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Devoted
Devoted
Various
Edited by Alkistis Dimech
Introduction by Peter Grey
Devoted is an octavo book of 173pp, bound in saffron book cloth, black chalice stamped and finished with night black endpapers.
It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of 814 copies.
A copy can be yours for thirty-one English pounds plus postage.
Devoted comprises fifteen essays by fourteen writers on their devotional practice.
It is a bloody and passionate blend of primal gnosis and poetic expression.
These essays reveal and revel in powerful applicable magickal practice.
They are suffused with the living experience of the Spirit world.
Devoted will enrich your own work, whether you are witch, magician, heathen, thelemite, or sorceror.
From possession work, to blood letting and fetishes, to sabbatic dance, there is a wealth of experience to explore within these pages.
Devoted provides indepth essays on working with:
Babalon
Ishtar
Hecate
Lilith
Loki
Tiamat
Dionysus
The Yoginis
The Lwa
The Spirits of goetia
Our writers are a chorus of powerful new voices and established practitioners whose Work has often been overlooked.
Description taken from LABYRINTH BOOKS
Various
Edited by Alkistis Dimech
Introduction by Peter Grey
Devoted is an octavo book of 173pp, bound in saffron book cloth, black chalice stamped and finished with night black endpapers.
It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of 814 copies.
A copy can be yours for thirty-one English pounds plus postage.
Devoted comprises fifteen essays by fourteen writers on their devotional practice.
It is a bloody and passionate blend of primal gnosis and poetic expression.
These essays reveal and revel in powerful applicable magickal practice.
They are suffused with the living experience of the Spirit world.
Devoted will enrich your own work, whether you are witch, magician, heathen, thelemite, or sorceror.
From possession work, to blood letting and fetishes, to sabbatic dance, there is a wealth of experience to explore within these pages.
Devoted provides indepth essays on working with:
Babalon
Ishtar
Hecate
Lilith
Loki
Tiamat
Dionysus
The Yoginis
The Lwa
The Spirits of goetia
Our writers are a chorus of powerful new voices and established practitioners whose Work has often been overlooked.
Description taken from LABYRINTH BOOKS
173 pages, Board book
First published January 1, 2008
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April 28, 2018
It was an interesting journey, getting to know diverse perspectives of practicing magicians, from an apophatic, distanced view. I approached each chapter with the foreknowledge that it is the live's blood of each of these practicioners, I could enjoy it with a discerning, non-judgmental open mind. Every chapter is thriving with it's own life, a splendid book for people committed to their own work, when read with enough respect, finding some cues and tonalities that inspire others, and sometimes intersect with personal "agenda and formula" for magick.
August 11, 2012
A fascinating book by more than a dozen writers, all devotees of a different god/dess or other deity. Their narratives, their magic in theory and praxis. It's a perfect mixture of personal accounts by experienced and learned magicians and their perspective on the notion of 'devotion'.
Often times this word has the connotation of mere submission to a higher power ( like Islam ) and therefore seen as an obstruction to self-actualization by the Will-centric tradition in Western occultism. This book takes care of this misconception on this aspect of the magician's relationship with the Otherwordly. Devotion for the magician is a reciprocal relationship and like any relationship, nothing happens without strife or misunderstandings with the deity itself. All of this is inevitably dealt with if the devotee is willing, but only through communion with the deity that is being sought ( or rather, as many of the contributors to Devoted show, have been picked by the deities themselves ).
The book also has this almost confessional tone, but not one of sins, but of the achievements that are transgression and insurrection. As a reader, you feel part of a bigger community by reading quite similar experiences of enthrallment and abyssal insanity that come with the entering of our particular god/dess in our lives. Scarlet Imprint truly does its part for the occult community with these kinds of works.
Also, unlike most books, you can judge this one based on its cover. It's a marvelous piece of work and perfectly illustrates the content of this book. Look closely and you'll see the mysteries of Babalon revealed.
Often times this word has the connotation of mere submission to a higher power ( like Islam ) and therefore seen as an obstruction to self-actualization by the Will-centric tradition in Western occultism. This book takes care of this misconception on this aspect of the magician's relationship with the Otherwordly. Devotion for the magician is a reciprocal relationship and like any relationship, nothing happens without strife or misunderstandings with the deity itself. All of this is inevitably dealt with if the devotee is willing, but only through communion with the deity that is being sought ( or rather, as many of the contributors to Devoted show, have been picked by the deities themselves ).
The book also has this almost confessional tone, but not one of sins, but of the achievements that are transgression and insurrection. As a reader, you feel part of a bigger community by reading quite similar experiences of enthrallment and abyssal insanity that come with the entering of our particular god/dess in our lives. Scarlet Imprint truly does its part for the occult community with these kinds of works.
Also, unlike most books, you can judge this one based on its cover. It's a marvelous piece of work and perfectly illustrates the content of this book. Look closely and you'll see the mysteries of Babalon revealed.
July 3, 2013
really disliked this one, couldn't finish the garbage.
May 9, 2015
Incredible book about individual devotion to deities. Highly recommended.
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