Angelic Magick: A Guide to Angelic Beings and How to Walk with Them

Religion & Spirituality

Page, Judith

Judaism

Mandrake of Oxford

Sexuality is one of the keys to magick. In this book, first published in 1988, Katon Shual presents some of the secrets of sexual gnosis within western magick - a system that is often misunderstood. The book begins with a look at the revival of sexual magick in the early part of the 20th century, especially within the ranks of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and some of the post Golden Dawn magical groups such as Aleister Crowley's Thelemic cult. The book goes on the look at the modern fusion of western Hermetic and eastern Tantrik sexual gnosticism. On the way it discusses in a progressive manner gay, straight and solitary sexual magick. The book goes on to introduce the ancient deity Seth as an archetype of the sexual magician. The book includes an unpublished grimoire of sexual magick, as well as several other unusual sources, including an authoritative exploration of the chakra system, a magical approach to kundalini and an introduction to the relationship between the sacred sexuality and the external landscape. 'Makes the subject of sexual magick accessible and lucid and above all relevant to contemporary magical practice' - Phil Hine reviewing in Talking Stick magazine body magick cover art and insides by michael r goss

Sexual Magick

Shual, Katon

Occult & Paranormal

Magician, Poet and Seer, Victor Neuburg  was the disciple of Aleister Crowley  and literary godfather of Dylan Thomas.     Really two books in one. Firstly a record of one man's extraordinary journey to magical  enlightenment. Secondly the story of the Aleister Crowley, the magus who summoned  Neuburg to join him in the quest. The book opens with the author's entry into the group  of young poets including Dylan Thomas and Pamela Hansford Johnson.   They gather around Victor Neuburg in  1935 when he is poetry editor of the Sunday Referee.   Gradually the author becomes aware of his strange and sinister past,  in which  Neuburg was associated in magic with Aleister Crowley.  Neuburg had been  Crowley's partner in magical rituals in the desert and in rites even more dangerous and controversial.  The author sought out the truth behind the rumours and with her intuitive understanding of deeper things presents a sympathetic and compelling biography.  'Vicky encouraged me as no one else has done,' Dylan Thomas declared on hearing  of Neuburg's death. 'He possessed many kinds of genius, and not the least was his genius  for drawing to himself, by his wisdom, graveness, great humour and innocence, a feeling  of trust and love, that won't ever be forgotten.' ' . . . there was a whiff  of sulphur abroad, and all of us would have liked to know  the truth of the Aleister Crowley's legends, the truth of the witch-like baroness  called Cremers, the abandonment of Neuburg in the desert.' - Pamela Hansford Johnson

The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg - Revised

Jean Overton Fuller

In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders - killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Sickert &amp; the Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life. In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders - killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Sickert &amp; the Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life. Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the artist Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her. She and Sickert had both known Mary Kelly, the last woman to be brutally murdered by the Ripper - and Sickert had warned her that, because she knew what Mary Kelly knew, she could become, if she ever began to talk, the Ripper's next victim. Sickert told Florence that he was painting into his pictures clues to the murders as he wished people to know the truth after his death. Jean Overton Fuller using her artist's eye, has picked them out and read the riddle.

Sickert and the Ripper crimes: An investigation into the relationship between the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the English tonal painter Walter Richard Sickert

History

Many people associate Surrealism with politics, but it was also permeated by occult ideas, a fact often overlooked by art historians. This fascinating book concerns the magical subculture and the central role it played in the development of a great art movement. This occult influence goes beyond general themes to the movement's very heart. The antinomian stance of Surrealism can be traced directly to the influence of radical nineteenth century magi such as Eliphas Levi, whose Dogma and Ritual o High Magic was widely read by Surrealism's ideologues. Amongst these we find its progenitor Andre Breton. The book shows how many Surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas: Kandinsky, with his involvement with Theosophy, the sorcery of Salvador Dali; the alchemy of Pablo Picasso and the shamanism of Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington. Surrealism did not establish itself in Britain until the 1930s but a select few felt something in the air. Almost ten years before the Surrealist experiments with automatic drawing, an obscure English artist, Austin Osman Spare had perfected the technique. Nadia Choucha shows, convincingly, that occult and surrealist philosophies were often interchangeable. Surrealism and the Occult is seminal reading for art historians and occultists alike, while artists will find it a vital guide to the unlocking of the imagination.

Surrealism & the Occult

Arts & Photography

Nadia Choucha

History & Criticism

Timothy d'Arch Smith is a well-known bibliographer, reviewer and antiquarian bookseller with a special interest in the by-ways of literature, notably the occult and the curious.  For Aleister Crowley a book was a talisman and their every part right down to colour, dimension, and price was symbolic. He also used magical techniques to gain literary success--thus new editions of Crowley's writing multiply daily, tantalizing the bibliographer. All the more indispensable is this authoritative guide to his magical first editions.  Timothy d'Arch Smith, widely acknowledged as a leading expert on Crowley and on underground literature, offers several shorter articles on:  *Oxford's demonologist Montague Summers;  *R A Caton and his Fortune Press;  *Sexual prophet Ralph Chubb;  *Florence Farr;  *The British Library Private Case;  *and Timothy d'Arch Smith.  *For this new edition, he also adds an extra chapter on Crowley.     ''...one could hardly wish for a more stimulating guide...''  -The London Magazine  ''One of the more immediately striking things about the book is its gentle humour.''  - Time Out

The Books of the Beast: A guide to Aleister Crowley's Magical 1st Editions

Literature & Fiction

D'Arch Smith, Timothy

Smith, T. d'Arch

d'Arch Smith, T.

British & Irish

The story of an enigmatic 18th-century sorcerer whose work still influences occultists. This biography of Francis Barrett also describes his pioneering experiments in balloon flight and discusses his teachers and peers, and the subsequent progress of his disciples.

The Flying Sorcerer

KING, FRANCIS

Biographies & Memoirs

The Cannibal Within (Quotations) "The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth." "Ingestion is the ultimate act of domination. The victim is absorbed by the eater--body and soul are absorbed--and all that remains is excrement." "You must torture it first, she whispered, with perverse logic. "Terror-stricken animals taste better." "Man needs lies like children need toys." "In this reality of ours, gods are simply expert players who move grotesquely carved pieces in a game without rules." "Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness." "Had not the great Yukio Mishima killed himself with a dagger? Thrusting and wet--his hand one with the weapon--Mishima called suicide the 'ultimate masturbation.'" "Crawling into your soul, we can brutalize you without even touching you." "Nailed to the crosses were two thieves. Naked except for crowns of thorns, they were called 'Perverted by Wealth" and 'Degraded by Poverty.'" 'Error is like sin,' hissed a voice in the dream. 'The deeper it is, the less the victim suspects its existence.'" 'In the next world--as in this world--beauty and danger, seduction and torment, are indissolubly linked." "Devoted to wicked science--the hostile domination of nature--the complex is composed of thousands of gloomy laboratories. Here, legions of amoral researchers--greedy for knowledge--commit crimes against bodies and ideas." "In my dreams I kissed her in a playful and amorous way, and then we made love--in the fresh air--the way wild animals do."

The Cannibal Within

Mark Mirabello

Contemporary

You're in your bed. It's dark, you hear footsteps coming up the stairs and into your room. There's someone there - a presence. They lie on you or beside you, perhaps even gripping you tightly, crushing you into the bed. You can't move. There may be a sound, a grunt or a strange smell. Time passes, you are paralysed with fear. Eventually the entity changes, perhaps expanding or contracting, moving away from you, sinking to the floor. With a great effort of will you manage to move the tip of your finger, then the hand until movement returns to your whole body and the experience ends. You have been  visited by the old 'hag'.   Dreams,  the real theatre or perhaps battlefield of magick, influenced by cosmic tides that ebb and flow through us as they did the ancient Egyptians. Over the millennia we have lost contact with these tides, and stand alienated from Nature.To restore that first 'Eden' we must undertake an exercise in the archaeology of knowledge. We must reconstruct the ancient Egyptian Wheel of the Year, revealing archaic, predynastic Mysteries, the Lunar Mysteries of Horus & Seth.  Contents:  Kiss of the Vampire / Origin of the Vampire Myth / Egyptian Psychology /  Lucky and Unlucky / Supernatural Assault/The Wheel of the Year in ancient Egypt/The Lunar-Stellar Calendar of Horus & Seth/Deities attending the Northern Constellations / Oracles & Lunar Omina  / Lunar diary

Supernatural Assault in Ancient Egypt: Seth, Renpet & Moon Magick

Morgan, Mogg

Africa

From 'one of the most articulate occult writers of recent years' (Fate Magazine) comes the definitive book on Rosaleen Norton. In the 1950s Norton was popularly known in Australia as the 'Witch of Kings Cross'-a colourful, bohemian figure from Sydney's red light district. 'Roie', as she was often called, could be recognized by her dark flashing eyes, her mysterious arched eyebrows and her devilish smile, but beyond her exotic appearance there was a lot more to her than was generally realized. A natural trance artist, she experimented with self-hypnosis and as a result of her visionary explorations portrayed a wide range of supernatural beings in her paintings and drawings. However her 'pagan' art plunged her into continuous controversy. Widely criticised for allegedly bizarre sexual practices with her lover, Gavin Greenlees, she was regarded very much as a renegade from mainstream society. It is now clear that Rosaleen Norton was one of this century's finest occult artists, and comparisons can be made between her visionary drawings and those of English trance occultist Austin Osman Spare. This biography-the first account of her life as a whole-provides a detailed evaluation of both her magical beliefs and her art and includes a fascinating selection of previously unpublished material. Nevill Drury was born in England in 1947 but has lived most of his life in Australia. An internationally published writer in the fields of magic, occult mythology and the paranormal, he is the author of Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic, Inner Visions, The Elements of Shamanism and The Occult Experience-among many other books. Praise for the Australian edition: '. . . a fascinating study. Drury's understanding of the occult and spiritual realms makes Norton's art and life comprehensible. . . ' Sydney Morning Herald

Pan's Daughter - the magical world of Roseleen Norton

DRURY, Nevill

Norton, Roseleen

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