Ideally, this week people would have received their preorders. Unfortunately, though, the cloth for the hardcover edition was damaged in transit, and now shipping is delayed to begin on Monday, November 17th. To shorten the waiting time a bit, Scarlet Imprint and I decided to offer a reading sample in advance. On this page, therefore, you can find the complete Introduction to Holy Heretics – in advance and for free.
Read MoreIt is through the lens of the alleged Majorcan hermit Pelagius that we unlock the door - and gain access to Trithemius’ personal view and direct experiences of a magic filled with mystical integrity and angelic presence. Furthermore, we begin to see that without the writings of Trithemius-Pelagius - that is without the genuine impact of an imagined figure - our entire modern tradition of Western Magic would not be the same.
Read MoreIn a not at all metaphorical sense JSK’s final double volume is an expedition into the ancestral blood-ties of this famous sorcerer-saint. To embark on it is to encounter Cyprian the Mage. Not only as the hero of an ancient polemic against the last surviving pagans, but more importantly as a still present inner contact, a powerful spirit in its own right.
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