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The Veritable Key of Solomon

Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

 

              

      Colour Version                      Trade Version

 

** three entirely new versions of the Key of Solomon in one volume, never before published **

 

NB: there are two editions of this book. Both with 448 pages, and the same text content:

 

1. A version with all the pentacles in full colour as in the original manuscript, hand bound in half leather and buckram, with marbled endpapers and hand gold stamped, limited to only 350 numbered and signed copies which is being published by Golden Hoard Press. The is the most beautiful and detailed grimoire ever published. With introduction by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine. This edition will only be available for purchase online. This is a book that every practicing magician must have.

 

The source is two French manuscripts scribed for a French aristocrat in 1796.  This is not the earliest, but it is the most detailed version of the Key of Solomon. The book contains three separate versions of the Keys, in order to cover as much of the material as possible. Commentary on all the manuscripts including the earlier Greek manuscripts of the Key of Solomon are part of the introduction.

 

* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press

* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-8-5

* Price : £96.00 (UK) /  Approx $189.00 (US) plus P&P of £10.00

              Airmailed in its own protective document case.

* Pages : 448 pages 176mm x 250mm

* Published : September 2008

 

Published in the US by Llewellyn, and available from your usual supplier of Llewellyn books, or direct from: www.llewellyn.com

 

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The Goetia of Dr Rudd

Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

 

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The Goetia is the most famous grimoire after the Key of Solomon. This volume contains a transcription of a hitherto unpublished manuscript of the Lemegeton which includes four whole grimoires:

 

Liber Malorum Spituum seu Goetia

Theurgia-Goetia

Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2)

Ars Almadel

 

This was owned by Dr Thomas Rudd, a practicing scholar-magician of the early seventeenth century. There are many editions of the Goetia, of which the most definitive is that of Joseph Peterson, but here we are interested in how the Goetia  was actually used by practising magicians in the 16th and 17th century, before the knowledge of practical magic faded into obscurity.

 

To evoke the 72 demons listed here without the ability to bind them would be foolhardy indeed. It was well known in times past that invocatio and ligatio,  or binding, was a key part of evocation, but in the modern editions of the Goetia this key technique is expressed in just one word  ‘Shemhamphorash’, and its use is not explained.

 

This volume explains how the 72 angels of the Shemhamphorash are used to bind the spirits, and the correct procedure for safely invoking them using dual seals incorporating the necessary controlling Shem angel, whose name is also engraved on the breastplate and Brass Vessel.

 

* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press

* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-2-3

* Price : $72.00 (US) / £40.00 (UK)

* Pages : 448 pages

* Published : May 2007

 

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The Complete Magician's Tables

Stephen Skinner

 

 

Partial List of Contents

 

Alchemy and Alchemists

Angels: Biblical and Gnostic

Astrology: Zodiac, Planets, Decans, Mansions of the Moon,

Fixed Stars and Constellations

Buddhist Meditation

Colour Scales

Demons

Dr John Dee’s Angels

Emblems

Feng Shui and Taoist Magic

Gematria

Geomancy

Grimoires

Herbs

Isopsephy

Kabbalah

Letters, Alphabets & Numbers

Magic and Sorcery

Natural Magic: Plants, Stones

Orders, Grades and Officers

Pagan Pantheons     

Perfumes & Incenses

Planetary & Olympic Spirits

Questing and Chivalry

Sacred Geometry     

Tarot

Timeline: Magicians, Kabbalists, Alchemists, Astrologers, Knights Templar

Vedic and Hindu Meditation and Magic

Wheel of the Year: Hours, Months, Seasons, Festivals

Yi Jing / I Ching

The Complete Magician's Tables

 

The Complete Magician's Tables These more than 800 magical tables are the most complete set of tabular correspondences covering magic, astrology, divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels, demons, pagan pantheons, religious and mystical correspondences ever printed. They are more than four times larger and more wide ranging than Crowley’s Liber 777.

 

The source of the data in these tables ranges from unpublished manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano, Abbott Trithemius, Albertus Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers (and the editors of Mathers’ work, Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie),  to the most modern theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the Lemegeton (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the 20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon.

 

All this material has been grouped and presented in a consistent and logical way covering the whole Western Mystery tradition and some relevant parts of the Eastern tradition.

 

 

* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press (Singapore and UK), Llewellyn (US)

* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-7-9 / 0738711640 (US)

* Price : £30.00 (UK) / Approx $60.00 (US) / Ordinary hardback edition

              Limited (250 copies) signed, full bonded leather collector's edition $164.00 (US) / £96.00 (UK)

* Pages : 448 pages with 16 illustrations, 800+ Tables

* Published : May 2007

 

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The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dees's Enochian Tables

Tabula Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes

Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

 

 

From two previously unpublished 17th century manuscripts on Angel Magic, with instructions for their use as used by Wynn Westcott, Alan Bennett, Rev. Ayton, F L Gardiner and other early members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

 

The authors have discovered what happened to John Dee's most important manuscript, his book of personal angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed by 17th century magicians into a full working magical system. How only a small part of this material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880's. Even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, and it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals.

 

They have also traced how the classical techniques of invocation and evocation drawn from late mediaeval grimoires, were passed through John Dee's magic, via Elias Ashmole, to the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, including some of the most powerful and influential figures in England.

 

In the 20th century many fanciful constructions were added to GD Enochian by writers such as Aleister Crowley, who were however all unaware of the completely developed system that already existed, and which is here published in full for the first time.

 

* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press

* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-0-9

* Price : $65.00 (US) / £35.00 (UK)

* Pages : 292 pages with 5 illustrations

* Published : 2004

 

Full transcription of 4 key magical manuscript in the British Library, and in the Bodleian Library. The 17th century summation of John Dee's works.

 

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The Keys to the Gateway of Magic:

Summoning the Solomonic Archangels and Demon Princes

Stephen Skinner & David Rankine

 

 

This work includes the complete unabridged version with variants of The Nine Great Keys, a vital early 17th century manuscript detailing the evocation of the Archangels and Orders of Angels. The practical techniques of summoning the Archangels, details of the hierarchies of spiritual beings, and how the Enochian system fits in with the Angelic and Demonic hierarchies are all covered, as well as the theology and philosophy associated with Angelic magic, giving the context that the pioneers of Angel magic were working within.

 

Additionally the evocation of the four Demon Princes and their role within the system of magic which can now be seen to cover all spiritual creatures from Archangels to Demons to Olympic Spirits and Elementals is also presented in detail with rare manuscript material being made available for the first time. Amongst the rare material is a previously unknown and beautifully illustrated text dealing excusively with the Demon Princes.

 

* Publisher : Golden Hoard Press

* ISBN : 978-0-9547639-1-6

* Price : £35.00

* Pages : 255

* Published : 2005

 

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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code

Stephen Skinner

 

 

A book that ties together many of the strands of Sacred Geometry and disperses many New Age myths that have grown up round this subject, getting back to the actual geometry in each case.    

 

Contents

 

PART 1 THE HIDDEN ORDER

 

1 WHAT IS SACRED?

Temples, places of worship and gateways to other worlds

 

2 WHY GEOMETRY?

Magic numbers and sacred spaces.

Night sky, time, seasons.

Music, vibration and number.

Prime numbers, fractions and decimals

Measuring the Earth.

Arithmetic of growth

 

3 PURE GEOMETRY

Why geometry is sacred.

Squaring the circle.

Curves and logarithmic spirals.

The five Platonic solids.

The thirteen Archimedean solids.

Mandelbrot, fractals and chaotic repetition.

Time cycles: geometry for prediction.

 

PART 2 THE GEOMETRY OF NATURE

 

4 LIFE'S GEOMETRY

Geometry of Earth's magnetic field.

Crystal structure.

Fibonacci series in nature.

Living spirals: nautilus and ammonite.

Living water, snow flakes.

Meandering rivers/flow and turbulence.

Geometry of genetics.

 

5 GEOMETRY IN ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY

Key sky markers.

Orbits of planets and Platonic solids.

Mapping the world.

 

6 GEOMETRY AND LANDSCAPE

The Sacred Four Quarters.

Natural energy in landscape.

Ley-lines.

Real feng shui at work.

Crop circles.

 

PART 3 THE MAN-MADE WORLD

 

7 GEOMETRY OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE

Engineering sacred space .

Astronomical orientation.

 

8 SACRED GEOMETRY IN ART

Mandalas

Pagan images in Renaissance paintings.

Composition and perspective in sacred paintings.

Pousson's coded symbolism.

Da Vinci's use of geometry.

* Publisher : Gaia / Hamlyn (UK)/ Sterling (US)
* ISBN : 1856752623
* Price : U$24.95 / £16.99
* Pages : 160
* Illustrations : Profusely illustrated with many intriguing illustrations. Full colour throughout.
* Published : November 2006

 

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Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

Edited and Introduced by Stephen Skinner (the only complete edition in English)

 

                                 

Modern Text Edition 2005           First Facsimile Edition 1978*

 

Henry Cornelius Agrippa's  Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy actually contains 6 complete and separate books. This book contains two of the most important texts on the practice of evocation:

 

Of Magical Ceremonies – Henry Cornelius Agrippa [contains several of the real keys to practical evocation]

Heptameron : or, Magical Elements – Peter de Abano [a classic and very effective grimoire]

Of the Nature of such Spirits – Georg Villinganus

Arbatel of Magick: Of the Magick of the Ancients

Of Geomancy – Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Of Astronomical Geomancy – Gerard Cremonensis

 

* Publisher : Askin / Nicolas Hayes / Ibis Press

* ISBN : 0892541008

* Price : $40.00

* Pages : 224 pages

* Published : First complete edition reset in modern type with Commentary and Notes by Stephen Skinner in 2005

 

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[*Stephen originally published the first facsimile edition through Askin Publishers in 1978]

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The Archidoxes of Magic - Paracelsus

Introduction by Stephen Skinner

 

 

* Publisher : Nicolas Hayes

* ISBN : 0892540974

* Price : $16.95

* Pages : 192 pages

* Published : 2005

 

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Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley - The Tunis period

Edited by Stephen Skinner

 

           

 

* Publisher : Neville Spearman / Red Wheel Weiser

* ISBN : 0877288569

* Price : $16.95

* Pages : 272 pages

* Published : 1996

 

The Tunis Diaries of Aleister Crowley, edited by Stephen Skinner. These provide a detailed insight to Crowley's day to day life in North Africa after he left the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu.

 

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Nostradamus - The Prophecies of Nostradamus

Stephen Skinner & Francis King

 

         

 

* Publisher : Carlton Books (and many other publishers)

* ISBN : 185868014X

* Price :

* Pages : 176 pages with more than 250 full colour photos

* Published : 1993

 

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Millennium Prophecies : Predictions for the Year 2000 and Beyond

Stephen Skinner

 

 

* Publisher : Carlton Books 

* ISBN : 1858680344 / 1852275456

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* Pages : 160 pages with more than 250 full colour photos

* Published : 1994

 

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Techniques of High Magic

Stephen Skinner & Francis King

 

          

 

* Publisher : Inner Traditions (US) / Affinity Publishers (UK)

* ISBN : 08928135004 (US) / 190157009 (UK)

* Price : £9.95

* Pages : 228 pages with many line illustrations

* Published : 1976, 1997, 2005

 

A Classic and influential text book of Golden Dawn style high magic.

 

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Divination by Geomancy : Terrestrial Astrology

Stephen Skinner

 

          ** NEW EXPANDED EDITION DUE OUT SOON **

 

* Publisher : RKP/ Golden Hoard

* ISBN : 0710005539

* Price : £18.00

* Pages : 293 (new edition 336 pages)

* Published : 1980

 

The primary scholarly source for the study of the history and practice of Western divinatory  geomancy.

 

[Out of print but due to be reprinted by Golden Hoard Press in 2007

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Oracle of Geomancy

Stephen Skinner

 

         

 

* Publisher : Warner Destiny / Prism

* ISBN : 0446894737 / 0907061826

* Price : £6.95

* Pages : 400

* Published : 1977, 1986

 

A popular book on Western geomancy with look up tables for typical questions.

 

[Out of print]

[Rights available for republication]

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The Search for Abraxas

Stephen Skinner & Neville Drury

 

 

* Publisher : Neville Spearman

* ISBN : 854353216

* Price : £2.50

* Pages : 138 pages with 20 illustrations

* Published : 1972

 

[Out of print]

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In Pursuit of Gold

Stephen Skinner & Lapidus

 

 

* Publisher : Neville Spearman

* ISBN : 0854350438

* Price : £88.00

* Pages : 176 pages

* Published : 1976

 

A classic of physical antimony based alchemy written in collaboration with one of the greatest of England's last remaining laboratory oriented alchemists, who knew and corresponded with Aleister Crowley. Israel Regardie was also experimenting with antimony along the same lines.

 

[Out of print]

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Aleister Crowley’s Astrology

 

* Publisher : Neville Spearman

* ISBN : 0859780015

* Price : £35.50

* Pages : 244 pages

* Published : 1974

 

The first ever edition of Crowley's astrological writings edited by Stephen Skinner.

 

[Out of print]

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Foreign Editions:

Stephen Skinner’s books have been published in English (separate editions appearing in UK, US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Singapore, etc), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Dutch, Czechoslovakian, Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, etc. A small selection of these appears below :

                                       

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