Donald Tyson

New Perspectives on Ancient Magic Reconciling magic with rational thought, well-known occult scholar Donald Tyson presents an exciting collection of essays that offer fresh insights into a wide variety of important topics in the Western esoteric tradition. Along with practical instructions on the correct casting of the magic circle and the uses of familiars, Tyson includes a new system of coin divination and a complete history of the esoteric ordering of the Tarot trumps. Here you will learn the hidden roots of magic—what it is, and how it works on the deepest levels of reality. • What esoteric energy is and how to use it • The arcane meaning of the serpent of wisdom • The making and use of a book of spirits • The essential nature of spiritual beings • How we perceive and interact with spirits • The truth about spirit possession and why you should not fear it • The reality of vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons • A revolutionary manifesto of spirits’ rights

And Other Essays on Western Occultism

Serpent of Wisdom

H. P. Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his divine skill in poetry. As the court poet, young Abdul lives a luxurious life at the palace, where he studies necromancy and magic. But falling in love with the king's daughter leads to a foolish tryst, which is ultimately discovered. As punishment, Abdul is tortured, brutally mutilated, and cast into the desert, known as the Empty Space. Battling insanity, he joins a tribe of ghouls and learns forbidden secrets from a stranger called Nyarlathotep. Thus begins his downward spiral into wickedness. Renamed Alhazred, he escapes the desert and embarks on a quest to restore his body and reunite with his true love. Traveling across the ancient world and fantastic realms, he is hounded by foes and tormented by the demands of his dark lord.

Author of the Necronomicon

Alhazred

A Gnostic Grimoire

Liber Lilith

Henry C. Agrippa

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Discover a new system of Western magic that uses body postures and hand gestures to channel and utilize the fundamental esoteric forces of the universe. Kinesic Magic shares over 200 practical exercises that will teach you how to energize your body and mind, call forth the powers of the elements and planets, command spirits, bring comfort and healing to the sick, and exorcise demons. Many magical systems require the use of words, symbols, herbs, tools, altars, sigils, robes, and so on. Kinesic Magic simply uses twenty-four hand gestures and twenty-four basic postures to invoke, direct, concentrate, project, and banish powerful magical forces. This unique system connects your somatic and intentional energies with the five elements, the seven planets of traditional astrology, and the twelve signs of the zodiac for remarkable magical results.

Channeling Energy with Postures and Gestures

Kinesic Magic

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

After being tortured, mutilated, and cast into the desert for falling in love with the king's daughter, Abdul, who is renamed Alhazred, begins his descent into wickedness, embarking on a quest to restore his body and reunite with his true love. By the author of Necronomicon. Original. 25,000 first printing.

John Shirley

Darrell Schweitzer

Robert Silverberg

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Lois H. Gresh

Arthur C. Clarke

Harry Turtledove

Joseph S. Pulver

Michael Shea

William Browning Spencer

Jonathan Thomas

Melanie Tem

J. C. Koch

K. M. Tonso

Lesław Haliński

Maciej Machała

Szaleństwo Cthulhu

Llewellyn

Lupa

Melanie Marquis

Ann Moura

Deborah Blake

Linda Raedisch

Gede Parma

Jhenah Telyndru

Tess Whitehurst

James Kambos

Blake Octavian Blair

Mickie Mueller

Susan Pesznecker

Dallas Jennifer Cobb

Chandra Moira Beal

Denise Dumars

JD Hortwort

Boudica

Jenett Silver

Paniteowl

Gail Wood

Keep on top of the latest witchy trends, practices, and discussions in the Wiccan/Pagan community with Llewellyn's insightful and thought-provoking Witches' Companion. Designed for busy modern witches, this book contains a treasury of simple, practical tips for living your craft each day with wisdom and flair. Nearly two-dozen original articles deal with everything from popular debates and craft ideas to health and eco-activism. Gain fresh perspective and helpful advice on timely topics organized by theme: community, witchy living, witchcraft essentials, and magical transformations. —The joys and challenges of being a Pagan parent —When (and if) it's appropriate to dress "witchy" —Easy recipes for delicious, magical meals —Ways to save money while enjoying a spiritually rich practice . . . and much more! Bonus: A sixteen-month calendar featuring Moon void-of-course data, plus spotlighted monthly national causes and ways for you to get involved. Also look for our Witches' Calendar and Witches' Datebook, the perfect complements to Llewellyn's Witches' Companion.

An Almanac for Everyday Living

Llewellyn's 2012 Witches' Companion

Julie a. Serroul

Larry a. Gibbons

Stories that singe! The moment when everything changes...when things come together...and burst apart. This volume offers fifteen new stories from Cape Breton authors--stories that go from warmth to hearth to heat, all the way to combustion and beyond.

Flashpoint: The Speculative Elements

Chances are that you've heard of Tantra and Taoist sexual practices. Now, as a result of studying the inner mysteries of alchemy, Donald Tyson presents a Western system of sacred sexuality in Sexual Alchemy. Here you will learn how to have erotic relationships with loving spirits. That means the methods presented here can function as a Western alternative to Eastern sexual practices. They also can be used by a solitary person and need not depend upon the participation of a partner. The first part of this book presents a history of sex with spirits. It also goes into the secrets of Eastern internal alchemy and how the books of Western alchemy often made secretive references to sexual magick. You will also learn how to create a physical representation of the spirit you are going to use as a partner. The second part of the book includes the practices and techniques which the author found to be effective from other sources or developed himself. This includes techniques of diet, exercise, breathwork, banishings, purifications, and finally, an invocation ritual to summon the spirit who is going to be your lover! Then you will learn the previously hidden secrets of having sex with a spirit lover. You'll learn how to prepare and recognize the signs that this is an actual occurrence and not simply a fantasy. And then, when you have accomplished your ritualized mating, you will learn how to collect and use the resulting, highly charged fluids for magical purposes. Everything we are, everything we have, is a gift from the Divine. Doesn't it make sense that we use all of our abilities to honor the source from which they came? That means we can even make use of our sensual natures to honor the Gods. If you want to follow a system based on western traditions, this book can be your guide.

Magical Intercourse with Spirits

Sexual Alchemy

Join Donald Tyson on a guided tour of the history and modern use of runes.

Llewellyn's Truth About Runes

The Secret to Evoking Angelic Powers and the Key to the Apocalypse (Llewellyn's High Magick Series)

Tetragrammaton

H. P. Lovecraft's fabled character, Alhazred, the Mad Arab who wrote the infamous Necronomicon is back with new and startling tales of sword and sorcery, horror, and adventure. Alhazred, author of the dreaded book known as the Necronomicon, lives in comfort and relative security at Damascus in the Lane of Scholars with his two companions, the young Egyptian girl, Martala, and the scarred mercenary and master swordsman, Altrus. In the basement of his house he is free to practice his necromantic arts unhindered by the Caliph's laws or the religious fury of the mullahs. But trouble has a way of finding Alhazred. When Moawiya the Second, the Caliph at Damascus, asks him to investigate an island of walking corpses ruled over by alien monsters from another dimension, Alhazred is hardly in a position to refuse, even if he wants to do so. He and his companions are launched into a series of deadly adventures involving sorcery, ghouls, djinn, strange creatures and vindictive priests that lead them across the entire breadth of the ancient Islamic Empire, and beyond. In addition to ten linked stories of magic and high adventure that take place when Alhazred is a young man, the novella The Last 12 Days of Alhazred recounts the events of the final days of Alhazred in his old age through the eyes of his pupil, Hassad ibn Khaled, a young man of good family at Damascus to whom Alhazred has promised to teach the necromantic arts. As his study of the Necronomicon progresses from day to day, Hassad becomes aware of a gathering shadow hanging over the house of Alhazred, but he is unable to prevent the unfolding of Alhazred's horrifying fate.

Return To Isle of The Dead and Other Tales of Alhazred

In recent years Donald Tyson has emerged as a leading author of Lovecraftian fiction, his novels and tales drawing upon his deep knowledge of esoteric and occult philosophy and infused with his powerful imagination. In this volume, two substantial novellas are presented. In "The Lovecraft Coven," Lovecraft wakes up in an insane asylum at Providence almost eighty years after his own death, trapped in the body of a man he never knew and hunted by shadow walkers determined to destroy him. His sole hope is to enter the fictional world he created for his short stories and find the Necronomicon, which has been stolen from Miskatonic University. Clues to the book's location are hidden in Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth, and Kingsport. Only by tracking the book across the fantastic landscape of his own imagination can he free himself from the prison of the future. "Iron Chain" tells of a survivalist prepper who abandons the big city for a farm in rural Nova Scotia, where he plans to wait out the chaotic events of the Great Alignment foretold in ancient prophecies. The farm is not quite what it seems. There is something odd about his neighbor, and the ravens never stop watching him. Why has a heavy anchor chain of black iron been buried beneath the field by the house? Why is the barn attached to a windmill so ancient, its origins have been forgotten? He begins to suspect that his presence on the farm is not chance, but part of some larger cosmic pattern, and that he may have a predestined role to play in the coming cataclysm. Donald Tyson is the author of the acclaimed Lovecraftian novel "Alhazred" (2006), an immense historical/supernatural novel about the author of the Necronomicon. Tyson is also the author of the nonfiction treatises "Grimoire of the Necronomicon" (2008), "The Dream World of H. P. Lovecraft" (2010), and "The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon" (2012). He lives in Nova Scotia.

The Lovecraft Coven

Contains everything that beginners need to start their esoteric training The Magician's Workbook has a single purpose: to present a graded and integrated series of practical exercises designed to teach the essentials of ritual magic. It contains no history or theory-just forty exercises that anyone can do without prior training, special tools, or costly materials. The content ranges from simple mental exercises to complete rituals that form templates for future work in Western magic. These exercises do not merely teach-they transform. When practiced regularly, they cause changes in the body, brain, perceptions, emotions, and the will-changes necessary for the successful working of magic in any of its ancient or modern traditions. A complete basic training manual for serious beginners who want to start performing ritual magic, rather than just reading about it Presents a progressive, forty-week schedule of daily study that fully integrates inner mental conditioning with external movements, gestures, and words Enables students to go on to study the Golden Dawn system in greater depth, or move forward with confidence to any other form of Western magic

Practicing the Rituals of the Western Tradition

The Magician's Workbook

This book is extreme horror and appropriate for adults only. The cruelty that human beings impose on each other, or upon themselves, is more horrifying than anything suffered in the natural realm. Nature is impersonal; in all of Nature only mankind is cruel. But cruelty is not the sole province of humanity. In the realm of the supernatural exist other entities which, like us, possess a capacity to torment. Gods, demons, wraiths, djinn can also be malicious. A single scarlet thread runs through these stories - the cruelty imposed upon men and woman both by the unnatural of this world and supernatural of the worlds that lie beyond. The conte cruel (cruel story) is a subgenre of horror fiction defined by French writers during the decadent fin de siècle of the 19th century. Its seminal exponent was the writer Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, who in 1883 published a collection of short stories under the title Contes Cruels. As the name implies, it was characterized by terror and suffering inflicted by one person upon another, variously motivated by such things as hatred, revenge, lust, greed, ambition, or sheer sadism. The addition of a supernatural element to this genre elevates it to the cosmic level. The suffering inflicted is not only physical and emotional, but spiritual and transformative. Spiritual horror strips away the comforting conventions of our shared reality to reveal what lies naked and beating beneath the skin. Those who suffer must confront the final and terrifying awareness of their own frailty. Suffering is a mirror - when we gaze into it, we see ourselves as we truly are, emptied of all illusions. This is the ultimate horror, which all of us at some point in our lives must face.

Cruel Stories

Jenny Tyson

The Greatest Magic is the Magic that Transforms the Self To learn the secrets of Enochian magic became my personal obsession. Little did I realize that a simple experiment with the spirit board would result a year later in a life-transforming and completely original alchemical initiation, the Great Work that is the ultimate goal of spiritual alchemy. Transcend ordinary consciousness and undergo a personal, life-altering transformation through Jenny Tyson's amazing journey of spirit communication and instruction. This remarkable book presents Jenny's yearlong training and the intense three-day initiation that turned her minimal psychic abilities into full-blown clairvoyance and clairaudience. Along the way she contacted several guides, including famed Elizabethan magicians John Dee and Edward Kelley. Providing detailed accounts of Jenny's experiences and the ghost box and other tools she used, Spiritual Alchemy guides your own spirit communication. Discover Jenny's unique analysis of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, her process of awakening and raising Kundalini energy, and her work with the angels and gateways to divine unity. With powerful new training methods, a unique interview with Edward Kelley, and more, this book revolutionizes the interactions between humans and spirits. Features a foreword by Donald Tyson.

Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom

Spiritual Alchemy

Presenting invaluable essays written by prominent occultists from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this profound book explores the fascinating evolution of tarot as a magical tool. Occult scholar Donald Tyson has edited and annotated these important works so that you can understand each occultist's message in the context of his peers and period. Essential Tarot Writings reveals where many of our fundamental assumptions about the tarot came from, including card meanings, how it's used in ceremonial magic, Hebrew and Kabbalistic correspondences, and more. All of these essays are interconnected by the influences these great thinkers had on each other and the understanding of tarot that permeated each century. From Antoine Court de Gébelin and Comte de Millet to P.D. Ouspensky and S.L. MacGregor Mathers, these titans of esoteric tarot are brought together in one must-have collection.

A Collection of Source Texts in Western Occultism

Essential Tarot Writings

What will the runes spell for your life? Get ready to experience a powerful tool of divination—a reliable and fun system that combines astrology and runes. In this book, popular author Donald Tyson offers his unique approach to chart casting while utilizing these ancient oracle methods. This convenient and effective divination tool allows you to cast charts any time, without having to know birth time or birth place. Explore the history, meaning, and significance behind each of the twenty-four German Futhark runes and discover their raw, elemental power. See how the placement of the runes can be favorable or unfavorable, depending on their positions and how they correspond to elements of astrology. Step by step, you will learn to assemble the tools you need, and how to cast and interpret a chart so you can divine answers to all of your important life questions, predict future events, and gain insight into yourself and your loved ones with amazing accuracy. Simple to use and interpret, Tyson's unique astrology chart, rune dice, and cards are the foundation for one of the most precise forms of divination known. With clear instructions for creating your own rune dice and cards, and helpful advice on giving readings, Runic Astrology invites you to go beyond the stars to achieve deeper, more multi-layered analyses of an astrology chart than ever before.

Chart Interpretation Through the Runes

Runic Astrology

Wyjątkowy zbiór tekstów poświęconych tarotowi autorstwa czołowych autorytetów zachodniej magii napisanych na przestrzeni ostatnich trzech stuleci. Ta unikalna kolekcja klasycznych esejów przedstawia fascynującą ewolucję tarota jako narzędzia magicznego. Znany okultysta Donald Tyson zredagował i opatrzył przypisami zebrane tu prace oraz dodał autorski przekład dwóch esejów o tarocie z „Monde Primitif” Antoine'a Courta de Gébelina. Dzięki kompendium dowiesz się m.in., skąd pochodzi wiele z podstawowych założeń dotyczących tarota, w tym znaczenie kart, hebrajskie i kabalistyczne korespondencje, oraz poznasz sposoby wykorzystywania kart w magii ceremonialnej. Zawarte tu teksty cenionych autorów, takich jak Comte de Mellet, S.L. MacGregor Mathers, J.W. Brodie-Innes i A.E. Waite, to źródło, które da ci kompleksowy przegląd ewolucji tarota w zachodniej magii.

Tarot w pismach wybitnych okultystów z XVIII, XIX i XX wieku

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