Picked up Frederick Hockley's - Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors completing my collection of the Teitan Press' publication of Frederick Hockley's manuscripts.
So far Teitan have published 6 titles, these are.
A Complete Book of Magic Science (Teitan Press, 2008) Occult Spells. A Nineteenth Century Grimoire (Teitan Press, 2009) The Rosicrucian Seer (Revised edition, Teitan Press, 2009) Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors (Teitan Press, 2010) Abraham the Jew on Magic Talismans (Teitan Press, 2011) A Book of the Offices of Spirits (Teitan Press, 2011) Actually it's really five because 'Rosicrucian Seer' is a collection of letters and other documents relating to Hockley, interesting stuff nevertheless. Interestingly perhaps the most important Hockley manuscript was not published by Teitan. 'The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon' was published by Joseph Peterson/Nicolas Hays Inc Teitan Press' website listed several planned new titles in the coming months (or years) relating to Hockley, but the one I'm most looking forward to is Hockley's Rudd/Goetia manuscript 'Dr Rudd's Nine Hierarchies of Angels' I've always been fascinated by Rudd's material. Speaking of that brings me to my other completed collection; that of 'Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series' collection (again what's been printed so far) 'The Goetia of Thomas Rudd' is part of the collection. The titles published so far are SWCM 1 - The Practical Angel Magic of John Dee's Enochian Tables SWCM 2 - The Keys to the Gateway of Magic SWCM 3 - The Goetia of Dr Rudd SWCM 4 - The Veritable Key of Solomon* SWCM 5 - The Grimoire of St. Cyprian - Clavis Inferni SWCM 6 - Sepher Raziel SWCM 7 - Liber Lunae - Book of the Moon & Sepher ha-Levanah SWCM 8 - The Magical Treatise of Solomon or Hygromanteia * This one is a bit of mystery. The Golden Hoard Edition was initially only available as the the numbered leather bound edition with colour plate. The only 'standard' edition was published by Llewellyn, with black and white plates. I first bought the Llewellyn edition then the Leather edition for the colour plates. Then the Golden Hoard standard edition was published complete with colour plates. There's also a 'super' limited leather edition with raised bands on the spine, Only seen that listed for silly money on eBay. I must admit that I didn't buy either collection in the order they were released I bought SWCM 7 'Liber Lunae' to complete the collection this week (online order - now arrived) and Hockey's 'Invocating by Magic Crystals and Mirrors' today from good old Treadwells. Unlike Teitan Press, there's no indication what the next title in the SWCM series will be on either Stephen Skinner's or the publisher Golden Hoard Press' websites. But given that Skinner has just completed the John Dee modernization project and published 'John Dee's Spiritual Diaries' I wouldn't blame him for taking a well earned break :) | ||||||||||||||
Friday, 2 March 2012
Completed the collections (of what's published so far)
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