Hardcover. 136pp. Quality black cloth binding w/ gilt sigil stamped on the front cover, and gilt title etc. on the spine. This Edition is Limited to 450 numbered copies. Color frontispiece and a 16 page color insert printed on special coated paper stock, and which reproduce the original colored illustrations of sigils, seals, magical tools, etc. Numerous black and white reproductions of sigils, Hebrew letters, etc. in-text. Until this printing, the grimoire has existed only in manuscript form apparently derived from "an ancient Latin manuscript," said to date from 1519. The work is clearly related to the book known as 'The Secret Grimoire of Turiel,' although it is lengthier and contains much additional material.

A Complete Book of Magic Science

Frederick Hockley

Teitan Press

Hardcover. Small octavo. 112pp. Bound in heavy black cloth with a gilt design after Hockley stamped on the front cover, and gilt title to the spine. Printed in color throughout. Edition limited to 600 numbered copies. "Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors" contains a full color facsimile of an original manuscript by Frederick Hockley, a transcription of the text, an Introduction by R. A. Gilbert, and other related material. Frederick Hockley (1809-1885) was an important figure in nineteenth-century occultism. He was an active "seer" who engaged in scrying, and took an interest in ritual magic, alchemy and spiritualism. His work was posthumously used by various members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He is known for the manuscripts he created: carefully prepared copies of numerous grimoires and other magical, alchemical and kabbalistic texts from private collections around England. He also compiled a number of his own magical texts, as well as keeping detailed records of his many scrying sessions. "Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors" is one of Hockley's own writings. In it he describes the philosophy and method of "crystallomancy" ("crystal gazing" or "scrying through crystals or mirrors"), a practice which has long been associated with ritual magic. It is a short work, that is reproduced from an original manuscript, dated 1869, that he presented to Barbara Honywood, a well-known society Spiritualist of the time. Honywood was said to have mediumistic powers, and it seems likely that Hockley prepared and gave the manuscript to her in the hope that it would persuade her to act as his "seer." In addition to a full color facsimile of the beautifully decorated original manuscript, it includes a typeset transcription, a fascinating Introduction by Hockley scholar R. A. Gilbert, and the text of the "Invocation of the Crowned Angel," a related work taken from Hockley's manuscript records of his personal scrying activities.

Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors

<p>Hardcover. Small Quarto. xvi + 46pp (vi), MS 40pp. Bound in high quality black cloth, with a gilt design stamped on the front cover, blind rules, and gilt title etc. on the spine. Printed on acid free paper, sewn, Color frontispieces. Numbered copy of a edition limited to 650. The text of a previously-unpublished manuscript by Frederick Hockley, probably transcribed by him in circa 1850 from an earlier work. The manuscript deals with the creation of talismans, and is divided into two parts, the first of which details methods for their manufacture "under the fixed stars" and the second "under the twenty-eight mansions of the moon." Both sets of concepts were popular in mediaeval and later European astrological and magical practice, having apparently been incorporated into them from Arabic astronomical and astrological treatises composed during the "Golden Age" of Arabic science from the middle of the eighth to the middle of the thirteenth centuries. This first published edition comprises an Introduction in which Silens Manus explores the history of the manuscript, and its relationship with other early magical works, notably those of Cornelius Agrippa. It is followed by a typeset transcription of the text of the manuscript, with explanatory footnotes, etc., and a reproduction of various relevant passages from the 1651 edition of Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy." The final section is a facsimile of the original manuscript, printed on special coated paper that gives a photograph like quality to the reproduction. Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), was an occultist and Freemason with an interest in Spiritualism who in later life was associated with the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley's peers considered him to be one of the great occult scholars of his time in fact he was held in such high regard by one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, W. Wynn Westcott, that he posthumously claimed Hockley as one of the Order's most outstanding Adepts.</p>

Abraham the Jew on Magic Talismans (To be engraven on the Seals of Rings made of various metals, under the influence of the Fixed Stars and the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon)

Silens Manus

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A Complete Book of Magic Science

Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors

Abraham the Jew on Magic Talismans (To be engraven on the Seals of Rings made of various metals, under the influence of the Fixed Stars and the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon)