For Sale: Azoetia

I – the_real_simon_iff – am currently selling a book on ebay that might be interesting to some visitors of LAShTAL.COM:

For sale: Andrew D. Chumbley – AZOETIA – A GRIMOIRE OF THE SABBATIC CRAFT – BEING A FULL AND ACCURATE TRANSCRIPTION, COMPILED AND AMENDED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF “THE BOOK OF THE MAGICKAL QUINTESSENCE” – Xoanon Publishing Ltd., Chelmsford, UK: 2002. http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6978089968&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

Sethos Edition Hardcover no jacket (as issued), 8 vo., 366 pp., Fine condition. Publisher’s emerald green cloth with gilt title etc to spine and device to cover. This “standard edition” is hand numbered copy of only 484 numbered copies, hand-bound, this being copy No. 124. Attractively produced, this edition is comprised of a revised text together with additional formulae and around 45 illustrations, many previously unseen. Originally published by in 1992 in a limited edition of only 300 copies, Azoetia or “The Book of the Magical Quintessence” has become one of the most sought-after new magical works of our time and may be regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition in its present phase of work. Azoetia is comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working tools; the full text of the Sabbatic Rituals of Ingress, Congress, and Egress; and an eleven-chaptered Grimoirium detailing the arcana and composite practices of the Sacred Alphabet ?? the twenty-two lettered code of sorcerous principles underlying the practical spectrum of the Arte Magical. The entire work intends the reification of traditional British cunning-craft praxis according to the spiritual vision and artistry of a contemporary initiate. (from Weiser Antiquarian Website)

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