Magick Matters

“Minding Mind: A Course in Basic Meditation” by Thomas Cleary

"Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people. The instructions in this book focus on the highest type of all, "pure, clear meditation": a state of true objectivity that enables the practitioner to use all the other types of meditation freely and consciously, without becoming fixated or obsessed. Minding Mind is based on traditional texts by renowned teachers from various Buddhist schools of China, Japan, and Korea."...>>

“Hoodoo Bible Magic: Sacred Secrets of Scriptural Sorcery” by Miss Michaele and Professor Charles Porterfield

"It has been said that we are created in God's own image. There are those who know and understand this to mean that IN EACH OF US IS A SPARK OF THE DIVINE — a spark which can aid us to attain wisdom, riches, love, joy, health, and success through the power of God's Holy Word. THIS IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT! Practical, honest, and straightforward, this book teaches the history and unlocks the mystery of Christian Conjuration with the Holy Scriptures. Learn ancient traditional spells of Psalmic Magic from forgotten books of Jewish wisdom preserved by African American elders, open the Bible's treasure-house of Secret Charms and Sacred Amulets, and prepare yourself for revelations and wonders. The...>>

“The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers” edite by Mike Ashley

"Ghosts, precognition, suicide and the afterlife are all themes to be found in these thrilling stories by some of the greatest Victorian women writers from both Britain and the USA. Horace Walpole may have started the Gothic-fiction movement, but it was three women who popularized it — Clara Reeve, Mary Shelley and Anne Radcliffe. Victorian women proved they had a talent for creating dark, sensational and horrifying tales of the supernatural, and this anthology showcases some of the best and most representative work by female writers of the time, including Emily Brontë, Mary Braddon, George Eliot and Edith Nesbit, as well as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Riddell, Louisa Baldwin, Mary Penn, Violet Quirk and Elizabeth...>>

“Seven Hanged” by Leonid Andreyev (2016 new translation by Anthony Briggs)

"This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony Briggs, probes the emotions and experiences of seven people condemned to death in Tsarist Russia. A powerful and subtle exploration of the morality of capital punishment, it was a bestseller at the time, and, in a strange quirk of history, influenced the conspirators in the cataclysmic assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914."...>>

“Da Vinci’s Divine Proportion: Another Piece of Da Vinci’s Puzzle” by L.A. Braun

"Leonardo Da Vinci had been obsessed with the Divine Proportion of the Golden Ratio. It had been expressed through his many manifestations of the geometric pattern of the 'Stairway to Heaven.' There are geometric and mathematical constants that Da Vinci had secretly embedded within his works. He had tried to show us how these constants are ubiquitous—appearing above, below and within us. In fact, the secrets are woven tightly into the quilt of our very nature. Explore the sacred universal pattern of the fractal iteration of the Sierpinski Triangle—as the overriding cosmic design of all matter and energy in what we today call reality. This book delivers a golden payload of fresh new rebus...>>