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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum: Ashmole’s Alchemical England
In 1652 Elias Ashmole printed the alchemical verse of medieval England from manuscripts he had hunted for years. Anthology, manifesto, and founding act of the history of science.
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The Wonders of Creation: al-Qazwini’s Cosmography
A complete cosmography and guided tour of everything, arranged from the highest heaven downward.
British Goblins: An American Consul Maps the Welsh Otherworld
Wirt Sikes' 1880 survey remains one of the most readable doors into a genuinely distinct fairy tradition.
Occult Chemistry (1908): Clairvoyance Meets the Periodic Table
Besant and Leadbeater observe the atom via clairvoyance.
The I Ching: Divination by the Book of Changes
The oldest divinatory system in continuous documented use.
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Foundations & Practice
The Practice, Part I: Building a Foundation
Stillness and the Will of the Magician
Hekas, Hekas, Este Bebeloi: On Banishing
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
The Initiation Never Ends
Working across Belief Systems without Overthinking It
From the Broom Closet
I: Secrecy and the Hidden Practice
II: The Occultism of the Spice Cabinet
III: Beyond the Spice Cabinet
IV: Cartomancy with Playing Cards
Chaos Magick
Chaos ab Ordo: A Short History of Chaos Magick
Sigils: History and Method
Paradigm Shifting: Reinvention as Method in Chaos Magick
Models of Magic: Spirit, Energy, Psyche, Information
Tarot as Talisman: Card Magic in the Chaos Tradition
Servitors: Constructed Spirits in Modern Magic
Magical Alphabets: From Theban Script to the Alphabet of Desire
Pop Culture Magic and the Hypersigil
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026): An Appraisal
Spirits & Animism
What Is a Spirit? Ontologies of the Invisible
The World Is Full of Persons: Animism Old and New
Focalor: A Spirit of the Lemegeton
King Paimon: A Spirit of the Lemegeton
Dantalion: A Spirit of the Lemegeton
Jake Stratton-Kent and the Geosophic Turn
The Art of Hedge Riding
Part I: The Witch at the Boundary
Part II: Crossing the Hedge
Part III: Technique and Trance
Part IV: The Return
Divination & the Heavens
Dowsing and Water Witching: A History
A Winter Study of Halos: Atmospheric Optics and Omens
Retrogrades: Apparent Motion and Astrological Meaning
The I Ching: Divination by the Book of Changes
From the Library
The Corpus Hermeticum: The Book That Relaunched Magic
The Picatrix: A Manual of Astrological Magic
John Dee and the Angelic Conversations
The Witches’ Ointment: Flight, Pharmacology, and the Historians
Occult Chemistry (1908): Clairvoyance Meets the Periodic Table
British Goblins (1880): An American Consul Maps the Welsh Otherworld
The Wonders of Creation: al-Qazwini’s Cosmography
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652): Ashmole’s Alchemical England