Category: Occult

By Andrea Perron

Roger and Carolyn Perron bought the house in their desires and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold property, positioned simply past the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island appeared the idyllic environment within which to elevate a kinfolk. The couple unwittingly moved their 5 younger daughters into the traditional and mysterious farmhouse. secrets and techniques have been saved after which printed inside an area shared by means of mortal and immortal alike. Time without warning grew to become beside the point; fractured by way of spirits making their presence recognized then dispersing into the ether. the home is a portal to the previous and a passage to the long run. this can be a sacred tale of non secular enlightenment, instructed a few thirty years accordingly. The family members is now a bit much less reticent to disclose a closely-guarded event. Their odyssey is chronicled by means of the eldest sibling and is an unabridged account of a supernatural expedition. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated this haunting in a futile try to intrude on their behalf. they think about the Perron family members saga to be probably the most compelling and demanding of a famously ghost-storied occupation as paranormal researchers. in the course of a séance long gone horribly flawed, they unleashed an unholy hostess; the spirit referred to as Bathsheba . . . a God-forsaken soul. Perceiving herself to be mistress of the home, she didn't enjoy the contest. Carolyn had lengthy been lower than siege; overt threats issued within the kind of hearth . . . a mother's maximum worry. It remodeled the girl in unbelievable methods. After approximately a decade the family members left a as soon as loved domestic at the back of even though it's going to by no means go away them, as every one continues to be haunted through a reminiscence. This story is an inspiring testomony to the resilience of the human spirit on a pathway of discovery: an everlasting trip for the residing and the lifeless

By Richard Kieckhefer

Preserved within the Bavarian nation Library in Munich is a manuscript that few students have spotted and that not anyone nowa days has handled with the seriousness it merits. Forbidden Rites involves an version of this medieval Latin textual content with a whole statement, together with precise research of the textual content and its contents, dialogue of the historic context, translation of consultant sections of the textual content, and comparability with different necromantic texts of the past due heart a while. the result's the main vibrant and readable advent to medieval magic now on hand.

Like many medieval texts for using magicians, this guide is a miscellany instead of a scientific treatise. it really is extraordinary, notwithstanding, within the scope and diversity of its contents—prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, tactics regarding astral magic, a list of spirits, long ceremonies for consecrating a publication of magic, and different fabrics.

With extra aspect on specific experiments than the well-known thirteenth-century Picatrix and extra style than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the handbook is among the finest and critical manuscripts of medieval magic that has but come to light.

By Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Western esotericism has now emerged as an instructional learn in its personal correct, combining spirituality with an empirical statement of the flora and fauna whereas additionally referring to the humanity to the universe via a harmonious celestial order. This creation to the Western esoteric traditions bargains a concise evaluate in their historic development.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores those traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism within the early Christian period as much as their reverberations in cutting-edge medical paradigms. whereas the learn of Western esotericism is mostly constrained to the historical past of principles, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon even more widely. He demonstrates that, faraway from being a strictly highbrow flow, the unfold of esotericism owes very much to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic tradition, for instance, the empire of Alexander the good, which stretched throughout Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a blending of japanese and Western cultures. because the Greeks absorbed rules from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave upward thrust to the 1st esoteric movements.

From the past due 16th to the eighteenth centuries, post-Reformation spirituality chanced on expression in theosophy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. equally, within the smooth period, dissatisfaction with the hegemony of technological know-how in Western tradition and a scarcity of religion in conventional Christianity led thinkers like Madame Blavatsky to appear East for non secular thought. Goodrick-Clarke extra examines smooth esoteric notion within the mild of recent clinical and scientific paradigms in addition to the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This booklet strains the whole heritage of those routine and is the definitive account of Western esotericism.

By Aleister Crowley

Now a vintage within the box, utilized by scholars of the Golden sunrise in addition to by means of those that are looking to comprehend Crowley's tarot. this can be the definitive research of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western secret disciplines. colour plates of 8 cards.

By Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum - Stranglehold

Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a marriage get together in Plymouth, N.H., and she or he thinks he's a guy she might develop to like. Arthur sees issues otherwise. In Lydia, he sees one of these girl humans continuously are looking to defend. He makes a decision he's going to teach her "she wouldn't regularly be protected."

A historical past of the function that the occult has performed within the formation of recent technological know-how and drugs, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a big effect on our realizing of the western esoteric culture. superbly illustrated, it continues to be a kind of infrequent works of scholarship which the overall reader easily can't have the funds for to disregard.

By Israel Regardie

Israel Regardie wrote The Tree of Life, a publication many reflect on his magnum opus, in 1932. It has persisted to promote for many years. And no ask yourself. Up until eventually the time this publication used to be released, little or no information regarding real excessive magic was once on hand to the general public.

In this ebook, Regardie unearths the secrets and techniques of actual magic. He starts with an evidence of what magic is and, simply as importantly, what magic isn't really. He explains that it's a non secular research and perform which, besides kinds of yoga, kinds the 2 branches of the tree that's mysticism. Magic isn't being a medium or a psychic. Then he explains the instruments of the magician, what they suggest, and the way to exploit them. He explains the suggestions of evocation and invocation, skrying, and astral shuttle. He indicates how the Qabalah unites every little thing. He even provides an outline of the secrets and techniques of sexual magick. All of this is often in a transparent, lucid writing variety. This booklet is just a needs to for someone who's, or aspires to be, a true magician.

Although stylish and Sandra Tabatha Cicero have been acquaintances of Regardie and are Senior Adepts of the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise, what adjustments may well they've got made to this vintage ebook? good, they did switch the spelling from British kind to American. and so they did switch his transliterations of Hebrew into the extra renowned kind he utilized in his later books. yet not anything very important used to be replaced or got rid of. every thing else they additional used to be complementary to the textual content that was once there. And what great additions they're! broad annotations all through each bankruptcy; over a hundred illustrations; extra descriptive contents pages; a thesaurus, a bibliography and an index. they have even additional a biographical observe on Regardie and the significance of this publication to him and to the occult global.

This booklet includes the various best occult writing that has ever been produced. And with the hot fabric through the Ciceros, it turns into essential for any magician!

By Robert Anton Wilson, Israel Regardie, David Cherubim

Advent by way of Robert Anton Wilson
Preface by way of David Cherubim
this is often the masterful biography of the Magus Aleister Crowley, written by means of the only individual so much certified to put in writing it. Israel Regardie used to be a chum and pupil of Crowley, and served as his own secretary for a while. during this booklet, Regardie manages to write down a good and balanced view of Crowley. it really is an clever and insightful investigate Crowley's existence, Magick and Mysticism. Dr. Regardie translates all this from the knowledge of expertise. A member of the Golden sunrise, O.T.O. and A.A., Regardie writes with deep perception and compassion, brazenly revealing his personal emotions, and hence offering a different perception into Crowley. This publication is the vintage biography of Crowley!

By Maury Terry

Booklet via Terry, Maury