The Real History of the End of the World: Apocalyptic Predictions from Revelation and Nostradamus to Y2K and 2012

By Sharan Newman

From the writer of The genuine heritage in the back of the Templars--the origins and tales at the back of end-of-the-world predictions all through background, from Revelations to 2012.

In interesting and sharp prose, historian Sharan Newman explores theories of worldwide destruction from precedent days as much as the current day- theories which display as a lot approximately human nature as they do concerning the fundamental ancient, medical, and non secular ideals of the time. Readers will locate solutions to the subsequent end-of-times questions:

?Did the Mayans fairly say the realm will result in December 2012?

?How have the symptoms within the New testomony e-book of Revelations been interpreted through the years?

?How did historical Egyptians, Norse, and chinese language imagine the area could finish?

?When did Nostradamus are expecting that the final days may come?

?Does the I Ching reference 2012?

?Why did not the realm lead to Y2K?

?Are meteors, worldwide warming, super-volcanoes, and the specter of nuclear warfare symptoms that the top is close to?

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The Equinox and Solstice Ceremonies of the Golden Dawn

By Patrick Zalewski, C. L. Zalewski

Beforehand, there was little within the manner of distinctive details at the magical results of the Equinox and Solstice. Now, this booklet explores the deeper roots at the back of the Equinox and Solstice traditions and their astrological value. It explains the Golden Dawn's ceremonies in either airtight and pagan phrases, and offers, for the 1st time in print, the Golden Dawn's complete ritual at the equinox.

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The Goetia Ritual Book

By Kuriakos

After millions of years and unending tricky Grimoire Magick books at the topic, this booklet, The Goetia Ritual publication, eventually unearths the real secrets and techniques of The Goetia! This Goetia Ritual publication is the main robust and but easy Magick you'll ever do! you just want a candle, bell, rope, incense and 10 mins to do every one ritual. In bankruptcy 1, The Goetia Evocation Ritual exhibits you step-by-step the best way to simply summon those seventy two Spirits of Solomon to seen visual appeal! And in bankruptcy 2 there's a record of all of the Goetia spirits with a simple to appreciate description for every spirit so that you can simply summon them for funds, wellbeing and fitness, love, psychic skills and lots of extra issues besides. bankruptcy three is a e-book of Shadows to list your rituals and effects. not like spells which require a trust process, those evocation rituals don't require you to think in them in any respect as those Goetia spirits are doing all your bidding for you!

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Uthark: Nightside of the Runes

By Thomas Karlsson

This publication is an creation to runosophy, the knowledge of the runes, and to useful rune magic. The runes are dynamic symbols that characterise hidden forces. The outer shapes of the runes have replaced via historical past, however the rules that they symbolise are at the present time virtually just like in the course of previous Norse occasions. This booklet doesn't declare to incorporate a old description of runes or rune magic. The publication bargains an advent to a rune magic that's built round functional paintings with the runes within the modern global. The ambition, in spite of the fact that, has been that the runosophy during this booklet will likely be deeply rooted in ancient Nordic magic.

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Magick

By Aleister Crowley

In accordance with guideline from Liber ABA, ebook four, largely thought of to be the magnum opus of 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley. MAGICK. it's the leader mystery of the Ancients, and if the keys have by no means been truly misplaced, they've got definitely been little used. The holders of these keys have continually saved very quiet approximately it. This has been specially helpful in Europe, a result of dominance of persecuting church buildings. back, the confusion of concept because of the lack of knowledge of the folks who didn't are aware of it has discredited the complete topic. it really is now our job to re-establish this technological know-how in its perfection. accordingly is the purpose of this e-book.

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Ghouls

By Edward Lee

Darkish city The murders have been in simple terms the start. nobody knew what went on within the sullen, darkish condominium at the hill, yet city cop Kurt Morris meant to determine. The sleepy city of Tylersville, Maryland used to be being stalked by means of an incredible evil, it had turn into the haunting-ground for horrors too grisly to be defined. younger ladies had vanished and not using a hint. Graves were opened, corpses unearthed and over excited. Quiet moonlit nights gave option to a senseless slaughter, and to the sounds of hysterical screams… darkish HORIZONS Time was once working out. what number extra will be dragged off into an never-ending evening, and for what hideous function? worry ended in wild speculations approximately psychopaths, crazed animals, vampires, and werewolves. yet Kurt knew larger. Deep within the fog-shrouded woods, he had obvious the nightmare figures. And the reality used to be a lot, a lot worse… GHOULS! a singular of unrelenting horror within the culture of Dean Koontz.

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Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists

By Gary Lachman

Explorers of occult mysteries and the sides of attention switch the best way we view not just the character of fact, but in addition our private feel of self. Insightful writer Gary Lachman offers punchy, enlightening, and fascinating biographies of a few of the main influential esoteric luminaries in contemporary background. His sixteen matters comprise Swedish mystical scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; H. P. Blavatsky, Russian cofounder of the Theosophical Society; Austrian thinker Rudolf Steiner, who encouraged the Waldorf university of schooling; Swiss visionary C. G. Jung, founding father of intensity psychology; infamous English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley; Russian esotericist P. D. Ouspensky, explicator of Gurdjieff's early works; and British psychic artist Dion Fortune, who used to be influential within the glossy revival of magical arts.

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Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

By Lon Milo DuQuette

Take a desirable trip into the lifetime of essentially the most revered, sought-after, and popular magicians alive this present day: Lon Milo DuQuette. during this follow-up to his well known autobiography, My existence with the Spirits, DuQuette tells how a chum was once cursed through a well known overseas filmmaker and the way they got rid of that curse with a bit support from Shakespeare. He explains how, as a six-year-old, he used the legislation of charm to get a date with Linda Kaufman, the main appealing woman in first-grade. DuQuette additionally unearths the bits and bobs of operating with demons and gives a compelling account of acting an exorcism at a personal Catholic highschool.

As unique as they're informative, the real tales during this memoir include actual magical idea and valuable technical information.

 

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The Key of the Abyss : Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working and the Witchcraft Decoded

The Magick of at the present time is the faith of tomorrow.

Probably an important religious circulation of the final century has been the go back of the Goddess to the realization of the Western international. on the leading edge of that move has been neo-pagan witchcraft, or Wicca, and it has grown gradually on account that Gerald Gardner went public within the Nineteen Fifties. Wicca, even if, grew out of the mystical inns of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and whereas historians like Ronald Hutton have proven that Wicca most likely wasn't a survival from the center a long time, it did not spring absolutely shaped from the forehead of Zeus either.

Among the solid of characters that Gardner linked to whereas he used to be constructing his principles for his witchcraft “revival” have been Aleister Crowley, a tender Kenneth provide and the pinnacle of the mythical Agape resort OTO, Jack Parsons. Parsons used to be dedicated to numerous beliefs; own attainment through finishing the "Great paintings" end result within the crossing of the Abyss, Crowley’s Thelema and to what he observed because the revival of “the outdated Religion”, witchcraft. Jack used to be writing approximately witchcraft, with a Goddess as its basic deity no much less, years ahead of Gardner released excessive Magic’s Aide, a singular that was once his first public annunciation of the information that might develop into Gardnerian Wicca.

The suggestion of magickal currents is fundamental to Kenneth Grant’s paintings. those currents, comparable to the Typhonian appear to bestow initiations in their personal and certainly can occur unbidden during a magickal operating or as in Graves’ case, as inventive idea. even though we could pass judgement on Parsons, there should be little question that the Witchcraft move was once whatever greater than just an idea whose time had come. i feel it's the manifestation of a present that we've got simply simply started to discover.

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The Devouring

By Simon Holt

"When darkish creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For within the winter's blackest hours,
Comes the feasting of the Vours,
No you'll be able to see it, the existence they stole,
Your body's right here yet no longer your soul..."

THE VOURS: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human our bodies on Sorry evening, the darkest hours of the wintry weather solstice.

When Reggie reads in regards to the Vours in a mysterious outdated magazine, she assumes they're simply the musings of an nameless lunatic. but if her little brother, Henry, starts off to behave unusually, it is transparent that those creatures exist past a madwoman's mind's eye, and Reggie unearths out what occurs while fears come to life.

To retailer the folks she loves, Reggie needs to learn how to live to tell the tale in a global of nightmares. Can she eat her personal fears earlier than they consume her?

The Devouring is an engrossing story of terror that might have you ever thinking about: what in case your worst fears grew to become your dwelling nightmare?

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