Secret Societies of All Ages
Mar / 04 / 2010 / 06:57
by Charles William Heckethorn, 1965Originally published in 1875, this is a beautiful 2-volume edition of the classic encyclopedic Compendium of legend, lore, and knowledge abou the secret societies of the world.
This monumental work covers the subject like no other, and has long been considered THE authoritative text on Secret Societies. Subjects discussed in these volumes include Nature of Secret Societies, Religious Secret Societies, Causes of High Mental Development, The True Doctrines of Nature and Being, Fundamental Principles of True Knowledge Possessed by the Ancients, Key to Mystic Teaching, Mystic Teaching Summarized, Original Spirit of the Mysteries, the Most Ancient Secret Society, Ancient Mysteries, The Magi, Zoroaster, the Mysteries of Mithras, Rites of Initiation, Secret Doctrines, Egyptian Mysteries, Exoteric and Esoteric Doctrines, Places of Initiation, Mysteries of Serapis and Osiris, Crata Repoa or Highest Degree of Egyptian Initiation, the Gate of Death, the Battle of the Shades, Sabazian Mysteries, Mysteries of the Cabiri, Eleusinian Mysteries, Chinese and Japanese Mysteries, Chinese Metaphysics, Japanese Doctrines, Mexican and Peruvian Mysteries, The Greater Mysteries, Human Sacrifices, The Druids, Druid Rites and Doctrines, The Cabbala, Sons of the Widow, The Gnostics, The Essenes, Christian Initiations, Christian Mysteries,The Apocalypse, Ishmaelites, The Lodge of Wisdom, The Assassins, Degrees of the Order, Modern Assassins, The Druses, The Dervishes, the Luciferians, Origin of Devil-Worship, The Templars, Mysteries of the Knights Templar, Mystics, Alchymists, Jacob Bohme, Illuminati of Avignon, Rosicrucians, Rosicrucian Rituals and Ceremonies, the Asiatic Brethren, The Thugs, Worship and Initiation in the Thug Cult, The Illuminati, Illuminati Ceremonies of Initiation, Freemasonry, Masonic Initiation Ceremonies, the Mysterious Ladder, the Rites of Misraim and Memphis, Modern Knights Templar, the Philosophical Rite, Egyptian Rite Freemasonry, the Carbonari, the Cambridge Secret Society, Modern Druids, Human Leopards, The Invisibles, and MUCH, Much more!
Both books are in very good condition, clean and solid inside & out. There is also a wide variety of fascinating neat pencil underlinings and notations from a previous owner that make for interesting study. Slipcase has wear and soiling, but is in decent condition.
SOLD for $65.00
Panparadox
Mar / 01 / 2010 / 10:30
By Vexior 218, 2009Anti-cosmic, Chaos-gnostic, Satanic philosophy and mysticism around the misrepresented contemptuous god and black magical Chaos-philosophy. Includes illustrations and rituals.
Pan is the one who ignites the torch of Lucifer, which brings forth the black flame. Pan is the one who creeps up behind, sprinkling gasoline on ones back and flicks sparkling matches at you. Not because for the fact that he hates you, but just to get your attention to get you to wake up and for once, take your existence or subsistence seriously. When you have succeeded with that, then your work as a magician can start, a magician who imposes masterwork in black Chaos magic. For this is what black Chaos magic essentially is all about, to feed ones inner, develop and to transcendent into Chaos. Whether Chaos exists in ones mind, or beyond cosmos is irrelevant at this moment, what is important is ones awareness as a Chaotic individual, a human in black magical possession.
First edition of 677 handnumbered copies. Hardcover book with symbol blocked in silver on the cover, small Octavo. Heavily illustrated with drawings and photos with fullcolour picture plates. 198 pages. Excellent Condition, NEW.
SOLD for $79.00
History of the Devil
Dec / 04 / 2009 / 05:31
by Daniel Defoe, Published by J. Bailey London, 1814Written by the author of Robinson Crusoe,
This is an 1814 edition of History Of The Devil, Ancient and Modern. The book is in Two Parts. The First Part discusses, A State of the Devil's Circumstances, From His Expulsion Out of Heaven, to the Creation; With Remarks on the Several Mistakes Concerning His Fall. The Second Part concerns His More Private Conduct Down to the Present Times; His Government, His Appearances, His Manner of Working, and the Tools He Works With and a Description of the Devil's Dwelling.
12mo, vi + 264 pp. Attractive deep brown leather, gilt title, etc. to spine, raised bands on spine, page edges a bit darkened, minor browning to pages, 1/2 paper flaw through page 13 & 14, otherwise text clean and bright throughout. This book is in excellent condition for its age.
SOLD for $190.00
Kingdoms of Flame
Nov / 29 / 2009 / 06:52
by Archaelus Baron, 2005A Grimoire of Black Magick, Evocation, and Sorcery Kingdoms of Flame is a Grimoire for the evocation of various astral beings and a dark pathworking to adepthood. The first four chapters give a detailed analysis of the text and the magickal system therein. It is in these pages that the reader will be given the knowledge necessary to use the grimoire in practical manner to effect changes in themselves and in the concrete world. The remaining nine chapters include magick squares and the names, sigils and attributes of 56 entities that have never before appeared in any grimoire or text.
First edition of 200 copies. Hardbound in black cloth, embossed in silver on the cover. New Condition, crisp and perfectly clean. 124 pages.
Collectors Item : Limited Edition
SOLD for $350.00
Witches, Demons, and Fertility Magic
Nov / 14 / 2009 / 05:30
by Arne Runeberg, 1947Analysis Of Their Significance And Mutual Relations In West European Folk Religion. (Societas Scientiarum Fennica Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum XIV 4). An interesting study in four parts: I: The Historical Development of Western European Witchcraft, II: Western European Witchcraft Compared With Non-European Parallel Phenomena, Part III Witches and Other Demoniacal Beings in West-European Folk Beleif, Part IV Witchcraft and Popular Magic, Part V. Seasonal Festivals and Witches' Sabbaths. Appendix. Pyschoanalytic Interpretation of European Bronze Age Religion. Magick, Ritual, Fertility rites, sex, sexual magic, Esoteric, Ceremonial Magic, Tarot, Geomancy, Divination, Alchemy, Hermetics, Metaphysics, etc.
First edition. Large 8 vo. 273 pp. Original printed wrappers have been bound in marbled boards with beautiful leather spine. This is an extremely rare book, privately leather bound. Gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Former owner’s name on title page. Overall a very good copy. There is eveidence of old moisture stains to lower right margins of last several pages. This does not affect the text at all and there are no wrinkles or ripples.
SOLD for $400.00
Welsh Witches and Wizards
Nov / 07 / 2009 / 06:13
by Michael Howard, 2009The widespread belief in witches and wizards in Wales reflects a land steeped in legend and myth since ancient times. The witch's power to harm people, livestock, and crops was greatly feared: for this reason country people consulted with so-called 'cunning men' and 'wise women' who had the power to negate their spells with counter-magic. Cunning-folk practitioners were also consulted for love spells, to find lost property or missing persons, exorcise ghosts and banish evil spirits. The figures of of both witch and wizard form part of a broader folk-magic continuity in Wales. This popular belief in witchcraft bears little relation to modern neo-pagan Wicca, and there is little evidence of its linkage to a nature religion based on a pre-Christian fertility cult.
This book describes the historically-attested Welsh practitioners of folk magic and witchcraft -- the Dark Sisters and the Toadmen, the Druids and Wizards, the Cunning Men and Faery Doctors -- and the charms and spells they used. Also examined are surviving pagan beliefs associated with holy wells and the cult of the sacred head, and the mysterious and sometimes sinister 'creatures of the night' such as fairies, lake monsters, dragons, and Black Dogs. It will be of interest to students of the occult and folklore, as well as those who have followed Mr. Howard's fascinating work of the years.
Welsh Witches and Wizards is the first in Michael Howard's much anticipated four-book series on Witchcraft in the British Isles. Deluxe Limited edition of 300 copies. Blue Cloth, Fine Condition.
SOLD for $125.00
The Art of Dreaming
Oct / 30 / 2009 / 10:50
by Carlos Castaneda, 1993In bestsellers like A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda recounted his purported adventures with Mexican Yaqui Indian sorcerer don Juan Matus. Here he tells how, under don Juan's tutelage, he gained control over his dreams and used dreaming as a launching pad to a pervasive but unseen realm of ancestral spiritual forces. He goes through tunnels, enters into the consciousness of trees, meets scouts, emissaries and form-changing blobs of energy.
Aided by don Juan's companions and fellow apprentices, Castaneda penetrates a realm of "inorganic beings" who set traps for him and attack him, as if to illustrate don Juan's teaching that consciousness is compelled to grow through life-or-death confrontations.
Castaneda's quest offers a tantalizing glimpse of alternate worlds beyond the parameters of mundane "reality".
Easton Press Genuine Leather Bound First Edition, PERSONALLY SIGNED by Castaneda, FINE condition - near mint, ribbon bookmark, gold gilt.
Collectors Item : Limited Edition
SOLD for $800.00
A Book of Shadows
Oct / 06 / 2009 / 06:07
by pan.zos pagurus, 2008The compiler of A Book of Shadows, pan.zos pagurus, was initiated into a Witchcraft Coven in England in 1976, and in keeping with tradition copied out his initiators' "Book of Shadows" adding his own embellishments, and magical notes. The result, reproduced here in facsimile, is an authentic and very beautiful grimoire, created by an active practitioner of the craft over thirty years ago. At the time of his initiation pan.zos pagurus was told that the "Book of Shadows" was a traditional work central to "the Craft." During this time he was also deeply drawn into the worlds and work of Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley, whose influence show both in the Spare-inspired "embellishments," and the frequent quotations from their works. Giordano Bruno was another important influence, in particular his treatise De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas), 1582. This is an authentic and unique example of this particular type of ritual workbook, executed with considerable artistry by a genuine practitioner.
New book. Fine Condition. No dustjacket. (None issued) York Beach, Maine USA: The Teitan Press. First Edition Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 7 1/2 inches, approx 25.4 x 19.1cm), 128 pages. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies.
SOLD for $55.00
The Holy Books
Oct / 02 / 2009 / 08:38
by Aleister Crowley, Second Sangreal Printing 1972These "Inspired" writings of Aleister Crowley are compiled into "The Holy Books" for the studious Thelemite.
"The Holy Books" contains all the "Inspired" (presumably by entities outside of Crowley's head) works of Thelema, and a break-down of the writings on "The Stele'of Revealing"--which is integral to the writing of "The Book of The Law").
"The Holy Books of Thelema" is a convenient resource, containing all the information prospective "Thelemites" need to get started on the Thelemic Path.
It has been suggested that a Thelemite should reread this material after each Initiation, to fully comprehend the material.
Great condition - White Hardcover with Gold Lettering, pages flawless.
SOLD for $50.00
The Flowers of Evil
Sep / 14 / 2009 / 11:41
by Charles Baudelaire, Illustrated by Eugene Karlin, 1977A book of dark poetry. Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poemes en prose (1868; Little Prose Poems) was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time.
Known for his highly controversial and often dark poetry, as well as his translations of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire’s life was filled with drama and strife, from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy. Long after his death in 1867 many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice; others see him as being the poet of modern civilization, seeming to speak directly to the 20th century.
Beautiful Topgrain Leather Franklin Library Limited Edition, raised bands, gold gilt, gold trim, and silk ribbon bookmark. FROM "THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME" COLLECTION
MINT condition, New, Never Read.
SOLD for $40.00
Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
Sep / 14 / 2009 / 05:31
Yogi Publication Society, 1974The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907 was originally a trilogy of books published by the occultist, magician, and self-proclaimed prophet of Thelema, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) during his early career as student of magick, and is now considered among his very numerous rarities. The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley reprint, 3 vols. 1974, Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society.
In excellent condition with no signs of wear.
SOLD for $100.00
The Light of Egypt - Science of the Soul and Stars
Sep / 14 / 2009 / 02:42
by Thomas Burgoine for the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. 1889 Front cover adorned by the Seal of the Hermetic Brotherhood. This is a Very Rare and highly sought-after edition of the Occult Grimoire tomes which embodied the core teachings of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, an Occult Esoteric Order which was created around the same time as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Titled The Light of Egypt volumes 1 and 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne, both volumes in one book.
Subjects contained in these Arcane texts include The Science of the Soul, The Realm of Spirit, The Realm of Matter, The Mysteries of Sex, Incarnation and Re-incarnation, The Hermetic Constitution of Man, La Clef Hermetique: the Hermetic Key of Urania's Mysteries, The Cycles and Forces of Creative Life, A Key to the Work of the Abbot Trithemius (whose works were mentioned by the Weird Fiction author H.P. Lovecraft), Naronia-The Mystical Cycle of the Sun, Soul Knowledge (Books I, II & III), The Realities of Life, The Soul-Its Nature and Attributes, Mortality and Immortality, The Dark Satellite, Adeptship: Its Nature and How Attainable, The Science of the Stars, The Basic Principles of Celestial Science, The Influence of the Stellar Force Upon the Human Brain, Alchemy and the Stars, The Alchemical Nature of Man, The Practical Application of the Science of the Stars, Astro-Theology, Symbolism, Alchemy (Parts I & II), Talismans, Ceremonial Magic, The Tablets of Aeth, The Ten Great Powers of the Universe, and Much more!
Water damage to font cover (seen in photo above) - pages unharmed - no water damage to any pages. A few loose page leafs, but those pages are still complete and in tact. Wear to spine, but still firm.
Collectors Item: Very rare antiquarian occult.
SOLD for $145.00
The Book of Ceremonial Magic
Sep / 12 / 2009 / 11:41
by Arthur Edward Waite, 1987Published by Rider and Co. The Secret Tradition in Goetia, including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy. Reprint of the occult classic from 1913 edition of “The Book of Black Magic” as it was originally entitled. With explanations regarding all the well-known grimoires, rituals, and spirits of the art of evocation. Illustrated. Including the literature of ceremonial magic ; antiquity of magical rituals ; the rituals of transcendental magic ; rituals of black magick ; the complete grimoire ; the preparation of the operator ; the initial rites and ceremonies ; concerning the descending hierarchy ; the mysteries of goëtic theurgy according to the lesser key of solomon the king ; concerning the mystery of the sanctum regnum, or the government of evil spirits; being the rite of conjuration according to the grimorium verum ; the mysteries of infernal evocation according to the grand grimoire ; the method of honorius ; miscellaneous and minor processes.
36 + 337pp, 9 plates, illusts. in text, original pictorial cloth gilt, aged and lightly discolored with light soiling on the spine and front color. no dj. Large volume 9¾" - 12"
Collectors Item
SOLD for $85.00
