The Red King by Mark Alan Smith / IXAXAAR

The Red King by Mark Alan Smith / IXAXAAR

New Release coming in February 2011 from IXAXAAR

Second Volume of the Books of the Trident of Witchcraft
- Gnosis of Lucifer -

THE RED KING by Mark Alan Smith

The Red King is the second volume of the Trident of Witchcraft. This substantial book reveals the true Gnosis of Lucifer; as the God who ante-dates the entire Christian mythos; which has been suppressed and hidden from man by organisations such as the Catholic Church for thousands of years. In the Age of Re-Awakening Lucifer steps forward as the Lightbearer who illuminates the way of true Wisdom and Understanding. He is the God who holds the keys to these realms and to those beyond. Lucifer reveals the destiny of both the soul and the incarnate form of man. The magickal work of Lucifer is the catalyst through which the power and gnosis of the Witch Gods may be attained by those who are able to balance the blackest Atlantean magick with the brightest stellar aspects of the Perfect Red King.

The Red King consists of the Six Books of Lucifer and returns more of the lost and previously fragmented gnosis of the Witchcraft. The First Book of Lucifer begins with the return of the true formula for summoning the Four Demon Princes, in manifestation, as gatekeepers and guardians to the kin of the Trident. The further work of the Toad Witch, beyond the initial rite itself, is explored and the gnosis of summoning the Devil's Familiar is revealed alongside evocational techniques which grant the adept the raw power of Lucifer to aid in the calling forth of the most powerful denizens of His realm. Work with the mighty Surgat yields the secrets of the construction of the talismanic Key to Lucifer's Kingdom. The remaining five books are the Books of the Lost Keys of Power. This knowledge must be placed back into the hands of man in order to restore the correct balance of power to the Path of Ascension which leads from immortal soul to Divine form.

The Book of Stellar Lore of the Horned God presents knowledge that is necessary in order to open gateways to the Eternal Realms. Within the Book of the Inner Keys of Knowledge the Pathways of Belial are explored. The Rite of the Masks of the Horned God Lucifer uncovers the Keys to the Gateway of Knowledge. The Lord of the Dark Star is met in the ritual exploration of His realm and pathways beyond the throne of Lucifer are illuminated. Pacts of the soul, in eternal devotion and protection, are made in the Book of Gateways to the Soul. This leads to the first encounter with the Kings of Edom; not those confused with the Witch Gods of the Qlippoth; the Dark Gods of the depths who rule far below the Nightside. The journey along the Path of Ghagiel initiates the adept into the Atlantean current as the origins of the soul of man and the fate of the first incarnate race are revealed. In the Book of the Depths some of the blackest Atlantean magick is given in ritual form. The Rite of the Unforgiven Soul teaches the method of summoning forth, and binding as a servitor, a black horror from the realms of the damned. The ritual summoning of the Four Horsemen is covered in detail in the powerful Atlantean work of the Elemental Talisman of Thaumiel's King.

The transmutational Path of Flame is woven throughout the entire book. This is the journey of the soul who quests for the Three Great Crowns of Divinity. The Sixth Book of Lucifer, the Temple of the Gods, culminates in the preparation of the soul for its total immersion into the Atlantean Universe. For those who have attained the First Great Crown at the Throne of Hecate, Lucifer ignites His Path of Flame in the depths which leads the questing soul towards divinity.

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The Red King will be released in one strictly limited edition of 999 standard copies and 66 deluxe copies.

All copies are hand numbered.

Regular Edition The Standard edition is bound in shimmering midnight blue cloth and embossed with the seal of the Perfect Red King of Sulphur. Printed on thick high quality paper and finished with black endpapers. Fifteen beautiful full page illustrations. This edition will be individually consecrated by the author in order to fully awaken the spirits of Lucifer within each book. 55 euros

The Thaumiel Edition consists of 66 deluxe copies bound in full, blood red, goat. Gold stamped with the seal of the Cardinal Crown of Thaumiel. Gilded edges. Thick endpapers. Dark red silk ribbon. Slipcased. The Thaumiel edition will each be signed and sigillised by the author with ink that has been ritually infused with his own blood before they are individually consecrated. 215 euros

Only one copy per customer of this deluxe edition. For pre-reservations, contact the publisher reservations@ixaxaar.com

These books are seeds of gnosis.
As with its sister volume Queen of Hell there will be absolutely no second edition or re-print of The Red King at any time.

The Red King by Mark Alan Smith
PUBLISHING DATE 2.2.2011

http://www.ixaxaar.com

Mahazhael - The Lord of Death

by Patrick John Larabee

The Red King by Mark Alan Smith / IXAXAAR

New Release coming in February 2011 from IXAXAAR

Second Volume of the Books of the Trident of Witchcraft
- Gnosis of Lucifer -

THE RED KING by Mark Alan Smith

The Red King is the second volume of the Trident of Witchcraft. This substantial book reveals the true Gnosis of Lucifer; as the God who ante-dates the entire Christian mythos; which has been suppressed and hidden from man by organisations such as the Catholic Church for thousands of years. In the Age of Re-Awakening Lucifer steps forward as the Lightbearer who illuminates the way of true Wisdom and Understanding. He is the God who holds the keys to these realms and to those beyond. Lucifer reveals the destiny of both the soul and the incarnate form of man. The magickal work of Lucifer is the catalyst through which the power and gnosis of the Witch Gods may be attained by those who are able to balance the blackest Atlantean magick with the brightest stellar aspects of the Perfect Red King.

The Red King consists of the Six Books of Lucifer and returns more of the lost and previously fragmented gnosis of the Witchcraft. The First Book of Lucifer begins with the return of the true formula for summoning the Four Demon Princes, in manifestation, as gatekeepers and guardians to the kin of the Trident. The further work of the Toad Witch, beyond the initial rite itself, is explored and the gnosis of summoning the Devil's Familiar is revealed alongside evocational techniques which grant the adept the raw power of Lucifer to aid in the calling forth of the most powerful denizens of His realm. Work with the mighty Surgat yields the secrets of the construction of the talismanic Key to Lucifer's Kingdom. The remaining five books are the Books of the Lost Keys of Power. This knowledge must be placed back into the hands of man in order to restore the correct balance of power to the Path of Ascension which leads from immortal soul to Divine form.

The Book of Stellar Lore of the Horned God presents knowledge that is necessary in order to open gateways to the Eternal Realms. Within the Book of the Inner Keys of Knowledge the Pathways of Belial are explored. The Rite of the Masks of the Horned God Lucifer uncovers the Keys to the Gateway of Knowledge. The Lord of the Dark Star is met in the ritual exploration of His realm and pathways beyond the throne of Lucifer are illuminated. Pacts of the soul, in eternal devotion and protection, are made in the Book of Gateways to the Soul. This leads to the first encounter with the Kings of Edom; not those confused with the Witch Gods of the Qlippoth; the Dark Gods of the depths who rule far below the Nightside. The journey along the Path of Ghagiel initiates the adept into the Atlantean current as the origins of the soul of man and the fate of the first incarnate race are revealed. In the Book of the Depths some of the blackest Atlantean magick is given in ritual form. The Rite of the Unforgiven Soul teaches the method of summoning forth, and binding as a servitor, a black horror from the realms of the damned. The ritual summoning of the Four Horsemen is covered in detail in the powerful Atlantean work of the Elemental Talisman of Thaumiel's King.

The transmutational Path of Flame is woven throughout the entire book. This is the journey of the soul who quests for the Three Great Crowns of Divinity. The Sixth Book of Lucifer, the Temple of the Gods, culminates in the preparation of the soul for its total immersion into the Atlantean Universe. For those who have attained the First Great Crown at the Throne of Hecate, Lucifer ignites His Path of Flame in the depths which leads the questing soul towards divinity.

* * * * * *

The Red King will be released in one strictly limited edition of 999 standard copies and 66 deluxe copies.

All copies are hand numbered.

Regular Edition The Standard edition is bound in shimmering midnight blue cloth and embossed with the seal of the Perfect Red King of Sulphur. Printed on thick high quality paper and finished with black endpapers. Fifteen beautiful full page illustrations. This edition will be individually consecrated by the author in order to fully awaken the spirits of Lucifer within each book. 55 euros

The Thaumiel Edition consists of 66 deluxe copies bound in full, blood red, goat. Gold stamped with the seal of the Cardinal Crown of Thaumiel. Gilded edges. Thick endpapers. Dark red silk ribbon. Slipcased. The Thaumiel edition will each be signed and sigillised by the author with ink that has been ritually infused with his own blood before they are individually consecrated. 215 euros

Only one copy per customer of this deluxe edition. For pre-reservations, contact the publisher reservations@ixaxaar.com

These books are seeds of gnosis.
As with its sister volume Queen of Hell there will be absolutely no second edition or re-print of The Red King at any time.

The Red King by Mark Alan Smith
PUBLISHING DATE 2.2.2011

http://www.ixaxaar.com

Deep Time

My first piece of music.

...all is not as it seems...

...everything is but a seeming...

...even I...

...and when one realises that all is but a seeming, one of two things happens: one either seems to see all as simply shells, bereft of any inherent light, an animal being animalistic, waiting and running from death, or they see that the seeming is informed by a massive absolute consciousness acting through what seems to be reality, and at the level of individuality at that; what an amazing concept - to see all as interactions of absolute consciousness interacting with itself through individualised manifestations, imagine god meeting god through the shaking of two mens hands, or the meeting of lips of lovers, or two children playing in a sand box...

Maybe this is the true difference between being "human" and BEING HUMAN!

...and here is the difference between a good magus and a bad: one uses the seeming, the plastic, moldable reality, to create harmony and create peace, becoming and evolution, and the other uses it to create facades, personas, with which to deceive people and create illusions for seflish ends, and to simply sow discord, where one who has true power could just as equally create harmony...it's all about intent, and also of whether that intent is obvious or veiled...

...both the inner and the outer world: yet, and because of this, there is what seems to be a single autonomous entity, that is capable of watching both the inner and outer realities unfold, develope and evolve, and yet is touched by neither, so both are but a seeming and each veiling a truth that is but another veil, another seeming...ever onward to and forever through the Mystery of Unfolding Night!

A Call unto the Goddess of the Night

Heka, Hekat, Hekate, Hekate!

O' Hecate, Antient Goddess please preside over this,
our practice of the Arte of the Mysteries of the Moon,
ever abiding in Thy Presence and Bliss Undying,
be with us this evening our Lady of Midnight's Noon!

Mistress of Magic, here upon the Cross'd Way we stand,
we humbly seek and beseech the Powers of Thy Dark Grace,
by the Powers of the Emerald Toad and the Wise Serpent,
come upon Our Compass with Black Embrace.

O' Hecate, by the Reddened Skull and the Verdant Leaf,
We call upon the Powers of the Holy Wain,
Mistress of the Keys and Lady of the Crossed-Roads,
Open the Sacred Gates and show the Blessed Way!

Mother of the Wise, Great Goddess of Heaven and Hell,
Gracious Light-bearer of the Full Moon's Power,
A Sacred and Blessed Essence abloom like a Flower,
Descend, arise, within Our Compass be Alive!

O' Hekate! Open the Way, ever by the Sign of the Crooked Path.

(Here follows an inscribing upon the Aires the Aethyric Form of the Crooked Serpent with Astral Light, begin chanting "Heka, Hekat, Hekate, Hekate!" until Her presence is felt, and follow with small moment of reflection and contemplation.)


By Patrick Larabee

Tubelo's Green Fire by Shani Oates

This book explores historical and contemporary ideas of witchcraft through the perspective of the Clan of Tubal Cain - a closed Initiatory group aligned to the Shadow Mysteries within the Luciferian stream. As
students of arte we mediate the ancestral stream, teaching through practice with the sacred tenets of Truth, Love and Beauty.
The Word is thus manifest in deed and vision.

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“A driving thirst for knowledge is the forerunner of wisdom. Knowledge is a state that all organic life posesses, wisdom is the reward of the spirit, gained in the search for knowledge. Truth is variable – what is
true now, will not be true tomorrow, since the temporal truths are dependent upon ethics and social mores – therefore wisdom is possibly eternal Truth, untouched by man’s condition. So we must come to the heart of the People, a belief that is based upon Eternity, and not upon social needs or pressures – the ‘witch’ belief then is concerned with wisdom, our true name, then is the wise people and wisdom is our aim.”
- - Robert Cochrane (1931-1966)

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Contents: Mythopoesis / Goda, the Clan of Tubal Cain and Robert Cochrane/ Hekate, Dark Mistress of the Soul/ The Wisdom of Courtly Love/Dance of the Seven Veils/ / Hand of Fatima / Sila na gigh /Dia de los Muertos / Abbots Bromley, the Wild Hunt and Saint Nick / Summer and Winter Customs / The Wild Hunt / Green Knight, Dark God of Light / The Fisher King: Gnostic Priest of the High Mysteries of the Graal / The
Divine Duellists / Why Cranes? An Exploration into their Mythic Significance in / Legend and Lore/ The Fruit of Wisdom / Musings on the Sacred / The Mystery Tradition / A Man for all Seasons / The Three Rings of the Compass / Traditional Enigma / The Alchemy of the Compass / What is an Initiation?


May be purchased through:

Atlantis Books: http://www.atlantisbooks.org/bookshop/

Watkins Books: http://www.watkinsbooks.co.uk/index.html

Treadwells: http://www.treadwells-london.com/index.html

Libra-Aries Books: http://www.libra-aries-books.co.uk/cat/book/tubelos_green_fire_oates.html

Midian Books: http://www.midianbooks.co.uk/index.html

Fields Bookstore: http://www.fieldsbooks.com/cgi-bin/fields/9781906958077.html

and

Mandrake of Oxford: http://www.mandrake.uk.net/shanioates.htm

Opuscula Magica Volume One

The Opuscula Magica treats in four volumes the short exegetical works on magic by the British occult author Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004). The series presents his magical essays, homilies, and other obscure works which originally appeared in small-circulation occult journals now out of print. Each volume presents a series of collated works, some revised or updated prior to his death, as well as a number of writings and illustrations previously unpublished. Together with his grimoire-texts of the magical order Cultus Sabbati, these ‘minor works on magic’ are the origination-point and foundation texts of Sabbatic Witchcraft and Crooked Path Sorcery, two of Chumbley’s most important contributions to the Art Magical. With the intent to make these works more widely available to scholars and magical practitioners, the series is printed and bound in a fine book format suited to their study and preservation. The series editor is Daniel A. Schulke.

Volume I: Essays on Witchcraft and the Sabbatic Tradition
152 pp, illustrated
Release Date: April 2010

Opuscula Volume One contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron. The essays reflect a degree of magical insight, clarity of vision, and creativity seldom equaled in occult writing to this day.

Advance orders for the book are currently being accepted. It is to be released in two editions:

Standard Hardcover Edition: Cloth with dust jacket, limited to 726 copies, at $60.00 each. Priority Shipping: $7.80 within the United States; $11.80 international.

Deluxe Hardcover Edition: quarter morocco with slipcase, limited to 242 copies, at $200.00 each. Priority Shipping: $9.80 within the United States; $13.80 international.

Limit one copy of each edition per customer.

Please send checque or money order payable to Xoanon Publishing to:

Three Hands Press
15501 San Pablo Avenue
Box G313
Richmond Vista, CA 94806 USA

Payment may also be made to their PayPal account:

books@threehandspress.com

The Invocation of Liminality

With One Foot in the World of the Living
and the Other in the World of the Dead,
I stand upon the Threshold of the Duality
inherent in the Unity,
With a Double-Gaze I see with the Vision
of the Whole.

The Two Realities of the One,
As Day and Night are Together a Whole,
A Never-Ending Circle of Cycles, of Revolutions,
of Inner and Outer Turnings,
As the Mighty Ourobouros biting its Tail,
Ever Swallowing and Ever Growing,
Shedding Skin to Become the New, the Changed,
the Ever-Changing.



By Patrick Larabee

New Book - Queen of Hell by Mark Alan Smith

This work embodies the primal current of the Witchcraft of Hecate. The first part of this book opens the Dark Path of the Witchflame Goddess in soul transition and elevation through initiation and the chrystalline transmutation of the subtle bodies in sexual magickal praxis. The Gods of the Witchcraft Trident are met in inner plane congress and physical plane evocation. The second part of the book deals with the transmutational journey of the soul through the Nightside realm of Hecate. The shadow paths of the Qlippoth are explored through many different portals in soul transition as gateways to Hell are opened and ancient familiar beings are conjured to assist in the work. Through the Lore of Malefica the awesome Draconian power of the Witch Gods is fully manifested and the darker side of the craft is seen written upon the Pages of Damnation in the Book of Rofocal. The third and final part of this work contains the Book of the Inner Sanctum. This is the path to the higher powers of the Witchcraft of Hecate. The dark spiritual crossing of the Abyss is covered here in depth.

All copies of Queen of Hell are individually consecrated making this book a truly talismanic work. Limited edition of 999 hand numbered copies. Printed on high quality heavy paper with black endpapers. Bound in shimmering dark green cloth marked with the Crown of Hecate. Illustrated. 244 pages. 55 euros. PUBLISHING APRIL 2010


Please see the following website to reserve your copy of Queen of Hell by Mark Alan Smith: http://www.ixaxaar.com/

Bible Verse

"I am brother to dragons and companion to owls." - Old Testament (Job 29:30)

Ruha - Women of Night breathe forth the Breath of Life.

By Patrick Larabee

Prayer of Medea to Hecate

"O night, faithful friend of mysteries; and you, golden stars and moon, who follow the fiery star of day; and you, Hecate, goddess with threefold head, you know my designs and come to strengthen my spells and magic arts; and you, earth, who offer your potent herbs to magi; and airs, winds, mountains, streams, and lakes, and all you woodland gods, and all you gods of the night: Be present now."

-- Prayer of Medea to Hecate, Ovid's 'The Metamorphoses'

Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury.

By Patrick J. Larabee

Naamah, Consort of Tubal-Qayin, the Great Weaver Goddess.

By Patrick J. Larabee

Aeneid Verse

"Smooth the descent and easy the way
(The Gates of Hell stand open night and day);
But to return and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labour lies."
- Aeneid VI, 126-129, Translated by John Dryden

A World with Three Suns

By Patrick J. Larabee

"Lo, I am with you."

"Lo, I am with you, moved by your prayers,
I who am the mother of the universe,
the mistress of all elements,
the first offspring of time,
the highest of all deities,
the queen of the souls,
foremost of the heavenly beings,
the single form that fuses all gods and goddesses;
I who order by my will the starry heights of heaven,
the healing-giving breezes of thesea,
and the awful silences of those in the underworld:
my single godhead is adored by the whole world in varied forms,
in differing rites and with many diverse names."

Apuleius
Metamorphoses, Book 11, 5

Witchy Haiku

In the beginning,
spark in darkness did ignite,
to us all brought light.

Illuminating,
the void inside inner space,
blessing sacred light.

Glorious life sun,
lord of the day and right might,
seekers follow light.

Your a shining light,
in the darkness of my night,
soothing to my soul.

As the sun to moon,
so my soul to my body,
the flow of life force.

Glowing moon so bright,
you are the goddess of night,
calling child to rite.

Sacred king stag stands,
as the lord of the forest,
reaching out for hand.

Sweet summer honey,
distilling a holy drink,
an elixir sweet.

Skull fills with shadow,
eternal night descends now,
eye opens upon the dark.


By Patrick J. Larabee

A Procession of Shadows Underneath the Pale Moonlight

By Patrick J. Larabee