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Witchcraft Collection - Cornell University Library

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/index.html

The Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection is an online selecton of titles from the Cornell University Library’s extensive collection of materials on Witchcraft. The Witchcraft Collection is a rich source for students and scholars of the history of superstition and witchcraft persecution in Europe. It documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives. Most importantly, the collection focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy.

These titles were originally digitally scanned from microfilm by Primary Source Microfilm and the images were returned to Cornell University. For more information, please visit the About page.

Current Online Holdings

104 monographs
23,220 pages

19 February 2010 • guest magick books submission

Biographies of magickal movers and shakers - Phil Hine

Phil Hine is one of the more well known exponents of Chaos Magick. After becoming involved with Chaos groups in West Yorkshire during the 1980s he went on to publish a series of booklets on Urban Shamanism and subsequently Prime Chaos, Condensed Chaos and The Pseudonomicon. Condensed Chaos is a fully expanded version of his first booklet on Chaos Magick, now titled Oven-Ready Chaos.

Favoured for his practical and accessible approach to Magick, Phil Hine draws inspiration not only from ‘classic’ magick figures such as Aleister Crowley, but also from literary sources such as William Burroughs, who described Hine’s Condensed Chaos as “the most concise statement of the logic of modern magic”.

Hine is a former contributor and editor of Chaos International, and a founder and co-editor of Pagan News. Openly bisexual, he has written several articles on sexuality and gender within occultism and magick.

More:

http://enfolding.org/

http://www.philhine.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hine

http://dreamflesh.com/interviews/philhine/

From: http://chaosbooks.co.uk/biographies/

9 February 2010 • bio magick chaos magick

And now to the ultimate (in my list…) occult publisher of the modern age; at least when it comes to binding. See, I consider books to be beautiful not only because of the knowledge and ideas they contain, but also because of their actual physical nature. A book is a work of art in and of itself.

Where was I? Oh yes - Xoanon Publishing - dangerously enchanting books that rocket in value mere months after they are published. Limited editions of course.

6 February 2010 • publishers books occult magick

The penultimate esoteric publishing house (in my list anyway). Three Hands Press have a small selection of finely bound modern occult texts, most of which seem to be sold out. Beware waiting to purchase limited editions I say.

5 February 2010 • publishers books occult magick

As I continue to share the finest occult publishers of the modern day, I’m excited to mention Fulgur, from whom I have recently purchased Legion 49, which is a beautiful book although I doubt if I will attend to its contents this year.

4 February 2010 • publishers books occult magick

I’m sharing the finest occult publishers I know, in no particular order.

I now come to Ouroboros Press, who have a small collection of nicely bound limited edition books that I have yet to purchase from.

3 February 2010 • publishers books occult magick

Wanting to share some of the finest esoteric publishers with you, I find Scarlet Imprint next on my list.

Modern Grimoires from selected writers, Scarlet Imprint provide good books at good prices, and some exceptional limited editions at the prices you’d expect.

2 February 2010 • publishers books magick occult

I would like to share some of the finest occult publishers I know with you.

On my list I have Salamander and Sons, who publish modern occult texts, often around the subject of alchemy.

Another fine publisher tomorrow.

1 February 2010 • publishers books occult magick

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As you might know, I wander and wonder around the topics of Chaos Magick, Modern and Post Modern Magick and spiritual ideas in general.

Got a response to one of my articles? Want to offer an alternative view of Magick? Want to blog about the occult but can’t be arsed administrating your own website?

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28 January 2010 • guest magick

Psychic or Magick? Psybermagick Psychick Psykik Cykik

What if acts of magick were really external rituals to set off internal cascades? What if all magick were merely a front for psychic talents that were otherwise difficult to trigger?

Gnossis and trance play such an important part of magickal workings. We know when we’re in the ‘right frame of mind’ don’t we?

Nothing revolutionary or original in this idea, only I’m asking if you’ve experimented with reducing the external ritual if your spellcasting to focus on the internal mechanisms?

And what does one do to eradicate doubt? Surely even a fleeting doubt can unbalance a mental act of psybermagick; or maybe it doesn’t have to if you don’t be-lie-ve it will!

Once again, we return to the idea of ‘belief’ being a tool and a means rather than an underlying truth.

What about the whole ‘you mustn’t hold the desire in the conscious mind’ rule of Chaos Magick and gnossis magick? The whole ‘your subconscious is the true Magickian, don’t trip it up with conscious (and often contradictory) desires’?

28 January 2010 • magick psychic gnosis