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Stephen Skinner is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. He was responsible for introducing real feng shui to the West, and wrote the first 20th century English book on the subject in 1976. His first profession was that of Geography Lecturer, at what is now the University of Technology in Sydney. He spends his time writing, teaching and researching feng shui and the Western Hermetic tradition.
During the 1970s he was the driving force behind Askin Publishers, producing lovely editions of classic magical works such as Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and the Archidoxes of Magic by Paracelsus, several titles by Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Dr Donald Laycock (The Enochian Dictionary) and others, all of which are now collector’s items. The first of these was a huge quarter leather edition of the primary source book of Enochian magic, the True & Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr John Dee…and some Spirits. During the 1970s he co-wrote books with Francis King, including the still popular Techniques of High Magic, which has gone through many editions since it was first released. Also with Francis King he wrote Nostradamus. Then he followed this with the best selling Millennium Prophecies.
His interest in Western geomancy spurred him on to create the most complete and classic work in that field Terrestrial Astrology which is soon being reprinted as Geomancy in Theory and Practice.
In 2004 he began publishing Source Works of Ceremonial Magic. The first title was The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee’s Enochian Tables with co-author David Rankine, opening the doors on real 17th century angel magic in a way never done before. This was followed by The Keys to The Gateway of Magic and then The Goetia of Dr Rudd, a complete 17th century version of the Lemegeton as used by a practising magician. He and David Rankine produced a new edition of three versions of the most famous grimoire, the Key of Solomon as The Veritable Key of Solomon. Most recently they deciphered and translated the Grimoire of St Cyprian, the Clavis Inferni.
In 2006 he published The Complete Magician's Tables with complete tables of Magic, Kabbalistic, Angelic, Astrologic, Alchemic, Demonic, Geomantic, Grimoire, Gematria, I Ching, Tarot, Pagan Pantheon, Plant, Perfume and Character Correspondences in more than 800 Tables, four times as many tables as Aleister, Crowley's Liber 777, or any other imitator.
He was responsible for launching and publishing the first full
colour magazine on feng shui, Feng Shui For Modern Living, which
was distributed in 41 countries with translated editions in German and
even in Chinese. At
its peak the English edition sold over 121,000 audited copies per month, and Stephen
was nominated at the PPA awards as UK 'Publisher of the Year' (the UK print media equivalent of the Oscars).
He was educated at Sydney University graduating in English Literature, Geography and Ancient Greek Philosophy. His interests include feng shui, ancient civilisations, geometry, travel, computers, magic and the Middle Ages. He is the author of more than 30 books published worldwide in 20 different languages. His books have had introductions by such diverse people as Colin Wilson, HRH Charles Prince of Wales, and Jimmy Choo shoe designer to the stars.
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series - Volume V
CLOTH EDITION 200 Copies 96 pages, 176mm x 250mm 11 full colour illustrations,1 table Price: £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed ISBN: 978-0-9557387-1-5 --------------------------------------------------- of 100 half leather hand bound numbered & signed copies 96 pages, 176mm x 250mm Price: £72.00 (Approx US$117.00) plus P&P of £10.00
ISBN: 978-0-9557387-4-6 Click to Order Published November 2009
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The Grimoire of St. Cyprian - Clavis Inferni Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
The Grimoire of St. Cyprian - There have been many grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his conversion to Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as the present manuscript.
This unique manuscript (unlike the more rustic examples attributed to St Cyprian of the Black Books of Wittenburg as found in Scandinavia, or the texts disseminated under his name in Spain and Portugal) is directly in line with the Solomonic tradition, and therefore relevant to our present series of Sourceworks of the Ceremonial Magic.
It is unique in that instead of being weighed down with many prayers and conjurations it addresses the summoning and use of both the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The later are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a resource unique amongst grimoires.
The text is in a mixture of three magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) with many contractions and shortforms, but expanded and made plain by the editors. The title of the manuscript, Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona, literally means ‘The Key of Hell with white and black magic as proven by Metatron’.
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100 pages, 176mm x 250mm
Price: £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed
ISBN: 978-0-9557387-2-2 Publication: January 2010
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Michael Psellus on the Operation of Dæmons translated by Marcus Collisson. Introduced by Stephen Skinner
Michael Constantine Psellus (1018 – 1178 C.E) was one of the most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its intellectual legacies helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance.
It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that released a tide of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe, particularly Venice. With them came much of the magical and Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn had inherited from the Egyptians. The Key of Solomon was one such text. It is therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts that one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the ancient world, Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire conception of the nature of daemons.
Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus’ career was an illustrious and practical one, serving as a political advisor to a succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in the transition of power between various monarchs. He became the leading professor at the newly founded University of Constantinople, bearing the honourary title, ‘Consul of the Philosophers’. He was the driving force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasize the Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus is credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music, theology, jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history. |
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384 pages, 176mm x 250mm 14 illustrations many diagrams, 10 tables
Price: £39.95 (Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
ISBN: 978-0-9557387-0-8 Publication: February 2010
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Geomancy in Theory & Practice Stephen Skinner
Geomancy - divination by earth - ranks alongside the tarot, astrology and the I Ching as a major form of divination. Since the Renaissance it has largely fallen out of favour for want of generally available information on its practice. This is the first and most comprehensive book in English to cover the full historical background and practice of divinatory geomancy, and will therefore be invaluable to all those interested in divination, magic and astrology. It is the only complete history in any language, covering geomancy's various manifestations in different cultures, as well as being a practical manual showing how to cast and interpret geomantic figures.
Drawing on material from Latin, French, German and Arabic manuscript and book sources, Stephen Skinner explores the roots of geomancy in the Islamic raml divination of northern Africa, which lead to Fa, Ifa and voodoo divinatory practices on the West Coast and sikidy in Madagascar. He examines the impact Islamic geomancy had on medieval Europe, where it rose to prominence and became, after astrology, the prime method of divination. It even resulted in the creation of an amazingly complex brass 12th century geomancy calculator. The part it played in Renaissance thinking and in the great astrological revival of the nineteenth century is followed by an examination of its use in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its declining influence in the twentieth century only to be revived again in the last decade. This western geomancy is not, and has nothing to do with, feng shui.
The second section of the book is concerned with the practice, manipulation and generation of geomantic figures as standardized in Europe, and gives practical examples as a guide to the interpretation and practice of the art. Also covers astro-geomany which relates astrology and geomancy as shown in the cover picture.
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series - Volume IV
LIMITED EDITION
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BONDED LEATHER 448 pages, 176mm x 250mm many full colour diagrams talismans and tablesables
Price: £96.00 (Approx US$150.00) FREE P&P in its very own protective document case
ISBN: 978-0-9547639-8-5
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The Veritable Key of Solomon Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
** 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 published by Golden Hoard Press. The is the most beautiful and detailed grimoire ever published. With detailed 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. It is much more complete than the Mathers edition Commentary on all the manuscripts including illustrations from the earlier Greek manuscripts of the Key of Solomon.
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448 pages, 176mm x 250mm
USA US$65.00 CANADA CAN$74.95 ISBN: 978-0-7387-1453-0
Published in the US by Llewellyn, and
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2. A black and white 448 pages hardback trade edition published by Llewellyn 978-0-7387-1453-0. It has the same content, without the colour or the leather binding. |
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Virtually a Complete Compendium of Classical feng shui
hardback with dust jacket 65 tables, 174 illustration 32 colour pates
Price: reduced to £39.95(Approx US$65.00) plus P&P of £10.00 airmailed in its very own protective document case
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Guide to the Feng Shui Compass or lo p'an : a Compendium of Classical feng shui. Including a history of feng shui, a detailed description of 75 rings of the lo p'an, and a feng shui time line. Stephen Skinner
Material never before available in English…and difficult to find even in Chinese
How to read the San He and San Yuan lo p'an, with an explanation of each ring in detail, the history and background of feng shui and the lo p'an (luo pan).
This large book is 448 pages in size, and packed with detailed information which is very clearly explained, so that after reading it anyone should be comfortable reading even the most complex lo p'an. This book is the result of 30 years of research and practice. More than 50 rings are illustrated, tabulated, and classified by Plate and School, with their use and history. Anyone reading the book can go from being a complete novice to complete familiarity with any lo p'an, ancient or modern that they may pick up. It clearly explains for the first time in English how feng shui developed and the relationship between the San He and San Yuan Schools.
There are 65 Tables, 174 illustrations, and 32 full colour plates. These include rare pictures and analyses of Ming and Ch'ing (Qing) dynasty lo p'ans.
Every technical term, book title, or person's name, is carefully footnoted in traditional Chinese characters with supporting pinyin and Wade-Giles transliterations. There is a also a detailed feng shui history time line.
The book may not be available through bookstores.
"No Classical feng shui practitioner can afford to be without this book.”
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Partial List of Contents
A Short History of Feng Shui History of the Compass - Misconceptions The Shih Board The Chai Ching Earth Plate Reading the Lo P’an How to Align the Lo P’an Tricks of the Trade How to Buy a Lo P’an Physical Structure of the Lo P’an The Rings of the Lo P’an Rings, Plates and Needles Mistaken Western Identifications The 4 Seasons and Celestial Animals The 8 Mountain Killings or yao sha The 8 Wandering Stars of the 8 Mansions The 9 Flying Stars or fei hsing The 9 Numbers of the Lo Shu The 10 Heavenly Stems or t’ien kan The 12 Earthly Branches or ti chih The 12 Jupiter Years or tz’u The 12 Life Stages Palaces or kung The 12 Provincial divisions or fen yeh The 12 Sovereign Hexagrams or p’i kua |
The 12 Yellow Springs or huang ch'üan The 24 Heaven Stars or t'ien hsing The 24 Mini-Seasons or chieh ch’i The 24 Mountains or shan The 24 Robbery Sha or chieh sha The 28 Lunar Mansions or hsiu The 60 Earth-Penetrating Dragons or tou ti lung The 60 Root Hexagrams or pen kua (San He) The 60 Sexagenary Combinations or chia tzu The 60 Uneven Dragons or ying so The 64 Hexagrams or kua The 72 Mountain-Piercing Dragons The 120 Golden Divisions or fen chin The 240 Golden Divisions or fen chin The 360 new Western degrees or hsien tu The 365.25 Chinese day-degrees or tu The 384 Hexagram lines or kua yao The 940 Degrees of the Complete Calendar or shou shih li The ‘Alphabet’ of Feng Shui Chinese Dynasties and Feng Shui Chronology The Schools of Feng Shui Catalogue of Common Lo P'an Rings
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The Complete Magician's Tables Stephen Skinner
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.
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Partial List of Contents
Alchemy and Alchemists Angels: Biblical and Gnostic Astrology: Zodiac, Planets, Decans, Mansions 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
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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 |
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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series - Volume III
ORDINARY EDITION 448 pages hardback with dust wrapper 19 illustrations, 12 tables
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The Goetia of Dr Rudd Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
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 complete grimoires:
Liber Malorum Spituum seu Goetia Theurgia-Goetia Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2) Ars Almadel
This manuscript 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.
Many practical techniques used in the past have since been forgotten. The authors restore these using Dr. Rudd's manuscript. For example, 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.
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