Month: January 2017

dark-occult-books:

THE TRUE GRIMOIRE: Encyclopedia Goetica Vol. I, by Jake Stratton-Kent (2009) The small Green Butterfly letterpress print came with each copy.
One of my first and favourite releases from Scarlet Imprint.
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CONTENTS
Part I
INTRODUCTION
1/The Importance of the True Grimoire
2/Goetia & Sigils
3/The Context of the Grimoire
4/The Art Armadel
Part II
THE TRUE GRIMOIRE
1/Introduction
2/Preamble
3/The First Part
4/The Second Part
5/The Third Part
6/The Cabala of the Green Butterfly
Part III
NOTES TO THE GRIMOIRE
1/Notes on the First Part
2/Who are the Spirits?
3/A Unified Hierarchy of Goetic Spirits
4/Notes on the Second Part
5/Comment on the Second Part
6/On Constructing Verum Spells
7/Notes on the Third Part
8/The Ritual Procedure of the Grimoire
9/Planetary Days & Hours
Part IV
APPENDICES
1/The Spirits of the Seven Days
2/On the Cabala of the Green Butterfly
3/The Cabala of the Black Pullet
4/Aśtaroth, Lady of the Crossroads
5/Goetia & the New World
6/Verum and the Brazilian Cult of Quimbanda
POSTSCRIPT
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

illsbriones:

V. The Heirophant

Submission for a group exhibit at this upcoming local con.  I along with 77 other artists were assigned tarot cards for this collaborative project. 

The Hierophant was the card given to me, decided to do my own spin at it. Took awhile to get the colors the way I wanted them, but the end result was definitely satisfying

The Daemon, as Shaitan, is literally ‘the Adversary’ – the Reverse One. He is the Image of the First God, manifest in double-form, as both the Black Man standing at the Crossroads of all Existence and as Melek Ta’us – the Peacock Angel, Sovereign of the World’s Djinn. As the ‘Black Man’ he is the anthropomorphic ‘Body’ of Darkness, the Lord of the Sabbat, the Overseer of the Primal Rite of Magick. In this form he embodies Death as the Gateway to the Other. In assuming the god-form of Al-Aswad – the Man-in-Black – the Adept places himself upon the interstitial ‘Point’ of the crossroads and thus within ‘Death’: the singular inbetweenness ‘twixt every Stasis of Being. He thus becomes the embodiment of the Gate at the centre of the cross-roads, the Portal where-by Power has ingress to the World of Manifestation and through which the Seeker must pass in order to transcend the ‘Form’ of the Manifest.

Andrew Chumbley, Qutub  p. 44 (via ophidiansabbat)

scrollofthoth:

The Gutter Bible: Gateway to Emergent Magick

Now Available At:

Amazon

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What is received…

Found in Midtown Manhattan on June 21st, 2010, the Gutter Bible opens a doorway to entities beyond our scope of understanding. This book includes an exact reproduction of a true grimoire created in the modern age. A journal produced by a mind with a direct link to alien consciousness more real than any medieval constructions or author’s fancy.

Must still be earned…

Psychonauts of The Order of Emergent Magi have plumbed the depths of the Gutter Bible and returned with a unique magical system. Unlike previous magical paradigms, all of its revelations are the direct result of ritual. Emergent Magick (EMK) takes form through the essence of magick itself.

Scroll of Thoth Press

Scroll of Thoth presents the work of unique and talented practicing magicians, unlike anything produced by other publishers. We are honored to have the Gutter Bible as our first offering, and take pride in preserving this irreplaceable magical tome.

amntenofre:

votive amulet (egyptian alabaster and bronze alloy, H.3,12cm) of an ibis, sacred to the God Thoth, with a gilded bronze Maat feather.
ca. 712–30 BCE; now in the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum…

Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues by Jake Stratton-Kent

Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues by Jake Stratton-Kent

iseesigils:

PANDEMONIUM by Jake Stratton-Kent is truly a first of its kind, and a necessity for the further development of traditional magic in a modern context. While not intended to be the last word, it opens up territory that demands further examination. It starts with the first English translation of a major spirit catalogue and ends with an appendix redefining ‘traditional’ grimoirists. Sandwiched between these is a comparative survey of several important spirit catalogues, which is much more than ‘a dictionary of demons’. Totally geared to emergent practice, leading us away from the prevalent focus on ‘tools and rules’, authors and manuscripts, towards a developing relationship with the dramatis personæ essential to the whole tradition.

In PANDEMONIUM Jake Stratton-Kent offers a comparative study of the spirits of Le Livre des Esperitz, the Grand Grimoire, the Book of Offices, the German Honorius, Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, the Goetia of Solomon, Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft, and more. In doing so he explores the Trinitas, the spirits of the seven days, the spirit council, the four Kings, eighteen-ness, the Long Text Group, and ghosts in the machine.

This is a book about grimoire spirits, and the main view at all times is to clarify the important personalities, their roles and inter-relations, rather than simply focus on relevant historical texts with their dates, authors and impedimenta. To achieve these goals, various technical aspects will only be detailed as sub-topics. These digressions will be interrupted frequently by ‘spirit biographies’ to keep on track. It’s quite dense stuff; be prepared to make more than one pass.

While trying to steer away from the books, somehow or other though, their aesthetic remains useful in talking about the spirits concerned. Hence, many tables. The first table compresses into a contained visual form the various aspects of a large submerged territory to be explored in these chapters. It will be the first of many tables and precedes various discussions of convergent and divergent subjects. It is a table about books, to introduce many tables about spirits. The connecting element with these books and various others to be discussed is the dramatis personæ, which exist independently, at least in inter- and extra-textual form, and require a discussion unto themselves.

scrollofthoth:

I’m not even lyin’ about it. Old Frater Threskiornis wants to buy the luscious definitive editions by Nine Inch Nails for his new record player. So how about a three card reading to find out what’s up for the new year?

Go to http://scrollofthoth.com/tarot-readings/ to find out how.

If you want to buy me one of the definitive edition albums at https://store.nin.com/collections/music I’ll give you a tarot reading every month for all of 2017. Contact me here http://scrollofthoth.com/contact/ for that arrangement.

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