Full Description
Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick features the greatest minds of magick assembled in one place, available as a limited-edition hardcover as well as a trade paperback edition. Compiled by two of the leading figures in the magick community, this new title in Llewellyn s Complete Book series includes more than 650 pages of insights into magical systems, techniques, grimoires, correspondences, and practices. These two outstanding editions of Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick are must-haves for collectors and for magical practitioners with a variety of experience levels. Twelve extensive chapters each explore an aspect of the fascinating tapestry that is ceremonial magick, focusing on practical knowledge that can be put to use by ceremonial magicians from many different traditions or backgrounds. This comprehensive work is filled with practical historical perspectives as well as fresh insights, including working with Notariqon, Gematria, and Temurah in the Qabalah tradition; an in-depth analysis of historical grimoires and their registers of spirits; step-by-step instructions for six alchemical workings; example rituals of planetary magick for devotion and talismanic preparation; Enochian magick from John Dee to the Golden Dawn; a deeply personal description of the Abra-melin operation; an overview of Aleister Crowley s syncretic influence on working Golden Dawn magick using polytheist symbolism, with step-by-step instructions for several rituals; and a glimpse into the future of ceremonial magick.
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
