Evil: A study of lost techniques by philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a theoretical investigation into the aesthetics and intensities of cruelty, mapping evil in its minor prisms of fascination. Mohaghegh explores evil as an infinitesimal complex of techniques – subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that bring together the rarest philosophies of oblivion, decadence, cruelty, derangement, ecstasy, atrocity, rage, and mystery alongside the most intricate poetic genres of the rant, the elegy, the riddle, the whisper, the threat, the question, silence, and the nocturne.

Through a labyrinthine series of notes, diagrams, and outer limit speculations, this book attempts to uncover those concealed fragments which together form the architecture of another world altogether.

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Peter Grey’s Lucifer: Praxis is a profound and original study of spiritual power in the western magical tradition, explored through the evolution of the figure of Lucifer – as the archetype of rebellion, liberation and, ultimately, transformation and renewal.

Mark Nemglan’s Avalon Working is equal parts grimoire and devotional, gazeteer and visionary journey. The work passionately argues for Glastonbury as centre of emergence and initiation, a latter-day Eleusis. Through essay and ritual, the author invites readers to actively participate in the Holy Island’s unfolding destiny, in partnership with its spirits and powers, to co-create its mythopoeia and, in doing so, forge a new Avalonian covenant.

Two Esoteric Tarots is the record of a fascinating conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet, convened and with a foreword by César Pedreros. They compare their journeys of discovery into two wildly contrasting tarot decks, the dark ritual landscape of the elite Sola-Busca tarocchi, as revealed in The Game of Saturn, and the luminous and popular Tarot de Marseille, the subject of the forthcoming Tarot of Marsilio.

Scholarly research has firmly maintained that the tarot had no spiritual, esoteric or divinatory dimension before the mid-eighteenth century. However, working independently, Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet have shattered that consensus with their original research, providing abundant evidence that pushes back the date of an esoteric tradition – concealed in plain sight – by almost three centuries.

Readers of The Game of Saturn will find Peter Mark Adams’ most recent thinking here, as he decodes the ritual grammar of a performative theurgy which encompasses the grotesque, the abject and the antinomian in service of a draconian deity and Renaissance statecraft.

Parallel to this, Christophe Poncet discovered Platonic philosophy embedded in the imagery and construction of the Tarot de Marseille. A revelation which propelled him into a profound investigation, unearthing connections between the Florentine aristocracy, the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino, Botticelli, and the heretical philosophical underpinnings of the Italian Renaissance.

When brought into dialogue, Adams and Poncet’s insights converge, to illuminate and fundamentally change our understanding of the tarot, and the submerged currents of the Renaissance, both dark and light, which formed Western esotericism.

A benchmark text for students of the tarot, symbolism, theurgy and performative ritual from two of the leading researchers into the hidden legacy of the tarot. 

Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny is a study of the esoteric doctrines and spiritual traditions encoded within the Hagia Sophia, as manifested in its structural and decorative design. 

The Hagia Sophia is one of the world’s most iconic buildings, but its origins in Late Antiquity conceal a sacred mystery preserved in the face of rising Christian tyranny. It is a building that encodes its spiritual agenda, in stone, resonance and light.

Peter Mark Adams has lived for thirty years in sight of the Hagia Sophia, and has turned his expertise to decoding the teachings expressed in the sacred architecture, materials, light and geometries of this remarkable and compelling edifice. He writes, ‘It is possessed of its own distinctive atmosphere, a frisson or feeling-tone at once sublime but at the same time, quite alien; and it was this, this indisputable phenomenologically attested sense of the extraordinary occluded beneath the accretions of its various identities, that bid me commence the present project; that of exploring its metaphysical origins.’

Adams focusses on paring the building back to its original form, as it stood in the sixth century ce. Though now obscured by some 1500 years of appropriation, re-inscription and botched restorations, remarkably, much has been preserved, hidden in plain sight, and from that we can ascertain the metaphysical aims of its architects. Adams transports the reader into the spiritual and esoteric world of Hellenism in Late Antiquity; a world that suffered violent oppression, its metaphysical outlook and spiritual practices criminalised, its practitioners variously exiled, tortured or executed and its texts burned.

The spiritual origins of this tradition originated with Nestorius, the last legitimate Eleusinian Hierophant, and his son, Plutarch of Athens, a priest of Asclepius. Its executor, however, was none other than Plutarch’s daughter, Asclepigenia. Almost unknown today, she was arguably the last and greatest High Priestess of Antiquity, initiating and training some of the greatest intellects of the age – Syrianus, Hermias, Proclus, Ammonius and many others – who came to study within the newly created School of Athens. There they imbibed a performative theurgical spiritual tradition that was, in turn, conveyed to its various offshoots in Asia Minor and the great Hellenistic schools of Alexandria.

For almost a thousand years, Eleusis had been the greatest sanctuary within the ancient world, and its rites the most revered and archaic mysteries of the gods. With its sanctuary destroyed by monks in 395 ce and its rites prescribed by Imperial decree, the holders of the thousand year old initiatory lineage embarked upon a mission to preserve the essential core of its spiritual message.

Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos traces the unfolding of this project over the course of almost two centuries, culminating in the construction of the Hagia Sophia or ‘Holy Wisdom.’ Designed by initiates of the school of Alexandria it encapsulates the metaphysics of spiritual union as taught within the Eleusinian tradition – in defiance of Imperial religious decrees, persecution and oppression – to preserve a true, faithful and timeless narrative of spirituality. Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos interprets the clues left embedded within the building itself; and locates their source and hidden significance, travelling back across the ancient Hellenistic world from Asia Minor to Alexandria and Athens until we arrive at the gates of Eleusis itself.

Part I, The Golden Chain, establishes the metaphysical and spiritual lineage of the building’s designers; a journey that takes us to the school of Athens; a school specifically established to preserve the initiatory lineage of the mysteries of Eleusis. From Athens it traces the golden chain of initiatic succession to Alexandria, and from there to Tralles, Miletus and Aphrodisias in Asia Minor – the last great Ionian centres of Hellenism and rural paganism. Finally, it examines covert Hellenist, Procopius of Caesarea’s  reactions to the building in the sixth century – shortly after the building had been completed. 

Part II, Sacred Landscape / Sacred Architecture, explores the key tenets that govern the sacrality of landscapes and by extension, sacred structures.

Part III, The Immateriality of Stone, reads the visual language of the building itself, both structurally and decoratively; and decodes the clues left for us by its designers 1,500 years ago. 

Part IV, The Return of the Golden Age of Kronos, concludes the quest by unveiling the hidden landscape of the soul encoded and occluded within the building’s structure. This work is, ultimately, about the recovery of a shared spiritual legacy of which the esoteric communities of today are direct spiritual descendants.

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Holy Daimon is the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research. The book provides a clear path to creating communion with one’s holy daimon. The first in a trilogy of works by Frater Acher blending historical insights with practical ritual work.

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Holy Heretics is the third and final volume of the Holy Daimon cycle. Blending occult philosophy, magic and mysticism, Frater Acher guides the reader through the centuries with a series of practical exercises and rites which ultimately restore the powerful Olympic spirits to their original magical context.

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Jinn Sorcery by Rain Al-Alim is a compilation of jinn conjurations and rituals translated from rare Arabic manuscripts in the author’s private collection.

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Gordon White’s Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos is a book of adventure and encounter, of optimism and healing. It is, explicitly, a magician’s book, a dreaming book, one which aims to fundamentally shift the discourse within the western magical tradition. Gordon explains, ‘the sole preoccupation of this book is exploring and uncovering animism as a dangerous category of European thought.’

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Richard Ward’s Born of Blood and Fire is a study of the origins, history, practices, evolution and influence of the Petwo rite that was pivotal in the Haitian slave revolts and subsequent revolution.

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The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context. The text focusses on the dynamic between John Whiteside ‘Jack’ Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and offers new perspectives on the Babalon and Antichrist Workings.

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The Red Goddess is an ecstatic journey through the history of Babalon, the goddess of Revelation, an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power.

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In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism.

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An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke: The Magical Works of Humphrey Gilbert and John Davis, transcribed from British Library Additional manuscript 36674, edited and introduced by Phil Legard, with supplementary essays by Alexander Cummins, and a foreword by Dan Harms.

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Autumn Richardson’s Ajar To The Night is an exploration of esoteric philosophy through the author’s practice of devotional writing. It focuses upon the doctrine of metempsychosis; cyclical existence in all its forms on earth, universal sentience and the inexorable resurgence of the divine feminine.

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The Brazen Vessel documents the creative, magical union of Alkistis Dimech & Peter Grey from 2008 to 2018.

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The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica, the True Grimoire is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. A coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.

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In Geosophia, the ground-breaking second volume in his Encyclopædia Goetica, Jake Stratton-Kent traces the development of magic from the Greeks to the grimoires, laying bare the necromantic and chthonic roots of goetic ritual.

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In The Testament of Cyprian the Mage, the third volume of his Encyclopædia Goetica, Jake Stratton-Kent explores the implicit mythology of the grimoire spirits and the contexts from which it derives, through an elucidation of the Testament of Solomon and one version of the Iberian Book of Saint Cyprian.

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In Black Abbot · White Magic: Johannes Trithemius and the Angelic Mind, the second volume of the Holy Daimon cycle, Frater Acher focusses on the magical legacy of Johannes Trithemius and gives an understanding of the intent, depth and pragmatism of 15th century mystico-magical practice and of its most engimatic figure.

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A defining text of the new magical renaissance, Gordon White’s Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits addresses the question of who we are now by tracing where we come from, and by drawing out the stories and the spirits that have journeyed and evolved with us.

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Julio Cesar Ody’s Magister Officiorum is an essential text for those who practice Solomonic magic; the result of patient and extensive magical work, this is a record of attainment informed by the Western magical tradition, Espiritismo and Obeah.

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Peter Grey’s Lucifer: Princeps is a seminal study on the origins of Lucifer and the fallen angels mythos, the foundation myth of the Western occult tradition.

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In Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Peter Grey gives a compelling account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences, the core of ritual practice. Dream, lunar and, critically, menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself.

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In The Green Book, Heliophilus shows how to practically confect spagyrical Tinctures, Elixirs, the true Primum Ens, Plant Magisteries and the Quintessence. Also covered are the Plant Stone of Hollandus, the Plant Phoenix, the Quintessence of Blood and the Homunculus. It constitutes a complete programme of practical works from the occult laboratory of a modern day spagyricist.

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Crossed Keys is a chimeric binding of the Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III by Michael Cecchetelli. They are complementary grimoires of the Bibliothèque bleue period, which together comprise a wealth of spells, spirits, lore, talismans and psalm magic.

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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Ifá: A Forest of Mystery is a major study on the cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and divination system of Ifá. The work is a presentation of the first sixteen odù of the corpus of divination verses explained in stories, allegories and proverbs reflecting the practical wisdom of Ifá.

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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire is the companion to Pomba Gira. Together they give the most complete account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec’s Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.

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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila is a significant study on the cult of Pomba Gira, the most comprehensive work in the English language on the Devil’s mistress, whose Brazilian cult has bewitched so many.

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Autumn Richardson’s Ajar To The Night is an exploration of esoteric philosophy through the author’s practice of devotional writing. It focuses upon the doctrine of metempsychosis; cyclical existence in all its forms on earth, universal sentience and the inexorable resurgence of the divine feminine.

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In The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic & Peak Oil, John Michael Greer has written a challenging and radical work, fusing hard science with an adept’s understanding of magic.

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Part magical diary, part dreamscape, part Situationist dérive through the landscape, Tara Morgana is an enigmatic record of ritual practice from the poet, Paul Holman. Splintered by a sequence of photographic images: glimpsed spirit portraits, apparitions captured in the play and decay of light, Tara Morgana is a truly esoteric and numinous text, a beautifully realised work that leads us on two parallel journeys of poetry and image.

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Seeking Faust is a wild, ribald, and irreverent ride through the realms of conjuring and alchemy, by the poet Dale Pendell.

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Reasonances is an anthology of selected essays, lectures and interviews by occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson. A subversive, creative, psychedelic collection of 23 texts from 2003–2013.

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The companion volume to Datura, comprising the works of 48 poets and nine extensive essays on the nature of the strange, mad, chymical wedding of poet and magic.

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Edited by Ruby Sara, Datura: Explorations in esoteric poesis collects the work of 26 leading poets from the occult and pagan communities, accompanied by six essays on the agony and ecstasy of the creative process.