An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke

Two decades before John Dee or Simon Forman began their crystal-gazing experiments, Gilbert and his scryer Davis conjured spirits with violent methods and stripped down Protestant ritual. The pair received a series of striking magical visions, phenomena and spirit encounters both inside and outside the shewstone.

The Excellent Booke and Visions are, as Legard writes in his Preface, ‘unique documents of sixteenth century magical practice: ones that deserve to be widely read and studied by scholars and practitioners alike since they preserve a detailed account of both the making and the use of a grimoire.’ A book of particular note to those interested in Azazel and necromantic traditions, students of the grimoires and the practical workings of dirty medieval magic.

The pre-order for the standard hardback and fine editions will open on 27th November, with publication late December 2019 or early 2020.

Ajar To The Night

We are delighted to welcome Autumn Richardson to Scarlet Imprint. Autumn is the co-founder, with Richard Skelton, of Corbel Stone Press, one of the UK’s foremost small presses dedicated to writing about landscape and nature. Her work grants quiet attention to the natural world, filtered through a prism of ecology, botanical medicine, mythology and esoteric philosophy. Her writing lifts the occult or unseen to the reader’s attention.

Ajar To The Night comprises three poems. Sensual, spare, startling and visceral works.

Black Abbot, White Magic

Frater Acher returns with Black Abbot, White Magic: Johan Trithemius and the Angelic Mind, a masterful second volume in his Holy Daimon cycle. The book deals with the magical legacy of Johan Trithemius. The ‘black abbot’ should be considered the central figure in the evolution of the Western esoteric tradition, the character behind many of the legends now attributed to Dr. Johan Faust, he was the teacher of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and a magical role model to John Dee and Paracelsus. New material shines light on Trithemius’ own magical practice, with the translation and analysis of manuscripts attributed to his teacher Pelagius the Hermit of Majorca, as well as their mysterious intermediary, Libanus Gallus. The text includes a biography of Trithemius from leading scholar Professor Klaus Arnold, and concludes with Acher revealing the practical premises that connect Trithemius’ ‘theologica magica’ with the Ancient Greek myths aimed at apotheosis: becoming divine.

Publication Summer 2020.

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Peter and Alkistis