Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition

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A Comprehensive Collection of Magical Wisdom in One Indispensable Book

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick brings together the myriad occult philosophies and techniques necessary for a thorough understanding of the esoteric arts. This magnificent treasury is filled with fascinating insights from today's most esteemed working practitioners, developing the rich details of a dozen topics that together comprise the Western Mystery Tradition. Within these pages, you will explore the rituals and ideas that have shaped the history and modern practice of magick. Edited by virtuoso occultists Lon Milo DuQuette and David Shoemaker, this brilliant collection of new writings is the preeminent reference work on the occult arts and sciences.

Foundations of Western Magic (Sam Webster) • Qabalah (Anita Kraft & Randall Bowyer) • Planetary Magic (David Rankine) • Alchemy (Dennis William Hauck) • Demonology & Spirit Evocation (Dr. Stephen Skinner) • The Magick of Abra-Melin (Marcus Katz) • Enochian Magick & Mysticism (Aaron Leitch) • The Golden Dawn (Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero) • Thelema & Aleister Crowley (David Shoemaker) • Polytheistic Ceremonial Magic (John Michael Greer) • Magician's Tables (David Allen Hulse) • The Future of Ceremonial Magick (Brandy Williams)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738761251
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date: 02/08/2020
Series: Llewellyn's Complete Book Series , #14
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 528
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Lon Milo DuQuette is a preeminent esoteric scholar and the author of sixteen critically acclaimed books on magick and the occult, including Enochian Vision Magick and The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford. Visit him at www.LonDuQuette.com.


Stephen Skinner began his career as a Geography lecturer and magazine publisher, but his long term interests have always been Western magic and feng shui.

During the 1970s he was the driving force behind Askin Publishers, producing a number of classic magical works by Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, and others. During the 1970s he co-wrote many books with Francis King, including the still popular Techniques of High Magic. Also with Francis King he wrote Nostradamus. His interest in prophecy stimulated by this book, he went on to write the best selling Millennium Prophecies.

Stephen is credited with bringing the art of Feng Shui to the West, and in 1976 he wrote the Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui, which was the first English book on feng shui in the 20th century.

Stephen has written more than 35 books, which have been published worldwide in 28 different languages. These books have had introductions by such diverse people as Colin Wilson, HRH Charles Prince of Wales, and Jimmy Choo, shoe designer to the stars.

Stephen lives in Singapore. Stephen is the first Westerner to be awarded the title of Grand Master of Feng Shui by the International Feng Shui Association.


David Shoemaker (Sacramento, CA) is a ritual magician and the author of several occult books, including Living Thelema. David is the Chancellor and Prolocutor of the Temple of the Silver Star and a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis.


Dennis William Hauck (Sacramento, CA) has translated several important alchemy manuscripts and published a dozen books on the subject, including The Emerald Tablet. He is the president of the International Alchemy Guild.


David Rankine is a magician, author and esoteric researcher based in Glastonbury, England. He has written over 30 books and thousands of articles in his 40+ years of practice, focusing especially on the grimoires, qabalah, and ceremonial magic.


Aaron Leitch has been a scholar and a spiritual seeker for nearly three decades. He is a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Gentlemen of Jupiter, and the academic Societas Magica. His writings cover such varied fields as ancient Middle Eastern religion and mythology, Solomonic mysticism, shamanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and alchemy, traditional Wicca and Neopaganism, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, angelology, Qabalah, Enochiana, African Diaspora religions, hexcraft and hoodoo folk traditions, psychology and consciousness expansion, cyberspace and virtual reality, and modern social commentary. He is the author of Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires and The Angelical Language, Volumes I and II. Visit his website at kheph777.tripod.com or his blog at aaronleitch.wordpress.com.


Both Chic and Tabatha are Chief Adepts of the Golden Dawn as re-established by Israel Regardie. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, of which Chic is the G.H. Imperator, and Tabatha is the G.H. Cancellaria, is an international Order with Temples in several countries. The Ciceros have written numerous books on the Golden Dawn, Tarot, and Magic, including Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition, The Essential Golden Dawn, Tarot Talismans, and updates, annotations and introductions to classic Israel Regardie texts such as The Philosopher's Stone, The Middle Pillar and A Garden of Pomegranates.


Both Chic and Tabatha are Chief Adepts of the Golden Dawn as re-established by Israel Regardie. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, of which Chic is the G.H. Imperator, and Tabatha is the G.H. Cancellaria, is an international Order with Temples in several countries. The Ciceros have written numerous books on the Golden Dawn, Tarot, and Magic, including Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition, The Essential Golden Dawn, Tarot Talismans, and updates, annotations and introductions to classic Israel Regardie texts such as The Philosopher's Stone, The Middle Pillar and A Garden of Pomegranates.


Sam Webster, PhD, MDiv (San Francisco Bay Area) earned his doctorate in Pagan history under Prof. Ronald Hutton. He is an initiate of several magical traditions and the author of Tantric Thelema.


Anita Kraft is an accomplished Qabalist and the author of The Qabalah Workbook for Magicians: A Guide to the Sephiroth.


Randall Bowyer has been a student of the Western Esoteric Tradition for more than four decades.


From an early age, David Allen Hulse diligently studied the alphabets of the ancient world. As a child, David possessed a great affinity for the alphabets of Egypt, Phoenicia, and Greece.

In college, a reading of MacGregor Mathers' Kabbalah Unveiled opened up the Hebrew alphabet-number technique of Qabalistic research. After Hebrew, many other ancient languages were decoded and studied, including Sanskrit and Tibetan. In 1979, a discovery led to the need to capture the extent of all prior Quabalistic research into one great reference work. Research is still being carried out to discover new definitions for the number series as well as new magickal systems.


Marcus Katz (England) is a tarot teacher and co-director of the Tarosophy Tarot Association. He has studied and taught tarot for thirty-five years and has delivered more than ten thousand face-to-face readings. Marcus has coauthored several books, including Around the Tarot in 78 Days and Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot.


One of the most respected writers and teachers in the occult field today, John Michael Greer has written more than fifty books on esoteric traditions, nature spirituality, and the future of industrial society. An initiate in Druidic, Hermetic, and Masonic lineages, he served for twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA). He lives in Rhode Island, USA with his wife Sara. He can be found online at www.EcoSophia.net.


Brandy Williams is a Wiccan high priestess, a Pagan Magician, and a Tantric yogini. She is an elder in Coven of the Mystical Merkabah, which was founded in 1984. She has worked with the Golden Dawn group Temple of Light and Darkness and with Ordo Templi Orientis. She meets regularly with the Theurgy Forum hosted by Hercules Invictus, which brings teachers of theurgy together in public conversation. Currently she studies Shri Vidya with a private teacher. She teaches at magical conferences in person around the country and virtually around the world. She is also a master gardener and lives with two partners, three cats, and a dog. Visit her online at www.BrandyWilliamsAuthor.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xvii

Editors' Introduction 1

Book One: Foundations of Western Magic—by Sam Webster 7
A survey of the philosophical, religious, and cultural precursors of the Western ceremonial magic traditions.

Book Two: Qabalah—by Anita Kraft & Randall Bowyer 35
An exploration of the Hebrew and Hermetic Qabalistic traditions, whose doctrines and symbol sets heavily influenced ceremonial magic as we now know it.

Book Three: Planetary Magic—by David Rankine 85
A review of the ways in which the symbols and energies of the seven classical planets may be employed in magical ritual.

Book Four: Alchemy—by Dennis William Hauck 127
An exploration of the processes of alchemical transformation that are embedded, explicitly or implicitly, in much of the Western magick tradition.

Book Five: Demonology & Spirit Evocation—by Dr. Stephen Skinner 163
A review of the traditions and procedures involved in the evocation of demons or spirits.

Book Six: The Magick of Abra-Melin—by Marcus Katz 197
A thorough presentation of one of the most important works of theurgy in the ceremonial magick tradition, originating in the medieval grimoire of Abra-Melin.

Book Seven: Enochian Magick & Mysticism—by Aaron Leitch 233
An exploration of the Enochian magick system of John Dee and Edward Kelley, a growing subfield of ceremonial magick since the Renaissance.

Book Eight: The Golden Dawn—by Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero 279
A discussion of the work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a British magical order whose structure and teachings have had a seminal and inescapable influence on all subsequent ceremonial magick traditions.

Book Nine: Thelema & Aleister Crowley—by David Shoemaker 321
An exploration of the work of one of the most notorious, innovative, and influential figures in modern magick, including a review of Crowley’s broader cultural impact in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Book Ten: Polytheistic Ceremonial Magic—by John Michael Greer 353
An exploration of pagan and other polytheistic traditions as they intersect with ceremonial magic ritual and doctrine.

Book Eleven: Magician’s Tables—by David Allen Hulse 381
An annotated compendium of symbolic correspondences for the practicing ceremonial magician.

Epilogue: The Future of Ceremonial Magick—by Brandy Williams 435
Wherein the narrator sets out to explore the future, confronts Despair, and emerges with Hope.

About the Editors 463

Index 465

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