magick, the Three Æons, the Holy Guardian Angel and the Abyss, the impact of astrological factors on deep psychological states, and induced mystical vision as a means of exploring the personal and collective unconscious.The lengthy Glossary will be a standard reference on many an occultist's bookshelf for decades to come.Visions & Voices will be of considerable interest to astrologers, ceremonial magicians, devotees of mythology and comparative religion, and all who are interested in the operation of symbols (and the archetypes that engender them) in the workings of the human psyche and in crises of transformation.The book also describes historically rare, extraordinary spiritual states that are becoming increasingly accessible to living women and men. By its words and images, it engenders a contagion of a higher mode of consciousness spread by sympathy. Reading this book mindfully will provide one form of spiritual initiation.Additionally, it portrays an eclectic spirituality that enthuses our universal need to intimately connect with our own spiritual ideals, rather than dictating what that ideal should be.

Simple Wiccan Magick Spells for Everyday


Holly Zurich - 2011
    These popular spells are perfect for every day of the year.Discover the seven best multi-tasking magickal herbes, create your own spells using the chapter on traditional ritual and demystify the language of the Craft with a glossary of unfamiliar terms. This collection of popular spells is ideal for busy Neo-Pagans, whether beginners or seasoned practitioners. Perfect for any and everyday of the year, these spells are easy to understand and include the entire ritual for each ceremony. Use Simple Wiccan Magick Spells for Everyday as a stand-alone book, or as a companion to Simple Wiccan Magick Spells & Ritual Ceremony – a celebration of Wiccan Festivals on The Wheel of the Year.

Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil


Kelly E. Hayes - 2011
    Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazaré da Silva. Combining Nazaré’s spiritual biography with analysis of the gender politics and violence that shapes life on the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Hayes highlights Pomba Gira’s role in the rivalries, relationships, and struggles of everyday life in urban Brazil.A DVD of the film Slaves of the Saints is included.

Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) (Volume 2)


Éliphas Lévi - 2011
    This highly popular two-volume treatise on practical magic attempts to initiate the reader into the mysteries of occult philosophy. Identifying magic as the 'nurse or godmother' of all intellectual forces, Levi proclaims his firm belief in man as microcosm of the universe, the strength of human willpower and the effectiveness of sympathetic magic. Taking a more practical focus than the first part, this second volume, 'The Ritual of Transcendental Magic', focuses on the rituals and ceremonies of Western occult philosophy, offering explanations for magical equilibrium, the use and consecration of the pentagram, talismans, necromancy, transmutations, the Sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft, and the alchemical work of Nicholas Flamel and Raymond Lull."

Complete Golden Dawn Ritual Papers Magick Operations, Sigils, Seals, Talismans, Crowley's Initiation Rituals, More 400+ pages


S.L. MacGregor Mathers - 2011
    Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnThe Rose Cross LamenThe Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (or Golden Dawn, as it is commonly referred to) is a tradition of magical theurgy and spiritual development. It is probably the single greatest influence on twentieth century western occultism. Concepts of magic and ritual that became core elements of many other traditions, including Wicca, Thelema and other forms of magical spirituality popular today, are drawn from the Golden Dawn traditions.The three founders, Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.), an appendant body to Freemasonry. Westcott, also a member of the Theosophical Society, appears to have been the initial driving force behind the establishment of the Golden Dawn.Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include: Christian mysticism, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Paganism of Egypt, Theurgy, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Eliphas Levi, Papus, Enochian magic, and medieval grimoires.Included:Book T - The TarotMeditation With the Archangel AurielMeditation with the Archangel GabrielMeditation with the Archangel RaphaelPhilosophus Initiation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnSchem ha MephoreschThe Book of the Black SerpentThe Invoking Pentagram Ritual of AirThe Invoking Pentagram Ritual of EarthThe Invoking Pentagram Ritual of FireThe Invoking Pentagram Ritual of WaterThe Lesser Banishing Ritual of the PentagramThe Lesser Invoking Ritual of the PentagramThe Prayers Of The ElementalsThe Supreme Banishing Ritual of the PentagramThe Supreme Invoking Ritual of the PentagramTheoricus Initiation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn