From the award winning author of Crossed Keys comes this spectacular work detailing an ancient and once fully developed system of magick, which fused transcendent rites of evocation and initiation with practical workings for attainment of wealth and power, languished for several centuries, all but disappearing into obscurity and existing only in scattered bits and pieces presented in academic or anthropological studies of ancient religions. A practicing magician, Cecchetelli stays close to the original texts from which he draws, while making changes, additions, and insertions when practically called for. Cecchetelli understands that the needs of the academic and the needs of the Magus are not always the same and that former scholarly translations were aimed at simple literal translations. He has the intelligence, wisdom, and daring to alter the text in accordance with the intended goal: producing a workable grimoire – suitable for the modern occultist. The Book of Abrasax includes chapters on spacial, protective, amorous, wealth, curse, and transcendent operations.
Qliphoth journal is a grimoire focusing the diverse paths of magick in its entire splendor. Our main focus is to cross the paths of knowledge via praxis ritual and gnosis, working intensely in each one of the volumes offered here. Through this third opus called The Cycles of Primal Kaos, the focus is to go back to such primal states of consciousness through the methods of atavistic resurgence awakening the immortal essence of the self, through the development of our own divinity with direct experience with spirits, servitors, guardians, and loas of our own temples. It is there where the sacred nectar’s are consumed… where the secret seed incarnates, through the hidden labyrinths and the secret wisdom veiled by the tendrils of Trans human entities… So then, we enter once again The Cycles of Primal Kaos. -Edgar Kerval, 2013
The Book of St Cyprian is a massive occult work complete with images from original texts, copious amounts of notes and reference citations and, best of all, information that has only been available in the original Portuguese texts. The author was granted unprecedented access to private collections and studied the original texts in great detail He has taken everything he could from them and compiled what we believe to be the single greatest reference on the subject of the magick of ST. Cyprian.
In the author’s own words:
“This edition brings together the three texts from the fourth century that gave rise to the magical tradition associated with the name of St. Cyprian (Conversion, Confession and Martyrdom), the four most important Iberian grimoires of the nineteenth century (the Portuguese that gave birth to the Brazilian versions and the Spaniards containing the instructions of ceremonial magic) and several other magical texts associated with the Holy Sorcerer. The material was organized in sections that allow a comprehensive analysis of the contents (The Origin of the Book, Vita Cypriani, Magical Art, Talismans and Amulets, The Book of the Spirits, Cyprian Prayers, Exorcisms, Magical Treasures, Magical Secrets). The historical introduction has a broad and detailed description of the origins and development of the tradition from the fourth to the nineteenth century. The edition is enriched with a Preface by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold and the Presentation by Felix Castro Vicente.”
“Gateways Through Stone and Circle” is a compendium of personal experiences and research from a traditional ceremonial magician working through a classical book of magic. This volume is a complete and in-depth study in the “Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals” as found in Francis Barrett’s, The Magus, and accredited to Trithemius of Spanheim. Detailed research, personal experimentation, and evoking each of the seven planetary archangels and intelligences to visible and auditory presence are presented within. You will find descriptions of the seven planetary archangels as witnessed by the author, instructions for building each of the traditional implements and furniture to the specifications of the grimoire, as well as detailed illustrations of the author’s actual equipment. Items such as the infamous Book of Spirits or Liber Spirituum are explained in detail so the reader will know how to make and use one. Chapters also describe methods for improving scrying abilities, working with a partner, and conducting the entire ceremony from beginning to end. Everything to make this art work is explained in incredibly vivid detail. The purpose for this book is to present a workable manual wherein the aspiring magus can replicate a valuable system of magic to achieve successful and reliable discourse with some of the most powerful beings in the cosmos. “No other book has unveiled how to perform this experiment successfully within the traditional manner.” This work is not a theoretical analysis of a historic manuscript from an academic scholar, nor is it based on presumption and guess work. It is a modern day grimoire from a traditional grimorist. It is drawn from one who has been studying and practicing Western occult magic for nearly two decades and has recreated the procedures that achieve results. The methods contained within are constructed as closely to the original text as possible and filled with suggestions and points to assist the beginning magician as well as the advanced practitioner.
Ritual Offerings by Aaron Leitch
Ritual Offerings unites 12 practicing occultists who share their knowledge and experience with this fascinating and important subject. Traditions from around the world, such as Solomonic magick, Tibetan Buddhism, New Orleans and Hatian Voudou, Western Hermetic Theurgy and more, are discussed in great detail. Whether you prefer to call them religious sacrifices or spiritual offerings, and regardless of your tradition, Ritual Offerings is the perfect ritual book to guide you in feeding your patrons and familiars safely and effectively, contributing to your overall success and growth as a practitioner.
Occult Rituals and Sacrifices
Spirits are not merely an option or tool to be utilized when the magician deems it necessary. Spirits are the very heart and soul of all magick. The incantations we use work because the spirits heard them and act. We are not alone when we cast our spells; our patrons and familiars are always present, casting the spells with us.
Throughout history, ritual offerings have been a central pillar of all magick and religion. Very often, a magickal ritual consists of nothing more than the making of a prescribed offering to a particular spirit in a specified time and place. Yet in the West, the making of an offering has been equated with the worship of the spirit receiving it. The act of offering a spirit something as payment for services rendered has a close association with the dreaded “pact with the Devil,” by which a magician surely sells his soul to damnation. However, to the rest of the world, an offering is intended to feed and empower a spiritual entity, and to pay it fairly for its aid.
The art of making proper offerings to the spirits is a complex one, rife with ceremonial magick tools, strict protocols and warnings; but if you take the time to learn this ancient and powerful art, it will supercharge your magick like nothing you’ve experienced before.
Contributors Include:
Aaron Leitch: Introduction: Magickal Offerings in Western Occultism
Aaron Leitch: Liber Donariorum: The Book of Offerings
Zadkiel: The Elements of Making Offerings: The Offering as Sacrifice
Bryan Garner (Frater Ashen Chassan): Whispers From a Skull: Lessons in Spiritual Offerings From a Conjured Familiar
Brother Moloch: Ancestors & Offering
Frater Rufus Opus: The Back Yard Path Toward the Summum Bonum
Denise M. Alvarado: Ritual Offerings in New Orleans Voudou
Jason Miller: Severed Head Cakes and Clouds of Dancing Girls: Offerings in Tibetan Buddhism
Nick Farrell: Offerings in Roman Deity Magic
Sam Webster, M.Div., Ph.D., founder OSOGD: Offerings in Iamblichan Theurgy
Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero: Ritual for the Declaration of Maa-Kheru
Gilberto Strapazon: Offerings in Ceremonial Magick and African Traditional Religions
This is a book about magick. Not fantasy magic, not stage magic, but the kind of magick that can be easily learned and practiced by anyone who wants quantifiable results. This book is different from most books professing to teach actual magickal techniques. The result of over thirty years of research, study, and teaching, it has allowed me to define and refine a set of lessons and information on not only magick, but all manner of occult related subjects. All combining to create something that is more powerful, more authentic, and more understandable that what is currently known as Occult Magick. When I first began studying magick, my goal was not only to understand what makes magick work, but why it works the way that it does. This led me to many sources of information that I have discovered to be important and I have included them within, and have provided hints, and guidance as to how to use them in your own independent research and uncover new secrets yourself.
Tiamat is the Primal Dragon Goddess, the first one, who gave birth to the gods of the universe”, the Mother of Everything, the self-procreating womb, the source of all life and all manifestation. The work described in this book was inspired by the Babylonian epic known as the “Enuma Elish”, one of the oldest Creation myths in the world. The Grimoire of Tiamat presents a complete system of magick based around the Mesopotamian primordial goddess Tiamat and the eleven demons she created to aid her in her fight against the new order of gods lead by Marduk. The book is divided into three sections: first, a lengthy introduction of the theme and cosmology, followed by individual workings for each of the eleven demon-gods, and then a concluding appendix of thematically related workings focusing directly on Tiamat and Kingu. The second section, The Children of Tiamat, presents ways of working with each of the eleven demon-gods, prefaced with an explanation of the techniques that follow and the use of the Key of Night, a master sigil that is employed throughout the workings as a way to access the Nightside. The final section of The Grimoire of Tiamat is an appendix that returns the focus to Tiamat as it takes the form of a guided meditation within the waters of Tiamat, a ritual for two participants invoking Tiamat and Kingu, a rite of malefica, and a discussion of the underworld in Mesopotamian belief, followed by a chthonic guided path working.
SABBATICA The Seas Of Death And The Arcana Of Deathbringer The first in a series of grimoires, Sabbatica emerges as an exposition of spectral seals, opening the astral paths of sorcery and magick. A convocation of a series of massive volumes, bound in arcane gnosis in order to evoke the primal path that leads to the sacred knowledge pouring forth from the secret vessels of Sabbatic mysteries. This anthology offers a unique amalgamation of contributors, each offering their unique knowledge to form a massive volume with more than 200 pages including essays, rituals, arcane poetry and more than 40 suggestive and illustrative pieces that leads the reader down a pathway of instruction in powerful fetish rituals, death devotional chants, and invocations dedicated to death deities, necromancy and other in depth explorations.
A new book edited by the author of Scarlet Imprint’s “Crossed Keys”, in which various occult authors offer their insights into the “Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”. The book is broken into four parts: the nature of the HGA; what comes after contact and how to work with the HGA; different schools of thought about the HGA; and a section devoted to some of the important blog posts made during the 2011 pan-blogosphere debates on the HGA. Essays include: “A Solar Spark of Light And Fire” – Darren Scriven;”Nine Pieces of Heart Advice For Those Seeking The HGA” – Jason Miller; “The Descended Angel” – Scott Michael Stenwick; “Never Again Alone” – Rufus Opus; “After Abramelin: Working With Your Holy Guardian Angel” – Aaron Leitch; “Passing Through The Void: Journey To Unite With Your HGA” – Frater Ashen F.N.F.; “The Voice of Light: The HGA In The Ogdoadic Tradition” – Derik Richards; “Knowledge and Conversation of The HGA: One Thelemites Perspective” – Kevin Abblett; “Holy Guardian Angel(s)? – Conjureman Ali; “Holy Guardian Angels, Helpful Spirits and The Genius” and “2 Years Later – The HGA Revisited” – Michael Cecchetelli.
Seven Spheres by Rufus Opus Seven Spheres is more than a simple book of traditional Hermetic Magic. It is designed to be a series of rituals that function on many levels to take an average ordinary magician and turn them into a self-actualized powerhouse of proactive reality engineering. It’s entirely about attaining initiation and empowerment in the highest levels of un-manifest reality. These experiences and rites result in the release of a floodgate of power that pour down through the layers of progressive manifestation, building up awareness, understanding, and ultimately raw potential as you move from sphere to sphere through the rites, ultimately culminating in the anointing of the magician as Priest-King directing the forces that climax in your personal daily experience of the Joy of your life. This book isn’t about physical or spiritual mastery, it is entirely about understanding that you, personally, are beloved, honored, blessed, and highly favored of every intelligence, spirit, angel, and god of every sphere. This is about understanding who you are and what you can accomplish as a human being manifest upon the surface of the Earth. Spiritual enlightenment and material mastery will be yours, if you do the work described. “There are few in the field today that have both technical expertise and a genuine love of the spirits. A man who is as on-fire with the Holy Spirit as a tent-revival preacher, but who can make complex evocation instruction as clear as your ABC’s. Rufus Opus is that kind of Priest-Magician. For years he has been making laying down his brand of hermetic magic with style and sass on his blog and in his courses. Now with this book, he will be blowing open the gates for an even wider audience.” -Jason Miller, author of Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit “Rufus Opus is a frequent speaker and panelist at Crucible convention that features active magical leaders from known and exotic paradigms. He has shown a great ability to add a combustive dynamic to his life through his own personal workings.” -Arthur Moyer, Omnimancer, host of Crucible Convention “Rufus is a well-educated and experienced occultist who firmly knows and strongly communicates his field without scaring or dumbing down for an audience. He is one of my go to authors for collected works on the topic.” -Andrei Freeman Note: This book is a stand-alone series of rites that can empower you and change your life if you do the magical rites as described in the book. However, it is also intended to be a textbook for a series of courses provided by Rufus Opus.
“Kabbala” is an introductory review of the history and traditional uses of the three major versions of the Jewish, Christian, and Hermetic Qabalah. It includes an in-depth study of the components of the three forms of the Tree, the Geronese or Jewish Tree. Kircher’s Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, or what is often called the Left-Hand Path Tree. The major components include the study of the 10 Sephiroth, the various uses and presentation of the 32 Paths, the Tarot cards associated with the Paths and the Hebrew Letters and their meanings as it pertains to the Kabbalah. Other topics include the historic teachers and reformers of the Trees, and the many major organizations that center their teachings around the Tree from the Golden Dawn to The Dragon Rouge.
The Book of Smokeless Fire By S. Ben Qayin “The work that is being presented in “The Book of Smokeless Fire” is based on a very little known and overlooked Solomonic text simply known as “Miscelaneo de Salomon,” which amazingly mirrors that of Lovecraft’s, “Necronomicon” both in content and history. It is an ancient and forbidden Arabian manuscript, that seems was later evolved into the Greek “Goetia” and gives the earliest known account of King Solomon and his binding of the seventy-two sinister Djinn he sealed away in the infamous brass container. In “The Book of Smokeless Fire,” the ancient manuscript has now been reworked into a completely new system, utilizing revolutionary evocation technology, to again call upon the ancient and destructive Djinn, whose names have been concealed for centuries…” Author S. Ben Qayin has outdone himself with this stunning interpretation and cohesive reworking of a long lost magickal discipline. The Book of Smokeless Fire is over 190 pages of pure magickal knowledge laid out in an easy to read format that really flows. With no fluff, filler, and no nonsense, Qayin manages to take what some have dabbled in and written about in the past and open it up into a fully workable system of magick.