Dear friends,

As we approach the solstice, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your support throughout the year. 2024 has been intense, sometimes difficult sometimes wonderful. Our creative and magical practice has sustained us through it all.

Our first title of the year was Mark Nemglan’s Avalon Working, in which the author restores a deep initiatic magic to Glastonbury and its sacred landscape. Mark’s discussion of his work and the rituals and spirits associated with the Holy Island on Darragh Mason’s Spirit Box podcast is well worth a listen.

Ayis Lertas’s cryptic Arriton was our second title, and our second mutus liber with the artist following the riotous demonarchy of 2018’s 72. With Arriton Ayis has conjured the still potent remnants of a forgotten civilisation, evoking a plethora of esoteric idioms from the magical papyri to gnostic figures to the calligraphies of the Near and Far East. The wonderful review by Mark Hewitt on Paralibrum captures the arcane nature of the work and indicates ways into its strange labyrinth, as well as the rewards from extended contemplation of its pages.

Finally, we closed the year with the first volume of Christophe Poncet’s groundbreaking The Tarot of Marsilio. The depth and brilliance of Christophe’s research into the origins of the Tarot de Marseille reveals the deck as a work of esoteric philosophy hidden in plain sight. In an extensive review, Peter Mark Adams – whose own work on the Sola Busca tarocchi is equally innovative –writes, “this opus is destined to be one of the seminal works of modern tarot scholarship and to be an essential addition to the library of all who are interested in the origins, history, iconography and iconology of the historical tarot.”

Looking ahead to our publications for the coming year, we have decided to delay opening the pre-order for Lucifer: Praxis, as we are running behind schedule and need to take a couple of weeks over Yule to recover. Praxis will be our first title of 2025. At the same time we will issue a second hardback edition of Lucifer: Princeps.

If you are looking for something to read over the festive season, Peter’s Substack – The Adder in the Churchyard Wall – is the home of his writing online.

Frater Acher’s Collectanea Goetica, will bring together in two volumes his goetic texts, previously issued in very limited editions or unpublished: Clavis Goetica, Goetic Atavisms, Goetic Grammarye, Goetic Commonsense, and Goetic Deviance/Defiance, with a new foreword. These works represent the evolution of a contemporary goetic practice, following the example of Jake Stratton-Kent.

Sussex Coils and Loops by Paul Holman is our second title with the poet, following Tara Morgana (2014). Holman’s work documents a series of ritual actions performed at sites associated with serpent and dragon legends in Sussex from the winter solstice of 2017 until the summer solstice of 2022.

Modern Green Gnosis by Anastasha Verde is shaped by her decades of work in the plant ecological sciences, magic and witchcraft. Answering the need for an approach grounded in animism, Verde opens a new path that elevates human and plant partners and their allies alike, and leads us to a profound green gnosis and a living botanical praxis.

Evil: A Study in Lost Techniques by philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a mapping of evil in its minor prisms of fascination through an infinitely complex set of micro-techniques. A rare work of sustained intensity.

Volume II of Christophe Poncet’s The Tarot of Marsilio – Higher takes us further into Poncet’s inquiry into the origins of the Tarot de Marseille, looking at the fourteen remaining arcana, comparing them with images of the period, and analysing them in the light of the works of Marsilio Ficino and his contemporaries.

We hope that you have enjoyed all our offerings in 2024, and that these enduring treasures in your library will continue to bring you knowledge and inspiration.

Our warmest wishes for the solstice and the New Year,

Peter and Alkistis