21 posts tagged “occult books”
Diabolical various
Introduction by Peter Grey
Edited by Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey
Diabolical is a weighty tome of over 350pp.
With nine colour plates of original infernal artwork from Stafford
Stone, Kyle Fite, Thomas Karlsson, and Johnny Jakobsson.
Bound in red cloth shot through with charred black.
The cover is stamped with the devil's verse in heavy black fractur.
It comes in an edition of 999 copies, hand numbered in dragon's blood ink.
A copy of the No Smoke Without Fire Edition can be yours for thirty-five English pounds.
The Grimoire tradition is being reinvigorated in the living practice of the carcists, magicians and sorcerors who dare to work with these books.
Those of us who do this work, regardless of whether we trepass amongst the angels or daemons, are often slandered as diabolical. Our books are also regarded as diabolical, being incomprehensible, demonic and without spiritual or practical value.
We throw this back at our accusers by demonstrating that these books are more complex than black and white theology allows, and as repositories of forbidden knowledge are worth their weight in gold. This is where the spirits lie.
We are upholding our side of the pact and continuing to produce the most groundbreaking and relevant titles of the modern occult revival. To this end, Scarlet Imprint have convened an international cabal of writers and artists from England, Poland, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Brazil, Canada and America.
Our writers for this project are:
Jake Stratton-Kent
Eric de Pauw
Aaron Leitch
Paul Hughes-Barlow
Mark Smith
Stafford Stone
Thomas Karlsson
Johnny Jakobsson
The Anonymous author of Pharaoan
Humberto Maggi
John J. Coughlin
Krzysztof Azarewicz
Donald Tyson
Kyle Fite
These individuals meet for the first time within the pages of our newest title, Diabolical and give tongue to their excursions into these texts and others:
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...
Substantial original essays and inspired original artwork, in a striking talismanic production, Diabolical will astound you.
More information at scarletimprint.com
The Encyclopaedia Goetica
Volume 1: The True Grimoire
The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent
In stock now for immediate dispatch
The True Grimoire is a substantial octavo book of 280pp.
The text is profusely illustrated with characters, sigils, magic squares, and pontos riscados.
It is bound in verdant green book cloth, bloody endpapers and stamped with a rubeus memento mori.
This is a volume with presence, as befits one housing so many spirits.
It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of a thousand copies.
A copy of the Death's Head edition can be yours for thirty-five English pounds plus postage.
The True Grimoire is a major contribution to the practice and study of Goetic magic.
The neglected Grimorium Verum has been restored to it's rightful place as a potent and coherent system of Goetic magic.
The True Grimoire springs from the source of Goetic magic, enabling us to unlock the secrets of the other grimoires. We are given insights into the Dragon Rouge, Key of Solomon, Lemegeton, Abramelin, Honorius and the Black Pullet. This is a treasure trove for the student of magic.
The True Grimoire lets us experience a grimoire tradition with links back to the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri and the necromancy of the original Goes. It also places Verum within a living tradtion, one which has taken root in the New World, finding expression in Quimbanda and the Legion of Exus, the 'People of the Cemetery' who have clear Verum equivalents.
Scarlet Imprint has done it again. Another ravishing text which combines tasteful production with quality writing. Bound in saffron coloured book cloth with a cut back design which, depending on how you look at it, is either a chalice or two faces about to kiss. By all means judge this book by its beautiful cover.
The collection of essays found in Devoted are tales of the bhakti yoga of modern magick. Levannah Morgan described her allegiance to Inanna. Stephen Grasso leads us into the society of the Loa. Peter Grey reveals more on his worship of Babalon. In total fifteen essays, which provide an excellent range, both in style of writing and of the diverse of spirits to which the contributors are consecrated.
In common with previous productions from this energetic publishing house, we have not only quality and substance but also novelty, for these are quintessentially modern practitioners of the arcane arts. If nothing else this book demonstrates successfully that prayerful, even 'religious' praxis within occultism is thriving. Through these essays we are introduced to fourteen occultists who have a living relationship with their gods. This makes a pleasant change from the model that presents spirits as being endogenous psychic productions.
My only reservation is that I want more! (But perhaps that is the doom of those who are devoted!) Not merely more details about methodology (some of the writers in this collection are painfully honest about their techniques). I guess it's that Devoted left me hungry for more of the intensity of experience that our authors have found in their adorations.
In Devoted we hear voices that speak directly from the visionary state. This book is a poetic download from magicians living in the rapture of their gods, and their hymns of praise are quite intoxicating.
-Julian Vayne
Available from www.scarletimprint.com
The Voudon Gnosis snakeskin deluxe, in shimmering ophidian glory..
DEVOTED
Scarlet Imprint, London;
Winter Solstice, 2008; limited edition of 814 copies.
This
is not a book about dark deities, or a volume of ready-made incantations
and rituals. So many occult volumes published these days continue
to be instruction manuals, rehashing of established systems or new ones
created from whole cloth. At best, we are treated to a few anecdotal
stories from the authors if they have in fact worked the systems they
write about. All in all, the magick books of the 21st Century
are cast from the same mold that was used a century ago.
This
book is different: it throbs with passion, blood and divine intoxication.
It is personal... even intimate, because it is essentially a collection
of lovers' diaries. The Beloved, in this case, is the goddess
or god that has chosen each of the 14 writers to be hir suitor.
This is bhakti yoga, the path of Devotion, in action. Here are
the piquant fruits that come after all the theory and practice, after
long years of penetrating a Mystery.
Evocation
is one thing, invocation is another. Evocation is calling in Merry
Maids to tidy up your house and then sending them on their way; invocation
is inviting one woman or man to move into your house and become your
partner -- devotion. Invocation involves surrender, and trust,
and the willingness to share one's darkest dreams, fears and desires
with the Other. It is an opening of the heart and the shedding
of blood and essence. A relationship always requires sacrifice,
and in the case of the God/esses, the sacrifice is all-encompassing:
body, mind, and heart.
Some
of the devotees in this volume do risk their health and sanity in the
name of Love. Skin is flayed, pierced and tattoed. Poisons
are injected. Possession is invited. The sense of separate
self -- obliterated. Risking All "for love's sake; for the
chance of union." None of the writers express regret or disappointment
for their efforts; all feel they have been richly rewarded, and that
the relationship and rewards will only grow.
Subscribers
to Babalon.nu will find much of value in this book, I think; its focus
is mostly on the Dark Goddess, whether in the form of Ishtar, Babalon,
Lilith, the Yoginis, Tiamat or Hecate. The re-arising of the Sacred
Feminine is well represented. But Dionysos, Loki, the Lwa and
the spirits of the Goetia are here as well.
Another refreshing thing about this volume is, like a previous Scarlet Imprint title -- Howlings -- you get to hear voices from the many traditions that make up the 21st Century magical revival. Thelema is, at best, tangential to these discussions. Most of the authors are followers of the Witch Craft, tantrika, Voodoo, sorcery or are simply eclectic magicians, and in one case, an academician. The public face of magick is only a small part of the picture. I believe the de-centralization of magick is what will ensure its survival as the walls of civilization come tumbling down.
www.scarletimprint.com
Dear Friends,
Devoted has been sent out to all those who have pre-ordered.
The saffron book cloth came in a week late, it seems that this book wanted to wait for the New Year to be sent.
It has surpassed our expectations.
The pictures do it some justice, but as with all books, you need to feel it in your hands.
We collected the books from the printer two days before Solstice.
On the way we stopped at a Stonehenge owned by corvids, safe behind English Heritage fences.
No pagans allowed to walk on the grass. The moorland bare. Sacred geometry now carved up by a triangle of roads.
It makes what we do with Scarlet Imprint seem all the more relevant, making books for those who are connected to the animating
spirits of magick and witchcraft. Neither gazing back at a lost megalithic past, or slackly staring at the mass-produced spectacle.
We are not interested in a magickal revival, we are creating a magickal revolution Now.
Howlings, The Red Goddess, Voudon Gnosis and now Devoted has made this quite a year.
Scarlet Imprint are not only here to stay, we are here to go.
We offer up profound gratitude to our readers for being an inspiration to us, for your support and letters.
We thank those writers who have made this past year such a whirlwind.
Libations are poured to Babalon for Love, and the Spirits of Goetia for making themselves known to us.
We are in voluntary exile in the mountains for the Winter now.
Much Work to do this year, and plans are very much in place.
Our replies to emails may be a little slower over the next two weeks with Saturnalia and limited net access.
Expect some spectacular books to be born in 2009 starting in the Spring, not Lambs but Lions.
Much Love
In Nomine Babalon
Peter and Alkistis x
DEVOTED New Scarlet Imprint title available to order
Scarlet Imprint are pleased to announce that our newest title Devoted is now available to pre-order.
Devoted is an octavo book of 173pp, bound in saffron book cloth, black chalice stamped and finished with night black endpapers.
It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of 814 copies.
Devoted comprises fifteen essays by fourteen writers on their devotional practice.It is a bloody and passionate blend of primal gnosis and poetic expression.
These essays reveal and revel in powerful applicable magickal practice.
They are suffused with the living experience of the Spirit world.
A copy can be yours for thirty-one English pounds plus postage.
http://www.scarletimprint.com/devoted.htm
This title will be dispatched to you shortly before the Winter Solstice.
Devoted provides indepth essays on working with:
Babalon
Ishtar
Hecate
Lilith
Loki
Tiamat
Dionysus
The Yoginis
The Lwa
The Spirits of goetia
Our writers are a chorus of powerful new voices and established practitioners whose Work has often been overlooked:
Full biographies can be found at http://www.scarletimprint.com/devoted_biogs.htm
Devoted will enrich your own work, whether you are witch, magician, heathen, thelemite, or sorceror.
From possession work, to blood letting and fetishes, to sabbatic dance, there is a wealth of experience to explore within these pages.
In Nomine Babalon
Scarlet Imprint x
(UK orders placed before Saturday 13 should reach you in time for Xmas)
Dear Friends,
Our printers have just delivered the re-print of Voudon Gnosis to us.
It has been a frustrating delay for our readers and David Beth, but the
wait is now over. We settle for nothing less than excellence.
We would also like to make it clear that we are using a different printer for Devoted and all future titles. But let's leave talk of that until after the weekend..
In Nomine Babalon
Scarlet Imprint x
Finally, a clear exposition of the Voudon Gnostic system of Michael Bertiaux
and the work of La Couleuvre Noire.
The thriving multiverse of artistic imagination which this current represents
has been explored by Kenneth Grant, but this is the first text giving
the inside experience of an initiand.
A fascinating and challenging glimpse into the Voudon system, it is both
a gateway for students and an inspiration for those looking for a more
creative occultism.
This book is a perfect introduction to the complexities of that strangest
of all modern grimoires, Bertiaux'sVoudon Gnostic
Workbook.
Expanding upon the groundwork of his essay in Howlings,
David Beth guides us through this eclectic, syncretic and highly personal
system of sorcery which nevertheless has come from a genuine Haitian lineage.
Those looking for the wilder atavistic energies of sex magick, as we find
embodied in the art of Austin Osman Spare, will find much of interest
in this book. Voudon Gnosis outlines a more complex and highly developed
system of sex magick than is found in the secret grade papers of the Western
magickal tradition.
Voudon Gnosis covers:
Las Prise
des Yeaux
Points Chauds
Spider Sorcery and Time Travelling
Elemental Sex Magick
The Grimoire Ghuedhe
With appendices on:
Nganga
and the Fetish
A-Mor, an initiated analysis of Love
David
Beth is the Sovereign Grand Master for the international Voudon Orders
and is the Presiding Bishop of the Ecclesia Aeterna. A tireless ambassador,
teacher and speaker, David is one of the key players and most charismatic
characters in the modern occult revival.
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce a new title for Scarlet Imprint, Devoted.
A
powerful new essay collection from some of the most striking modern
practitioners of magick and witchcraft. A truly enthralling book.
Devoted will be available for subscriber pre-order late November.
This title will be released for the Winter Solstice.
First details are being sent to our subscribers this weekend.
Our best to you all, this Samhain.
In Nomine Babalon
Scarlet Imprint x
A new reader review of David Beth's Voudon Gnosis:
Seized by the Eyes
Kenneth Grant has described the main purpose of his books as to prepare people for encounters with unfamiliar state of consciousness. In Voudon Gnosis, David Beth describes the principles in the works of Michael Bertiaux as leading to true Gnostic Luciferean transformation. Both Grant and Bertiaux have devised highly original systems of magic which draw on the creativity of the adherent. This is not a simple structured system of rote learning, rather they both offer guides or pointers into deep and complex magical universes which the adherent must learn to develop him or herself. In Bertiaux’s system, adherents use ‘La Prise des Yeaux’, a form of occult active imagination, to explore their magical universe, often documenting it through personal art works.
Bertiaux’s writings do not outline a linear system of magic or esoteric spirituality. Rather they delve into a complex but intriguing web of magical openings which could be analogised by the system of points chaud where magical entities are impregnated in the physical body of the adherent and then activated as required to meet certain purposes. His system is catholic by nature and purpose, and much richer by reason of this. By, as David Beth describes, using a range of spiritual and esoteric systems, it opens up a broad magical universe, which then allows for the absorption of the diverse range of energies.
Bertiaux’s magnum opus, the Voudon Gnostic Workbook, is a dense, complex and voluminous compilation of papers on the magical system he has worked on and helped develop over the last number of decades. Finally back in print in an affordable paperback edition, it a dense and bulging tome of truly occult methodology and philosophy. It is a foreboding text with a seemingly multitude of ports of entry.
David Beth has chosen some of the key elements of the system and provided a lucid exegesis in a slim and attractive volume published by Scarlet Imprint. Expanding on an article originally published in the Howlings anthology, the text has been expanded on and structured in an even more user-friendly manner. There are also some extra diagrams, which help facilitate a clearer comprehension of the complex areas covered.
Armed with the insight gained through reading Voudon Gnosis, the Voudon Gnostic Workbook becomes a much less foreboding document, and the true potential and scope of its magical system becomes much more clear. While there have be other primers of sorts for other magical systems, in particular thelemic magick, I have yet to read a text which is comparable in the effect it has had in introducing the possibilities and scope of a magical system or philosophy. While this is of course a function of staggering scope of Bertiaux’s system, credit must also be due to the author, David Beth, in unveiling some of the content of this ophidian chthonic current.
In addition to an explanation of some of concepts of voudon gnosis, there are also some very useful appendices. Of particular interest in an essay on an initiated interpretation of love, AMOR, which explores the conception of esoteric love, a subject I found fascinating. There are further instructional material on the use of fetishes and time travelling, expanding on materials touched upon in the main text.
Voudon gnosis has been produced in a limited edition and will no doubt soon sell out. It must surely classify as one of the most intriguing and practical occult texts published in recent years and should be classified as essential reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in esoteric methodology.
-David Heney
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