"Somehow, we ought to get away from ideas that a Standing Stone is only an outworn sign of our past, and see it as an upraised Finger of Fate beckoning us ahead toward our future. The Stone is not merely a memorial of bygone beliefs, but a pointer that should raise our highest hopes of finding faith in all the Life that lies ahead of us."

In the early 1970s the redoubtable old occultist William G. Gray bicycled from his Gloucestershire home to the Rollright stone circle in Oxfordshire on a clear and full-mooned summer night. The visionary experiences he encountered on that night and in other similar visits resulted in the writing of this book, originally published by Helios Books in 1975 and now a classic among pagan and craft traditions. The text of the ritual is given in full, along with a discussion of its pattern and purpose.

The Rollright Ritual is a powerful initiatory rite for attuning oneself to a personal and communal path of spiritual growth, presented here with an explanatory text and a discussion of the spiritual lives and practices of the stone circle builders of Great Britain.

William G. Gray is a well established author of many books on Qabalah and ritual magic. He also worked with many practitioners of traditional witchcraft including Doreen Valiente, Pat Crowther and notably Robert Cochrane, in whose memory The Rollright Ritual was written. William G. Gray died in 1992.

This edition of The Rollright Ritual is the complete and unabridged text from the 1975 Helios edition. It contains all the original photographs, plus two additional ones which were submitted for the original edition but not used.

The original 1973 audio recording made to accompany the book, featuring the voices of William G. Gray and R.J. Stewart with powerfully evocative music, is also now available on CD from R.J. Stewart Books.

ISBN: 978-1-908011-17-6
Copyright: Marcia Pickands/William G. Gray
Language: English
Pages: 142  
Binding: perfect-bound paperback
Interior print: black & white, with photographs
Dimensions: 15.2cm wide × 22.9cm tall (6 x 9 in)

Published February 21st 2011

£10.95

$16.95