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A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC

EXPERIENCE  OF THE INNER WORLDS

  The late Kathleen Raine's preface to the original A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC  said this:

‘Magic’ is a word whose associations are both glamorous and sinister; Gareth Knight, well known to his readers as the most down-to-earth and pragmatic of magicians, by seeking to show what magic really is and to what body of thought it belongs, dissipates both these illusions.  At the same time he shows how real is the world upon whose laws the operation of ‘magic’ (and of prayer for that matter), depend.  It is the world of ‘imagination’, consciousness itself, the secret prima materia of the alchemists.  Imagination (he uses the word in Coleridge’s sense and Blake’s) is none the less real because it cannot be quantified.  It is a radical fallacy of materialism that there are in the world differences only of degree, but between the quantifiable world of matter and the world of consciousness there is a difference in kind; the one can never be described or understood in terms of the other.  What Coleridge calls ‘facts of mind’ constitute no part of quantifiable scientific knowledge; but they are none the less real.  Alchemy, discarded by science as primitive chemistry, has another meaning for Jungian psychology; psychical phenomena are now no longer something to be explained away by some Sherlock Holmes, secure in his assurance that rationalist materialism can explain all.  Now these are rather something demanding explanation; and so with a whole miscellaneous body of belief and practise covered by the word ‘magic’.  The soul has too long been crushed between the upper millstone of the Church’s abstract discursive theology (based upon philosophy of Aristotle) and the nether millstone of scientific materialism.  A renewed attention of the world of imagination (the soul’s native and proper element) is an important aspect of what Yeats foresaw as ‘the rise of soul against intellect now beginning in the world’.

 

Kathleen Raine

 EXPERIENCE OF THE INNER WORLDS when first published in 1975 came as a challenge to many as it rigorously questioned some of the oriental ideas that had crept into the Hermetic tradition, and sought to bridge the abyss of misunderstanding that had opened up between esoteric experience and religious orthodoxy. The roots of the Western tradition are firmly based on Christian belief - from Ficino and Pico della Mirandola and the Qabalistic and Renaissance magi, through to Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucians, Eliphas Levi and Anna Kingsford in the 19th century, and Rudolf Steiner and Dion Fortune in the 20th. This challenging book still packs an enormous punch with its detailed theological and historical analysis and practical spiritual exercises. It was used to train all Gareth Knight's students, a number of whom have gone on to form groups and write books of their own. The sumptuous colour illustrations of this PDF version also make this edition a vibrant experience. 

 

Spirits of the Stones

The Zodiac Explorers Handbook
ALAN RICHARDSON'S lavishly illustrated book, is about those megalithic remains still scattered across the countryside, thousands of years after being built, and whose meaning-like dreams-are often subject to intense and varying interpretation. It is also a book about ordinary folk who have unexpectedly been touched by these ancient sites, had the most inexplicable experiences and felt their own lives enlarged. Ordinary folk who in many cases, also think of themselves as witches, magicians, mediums, Freemasons, shamans, Rosicrucians, Christian mystics, Druids, Seers, or just plain, bull headed speculators after truth. Contributors include: Gareth Knight, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, R.J.Stewart, Paul Devereux, Murray Hope, Mike Harris, Wendy Berg and many more.

HELENE WATSON'S classic book was originally published in 1986, when the author's name was Helene Hess. Now some  twenty years on Ritemagic reproduces this new edition on cd with new colour illustrations.  The Zodiac Explorer's Handbook "does exactly what it says on the tin". It is not only a lucid explanation of the theory and practice of astrology, but a blueprint for exploring the inner cosmos of the Zodiac through its many levels of both magical and psychological  interpretation.

 

The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition
STEVE BLAMIRES's revised edition of this major work on the Irish Celtic Tradition.When Steve Blamires first published “The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition”in 1992 he  did something that had never been done before outside of a magical lodge. He took  an entire ancient Celtic legend, The Battle of Moytura, and showed in detail the way the story can be interpreted on three distinct levels to reveal much more than the surface story relates. In doing so he explained the wealth of hidden inner symbolism and practical magical information that can be gleaned from these ancient stories – if you have the keys to unlock such information, many of which Blamires provided. In this new, expanded edition, he offers still more magical keys so that the reader may address this major piece of Irish mythology as the magical treatise that it was originally meant to be.

 

Granny's Magic Cards

GARETH KNIGHT's  magical novel is ostensively a children's fantasy story in which two children, guided by a magic dog, embark on a hair raising cycle of adventures that take them through many worlds in their quest for their True Names and Essential Goodness. However, the more discerning will recognise it as a journey of some importance.....To more mature, mystical and esoteric students it is the trail of the Serpent of Wisdom along the paths of the Tree of Life, illuminated by confrontations with the images of the major trumps of the Tarot cards. Those who give their whole hearted imagination to the text , reading it slowly, with their intuitive faculties open will realise it to be a true ludibrium..that is to say, a seemingly light hearted tale that is a work of hidden power and opener of the ways.
      
 

Awen

The Quest of the Celtic Mysteries

Working Notes for Working Magi

MIKE HARRIS's first book Awen evoked the Celtic landscape of the Mabinogion and the Arthurian myths and their underlying prehistoric dynamics. This welsh landscape formed the backdrop to Harris's own development (over some thirty years) as a leading exponent of the Western Mystery Tradition. Awen the quest of the Celtic Mysteries reveals the sources of the hidden British tradition right back to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and, as some believe, further back still to even more ancient sources of wisdom. This revised edition of Harris's first book still carries the original forward by Gareth Knight and a no nonsense glossary of both esoteric and archaeological terms.

 

MIKE HARRIS has spent much of his adult life as a ritual magician and latterly as a teacher of hands on magic based upon the spills and thrills of personal experience. This collection of essays is drawn in most instances from the  practical teaching papers he evolved for a number of the lodges that he has headed up over the years. The material is wide ranging  and includes: The practicalities of  setting up a home temple, working at prehistoric sacred sites, working with inner plane contacts, writing rituals and so on, stretched across a variety of mythologies and traditions.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merlin's Chess

The magical foundations of Avalon and the Mysteries of Britain

 MERLIN'S CHESS is a unique book about Celtic Magic, for it is the first book, as far as we know, to seriously address the magical chess game of Gwyddbwyll as a fundamental facet of the Brythonic/Celtic Mysteries. In his exploration and explanations of Gwyddbwyll, Harris finds its far foundations in the prehistoric monuments of ancient Britain around which the Dark Age bards of Wales later spun a complex mythology and magic, which went on to prompt the Arthurian myths. This book is awash with full colour illustrations as well as a series of "Bardic lessons" which offer a modern application of Bardic material in general and Gwyddbwyll in particular.

Merlin's Chess is a compendium of information from earth lore to star lore, mythology and genetics, much of it new research which will be new to the reader of works on Celtic Magic and Arthurian themes. 

 

Merlin's Chess
         

GARETH KNIGHT'S fascinating, practical and informative collection of articles and lectures taken from the Inner Light Journal. Three of these are concerned with aspects of the famous occultist Dion Fortune, of whom Gareth Knight is the biographer. Dion Fortune and the Mystical Qabalah, The Magical World of Dion Fortune and Dion Fortune and the Lost Secrets of the West. Other subjects in this collection include the Faery and Underworld traditions in Do you believe in Fairies?, The Elemental Tides and The Red Rose and the White, as well as Journey to the Moon, an introduction to pathworking on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The potential, good and bad, of psychic perception in Is there a psychic in the House? and The Dweller on the Threshold. Ancient and modern elements of occult tradition are considered in The Western Esoteric Tradition and Popular culture and Chretien de Troyes..the first Arthurian romancer.  This CD is a treasure trove of magical lore, crafted by perhaps the most influential occultist, teacher and writer that the Western Mystery Tradition has produced since Dion Fortune herself. ..A must for ALL students and exponents of western magic. 

DION FORTUNE

and the Lost Secrets of the West

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