THE MAGICK OF SOLOMON, 2nd Edition is a 85 minute DVD video documentary written and narrated by anthropologist and ceremonial magician, Carroll "Poke" Runyon, Magister of America's oldest continually operating Magical Lodge, the Ordo Templi Astartes (O.T.A.). The first part of the video offers a history of Western Magick, illustrated with graphics and displays, setting forth the author's theory, based on his own research and experiments, that visions of spirits obtained by magicians in medieval times were subjective and hypnotic rather than hysterical hallucinations. Runyon holds that the practical technique for achieving this was the visual distortion which occurs when a person stares at his or her reflection in a dark mirror. This technique is demonstrated and visions are simulated. The relationship of the "72 Rebellious Spirits" contained in King Solomon's legendary "Brass Vessel" to the Holy Angels who control them is explained and a hypnotic method for invoking these Angels into a Crystal Ball is demonstrated. According to the narrator, these two systems should be integrated for a proper spiritual balance. The video climaxes with the presentation of a complete Goetia Evocation Operation, in full ceremonial regalia, summoning the spirit Astaroth (actually the Canaanite Goddess, Astarte) to visual appearance in the dark mirror on the Triangle of Art. The Magick of Solomon was originally released on VHS in 1996 and is still available in that format. This new DVD version has been digitally re-mastered and visually enhanced. Ten extra minutes of new material has been added, including a flim clip of O.T.A. temple operations aired on national television in 1974 showing the use of the mirror in the triangle as described in the original 1996 VHS version. 
C. R. Runyon, M.A. Producer

The Magick of Solomon, 2nd Edition

The Church of the Hermetic Sciences, Inc.

Dark Mirror of Magick, 2nd Edition

Nine Royal Passions of the Year

Frederick Adams

Arts & Photography

This is an up-dated and extended version of the original title published by C.H.S. in 1997 in paperback. This new Second Edition is bound in indigo pebble-grain imitation leather with gold embossed lettering and Golden Dawn logo. It contains new information about the real identity of the mysterious Fraulein Sprengel, and a new appendix on the Horos affair, and Aleister Crowley's connection to the Golden Dawn. All the original features from the first edition remain, including Golden Dawn authority Robert A. Gilbert's article From Cipher to Enigma, with facsimiles from Wynn Westcott's previously unpublished cipher notes. This is the only published version of the Golden Dawn Cypher (Cipher) Manuscript that is fully annotated, explained and analyzed. All folios, including the missing pages -- whether authentic or not -- are included. All manuscript folios are photo reproduced from the original cypher text with the decipherment, and explanatory notes, on the facing page Also included are color photos of actual Golden Dawn rites, and a reproduction of a seldom seen Golden Dawn scroll The Flaming Sword from the Theoricus (2=9) initiation. This work is intended as a reference for scholars and occultists alike. It has a study guide and an extensive bibliography. The Forward to this book was contributed by the noted Golden Dawn writer Pat Zalewski.

Secrets of the Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript - Second Edition

Carroll Poke Runyon

Robert A. Gilbert

The Church of the Hermetic Sciences and Ordo Templi Astartes (O.T.A.) continues its series of journals with The Seventh Ray, Book III, The Green Ray. This issue is a 210 page, trade-quality soft cover book, bound in green-printed parchment board covers, with ivory interior stock. The journal is illustrated with many line drawings, photos, and a full color plate. This issue features The Crata Repoa, an English translation for the original German, The Soma Sofia, the Greco-Roman tablets of Celestial Magick reconstructed, The Great Secret of the Freemasons, Alchemists, Rorsicrucians, et allia, by Frater Thabion, Occult Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript illustrated exclusively for The Seventh Ray by occult artist Bob Cuneo. Next comes The Kore by the late Frederick Adams, along with tributes to Adams and his work. This is followed by The Greater Eucharist, a new Golden Dawn ritual by Frater Olen, The Oracles of Sitael, the Vassago Millennium Prophecy completed by Frater Solomon, and The Multiverse Receiver, a Radio from Beyond by Dr. X. Along with these leading features we also include Adamson s Quest, Chapter Eleven, The Conjuration of the Greater Earthen Sphere, The Sound Experiment, The Werewolf Legend, and The Elixir. In the Humor Department you ll find The Master Goo, Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Necronomicon, An Ode to M Theory, and The Seventh Ray cartoon. Book and film reviews are also featured.

The Seventh Ray, Book III, The Green Ray

From the back cover: PAGAN MAGICK TRANSFORMED Nosce te Ipsum In Volume One we established or reestablished -- the original western system of the interior stars which had been superseded in the Victorian era by the eastern tantric laya yoga arrangement favored by Theosophists. Recalling that Solomon's muse was the Goddess Astarte, we applied Her and the rest of Her ancient Canaanite pantheon to the spheres of our straight-line chakra ladder. Now in volume two we will evolve this neo-mythical system into a Renaissance and Rosicrucian analog. The ancient Canaanite gods and goddesses will be replaced (or rather joined) by the angels and planetary spirits of western magick and the hermetic qabalah. This transformation is accomplished by Jesus Christ and his Lady Mary Magdalene following their sacred marriage in Tiphareth, which is allegorically and alchemically recounted in The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. And replicated in a Rosicrucian yoga ritual using the hitherto secret Soul Travel Boat. All of this is substantiated by ancient documents and scripture. Jesus and Mary are the earthly representatives of Father El and Mother Asherat, the original supreme deities of ancient Canaan and Israel. Perhaps the most important revelation in this book is that Jesus' father-in-heaven is El, the original most high god of the Bible, not Jehovah. Using the latest biblical research Fraters Solomon and Thabion reveal that Jesus really was the King of the Jews and was in fact married to Mary Magdalene. Drawing upon the mysterious Naassene document they reveal how Jesus was the last of a series of pagan dying gods and that his casting out of Mary's demons was the purification of her chakras as also described in the allegorical Gnostic Christian Joseph and Aseneth. Their sacred marriage was fictionalized in the last of the Renaissance Rosicrucian documents The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz. Frater Thabion summarizes and interprets this ancient fantasy novel revealing that it was inspired by The Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna and that the seven days of the wedding are in fact the seven houses of Christian Rosenkreuz's natal horoscope. Analyzing the medieval epic Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Thabion concludes that the Holy Grail was in fact a shewstone (scrying stone) that revealed the Holy Guardian Angels of those who were called to the Grail Castle. Persian and Harranian-Sabian sources are called upon to validate this revelation. It is also established that Parzival's half-brother, grandmother and original mentor were hermetic Sabians, who could be called Saracens but not Muslims. The sorceress Cundrie also confirms our restored Chakra arrangement in a poem blessing Parzival when he finally becomes the Grail King. As a last restoration of forgotten hermetic influence Thabion presents an argument that the original version of The Sepher Yetzirah was probably written in Greek and later translated into Hebrew although he concedes that there may have been an ancient version on clay tablets in cuneiform. This book reveals the great secrets behind the western mysteries. It restores the true balance of male and female divinity in the holy family and in the human family. In the true Rosicrucian spirit it offers a healing formula of personal salvation. Tu es Deus et Dea Frater Thabion (Poke Runyon)

Hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar, Volume Two, Rosicrucian Yoga

Frater Thabion

with inclusions by Frater Solomon and Frater Osiris

Adamson's Quest, And Shamgar the Purple Dragon

Poke Runyon

a.k.a. Carroll R. Runyon

The Seventh Ray Book IV Omnibus, The Violet Ray

Journal contributors

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