Magick Matters

“The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us” by Mark Robert Rank

"Upending notions of predictability and rugged individualism to reveal how truly random the world is. It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. The Random Factor traverses luck from...>>

“The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant’s Reckoning from Salem to the Present” by Alice Markham-Cantor

"Past and present collide in this page-turner investigation into Salem's irrepressible question: How could this have happened? In 1692, Martha Allen Carrier was hanged in the Salem witch trials as the "Queen of Hell". Three hundred years later, her nine-times-great-granddaughter, Alice Markham-Cantor, set out to discover why Martha had died. As she chased her ancestor through the archives, graveyards, and haunted places of New England, grappling with what we owe the past, Alice discovered a shocking truth: witch hunts didn't end in Salem. Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, The Once & Future Witch Hunt does not treat Salem as a cautionary tale. It treats Salem as an instruction manual—not on how...>>

“The Witch’s Workshop: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Magical Tools” by Melissa Madara

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "From the author of The Witch's Feast, this is the first fully illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the handicrafts of witchcraft. Through over 60 craft projects, learn all the techniques you need to create your personalized magical toolkit. Empower yourself as a self-sufficient witch, and become a master of the natural arts! This in-depth guide, accompanied by step-by-step images, will show you all the craft and design skills you need to make your own, personalized and fully adaptable magical toolkit. Melissa Madara, magical expert, herbalist and witch, shares 60+ unique projects and techniques, many of which revive spells from the history of witches past. Approachable for beginners and stimulating for established practitioners, the crafts are clearly explained...>>

“The Philosopher’s Stone: An Essay on the Sacerdotal Science” by Zadkiel

"Alchemy manuscript from 1831, faithfully transcribed from the original, with a new introduction. Zadkiel gives an exceptionally lucid and concise rendition of the Alchemical tradition in the spirit of Fulcanelli, Cyliani, I.C.H., Philalethes, Sendivogius, and the anonymous works The Key to the Hermetic Sanctum and Hermetic Recreations. Featured in this manuscript is Zadkiel’s essay, The Philosopher’s Stone, published as two parts in The Familiar Astrologer (1831), which was a compendium of arcane writings compiled by influential occultist Robert Cross Smith (1795-1832) under the pseudonym "Raphael". Zadkiel was a pseudonym of John Palmer (1807-1837), a young practitioner of the Art who allegedly studied at the Institut de France under the Nicolas Vauquelin, the famed chemist who discovered the...>>