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Windleroot

WINDLEROOT
Gordon Strong

Dick Symes leads a cast of Dickensian characters in this rollicking magic-tinged tale.  After cavorting with strange beings from the 27th Dimension and inheriting an empowering object, the hero leads a campy caper to the town of Windleroot and its various peculiar environs such as the Nob, the Isle of Teflon, and the Crumpled Horn.

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Egypt is the River

...AND EGYPT IS THE RIVER
Michael S. Judge

Explore the world of Hibou, the experiential, Klang, the experienced, and the 3rd, who oscillates somewhere in between. The reader will embark upon a brave and exploratory work in which he or she will have to embrace a new language, one that evolves as a physiological outgrowth of such a world. In good literary company, Michael S. Judge deftly manages to dispense with the cloying parameters of time and place and send the reader into a world of strange amalgamated scopes and scapes.

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SUICIDE BRIDGE
Iain Sinclair

A brand new edition comprising the most complete version of Suicide Bridge yet published. It includes three extra "books" of material, which formed part of the original work but was not included in previous editions. It also includes photographs and artwork from the 1979 Albion Village Press edition, along with additional photos by the author.

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STEWART FARRAR: Writer on a Broomstick
Elizabeth Guerra & Janet Farrar

In 1969, at the age of 53, Stewart Farrar met Alex Sanders – the infamous "King of the Witches" – and his wife Maxine while interviewing the couple for Reveille. The encounter introduced him to a world of Witchcraft and magic and changed the course of his life. Stewart Farrar found Witchcraft by accident but devoted the rest of his life to it by educating others. This book tracks Farrar's development from an eager and talented adolescent to a gifted journalist and script writer and finally to his later life as a practitioner of Wicca and author of many books on the subject.

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MAGICAL IMAGINATION: THE KEYS TO MAGIC
Nick Farrell

Based on Nick Farrell’s previous book Magical Pathworking, this greatly revised and expanded edition includes new chapters which further develop the techniques of pathworking for magical and spiritual purposes. It covers group work, divination, visiting other inner world dimensions and working towards what Farrell calls ‘objective pathworking.’

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE GREAT ENCHANTMENT Steve Blamires

William Sharp (1855-1905) was a prolific writer; friend and confidant to the literati of the day; an active member of the occult world of the late Victorian period; and a man who spent his life cloaked in layers of secrets – the most important being that he was the pen behind the writings of the mysterious Fiona Macleod. For the first time this book reveals previously unknown secrets from the life of William Sharp and shows clearly how to recover the Faery lore contained in Fiona Macleod’s literary output.

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THE SAVOY TRUFFLE
Patrick Harpur

The Savoy Truffle is a witty, dramatic novel about life in Britain's richest, wildest Surrey suburb in the early 1960s, and comes to us from an acclaimed author best known for his philosophical works, including The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination and Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth.

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THE FAERY GATES OF AVALON
Gareth Knight

The knights of King Arthur’s Round Table – Erec, Lancelot, Yvain, Perceval and Gawain – first appeared in the works of Chrétien de Troyes, who cast into Old French stories told by Welsh and Breton story tellers which had their origin in Celtic myth and legend. Chrétien wrote at a time when faery lore was still taken seriously – some leading families even claimed descent from faery ancestors! So we do well to look again at these early stories, for they were written not so much in terms of mystical quests or examples of military chivalry but records of initiation into Otherworld dynamics.

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Melusine

THE BOOK OF MELUSINE OF LUSIGNAN
edited by Gareth Knight

Drawing upon the best available sources, translated from the French by Gareth Knight, this book provides a collection of material to give an all round picture of the remarkable faery Melusine of Lusignan: her town, her church, her immediate family, and the great Lusignan dynasty she founded.

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  Groundlings of Divine Will

THE GROUNDLINGS OF DIVINE WILL
Daniel Staniforth

Staniforth is not afraid to dip into the cosmic trough and find magical pearls among the swine; the flashing twists and barbs of his heretic wit had me going up and down for hours. — Rev. Obadiah Horseworthy

The reader will be initiated into the amalgamated and timeless world of the Groundlings to see how their invective gospel simply illustrates how discourse, rhetoric and that grandiloquent power of oration serves as the strongest definition for our collective place in history.

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ANTIPHONAL AIRS
Joseph Noble

A sumptuous collection by poet-musician Joseph Noble. The certainty of his pitch & intonation reveals a distinct tender voice. Measured, graceful, his work sustains its depth throughout. The first section on "early music" is revelatory in its range & insight. Rich in historical acumen, musical heart, Antiphonal Airs an impressive body of work.
— David Meltzer

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  Kaleidoscopic Omniscience

KALEIDOSCOPIC OMNISCIENCE
Will Alexander

Kaleidoscopic Omniscience is a new collection from lingual contortionist and poetic sage Will Alexander, featuring his early works – Asia & Haiti, The Stratospheric Canticles, and Impulse & Nothingness. Alexander’s prismatic and oracular voice cascades around bi-geographic confrontations, painterly morphologies, and the cosmology of the void.

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  Forgotten Faith

THE FORGOTTEN FAITH
Anthony Duncan

This book by Anglican cleric Anthony Duncan examines the lives of the Celtic saints in the context of their time, along with the sacred places in the landscape that have become associated with them. It includes such figures as Patrick, Columba, Ninian, Dewi (St David), Kentigern, Maelrubha, Cadog, Padarn, Samson, Melangell, Teilo and St Paul Aurelian.

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  Magical Images

MAGICAL IMAGES AND THE MAGICAL IMAGINATION
Gareth Knight

Indispensible for beginners and advanced practitioners alike, this book presents the theory and techniques of creative visualisation and meditation. These practical teachings range from the circulation of force within the aura for the purpose of balancing the personality to the development of a full magical system of pathworking, enabling contact with inner sources of wisdom.

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  Arthurian Legend

THE SECRET TRADITION IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND
Gareth Knight

The Arthurian stories are the most famous and most haunting of all British legends, which draw their inspiration from Greek, Irish and even Atlantean myth. This book takes in turn the core grades of Arthur, Merlin, Guenevere and the Holy Grail to build a complete magical tradition. The central themes and characters are brought to life with clear and thorough explanations of their underlying symbolism, while the ancient pattern that is woven around the Arthuriad is carefully unravelled and its full esoteric significance revealed.

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  Fiona Macleod

THE CHRONICLES OF THE SIDHE
Steve Blamires

A ground-breaking assessment of the Faery lore within Fiona Macleod's literary output. Exploring the mythology and traditions of Faery, their symbolic and magical significance, and the devices employed by Fiona in the transmission of Faery teachings and inspirations, this detailed interpretation will enable the reader to tease out the Faery gems that are still to be found woven into the lines and verse of her writings.

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  Song of the Sea God

SONG OF THE SEA GOD
Chris Hill

Along with the strange flotsam of the sea, the aptly named John Love drifts in on the grey tide to an island off the English coast. The stranger, both bedazzling and unnerving, effects an immediate messianic glow upon the bladder-wracked community of odds and sods, making disciples of the most unlikely characters.

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  Stanton Drew

THE SACRED STONE CIRCLES OF STANTON DREW
Gordon Strong

The village of Stanton Drew in north Somerset is host to a remarkable group of ancient monuments which together comprise the third largest collection of standing stones in England. The Great Circle, the largest of its three stone circles, encloses an area of 2000 square metres, exceeding the dimensions of Stonehenge. Recent archaeology has revealed evidence of a substantial woodhenge at Stanton Drew, underlining its importance as a major ritual centre of the Neolithic age.

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  Interlocutors of Paradise

INTERLOCUTORS OF PARADISE
Martin Anderson

"Beautiful writing — treasure trove of emanations: orchards, hedgerows, meadows, coastlines, a land I used to know and still love in the nerves. A stilling for the nerves. The texture thick with an ancient country's history now learning to trace back, through all its exploitations, the sources of an elegy for lost empire. Has English poetry made the best out of that drawn-out loss?"
                                                        — Nathaniel Tarn

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  Stoning the Devil

STONING THE DEVIL
Garry Craig Powell

Garry Craig Powell delivers a powerful novel-in-stories and perhaps the first work of literary fiction set in the Persian Gulf by a westerner since Hilary Mantel’s Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. Written by an author that spent a good deal of time in that part of the world, the Gulf is presented as a crucible in which people of different races and religions are forging a new humanity, in spite of the abysses between them.

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  The Christ Psychotherapy and Magic

THE CHRIST, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MAGIC
Anthony Duncan

A Christian appreciation of occultism, with a focus on the Qabalah and the Western Mystery Tradition.

"Now at least one clergyman has got the point and in this book urges his fellow Christians not to dismiss occultism either as a cranky fad or as a black art." - The Guardian

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  The Way of Magic

THE WAY OF MAGIC
Gordon Strong

The Way of Magic explores the path of ancient secrets as well as more modern adaptations of them, winding through the enigmatic codices of Egypt and the early shamen through to the modern use of Qabalah and practical magic today. The multiple strands which make up the Western Mystery Tradition can present a bewildering tangle of paths for the seeker to negotiate - and this book provides the roadmap by exploring them with clarity and insight.

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  Irish Celtic Magical Tradition

THE IRISH CELTIC MAGICAL TRADITION
Steve Blamires

This book explores the wealth of spiritual philosophy locked into The Battle of Moytura (Cath Maige Tuired), a historical-mythological account of the conflict, both physical and Otherworldly, between the Fomoire and the Tuatha de Danann. This legend contains within it the essence of the Celtic spiritual and magical system, from Creation Myth to practical instruction and information. Alongside a translation of The Battle of Moytura, Steve Blamires provides a series of keys to facilitate understanding of the legend and sets out an effective magical system based upon it, with suggestions for its practical use.

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  Tarot and Magic

TAROT & MAGIC: The Treasure House of Images
Gareth Knight

Here is unfolded the fascinating history and development of the Tarot, from its fifteenth-century beginnings as a conjunct to the playing cards to the massive explosion of its popularity as a system of occult symbolism. Gareth Knight presents his analysis of the basic archetypal principle behind each card and gives practical examples of magical work with the Tarot images in pathworkings and rituals. Several different approaches are adopted which can be used to develop familiarity and skill with the Tarot system, including both Greater and Lesser Arcana.

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  Lud Heat

LUD HEAT
Iain Sinclair

In a unique fusion of prose and poetry, Sinclair invokes the mythic realm of King Lud, who according to legend was one of the founders of London, as well as the notion of psychic ‘heat’ as an enigmatic energy contained in many of its places. The book’s many different voices, including the incantatory whispers of Blake and Pound, combine in an amalgamated shamanic sense that somehow works to transcend time. The transmogrifying intonations and rhythms slowly incorporate new signs, symbols and sigils into the poem that further work on the senses.

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  Faery Loves and Faery Lais

FAERY LOVES AND FAERY LAIS
Gareth Knight

This collection of twelve Breton lais focuses on faery lore in the lai tradition. Nine are taken from anonymous medieval jongleur sources; the other three are from the more courtly tales collected by Marie de France in the late 12th century. Gareth Knight, a scholar of medieval French as well as an established author on esoteric faery lore, provides a vivid and lively translation of each lai along with a commentary which takes a perspective both historic and esoteric.

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  Cult of Seizure

THE CULT OF SEIZURE
Rikki Ducornet

The Cult of Seizure is a work of lyrical mesmerism and animal magnetism from acclaimed novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, which displays a lush poesis and visionary soul. Jane Urquhart describes it as a “combination of the bestial and the bestiary; of terror and of tenderness.”  Although an earlier work it contains all the evocative tapestries of her finest novels.

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  The Signatory

THE SIGNATORY
Kirk Marshall

This mind-bending tale of Scottish cryptozoology blusters and dallies with the mad antics of a delightfully absurd dramatis personae. A misanthropic English anthropologist and a lusty Italian ornithologist go on a madcap search for a rare Red Swan, soon to be joined by an Icelandic recluse, a chimpanzee, and a notorious pirate. Along the way, Marshall manages to mix in odd polemics on public transport sex, the science of moats, and the mysterious Scottish landscape.

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  By Names and Images

BY NAMES AND IMAGES
Peregrin Wildoak

Focusing on sacred names and practical methods of visualisation, the book thoroughly explores the Golden Dawn system of magic through meditation and divination, purification ritual, invocation and evocation, grades of initiation, and direct experience of the inner realms, along with an explanation of the Qabalah and its use as a magical framework. While the book is sufficiently practical and clearly explained to be of benefit to a newcomer, its primary aim is to enable people already practicing the Golden Dawn system to do be touched by the amazing spiritual blessings the rituals offer.

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  Magical Battle of Britain

THE MAGICAL BATTLE OF BRITAIN
The War Letters of Dion Fortune
edited by Gareth Knight

Immediately following Britain’s declaration of war in 1939, Dion Fortune began a series of weekly letters to members of her fraternity, who were unable to hold meetings due to wartime travel restrictions. With the enemy planes rumbling overhead, she set about organising a series of visualisations to formulate "seed ideas in the group mind of the race", through archetypal visions of sovereignty and the renewal of national and international accord and cooperation for the Aquarian Age.

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  Gwenevere

GWENEVERE AND THE ROUND TABLE
Wendy Berg

This book puts the faery elements of Arthurian legend into practice, showing how the Round Table was an actual, practical system of magic, demonstrated by Gwenevere, who was its prime interpreter within the court of the Round Table. Central to the book is the concept of five Faery Kingdoms described in the legends, with which Gwenevere was closely associated: Lyonesse, Sorelois, Gorre and Oriande, about the central Grail kingdom of Listenois. A practical follow-up to Wendy's acclaimed Red Tree, White Tree.

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  Dee Sunshine

VISIONS OF THE DROWNING MAN
Dee Sunshine

Sunshine submerges the reader in loosely unravelling contrapuntal rhythms and the breathless language that swirls between anguish and release. But the journey down the Dantean whirlpool is not all despair; there is the topography of Blake’s archetypal grandeur to luxuriate in, as well as Baudelaire’s dolorous sensuality. It is the poetic language of asphyxiation. This edition includes 21 spectacular full-page ink drawings.

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  Fat Git

THE FAT GIT
Alan Richardson

Ambrose Hart is the Merlin of Strathnaddair, charged with the task of weaving the threads of the archetypal pattern around his reluctant nephew, Arthur; only to find himself getting horribly tangled up in them. Author of many books on magic and occultism as well as the glorious On Winsley Hill, Alan Richardson takes no prisoners with his lampooning of psychic pretentiousness, taking Arthurian archetypes to levels of absurdity, yet always displaying a sound background in the deeper aspects of occultism.

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  Merlin

MERLIN AND THE GRAIL TRADITION
Gareth Knight

Merlin and the Grail Tradition was first published at the turn of the millennium by Sun Chalice Books, originally as a collection of ten essays, talks and magical workings grouped loosely around the locus of Merlin and the grail. The articles gathered together in this collection include transcripts of talks given at various conferences, chapters written for inclusion in other books, and short pieces selected from Gareth Knight's own magazine, Quadriga, which was circulated to his students.

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  The Passenger

THE PASSENGER
Richard Froude

"Richard Froude was grown from film stills. Above all he was a mirror. Much of his soil was gathered from conversation. Nothing is outside the screen. His house was built entirely of redirected rivers. This caused a book of between, a book of plywood and polymers, a book we are never finished reading." – Eric Baus

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AWEN: THE QUEST OF THE CELTIC MYSTERIES
Mike Harris

Awen is a Welsh word often translated as "inspiration". In the context of the Celtic folk-soul it casts the paradisal pattern by which the people and the land were harmonised. Through the aligned symbolism of the goddess, the sacred king and the stars, a compelling picture is built of a thriving mystery tradition which marries the constellations to the landscape, exploring as an example the interwoven five-fold and seven-fold stellar geometry of Moel ty Uchaf stone circle in North Wales, and the stellar alignments on the landscape of Cadair Idris.

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THE DREAM OF THE BLACK TOPAZE CHAMBER
Hugh Fox

The Dream of the Black Topaze Chamber shows the late Hugh Fox at his most sublime. With so many eminently quotable aphorisms and moments of bard-like inspiration he is able to explore the subtle underpinnings of relationships, the minute unspoken thought-flashes between friends, and the mute electricity of shared moments. He moves from the intimate to the universal seamlessly, where inert trivialities can explode into a political treatise or a sublime poetic reflection within a single breath.

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  Gareth Knight

I CALLED IT MAGIC
Gareth Knight

The esoteric autobiography of Gareth Knight covers six decades of magical work, beginning with his induction into the Society of the Inner Light in the early 1950s, his resignation and founding of his own magical group, and subsequent return to the Society. It traces his series of legendary Hawkwood meetings working with Arthurian, Rosicrucian, Celtic and Greek archetypes, the powers of Merlin, the Tarot, the Qabalah, the Goddess and Tolkien's elves. PAPERBACK EDITION.

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  Abbey Papers

THE ABBEY PAPERS
Gareth Knight / Rebecca Wilby

The Abbey Papers provide a tried and trusted construct for personal magical work along with a fair amount of practical advice on occult and mystical techniques.

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  Faversham's Dream

FAVERSHAM'S DREAM
Anthony Duncan

Something odd is happening to John Faversham, a scientifically minded Englishman of late 20th century Gloucestershire. By chance, he acquires a volume of poems by a minor 19th century poet, who turns out to have lived in his house. Moreover, one of the poems records a vivid dream which has recently been troubling John. How does he come to share a disturbing dream with a long-dead previous owner of his house?

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  Learning to Draw

LEARNING TO DRAW / A HISTORY
Basil King

Learning to Draw / A History is an evolving and transformative narrative sketch, alternately prose and poetry, that serves to document a personal and yet collective history with a roving artist’s eye. Previously serialised in a number of small journals and zines, the work has met with some acclaim and Skylight Press is pleased to offer the first complete version in a new architectural alignment.

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I CALLED IT MAGIC
Gareth Knight

The long-awaited magical autobiography of Gareth Knight covers a long career in pursuit of the Mysteries, from the adventures of New Dimensions magazine to the calling of King Arthur, from the rituals of Sherwood Forest to the Somme, from the wrath of fellow ritual magicians to the shining allure of Faery. LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK.

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BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOR
Margaret Lumley Brown

A casual experiment with table-turning triggered an intense and terrifying haunting, soon developing into a full blown poltergeist manifestation, with writing appearing on window blinds, and malevolent presences which began to materialise in various disturbing forms. Margaret Lumley Brown went on to become a significant figure in the Western Mysteries revival, and her remarkable mediumship gift was sparked by the experiences described in Both Sides of the Door.

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  Melusine

THE ROMANCE OF THE FAERY MELUSINE
Gareth Knight

First rendered into written form in a text by Jean d'Arras in 1393, the legend of the Faery Melusine is well established in France, where she is credited with having founded the family, town and castle of Lusignan. This new translation by Gareth Knight of André Lebey's 1920s novel Le Roman de la Mélusine captures the freshness of Lebey's retelling of the legend and brings the benefit of Knight's expertise both in French literature and in the esoteric faery tradition.

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  Diddle

DIDDLE
Daniel Staniforth

With the poise and spark of a master storyteller, Daniel Staniforth presents an alchemical phantasmagoria of loosely connecting figures moving like ghosts on the liminality of their adopted culture. Tempered always with warmth and wit, Diddle achieves a lightness of narrative touch which shimmers over the profundity of human experience for the detached and displaced.

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WORKING WITH INNER LIGHT: THE MAGICAL JOURNAL OF WILLIAM G. GRAY
Editors: Jo Clark and Alan Richardson

19 years after his death, a new William G. Gray manuscript has come to light representing some of his vintage work on the inner and outer practicalities of ritual magic. On what turned out to be his last visit to Bill, Alan Richardson was given a ring binder containing what seemed to be an occasional Journal-cum-Magical Diary for 1965. However it is far more than a journal; it is a detailed course in modern Qabalistic magic.

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DIARY AS SIN
Will Alexander

Diary as Sin is the powerful and evocative story of a sand-blind girl, Rosanna Galvez. Confined to a private Catholic home in New Mexico, she unveils her beginnings as an incest baby – and moves through the odyssey beyond – with powerful incantatory language. Through poetic and often painful recall, Rosanna weaves a diary that will spellbind the reader with its imagistic and visionary prowess.

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AT THE GATES OF DAWN: A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS BY ELLA YOUNG
Edited by John Matthews and Denise Sallee

"The sea lay basking on a slant of ivory sand, spreading and stretching itself like a huge dragon that feels the sun; drawing long breaths, lazily conscious of its own bulk and the strength it had. It was of a wonderful colour, like the sky at dawn, like a lapis-stone bathed in honey. “Heart of my Life,” cried the Son of the Gubbaun Saor, “it is not enough to be blue: if you could see the light filtering through the young leaves in a beechwood — that greenness as of fire, that motion, that pulse of colour, you would not bask so easily. Stir yourself, Heart of my Life!”

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A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC
Gareth Knight

The world of magic is one of high imagination. In this wide-ranging historical survey Gareth Knight shows how the higher imagination has been used as an aid to the evolution of consciousness, from the ancient Mystery Religions, through Alchemy, Renaissance Magic, the Rosicrucian Manifestos, Freemasonry and 19th century Magical Fraternities, up to the modern era.

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IMMORTAL JAGUAR
Hugh Fox

"The jungle began to 'breathe' for me. Everything had 'presences,' everything was spotted, filled with luminous lights and alive. I kept feeling that for me the dark glass had been removed and I was seeing things the way they really were for the first time. Reality hung suspended in the Now like bits of fruit in jelly, fish frozen in ice."

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THE ROLLRIGHT RITUAL
William G. Gray

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.

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THE OLD SOD: THE ODD LIFE & INNER WORK OF WILLIAM G. GRAY
Alan Richardson and Marcus Claridge

William G. Gray met and worked with many of the most important figures in the British esoteric scene. His meetings with Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley, Pat Crowther, Doreen Valiente, Ronald Heaver and Robert Cochrane are described here in his own words. This entertaining and authoritative biography tells how a difficult, psychic child grew into a powerful adept who challenged established assumptions within paganism and Qabalah alike.

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SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH THE CORNFIELDS
Margaret Randall

“I think of these as my ‘impossible poems,’ poems made from the battered language they are leaving us with, the torn and devastated language, the words twisted to mean the opposite of what they have always meant… turning language back on itself, as if going home…"

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist born in New York City, and author of more than 80 published books.

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EXPERIENCE OF THE INNER WORLDS
Gareth Knight

Gareth Knight explains the difference between magic and mysticism, natural and revealed religion, monism and theism, and also covers practicalities, examining methods of inner plane communication, contact with the Masters, the vision of Dante and the archetypal power of the Hebrew alphabet – all within the context of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The book also contains powerful visualisation exercises and examples of communication with angelic and elemental contacts.

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YOURS VERY TRULY: SELECTED LETTERS
Gareth Knight

Written over a period of forty years and to over seventy different people, these letters include learned discourse with academics, exchanges of strange experiences with esoteric colleagues, and advice to seekers trying to find their path. The letters reveal extraordinary, entertaining and personal details of the life and work of a contemporary occultist.

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  WEAVER IN THE SLUICES: SELECTED POEMS
Daniel Staniforth

"In Weaver in the Sluices, Daniel Staniforth pulls variously from Bardic
tradition, contemporary lament, and surrealist landscapes to “filter the
nutrients of thought.”  The poet invokes erotic passion and political protest alike, all while navigating the “midriff of the sun,” “star-widths of fancy,” and the “nape of the sea.”  In these poems, such wonders shift continually between foreground and background to portray a world where, ultimately, “the hollows subsume the shape.” — Elizabeth Robinson

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DEPTHS AND DRAGONS
Hugh Fox

The aptly named Miriam must undergo a journey of violent displacement between the worlds of Jew and gentile, rabbi and priest, orthodoxy and heresy.  Along the way she is made to pay the ultimate price of familial sacrifice, degenerative diaspora, and the loss of her spiritual moorings.  The novel battles states of inner and outer terrorism, from physical death to an exalted denial of the flesh, but all the while retaining precious wit and jocularity. 

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RED TREE, WHITE TREE
Wendy Berg

The relationship between human and Faery lies at the very core of the Arthurian stories. In this radical re-evaluation of the Grail legends, Wendy Berg brings some meaningful light to the ancient mythology of the British Isles, centred around the marriage of King Arthur to the Faery Gwenevere. Drawing upon numerous Arthurian sources and other related texts, she explores the magical ritual underpinning of the legends and their connection to the ancient stellar deities of Britain.

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IN DIFFERENT SKIES
Rebecca Wilby

In the trenches of Loos and the Somme, two disaffected young subalterns, Munro and Tate, struggle to find humour and purpose in a rapidly disintegrating world; brothers unto death – with a firmer bond than anything in their real families. A world away, in another time and place, Katherine is startled when she starts to recover memories of the first world war trenches. These involuntary glimpses into the life of a lost soldier open up a visionary world and a search across the fields of northern Europe.

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THE MAGICAL WORLD OF THE INKLINGS
Gareth Knight

The works of J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield have made a profound impact on the contemporary world. The Magical World of the Inklings reveals how each created a 'magical world' which initiated the reader into the hidden and powerful realms of the creative imagination.

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ON WINSLEY HILL
Alan Richardson

On Winsley Hill is set in a very real location, a plateau near Bath. Within the chronicles of old light ever stirring on the hill is the story of Rosie Chant, a young farmworker who, aged 17 in 1908, falls in love with a visiting American folklorist and archaeologist called Edward Grahl, triggering a fierce soul love which entangles her through nine decades.

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TO THE HEART OF THE RAINBOW
Gareth Knight

Richard and Rebecca meet the Joker of their granny's pack of cards, and guided by his dog, embark on an adventure through the Inner
Worlds in search of their True Names. To those attuned to its deeper symbolism, the story forms an imaginative journey along the serpentine path of the Tree of Life, conducted via the Tarot archetypes, which when read with openness and imagination may serve as a powerful key to intuitive understanding of the Western Mystery Tradition.

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THIS WRETCHED SPLENDOUR
Rebecca Wilby

Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour – the only defence against a bleak and mindless war.

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