The works of Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897) are not grimoires of witchcraft, contrary to what their titles may evoke, but, in the author's own words, Essais de sciences maudits (Essays on the Cursed Sciences), meaning that he had the ambition to take a quasi-scientific look at the subjects in question. 
Stanislas de Guaita become one of the leading figures of the reborn occultism of the late XIX century in France. He was a true scholar and an important precursor of modern occultism. 
This book, the first volume of the Serpent of Genesis: The Temple of Satan, deals with black magic and the use of astral forces. 
The next volume of the series, The Key to Black Magic offers an overview of witchcraft through the ages and the continents most often referred to by symbolists and occultists of the time. 
Guaita died before finishing the third volume, The Problem of Evil, although it was published posthumously, many years after his death. 
The Temple of Satan includes a Bibliographical Catalogue and an Alphabetical Index. The topics covered in its seven chapters are: 
1. THE DEVIL: In the intellectual world it is called Error; in the moral world it is called Selfishness; in the physical world it is incarnated in all forms of Ugliness. 
2. THE SORCERER: The ambition of a despotism without control, based on the monopoly of knowledge forbidden to the common man. The Sabbath. 
3. WORKS OF WITCHCRAFT: Spells, Charms, Incantations and Evocations. 
4. HUMAN JUSTICE: Persecution of sorcerers. The Inquisition The case of the Knights Templar, the Military Order than became a Secret Society. 
5. THE SORCERER'S ARSENAL: Interesting and unique list of material resources, astral forces, spirits, etc., used by the sorcerers. 
6. MODERN AVATARS OF THE SORCERER: History of some modern sorcerers 
7. FLOWERS FROM THE ABYSS: Poetry and the attraction of evil. Ego and Non-Ego. Psychic pollution. Apollo, Hecate, Eros, Atropos.

The Serpent of Genesis: The Temple of Satan

Religion & Spirituality

De Guaita, Stanislas

New Age & Spirituality

Ouroboros Publishing

The works of Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897) are not grimoires of witchcraft, contrary to what their titles may evoke, but, in the author's own words, Essais de sciences maudits (Essays on the Cursed Sciences), meaning that he had the ambition to take a quasi-scientific look at the subjects in question.Stanislas de Guaita become one of the leading figures of the reborn occultism of the late XIX century in France. He was a true scholar and an important precursor of modern occultism.This book, the second volume of the Serpent of Genesis: The Key to Black Magic, deals with black magic and the use of astral forces.Guaita died before finishing the third volume, The Problem of Evil, although it was published posthumously, many years after his death.The Key to Black Magic includes a Bibliographical Catalogue and an Alphabetical Index. The topics covered in its seven chapters are: BALANCE AND ITS AGENT Eighth key of the Tarot: Justice. Emerald Table of Hermes Trismegistus (complete translation). Astral Light, or the Great Agent. Double polarity of astral light. Hieroglyphic Kabbalah.THE MYSTERIES OF SOLITUDE Ninth key of the Tarot: The Hermit. The projection of the sidereal double. The ghosts of solitude. Larvae, elementals and elementaries. The natives of the Astral. Evocation of Celestial Intelligences. Arcane Equivocations of Ancient Theurgy.THE WHEEL OF BECOMING Tenth key of the Tarot: the Wheel of Fortune. Arcana of the Quaternary polarization; cerebro-genital and androgynous. Descent of the Spirit into matter; sublimation of the material series towards the recovery of the spiritual life. Divinatory arts. The secret of the magic chain. The great arcane. Collective entities. Theurgic dominations. Appearances of the gods, in the ancient temples.STRENGTH OF WILL Eleventh key of the Tarot: Strength. Will, one of the three great Ruling Powers of the Universe. The plastic faculty, the psychic matrix of the astral body. The theory of natural signatures. Magic practised through the action of the astral body on the imponderable fluids. Fascination, a suggestive phenomenon. Magic of word and gesture. The pentagram and the circle of evocations and spells. Rochas' experiences with bewitchment. MAGIC SLAVERY Twelfth key of the Tarot: the Hangman. Meaning of the emblem. The incarnation of souls. The test of the Psyche. The symbolic fables of decay form the basis of all the ancient mysteries. Birth, true death; initiation, rebirth in spirit. Mineral signatures. Toxicology as part of the occult sciences. The four forms of magic slavery. Hominal slavery. Sorcerers: psychic magic; personality substitution. Suggestive obsession and possession. Self-suggestion. Obsession or possession of an individual by a parasitic entity. Spiritual slavery. Pact with the Devil. DEATH AND ITS ARCANA Thirteenth key of the Tarot: Death. Liberation of the Psyche. The different aspects of life. The sympathetic place of life is the astral body. The astral storm. Magnetic Incubation. Religious practices and sacraments. Divorce between the psychic man who survives and the material man who decays. Constitutive principles of man. The median pact. The cone of shadow: purgatory or hell of the souls. The cranial suture and Brahma's hole. The corpse of the Second Death; the shadow, or the inane shell. Practices of Necromancy.MAGIC OF TRANSMUTATIONS After the emblem of death, the Tarot presents us with the emblem of metamorphosis: Temperance. Metamorphosis as the passage from one mode of illusion to another. Animal metamorphoses. Talismans. Alchemy. Preparatory operations. The Work itself (preparation of the stone). Multiplication of the stone. Projection.

The Serpent of Genesis: The Key to Black Magic

This work by Paul Sédir is based on the traditional occult knowledge of the use of plants, as taught by Paracelsus and other masters. 
Sédir analyses plants from the botanogenic point of view, which considers the influence of the stars on them, and according to the law of signatures (plant physiognomy). This knowledge allows us to pick up the plants at the right astrological moment, and also shows us how to use them to develop our integral health, on all levels. 
This work also deals in depth with unusual topics such as Paracelsus' system for transplanting diseases from a person to a plant, the hermetic use of plants, preparation of philtres, palingenesis, and many other subjects. 
The "Dictionary of Botany", included in the third part of the work, includes more than three hundred plants, with their astrological signatures and medicinal and magical characteristics. 
In addition to providing the vulgar name of each plant in English –including its variations in different countries– we have added its scientific name in Latin. This allows the plants to be identified without any doubt and also makes it easier for the reader to gather more information about any plant with a simple Internet search using its scientific name. 
This book also has an alphabetical index to locate the plants by their Latin name and an "Esoteric Glossary" to familiarise the reader with the terminology of the work.

Magic Plants - Occult botany

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sédir, Paul

Alternative Medicine

This Library of Alchemical Philosophers, originally published in French in 1672-73, was republished and completed in 1740-44 by Jean Maugin de Richenbourg, as Bibliothèque Des Philosophes Chimiques.\nThis library also includes the notes of another previous publisher of alchemical works, William Salmon, which are interspersed along this the two volumes of this work (the French edition has four volumes, but we distributed its full content in only two volumes).\nSalmon (1644-1713) was an English doctor who copied, translated, abridged, enlarged and compiled from the texts of others to create divulgatory books. Salmon's works were widely read in his time, and covered an wide range of topics, beyond medicine, between them alchemy.\nThe object of alchemy is, as no one is unaware, the transmutation of metals; to change vile metals into noble ones, to make gold or silver by artificial means, such was the aim of this singular science, which has lasted no less than seventeen centuries.\nIn spite of the discredit into which it has fallen in modern times, alchemy has not lost the privilege of arousing curiosity and seducing the imagination. The mystery that envelops it, the marvellous side that is attributed to its doctrines, the fantastic reputation that is attached to the memory of its adepts, all this half-veiled combination of realities and spiritual visions, truths and speculations, still exerts a singular prestige on certain minds. 
More specifically, the purpose of this Alchemical Library is, in the words of its compiler, Jean Maugin de Richenbourg:\nIt is evident, by the things we have just said, the necessity of making a collection, and of gathering, as in a body, the works of the true philosophers, especially those who are the least diffuse and the least muddled. In that way that some may make up for what is lacking in others, and so that they may help each other; and also so that we may more easily confer their opinions with each other, and examine the topics on what they all agree, since it is only in this case that they have spoken the truth, and consequently, only in this way we may find it.\nThis is the first complete English translation of this memorable work. We have added some footnotes of our own, mainly to explain some archaic terms and measurement units, hoping that this edition will simplify the understanding of these obscure topics to modern day inquirers.\nTreatises contained In this first volume:\nThe Emerald Table of Hermes, with the Commentary of Ortolanus. 
The seven Chapters attributed to Hermes. 
The Dialogue of Mary and Aros, by Maria the Jewess. 
The Summa of Perfection, by Geber. 
Turba Philosophorum. 
Dialogue between King Khalid and Morien the Philosopher. 
The Book of Artephius. 
The Book of Synesius. 
The Book of hieroglyphic figures, Philosophical Summary and The Desired Desire, three books by Nicolas Flamel. 
The Book of the Natural Philosophy of Metals, The Forsaken Word and The Green Dream, three books by Bernard Trevisan. 
Opuscule of the True Natural Philosophy of Metals, by Denis Zachaire

Library of Alchemical Philosophers: Volume I

Trismegistus, Hermes

Flamel, Nicolás

Salmon, William

Trevisan, Bernard

Zachaire, Denis

the Jewess, Maria

Geber

Ortolanus

Occult & Paranormal

This Library of Alchemical Philosophers, originally published in French in 1672-73, was republished and completed in 1740-44 by Jean Maugin de Richenbourg, as Bibliothèque Des Philosophes Chimiques.\nThis library also includes the notes of another previous publisher of alchemical works, William Salmon, which are interspersed along this the two volumes of this work (the French edition has four volumes, but we distributed its full content in only two volumes).\nSalmon (1644-1713) was an English doctor who copied, translated, abridged, enlarged and compiled from the texts of others to create divulgatory books. Salmon's works were widely read in his time, and covered an wide range of topics, beyond medicine, between them alchemy.\nThe object of alchemy is, as no one is unaware, the transmutation of metals; to change vile metals into noble ones, to make gold or silver by artificial means, such was the aim of this singular science, which has lasted no less than seventeen centuries.\nIn spite of the discredit into which it has fallen in modern times, alchemy has not lost the privilege of arousing curiosity and seducing the imagination. The mystery that envelops it, the marvellous side that is attributed to its doctrines, the fantastic reputation that is attached to the memory of its adepts, all this half-veiled combination of realities and spiritual visions, truths and speculations, still exerts a singular prestige on certain minds. 
More specifically, the purpose of this Alchemical Library is, in the words of its compiler, Jean Maugin de Richenbourg:\nIt is evident, by the things we have just said, the necessity of making a collection, and of gathering, as in a body, the works of the true philosophers, especially those who are the least diffuse and the least muddled. In that way that some may make up for what is lacking in others, and so that they may help each other; and also so that we may more easily confer their opinions with each other, and examine the topics on what they all agree, since it is only in this case that they have spoken the truth, and consequently, only in this way we may find it.\nThis is the first complete English translation of this memorable work. We have added some footnotes of our own, mainly to explain some archaic terms and measurement units, hoping that this edition will simplify the understanding of these obscure topics to modern day inquirers.\nSome treatises contained in this second volume:\nTwelve Keys of Basil Valentine and Azoth, by Basil Valentine. 
The Hermetic Triumph or The Ancient War of the Knights, by Limojon de Saint-Didier. 
Light shining forth by its own nature out of darkness, by Fra Marc’Antonio Crasselame Chinese. 
Secrets Revealed or An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King, Experiments on the Preparation of the Mercury of The Sages..., Explanation of a Letter from George Ripley to Edward IV, Philalethes Principles for Directing Operations in the Hermetic Work , by Philalethes and his commentators. 
Treatise on the Secret of Philosophical Art, commented by Valachius. 
Summary of the Treatise on the Great Work of the Philosophers, by Philippe Rouillac, Piedmontese, Cordelier. 
The Elucidation or Clarification of the Testament of Raymond Lulle, by Raymond Lulle. 
Very Curious Explanation of the Hieroglyphics..., by Sieur Esprit Gobineau de Montluisant. 
The Psalter Of Hermophilus. 
The Ternary Unity of Celestial Virtue. 
A Philosophical Letter. 
Precepts and Instructions of the Father Abraham to his Son. 
Treatise on the Earthly Sky, by Vinceslas Lavinius of Moravia.

Library of Alchemical Philosophers: Volume II

Philalethes, Eirenaeus

Valentine, Basil

de Saint-Didier, Limojon

Lulle, Raymond

Lavinius, Vinceslas

de Montluisant, Esprit Gobineau

Dreams and how to direct them: Practical Observations

Hervey de Saint-Denys, Léon

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