David Rankine

David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and magician who lives in England with his wife, artist and tattooist Rosa Laguna. He has been making major contributions to the modern occult revival since the 1980s through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles, and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Western Esoteric Traditions, especially the Qabalah, the Grimoire tradition, Greco-Egyptian magic and Ceremonial Magic, as well as British Folklore and European Mythology. His published work in recent years has been characterised by the publication of previously unavailable or inaccessible material on the grimoires and other areas of magic.
Publications
Old-style Craft, also known as traditional witchcraft, endures as a distinct body of archaic magical practices in present-day Britain, North America and Australia. Originally nameless, such bodies are related to a variety of historical magical streams, most notably the practices of the Grimoires or ‘black books’, folk-healing, and popular magic of the early modern era.
Claves Intelligentiarum: A Complete Practical Manual of Conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences by renowned author David Rankine throws open the gates of the grimoire tradition. For the first time the complete process of preparation, purification, conjuration, and the rationale for each step of the process is described in comprehensive detail, providing a much-needed entry point into the practice of grimoire conjuration.
Comprises fourteen original and extensive essays which explore the Grimoires in passionate, informed and evocative pieces which create a unique testament to the vibrancy of the modern magickal current.
Sepher Yetzirah Magic is a stand-alone work which requires no previous knowledge of Kabbalah, and presents a collection of practical magical and meditational techniques for solitary and group practice.
The Grimoire Encyclopaedia is a work of unparalleled magical scholarship which expands the field of grimoire study far beyond its previous boundaries.
Periodicals
This Conjure Codex brings to a close the first volume of the series; it was never our intention to theme the issues by colour, but that is what happened and so it is fitting that our final number is the black of moonless midnight.