Magick Matters

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

"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 ...>>

“Shadow Soul: Exploring the Secrets of the Ancient Art of Seidr and Remote Viewing” by Simon Tomlin

"Exploring the secrets of the ancient art of Seiðr and remote viewing practised by shamans since the dawn of prehistory. Seiðr remains a great mystery and the author explains how to train for the art and practise it based on his 30 years of experience in the esoteric field. The book takes the apprentice through the precise details of the dedication and techniques required to become a remote viewer and Seiðr practitioner. His experience gives him the ability to teach a new method of using the Runes for divination using only Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and leads the initiate into the deep mysteries of the shadow soul. The first book to fully explain how Seiðr ...>>

“Esoteric Meditation: A Western Mystery Guide to Spiritual Development” by The Eleusinian Brotherhood

"Previously a training manual for The Eleusinian Brotherhood, the secrets of Esoteric and Occult meditation are now revealed to all sincere students in this book. Learn how to: * Concentrate deeply * Sleep better * Find Peace in your daily life * Sharpen the powers of your Mind * Be more relaxed and confident * Dive into the Divinity within you Drawing on the wisdom of the Western Mystery traditions as well as the great Middle Eastern and Indian schools, the reader is guided into the ancient traditions of Neo-Platonism, the wisdom of Pythagoras, Dionysus the Areopagite, the Christian Mystics, Zoroaster, The Buddha, and more. This lucid and poetic exploration will help lead the reader ...>>

“By Spellbook & Candle: Cursing, Hexing, Bottling & Binding” by Melusine Draco (kindle ebook version, Pagan Portals)

"Curses have given the world some of its greatest legends and folklore, and the more grisly and gory, the better we like them. But cursing, or ill-wishing, is not a practice confined to magical practitioners — black, white or grey — it is a form of expression intended to do harm in reparation for some real or imagined insult and can be ‘thrown’ by anyone of any race, culture or creed without any prior experience of ritual magic or witchcraft. According to the dictionary, however, a curse is defined as: To invoke or wish evil upon; to afflict; to damn; to excommunicate; evil invoked on another person. If this is the clear definition, then under ...>>

“Liberation: The Fruition of Yoga” by Yogani

"This concise volume provides a survey of the methods of Yoga as they relate to the rise of the non-dual condition of enlightenment, or “Liberation” (“Moksha” in Sanskrit), and practices that can be utilized during the end stage of the journey. It is about the rise of the witness and the evolution to ripeness and relational self-inquiry for permanent realization of the observer being both beyond and in unity with all objects of perception, accompanied by the natural emergence of an unending flow of divine love in the world. While this book is about Advaita-Vedanta and Jnana Yoga for end stage realization, it is also about assuring that the prerequisites of Deep Meditation and related ...>>