This new edition retains the balanced tone and thorough research of the previous two (The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft, 1989 and 1999). In more than 480 entries, paranormal expert Guiley covers both historical witchcraft, such as the Salem witches,Santa Fe witches, and Stamford witches of the seventeenth century, and contemporary issues and concerns. Topics such as different types of witchcraft, fairies, folk magic, the occult, pagan practices, voodoo or vodun, spells, demons, charms, and magic circles are clearly defined. Descriptions of beliefs, and rituals connected to witchcraft, and biographies of individuals, both historical and fictional, living and dead (for example, Aleister Crowley, Morgan le Fay, Margaret Alice Murray, and Starhawk), are included. In addition to updates of contemporary biographies, this edition contains new Wicca-related material, as indicated by the addition of the word Wicca to the title. Short lists of further reading, a number of them updated, follow many of the entries. The lengthy bibliography has been expanded and updated as well. Offering a broader perspective than many arcane resources on this popular subject, this volume is suited to casual readers and researchers.

Paginas: 436.
Autor:  Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
Idioma: Ingles.
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R.J. Stewart is one of the leading authors of Celtic Magic, Mythology, UnderWorld and Faery traditions.

Paginas: 298.
Autor:  R.J. Stewart  .
Idioma: Ingles.
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Telling the stories of ordinary people who have discovered that life is enchanted, this exploration of witchcraft presents the leaders of the movement and experienced practitioners and delves into what it really means to be a witch. Describing powerful rituals and moving magical encounters, these witches discuss working with natural forces, including sexuality and the seasons, and how they craft spells and personal rituals, and use incense and herbs. With insights from many different traditions including Wicca and Paganism, this guide celebrates the pleasures and mysteries of contemporary witchcraft.

Paginas: 264.
Autor:  Douglas Ezzy.
Idioma: Ingles.
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Centuries ago man understood and controlled forces of unbelievable power. Imagine being able to control those around you. Imagine having sexual powers beyond your wildest dreams. Imagine fearing no one. Imagine having the ability to create your own infinite source of wealth. Imagine wielding the power to bend the laws of nature. This is a simple step by step how-to manual of the Dark Arts. All the long lost diagrams, secret spells and ancient incantations are laid out in easy to follow text and illustrations. Even if you never before attempted to cast a spell, this book will help you harness the forces as easily as lighting a candle.

Paginas: 112.
Autor:  Gary Brodsky.
Idioma: Ingles.
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What is The Pseudonomicon?
It’s Cthulhu Mythos.
It’s Cthulhu Madness!
It’s a Cthulhu Pathworking!!

First published in a very limited edition in 1994, and reprinted only once since, The Pseudonomicon has been extremely difficult to find. By special arrangement with Dagon Productions, we have brought it back in this revised and expanded edition. Of The Pseudonomicon the author says:

“Disclaimer: It is generally agreed by experienced magicians that working with the Cthulhu Mythos is dangerous due to the high risk of obsession, personality disintegration or infestation by parasitic shells. Whilst giving this opinion due consideration, I have decided to release this material since, before the throne of Azathoth, questions of who is sane and who is mad become inconsequential.”

and:

“Each god brings its own madness. To know the god—to be accepted by it, to feel its mysteries—well you have to let that madness wash over you, and through you. This isn’t in the books of magic. Why? For one thing, it’s all too easily forgotten, and for an other, you have to find it out for yourself. And for those who would sanitize magic, whitening out the wildness with explanations borrowed from pop psychology or science—well, madness is something that we still fear—the great taboo. So why did I choose Cthulhu—High Priest of the Great Old Ones—lying dreaming “death’s dream” in the sunken city, forgotten through layers of time and water? It sounds so simple to say that I merely heard his “call”—but I did. Gods do not, generally, have a lot to say, but what they do say, is worth listening to.”

With a new Introduction and a completely new, and greatly expanded section on Banishing.

Paginas:  64.
Autor: Phil Hine . 
Idioma: Ingles.
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A witty and iconoclastic continuation of his commentary on magick and modern occult subculture by one of the founders of Chaos magick. PsyberMagick contains astonishing, controversial and revolutionary ideas on the theory and practice of magic(k), the structure of the universe and the nature of the mind. It holds many surprises as it challenges many of the conventional assumptions and paradigms of magic. The author invites the serious seeker of magical knowledge to undo the basic fallacy of “being” and to learn the techniques of reaching “sideways” into imaginary time to accomplish magic(k). Done in the style of Crowley’s Book of Lies, and humorously illustrated, this book is a must for all Chaoist and Western magicians.

Paginas:  132.
Autor: Peter Carroll . 
Idioma: Ingles.
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Besides the main author, the contributors to this Grimoire read like a “Who’s Who” of modern magickians, and include such notables as Raymond Buckland, Raven Grimassi, Amber K, and Donald Michael Kraig, among others. These varying viewpoints and expertise make for a balanced presentation and, like a good school, for an ability to maintain interest levels by having changes of pace and style.

Designed as an Apprentice-level program of studies, this book is aimed at the same folks who find Harry Potter so fascinating – those young (and young at heart) people who want to be more in control of their world.

It is broken down into seven separate “Courses” – Wizardry, Nature, Practice, Rites, Spectrum Part 1, Spectrum Part 2, and Lore. It further contains a set of appendices – A History of Magick Time Line, The Wizard’s Library, Credits and References, and an Index. Each of the Courses is further broken down into six or seven “classes” (a total of 45). Be prepared to put in some serious study time and effort if you want to take advantage of the material herein!

Like Hogwarts, this book is arranged and scheduled to take seven years to complete. To the younger reader, I must say that there are good reasons for this, not the least being that one needs to become proficient in the basics before moving on.

Many youngsters may be put off by the work expected of them in the early going. Where are the charms? Where are the incantations in mystic languages? Where are the rewards? Well, just like having to finish your veggies before getting dessert; just like needing to learn basic math before moving on to algebra; just like laying a foundation before building a home; you need to acquire the basic knowledge of the magickal world before getting into the “good stuff.”

As you work your way through this book (and make no mistake, you will work your way through it!), you may find yourself longing for the carefree days of school. The concepts contained within are easy to read, simple to absorb, and consuming to understand. If you think “Apprentice” means easy-to-do, think again. You will find yourself being fed a diet of ideas which may well force you to alter your perception of the universe.

Oberon covers everything from creating your magickal tools to planting and caring for a garden (Anyone who doesn’t see gardening as a magickal act should consider the transformation of a seed into a plant and on to your table.); from learning to survive in the woods to learning to recognize Elementals. And all of that before he even begins to address the actual practice of magick.

Course One, Class One, Lesson Three (”1.I.3: Glossary” to use Oberon’s notation system) is a handy glossary of types of Wizards which covers everything from Bards and Cybermancers to Wiccans and Wizards. If there is a description of a magick worker in the English language, it is in this glossary.

Scattered throughout this book are tables of correspondences. There are a number of them, arranged in a variety of formats, and covering a wide range of topics. There are also a large number of illustrations, many of them (almost half, in fact) from the fertile mind and hands of Oberon.

When he actually begins to discuss working magick, he takes the time to explain how and why it works. He relates it to things that all teens can relate to, and puts it firmly in the realm of things which are able to be done by anyone willing to put in the time and effort.

He explains how to set up altars (both indoors and outdoors), how to construct shrines and henges, and other items as well. He includes basic instructions on a wide variety of healing techniques. He adds constant encouragement, in the form of reassurances that practice is required, and not to get discouraged if you don’t get immediate results.

This book is aimed at the total spectrum of Wizardry (like Hogwarts). It does not just cover the Ceremonial aspects of magick. It covers the spectrum from invoking angels and demons to doing simple divination; from creating planetary talismans to simple remedies for acne; and from alchemy to conjury (stage magic). Reading this book will provide a thorough understanding of Wizardry. Completing the work within this book will provide a thorough mastery of the basics of Wizardry.

He divides magick into the colors of the rainbow and more: Meditation (aqua); Healing (blue); Wortcunning (green); Divination (yellow); Conjury (orange); Alchemy (red); Beast Mastery (brown); Cosmology (violet); Mathemagicks (clear); Ceremonial Magick (white); Lore Mastery (grey); and the Black Arts (black). Thus, by adopting tabards or robes of the appropriate color Wizards who follow this system will be able to immediately identify the specialty of those they encounter.

Mythology is covered extensively, as are world religious views. While some may question their inclusion in a grimoire, it is vital for the apprentice to understand all that may be encountered in the performance of magick. Because of the vast amount of energy devoted to these topics over the millennia, they have a valid existence on other planes, and the magickian must be prepared to deal with them.

As with any competent teacher, Oberon not only expects you to complete the assigned exercises, but also assigns outside reading and independent research. He lets you know early on that there will be both theory and practice involved in progressing through this work, and both are equally important. He makes every effort to balance his opinions and beliefs, which he is careful to identify as such, with the opinions and beliefs of others covering a wide spectrum.

For those with limited cash available, he lists many websites where information may be found. Even the most cash-strapped individuals can (and SHOULD) obtain a library card and avail themselves of the resources available there, in the form of internet access, books, magazines, etc.

Paginas:  372.
Autor: Oberon Zell-Ravenheart . 
Idioma: Ingles.
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This comprehensive inquiry examines the disturbing historical and contemporary connections between certain religious cults and Nazi ideology. Goodrick-Clarke (Hitler’s Priestess; The Occult Roots of Nazism) begins with a consideration of the origins of American neo-Nazism and ends with a thorough discussion of well-known, current far-right groups: the European skinheads, the Aryan Nations and the World Church of the Creator movement, which inspired the 1999 shooting spree in the Midwest. In between, the author focuses on the intersection between Nazi ideology and religious and cultural oddities, showing, for example, how some Nazi leaders, particularly Heinrich Himmler, were obsessed with esoterica and strange historical justifications for pro-Aryan racial theory. Over the past 75 years, Nazi ideology has been mixed with Hinduism, magic, alchemy and the occult as a rebellion against the status quo. In Nazi Satanism, “the swastika and Third Reich imagery join black candles, skulls and magical pentagrams in a tableau of ritualized transgression.” And during the post-WWII era, many fascists saw UFO sightings as an indication that Nazis would come back to rule the world. Throughout, Goodrick-Clarke catalogues the ideologies, histories, personalities and appeals of the groups, most of which have always found young white men to be their most receptive audience. There’s little evaluation of the potential that the small, splinter groups now active might have to commit future atrocities, but the author adds to our knowledge of the broad, frightening tentacles of Nazi ideology. Illus.

Paginas:  371.
Autor: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. 
Idioma: Ingles.
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Death has embodied its chilled energies in many forms upon the human condition since the genesis of mankind. Death has been given a face, a name, and in some cases strange aesthetic wardrobe complete with utensils sharp enough to reap your jugular into fields of scarlet eternal. 

Mankind has always felt a need to find comfort in the presence of death by personifying and spiritualizing its natures beyond those of a cold indifferent force habitually making human compost. As such, death has become more anthropomorphic, becoming a creature invoked, sacrificed to, and worshipped by the timorous for centuries.

The most common personification of death has been the Grim Reaper, an entity that from the 15^th century onward has been depicted as an anorexic sickle-wielding skeleton whose continuous black robe fashion suggests an issue of laundry hygiene. And according to Monty Python, he “poisoned the salmon”.

The origins of the Grim Reaper may be traced back to the Greeks with Cronos and his harvesting sickle, but his black hoodedness may be found cloaked within many traditions. Odin for example used the disguise of the reaper within the Underworld. Azrael, Angeu and Ankou as well as Yamaraj are each personifications of the reaper and according to cable television are a bunch of misfits hanging out in a diner.

Esoterically, the Grim Reaper is a sentient symbol for the harvesting of the soul and corporeal aspect of the existential realm. He is a reminder of the tenuous element to all things, the impermanent natures of creation and consciousness. Through his arrival our ties to life are severed and the soul is guided into the realms beyond within which, we shall reap what we have sown in life.

Religio-magickal texts dealing with the rites and doctrines of a personified Grim Reaper are scant at best. Beyond the arcane summoning of spirits for divinatory purposes, historic texts dealing with elements of a corporeal death remain virtually nonexistent.

It was not until the modern age that texts dealing with working with death began manifesting upon the bookshelves of the curious. Yet despite this influx of occult books within the latter 19-20^th centuries it was not until 2008 that the rites concerning specifically the Grim Reaper graced the bookshelves of mourning Goths and angry adolescent metal heads.

The world of the Grim Reaper fetishist now received a new sacred tome. It was within this year that a mysterious author with a predisposition for abbreviations and cryptic numerology known as N.A.A 218, wrote an occult book known as “Liber Falxifer- The Book of the Left Handed Reaper”. The history and origin behind this book and its author are slippery. The book is connected to a group known as the Temple of the Black Light, an international order dedicated to a Luciferian Satanic tradition that has nothing to do with Black light bulbs and a lot of visible lint. The temple is also linked to the black metal band Dissection if that makes things any clearer, and less linty.

Liber Falxifer is a modern grimoire of death magick, personifying the Grim Reaper beneath aesthetics of Argentine and tribal origin with Afro-Caribbean and Latino influences mixed in as a decomposing ethnic side dish. Within the book, the Grim Reaper is personified under mainly the names Qayin Mortifer and Senor La Muerte (Lord/Gentleman of Death).

Liber Falxifer is sickle sliced into two segments. The first deals with the theory and practice of summoning the Grim Reaper beneath an esoteric paradigm. Besides spells and invocations, we do also learn that the Grim Reaper has an articulated handicap as being called a “left handed reaper” and not ambidextrous. He apparently swings his scythe like a southpaw. It is unclear what he does with his right hand; perhaps he searches his pelvic area for where his junk used to be. Even death is not omnipotent, maybe impotent, but not omnipotent.

The second part of Falxifer details what is called a “Qayinitic” and “necrosophic” gnosis, a state where consciousness is elevated through death energy into higher states of being as opposed to states of being high. It may be presumed that the latter state may assist in validating the experiences. Within this section we learn that death wants presents, to smoke cigars and drink rum like a poker playing hooker, and to be distracted from his cosmic eternal duties to hang within a bunch of squiggly lines and arcane symbols with humans. Whether the Grim Reaper is that bored slicing souls in the trans-dimensional realms to stop and fraternize with angst ridden adolescent Goths and metal heads remains conjecture. Liber Falxifer hopes to answer this question for interested parties.

Liber Falxifer is an instruction manual for getting to know the Mr. Reaper. One learns how to construct altars, purchase grave soil from the dead, create fetish skulls, and utilize the fourteen key sigils of death to channel the various aspects of the Grim Reaper into your psyche. It’s a fun time to be had by all!

What is ultimately gained from invoking the Grim Reaper into ones life? Why focus your attention on some macabre fellow with halitosis, hygienically challenged physicality, and always seems to be depressed and in a bad mood? Why not summon sunshine, puppies, and smiley faces into a world already plague with heartless global narcissistic self-destructive death wishes? I do not really have an answer to that. Perhaps practicing what is contained in Liber Falxifer and cavorting with the Grim Reaper will integrate and prepare you for the inevitability of death. By getting to know death you may cease to fear its unknown. Then again maybe it suggests not taking too seriously what you cannot prevent and instead of looking at the Grim Reaper, you should be looking at hot girls and corpses.

Paginas:  212.
Autor: N.A.A. 
Idioma: Ingles.
Precio: Para Argentina $20. U$S 10 para el exterior.