Magick Matters

“The Secret Temple” by Robert Wang

"This extraordinary new book (by the author of Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot) contains all that is required to produce a symbolically accurate temple and a full set of magical instruments in the Golden Dawn tradition. Full color photographs of the temple and of the instruments, as well as the precise hieroglyphs of the pillars, appear here in print for the first time. Instructions are given for the construction of the altar, pillars, Enochian tablets, Rose Cross Lamen, wands, etc., the difficult sigils and inscriptions having been worked out completely by the author, The Secret Temple is highly recommended to students of the Golden Dawn, Crowley, and the practical Qabalah."...>>

“Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense: 145 Gemstones for Banishing, Binding, and Magickal Protection” by Nicholas Pearson

"A full-color guide to protection, cleansing, and countermagick with crystals • Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals • Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic attack and offers multiple methods for cleansing your energy field and your crystals • Includes an in-depth directory of 145 of the most powerful and effective crystals and gemstones for protection, banishing, and recovery from psychic attack In this full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick. In the realm...>>

“The Jade Mirror of Lingbao Daoist Magic” by Jerry Alan Johnson

"The Jade Mirror of Numinous Treasure (Lingbao Yujian) Daoist teachings were popular in ancient China during the Southern Song Dynasty. Included in the following three installments are both the translations and commentaries surrounding all 43 Volumes of this unique mystical text. In this fascinating book are many of the magical invocations and secret talismans that were used by the ancient Lingbao Daoists to summon celestial generals to take command of wandering ghosts and disruptive spirits. Also included in these unique teachings are special star stepping instructions, the activation incantations used to empower the rituals, and the different types of altar banners that were used as important exorcism and meditation tools as well as special transformation...>>

“Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images” by Jeremie Koering

"An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated—taken into the body—as solids or liquids. How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one’s own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating...>>

“A Feral Church: A Guided Journey to Find Magic, Kinship, and the Goddess” by H. Byron Ballard

"Journey into the Wilderness Within and Around You Through a series of guided meditations that lead you from one solstice to another and back again, H. Byron Ballard empowers you to journey into the uncharted and feral lands of your imagination, where you will connect to the primal mother—the Goddess. Ballard shows you how to leave your domesticated world and enter a place of wild worship and joy, a feral church unbound by dogma or liturgy. Your spiritual pilgrimage will take you to places familiar and unknown, both internal and external. Framed as one big pathworking, this book guides your journey with a new meditation, plus a section to reflect on what you discovered, in every...>>