Magick Matters

“The Tao of Immortality: The Four Healing Arts and the Nine Levels of Alchemy” by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei

"A comprehensive guide to the core practices of the Universal Healing Tao System and the advanced esoteric practices of Inner Alchemy • Explains each of the nine levels of Inner Alchemy and their more than 240 formulas • Explores the Four Healing Arts for transformation of the emotional body, physical body, energy body, and spiritual body • Provides simplified versions of core Universal Healing Tao practices to more easily integrate the system into your daily life • Shows how these exercises were designed to increase longevity and ensure the survival of consciousness beyond death Explaining the evolution and core of the Universal Healing Tao system, Master Mantak Chia and William U. Wei offer a condensed approach to the Inner...>>

“Qi Vampirism: Background and Beginning Training In Taoist Energy Absorption Meditation” by Fa-Shih Hern-Heng

"This booklet is an introductory training guide, to advanced Taoist alchemy and meditation. It is not an exhaustive work documenting the history of the practice, nor is it filled with stories or anecdotes. It follows in the tradition of some of my teachers who have published training booklets to introduced students to practices, teach them a bit about the practices and how to begin them. This work will discuss the scientific quantification of what some call "Qi Vampirism," and will furthermore go into how and why the practice is engaged in within Taoism. Finally, it will give the interested party a way to contact the author for interactive correspondence training, if they find themselves seriously...>>

“Sorcery In Poitou: Two Satanic Essays: Gilles de Rais and Felicen Rops” by Joris-Karl Huysmans

"The first notable literary advocate of the Satanist, alchemist and child-killer Gilles de Rais remains J-K Huysmans, famous for his novel A Rebours and its quintessential decadent, Des Esseintes. Huysmans' later novel La-Bas (1891), a virtual apology for Satanism, is threaded by a version of the de Rais story as narrated by the book's protagonist, Durtal. Punctuated by the author's own poetic interventions, this account depicts de Rais as an arch-decadent beset by demonic visions and ravening sexual manias — "the 15th century Des Esseintes". A most intriguing "sequel" to this examination of evil is now provided by the first ever English translation of Huysmans' pamphlet Sorcery in Poitou (La Sorcellerie En Poitou, also...>>

“The Medieval Underworld” by Andrew McCall

"In medieval times there existed an insistence on conformity which bordered on the obsessive. This account explores those times from the viewpoint of the men and women who were seen to be on the margins of society — who either would not, or could not, conform to the conventions of their era. The activities of outlaws, brigands, homosexuals, heretics, witches, Jews, prostitutes, thieves, vagabonds and other 'transgressors' are detailed here, as are the punishments — often barbarously savage — which were meted out to them by State and Church. Full of fascinating and unusual characters and facts which greatly enhance our view of the Middle Ages, The Medieval Underworld will enthral anyone interested in...>>

“The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret Beings” by Lise Lunge-Larsen

"Selkies, fairies, gnomes, hill folk, river sprites—do you believe in them? Perhaps among the flowers, beside a mountain, or near deep waters you’ve caught a glimpse, once or twice, of what you thought might be the silvery shadow of a dwarf, or a hint of a fairy’s wing, or the tail of the water horse. Or was it just the odd light of dusk or dawn playing tricks? As Lise Lunge-Larsen’s magical, timeless stories reveal and Beth Krommes’s enchanting scratchboard illustrations capture, the hidden folk are there, all right: you just have to know where—and how—to look."...>>