At the Crossroads
At the Crossroads' tells the stories of what happens when the Western Magical Tradition encounters the African Diaspora and Traditional religions, and vice versa. It is a mixing and a magic that speaks of a truly new world emerging.
Diabolical
A series of essays on different aspects of the Grimoire tradition, including: The Red Dragon/Grand Grimoire, Grimorium Verum, Lemegeton, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, The Testament of Solomon, The Nightside of Eden, The Wisdom of S'lba, Qutub, Liber 231, Liber 325, The Bartzabel, Working The Holy Books of Thelema, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook & The Taufer books
XVI: Bringing Down the House of God
Our civilisation is in crisis. As we confront ecological collapse, political control, wars of terror, and wars on our consciousness we are seeking emergence from this state of emergency. XVI proposes gnostic strategy for liberation.
Mandragora
Edited by Ruby Sara, Mandragora: Further explorations in esoteric poesis is a companion volume to Datura, comprising nine extensive essays and the works of 48 poets.
Mandragora: Further explorations in esoteric poesis is a companion volume to Datura, comprising nine extensive essays and the works of 48 poets. A chthonic and deeply rooted work.
Imperatrix Aeterna
Imperatrix Æterna: Magical Stories of the Queen of Heaven includes several stories of Mary’s manifested miracles in the Catholic tradition, originally written by Pope Celestine V, the late thirteenth century monk who founded the Celestine branch of the Benedictine order, here lovingly translated and introduced by Fr Robert Nixon, OSB.
IMAGO: Body. Vision. Magick.
In his groundbreaking work, Robert Allen restores the image to its rightful place at the heart of the Western esoteric tradition. He argues that the careful relation of image, vision and understanding holds the power to opening the portals to a magickal practice which is both initiatory and transformative.
Sharp Practice
Ritual daggers have long been vital accoutrements in the exercise of magic, sorcery and shamanic practice. As a means of subduing demonic forces, their essence is derived from their power to penetrate and transfix.
Arcanum Bestiarum
Written in the great tradition of the medieval bestiaries, Robert Fitzgerald's long-awaited new work Arcanum Bestiarum re-imagines the animal menagerie in the context of bestial mystery and atavistic power.
A Gathering of Masks
Aleister Crowley's obscure Liber 231 remains one of his most enigmatic received magical texts, and one whose genesis directly concerns the workings of astral magic and trance-mediumship.
Codex Maleficarum
A work regarding witches and witchcraft. The title is a reference to earlier books on the subject, including Malleus Maleficarum (from the 15th century) and Compendium Maleficarum (from the 17th).
Earth Magic
Artist and photographer Rik Garrett’s Earth Magic explores historical and personal relationships between witchcraft, femininity and nature through a series of images created using the traditional wet plate collodion process.
Born of Blood and Fire
Richard Ward’s Born of Blood and Fire is a study of the origins, history, practices, evolution and influence of the Petwo rite that was pivotal in the Haitian slave revolts and subsequent revolution.
Welsh Witches
Spanning two turbulent centuries, Welsh Witches is a stark snapshot of religious madness in a land that was comparatively tolerant of (if not indulgent toward) healers and cunning folk at the time.
The Infernal Masque
The Infernal Masque explores the vital interplay between primordial darkness and infernal fire. It is the dynamic tension between these two elements that creates the sublime frisson within the flesh and soul of the Initiate, immersing them in the ecstatic tempest of daemonic reality.
The Benighted Path
Twisting beyond the placid boundaries of civilization is an ancient path of nocturnal Gnosis. Its stalkers do not march the linear road of human progress but instead orient their souls to the luminous, haunted darkness of the Night Primeval.
The Moribund Portal
Beyond its vulgar function as a means of execution, the Gallows has long served as a source of occult power. From the severed appendage of the thief that becomes the Hand of Glory, to the fallen seed that spawns the mandrake root, the Hanging Place is awash in the sinistral ambiance of ancient sorcery.
Sylvan Dread
Those who dwell unseen within the hedge, the grotesques emergent in the weave of tangled roots, the writhing form amid the shadows of the Willow boughs—all are keepers of a rustic and terrible wisdom predating the emergence of mankind. Lurching between disembodiment and wholly manifest flesh, the baleful forces of wasteland and rural barren have long been etched upon the human soul.
The Esotericism of Dante
René Guénon, the founder of the Traditionalist, Perennialist movement of the 20th and 21st centuries, was involved in the study of the unorthodox, esoteric forms of many of the major world religions, specializing in their doctrines and the societies who follow them.