Magick Matters

25.04.2022

“The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages” by Brian Bates

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"Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkien's works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of Dark Age king and queens, warriors and battles, lies the hidden history of Middle-earth, a world of magic, mystery and destiny. Fiery dragons were seen to fly across the sky, monsters haunted the marshes, and elves fired poisoned arrows. Wizards cast healing spells, wise trees gave blessings, and omens foretold the deaths of kings. The very landscape itself...>>

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25.04.2022

“The Tradition of the Path: A Modern Practice of Witchcraft” by Elizabeth Chapman and Su Weber

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"Over the years, the Coven of Young Crones has developed a way of practicing Modern Witchcraft called "The Path" Tradition. This book contains four parts. The first is Metaphysical Kernels of Thought which detail a number of our Tradition's beliefs about how the Universe Works and why we practice the way we do. Next are the rituals we use to celebrate the Sabbats and Cross Quarter Times along with sample Full Moon and Dark Nights of the Moon rituals. The Liturgy of The Path is a series of prayers for personal use as part of this practice. Also included are a number of Incense recipes, an Anointing Oil recipe, and information about Rocks, Stones,...>>

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25.04.2022

“The Way Of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer” by Brian Bates

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"Charged with the difficult task of converting the ‘heathens’ of Anglo-Saxon England to Christianity, Christian scribe Wat Brand begins to doubt his mission when he learns more about the pagan ways of his neighbors. Guided by a shaman named Wulf, Brand is introduced to a world unlike anything he has ever known—one of runes, fate, life force, and the Wyrd. But his greatest lesson awaits him in the spirit world, where he will journey and come face to face with the nature of his own soul. The Way of Wyrd is a bestselling cult classic based on years of research by psychologist and university professor Brian Bates. An authentic and deeply compelling insight into...>>

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25.04.2022

“Sexual Magick: Secrets of Sexual Gnosis in Western Magick” by Katon Shual

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"Sexuality is one of the keys to magick. In this book, first published in 1988, Katon Shual presents some of the secrets of a sexual gnosis of western magick — a system that is often misunderstood. The book begins with a look at the revival of sexual magick in the early part of this century, especially within the ranks of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and some of the post-Golden Dawn magical groups such as Aleister Crowley's Thelemic cult. The book goes on the look at the modern fusion of western hermetic and eastern tantric sexual gnosticism. On the way it discusses in a progressive manner gay, straight and solitary sexual magick....>>

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25.04.2022

“Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman” by Leigh Eric Schmidt

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"The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women's rights activists. She soon became as well the case-history darling of one of America's earliest and most determined Freudians. In Heaven's Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist,...>>

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