Books on Magic, Prophecy, Astrology, Western Geomancy, etc :
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The Grimoire of St. Cyprian - Clavis Inferni
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
***LIMITED EDITION 200 Copies***
The Grimoire of St. Cyprian - There have been many grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his conversion to Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as the present manuscript.
This unique manuscript (unlike the more rustic examples attributed to St Cyprian of the Black Books of Wittenburg as found in Scandinavia, or the texts disseminated under his name in Spain and Portugal) is directly in line with the Solomonic tradition, and therefore relevant to our present series of Sourceworks of the Ceremonial Magic.
It is unique in that instead of being weighed down with many prayers and conjurations it addresses the summoning and use of both the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The later are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a resource unique amongst grimoires.
The text is in a mixture of three magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) with many contractions and shortforms, but expanded and made plain by the editors. The title of the manuscript, Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, literally means ‘The Key of Hell with white and black magic as proven by Metatron’.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9557387-1-5
* Price : £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed
* Pages : 96 pages, 176mm x 250mm, 11 full colour illustrations, 1 table
* Published November 2009
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LIMITED EDITION
of 100 half leather hand bound
numbered & signed Copies
96 pages, 176mm x 250mm
Price £72.00 P&P of £10.00
ISBN: 978-0-9557387-4-6
Byzantine Magic: Michael Psellus on the Operation of Dæmons
Marcus Collisson. Introduced by Stephen Skinner
Michael Constantine Psellus (1018 – 1178 C.E) was one of the most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its intellectual legacies helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that released a tide of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe, particularly Venice. With them came much of the magical and Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn had inherited from the Egyptians. The Key of Solomon was one such text. It is therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts that one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the ancient world, Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire conception of the nature of daemons.
Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus’ career was an illustrious and practical one, serving as a political advisor to a succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in the transition of power between various monarchs. He became the leading professor at the newly founded University of Constantinople, bearing the honourary title, ‘Consul of the Philosophers’. He was the driving force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasize the Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus is credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music, theology, jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9557387-2-2
* Price : £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
* Pages : 100 pages, 176mm x 250mm
* Publication : September 2009
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Stephen Skinner
***New***
Geomancy - divination by earth - ranks alongside the tarot, astrology and the I Ching as a major form of divination. Since the Renaissance it has largely fallen out of favour for want of generally available information on its practice. This is the first and most comprehensive book in English to cover the full historical background and practice of divinatory geomancy, and will therefore be invaluable to all those interested in divination, magic and astrology. It is the only complete history in any language, covering geomancy's various manifestations in different cultures, as well as being a practical manual showing how to cast and interpret geomantic figures.
Drawing on material from Latin, French, German and Arabic manuscript and book sources, Stephen Skinner explores the roots of geomancy in the Islamic raml divination of northern Africa, which lead to Fa, Ifa and voodoo divinatory practices on the West Coast and sikidy in Madagascar. He examines the impact Islamic geomancy had on medieval Europe, where it rose to prominence and became, after astrology, the prime method of divination. It even resulted in the creation of an amazingly complex brass 12th century geomancy calculator. The part it played in Renaissance thinking and in the great astrological revival of the nineteenth century is followed by an examination of its use in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its declining influence in the twentieth century only to be revived again in the last decade. This western geomancy is not, and has nothing to do with, feng shui.
The second section of the book is concerned with the practice, manipulation and generation of geomantic figures as standardized in Europe, and gives practical examples as a guide to the interpretation and practice of the art. Also covers astro-geomany which relates astrology and geomancy as shown in the cover picture.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9557387-0-8
* Price : £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
* Pages : 384 pages, 176mm x 250mm, 14 illustrations, many diagrams, 10 tables
* Publication : November 2009
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Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
Colour Version Trade Version
** three entirely new versions of the Key of Solomon in one volume, never before published **
NB: there are TWO editions of this book. Both with 448 pages, and the same text content:
1. A version with all the pentacles in full colour as in the original manuscript, hand bound in half leather and buckram, with marbled endpapers and hand gold stamped, limited to only 350 numbered and signed copies which is published by Golden Hoard Press. The is the most beautiful and detailed grimoire ever published. With detailed introduction by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine. This edition will only be available for purchase online. This is a book that every practicing magician must have.
The source is two French manuscripts scribed for a French aristocrat in 1796. This is not the earliest, but it is the most detailed version of the Key of Solomon. The book contains three separate versions of the Keys, in order to cover as much of the material as possible. It is much more complete than the Mathers edition Commentary on all the manuscripts including illustrations from the earlier Greek manuscripts of the Key of Solomon.
2. A black and white 448 pages hardback trade edition published by Llewellyn 978-0-7387-1453-0. It has the same content, without the colour or the leather binding.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-8-5
* Price : £96.00 (Approx US$150.00) plus FREE P&P in its very own protective document case
* Pages : 448 pages, 176mm x 250mm
* Published : September 2008
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Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
The Goetia is the most famous grimoire after the Key of Solomon. This volume contains a transcription of a hitherto unpublished manuscript of the Lemegeton which includes four whole complete grimoires:
Liber Malorum Spituum seu Goetia
Theurgia-Goetia
Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2)
Ars Almadel
This manuscript was owned by Dr Thomas Rudd, a practicing scholar-magician of the early seventeenth century. There are many editions of the Goetia, of which the most definitive is that of Joseph Peterson, but here we are interested in how the Goetia was actually used by practising magicians in the 16th and 17th century, before the knowledge of practical magic faded into obscurity.
Many practical techniques used in the past have since been forgotten. The authors restore these using Dr. Rudd's manuscript. For example, to evoke the 72 demons listed here without the ability to bind them would be foolhardy indeed. It was well known in times past that invocatio and ligatio, or binding, was a key part of evocation, but in the modern editions of the Goetia this key technique is expressed in just one word ‘Shemhamphorash’, and its use is not explained.
This volume explains how the 72 angels of the Shemhamphorash are used to bind the spirits, and the correct procedure for safely invoking them using dual seals incorporating the necessary controlling Shem angel, whose name is also engraved on the breastplate and Brass Vessel.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-2-3
ORDINARY EDITION COMPLETELY SOLD OUT
BUT LIMITED FULL BONDED LEATHER EDITION STILL AVAILABLE
Normal price £128.00
Special Reduced Price Now only £96.00 (approx US$150.00)
plus FREE P&P in its very own protective document case
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The Complete Magician's Tables
The Complete Magician's Tables These
more than 800
magical tables are the most complete set of
tabular correspondences covering magic, astrology,
divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels,
demons, pagan pantheons, religious and mystical
correspondences ever printed. They are more than
four times larger and more wide ranging than Crowley’s Liber 777.
The source of the data in these tables ranges from unpublished manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano, Abbott Trithemius, Albertus Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers (and the editors of Mathers’ work, Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie), to the most modern theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the Lemegeton (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the 20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon.
All this material has been grouped and presented in a consistent and logical way covering the whole Western Mystery tradition and some relevant parts of the Eastern tradition.
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Partial List of Contents
Alchemy and Alchemists Angels: Biblical and Gnostic Astrology: Zodiac, Planets, Decans, Mansions Fixed Stars and Constellations Buddhist Meditation Colour Scales Demons Dr John Dee’s Angels Emblems Feng Shui and Taoist Magic Gematria Geomancy Grimoires Herbs Isopsephy Kabbalah |
Letters, Alphabets & Numbers Magic and Sorcery Natural Magic: Plants, Stones Orders, Grades and Officers Pagan Pantheons Perfumes & Incenses Planetary & Olympic Spirits Questing and Chivalry Sacred Geometry Tarot Timeline: Magicians, Kabbalists, Alchemists, Astrologers, Knights Templar Vedic and Hindu Meditation and Magic Wheel of the Year: Hours, Months, Seasons, Festivals Yi Jing / I Ching
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* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press, Llewellyn (US)
* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-7-8 / 978-0-9547639-7-1
* Price : ORDINARY EDITION £30.00 (Approx US$45.00)
LIMITED EDITION £96.00 (Approx US$150.00)
* Pages : 432 pages, 16 illustrations, hardback with dust wrapper
* Published : May 2007
Available in
US bookshops
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ORDINARY EDITION
£30.00
plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed
in its
very own protective document case
LIMITED EDITION FULL BONDED LEATHER
£96.00 plus FREE P&P in its very own protective document case
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The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dees's Enochian Tables
Tabula Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
Prediction Magazine awarded this book 'Book of the Month' in July 2005
From two previously unpublished 17th century manuscripts on Angel Magic, with instructions for their use as used by Wynn Westcott, Alan Bennett, Rev. Ayton, F L Gardiner and other early members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The authors have discovered what happened to John Dee's most important manuscript, his book of personal angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed by 17th century magicians into a full working magical system. How only a small part of this material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880's. Even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, and it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals.
They have also traced how the classical techniques of invocation and evocation drawn from late mediaeval grimoires, were passed through John Dee's magic, via Elias Ashmole, to the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, including some of the most powerful and influential figures in England.
In the 20th century many fanciful constructions were added to GD Enochian by writers such as Aleister Crowley, who were however all unaware of the completely developed system that already existed, and which is here published in full for the first time.
Full transcription of 4 key magical manuscript in the British Library, and in the Bodleian Library. The 17th century summation of John Dee's works.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-0-9
* Price : £35.00 (Approx US$56.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
* Pages : 292 pages, hardback with dust wrapper, 5 illustrations
* Published : 2004
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The Keys to the Gateway of Magic:
Summoning the Solomonic Archangels and Demon Princes
Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
This work includes the complete unabridged version with variants of The Nine Great Keys, a vital early 17th century manuscript detailing the evocation of the Archangels and the Nine Orders of Angels. The practical techniques of summoning the Archangels, details of the hierarchies of spiritual beings, and how the Enochian system fits in with the Angelic and Demonic hierarchies are all covered, as well as the theology and philosophy associated with Angelic magic, giving the context that the pioneers of Angel magic were working within.
Additionally the evocation of the four Demon Princes and their role within the system of magic which can now be seen to cover all spiritual creatures from Archangels to Demons to Olympic Spirits and Elementals is also presented in detail with rare manuscript material being made available for the first time. Amongst the rare material is a previously unknown and beautifully illustrated text dealing excusively with the Demon Princes.
* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press
* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-1-6
* Price : £35.00 (Approx US$56.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
* Pages : 255 pages, hardback with dust wrapper, 20 illustrations
* Published : 2005
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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
Stephen Skinner
A book that ties together many of the strands of Sacred Geometry and disperses many New Age myths that have grown up round this subject, getting back to the actual geometry in each case.
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Contents
PART 1 THE HIDDEN ORDER
1 WHAT IS SACRED? Temples, places of worship and gateways to other worlds
2 WHY GEOMETRY? Magic numbers and sacred spaces. Night sky, time, seasons. Music, vibration and number. Prime numbers, fractions and decimals Measuring the Earth. Arithmetic of growth
3 PURE GEOMETRY Why geometry is sacred. Squaring the circle. Curves and logarithmic spirals. The five Platonic solids. The thirteen Archimedean solids. Mandelbrot, fractals and chaotic repetition. Time cycles: geometry for prediction.
PART 2 THE GEOMETRY OF NATURE
4 LIFE'S GEOMETRY Geometry of Earth's magnetic field. Crystal structure. Fibonacci series in nature. |
Living spirals: nautilus and ammonite. Living water, snow flakes. Meandering rivers/flow and turbulence. Geometry of genetics.
5 GEOMETRY IN ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY Key sky markers. Orbits of planets and Platonic solids. Mapping the world.
6 GEOMETRY AND LANDSCAPE The Sacred Four Quarters. Natural energy in landscape. Ley-lines. Real feng shui at work. Crop circles.
PART 3 THE MAN-MADE WORLD
7 GEOMETRY OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE Engineering sacred space . Astronomical orientation.
8 SACRED GEOMETRY IN ART Mandalas Pagan images in Renaissance paintings. Composition and perspective in sacred paintings. Pousson's coded symbolism. Da Vinci's use of geometry. |
- * Publisher : Gaia / Hamlyn (UK)/ Sterling (US)
- * ISBN : 1856752623
- * Price : US$24.95 / £16.99
- * Pages : 160 pages
- * Illustrations : Profusely illustrated with many intriguing illustrations. Full colour throughout.
- * Published : November 2006
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Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Edited and Introduced by Stephen Skinner (the only complete edition in English)
Modern Text Edition 2005 First Facsimile Edition 1978*
Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy actually contains 6 complete and separate books. This book contains two of the most important texts on the practice of evocation:
Of Magical Ceremonies – Henry Cornelius Agrippa [contains several of the real keys to practical evocation]
Heptameron : or, Magical Elements – Peter de Abano [a classic and very effective grimoire]
Of the Nature of such Spirits – Georg Villinganus
Arbatel of Magick: Of the Magick of the Ancients
Of Geomancy – Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Of Astronomical Geomancy – Gerard Cremonensis
* Publisher : Askin / Nicolas Hayes / Ibis Press
* ISBN : 0892541008
* Price : US$40.00
* Pages : 224 pages
* Published : First complete edition reset in modern type with Commentary and Notes by Stephen Skinner in 2005
You can also order now on www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
[*Stephen originally published the first facsimile edition through Askin Publishers in 1978]
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The Archidoxes of Magic - Paracelsus
Introduction by Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Nicolas Hayes
* ISBN : 0892540974
* Price : US$16.95
* Pages : 192 pages
* Published : 2005
You can order now on www.amazon.com
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Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley - The Tunis period
Edited by Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Neville Spearman / Red Wheel Weiser
* ISBN : 0877288569
* Price : US$16.95
* Pages : 272 pages
* Published : 1996
The Tunis Diaries of Aleister Crowley, edited by Stephen Skinner. These provide a detailed insight to Crowley's day to day life in North Africa after he left the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu.
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Nostradamus - The Prophecies of Nostradamus
Stephen Skinner & Francis King
* Publisher : Carlton Books (and many other publishers)
* ISBN : 185868014X
* Price :
* Pages : 176 pages with more than 250 full colour photos
* Published : 1993
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Millennium Prophecies : Predictions for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Carlton Books
* ISBN : 1858680344 / 1852275456
* Price :
* Pages : 160 pages with more than 250 full colour photos
* Published : 1994
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Stephen Skinner & Francis King
Original UK Edition US Edition UK Edition US Edition US Edition
* Publisher : Inner Traditions (US) / Affinity Publishers (UK)
* ISBN : 08928135004 (US) / 190157009 (UK)
* Price : £9.95
* Pages : 228 pages with many line illustrations
* Published : 1976, 1997, 2005, etc
A Classic and influential text book of Golden Dawn style high magic.
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Divination by Geomancy : Terrestrial Astrology
Stephen Skinner
** NEW EXPANDED EDITION DUE OUT SOON ** as
Geomancy in Theory & Practice
* Publisher : RKP/ Golden Hoard
* ISBN : 0710005539
* Price : £18.00
* Pages : 293 pages (new edition 336 pages)
* Published : 1980
The primary scholarly source for the study of the history and practice of Western divinatory geomancy.
[Out of print but due to be reprinted by Golden Hoard Press in 2010]
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Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Warner Destiny / Prism
* ISBN : 0446894737 / 0907061826
* Price : £6.95
* Pages : 400 pages
* Published : 1977, 1986
A popular book on Western geomancy with look up tables for typical questions.
[Out of print]
[Rights available for republication]
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Stephen Skinner & Neville Drury
* Publisher : Neville Spearman
* ISBN : 854353216
* Price : £2.50
* Pages : 138 pages with 20 illustrations
* Published : 1972
[Out of print]
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Lapidus (David Curwen) & Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Neville Spearman
* ISBN : 0854350438
* Price : £88.00
* Pages : 176 pages
* Published : 1976
A classic of physical antimony based alchemy written in collaboration with one of the greatest of England's last remaining laboratory oriented alchemists, who knew and corresponded with Aleister Crowley. Israel Regardie was also experimenting with antimony along the same lines.
[SOON TO BE REPUBLISHED]
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Stephen Skinner
* Publisher : Neville Spearman
* ISBN : 0859780015
* Price : £35.50
* Pages : 244 pages
* Published : 1974
The first ever edition of Crowley's astrological writings edited by Stephen Skinner.
[Out of print]
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Foreign Editions:
Stephen Skinner’s books have been published in English (separate editions appearing in UK, US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Singapore, etc), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Dutch, Czechoslovakian, Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, etc. A small selection of these appears below :
