| Howlings now available |
[06 Jun 2009|10:29am] |
HOWLINGS reborn
A second edition of this acclaimed volume of practical working with the grimoires
In stock now for immediate dispatch 6/6/09
HOWLINGS various
edited by Alkistis Dimech
HOWLINGS is an octavo book of two hundred and one pages, four sumptuous colour plates, handsomely designed and bound in peacock blue and gilt stamped cloth in a limited second edition of 666 copies.
This Edition is numbered sequentially from 334 to 999 inclusive.
The text remains the same as the first edition, though redesigned throughout.
A copy can be yours for the princely sum of thirty-three English pounds plus postage.
HOWLINGS comprises fourteen original and extensive essays which explore the Grimoires. These are passionate, informed and evocative pieces which create a unique testament to the vibrancy of the modern magickal current.
Our writers pursue knowledge, power and wisdom through the pages of:
The Picatrix
The Goetia, or Lesser Key of Solomon
Four Books of Occult Philosophy
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook
Liber 231
Qutub
And the Grimoire itself
Our esteemed writers are,
David Rankine
Donald Tyson
Peter Grey
David Beth
Stafford Stone
Paul Hughes-Barlow
Krzysztof Azarewicz
Jack Macbeth
Thea Faye
Aleq Grai
Hafiz Batin
and the anonymous author of The Grimoire of Pharaon
Taking the established experts and ranging them alongside raw and hungry voices, we have created a quite beautiful monstrosity of staggering scope. With the actual accounts of working magickians from a whole range of traditions, this is a unique collection.
Prepare to be delighted, inspired and intoxicated.
www.scarletimprint.com/books.htm
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| Occulture |
[03 Jun 2009|03:45pm] |
We would like to thank those who attended the Occulture Festival in London.
It is vital that the magickal community has the opportunity to meet face to face.
There are few opportunities to find so many magicians in one place who are willing to share the results of their hard won work.
Scarlet Imprint put all of our support behind these real world events.
Jake Stratton-Kent gave a powerful account of his work with the Grimorium Verum.
Dave Evans debunked the Amado Crowley myths.
Stephen Skinner explained a little more of his experience with grimoires, which we found invaluable.
We were able to begin to put forward the practice we are doing with Babalon and the Beast, which will eventually find it's way into print in Seven Heads/Seven Veils.
There is so much more to come.
It is our wish that Occulture, and the other magickal festivals live up to their potential.
To that end we will also be attending the Equinox Festival in London and the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle.
This is only the beginning.
In Nomine Babalon
Peter Grey
( Read more... ) Alkistis explains the Seven Veils
JSK reflects
Peter Grey on the Seven Heads
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| LAUNCH PARTY The True Grimoire |
[12 May 2009|01:49pm] |
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22 May 2009 (Friday)
Book Launch: The Encyclopedia Goetica Vol 1: The True Grimoire
Author: Jake Stratton-Kent
Hosted by Scarlet Imprint
Free, but advance booking required to be added to the guest list
7pm-Late We look forward to seeing many of you at Treadwell’s on the evening before the Occulture Festival to baptise
The True Grimoire in wine. As with all of our soirees advance booking is needed.
Please reserve your place by mailing Treadwell’s on info@treadwells-london.com
Or calling them on 020 7240 8906 This will be a good opportunity to meet Jake Stratton-Kent informally before he speaks at the festival, and to get together with other readers and assorted ne’er-do-wells of esoteric London. Booze fuelled carnage is optional, however we do encourage plotting, discussion and debate. It is a real privilege and a rare opportunity to have so many of you in the same room. Jake has produced a work which will be rightly recognised as a defining work on goetic magic, it deserves celebrating. For more on The True Grimoire see http://www.scarletimprint.com/truegrimoire.htm
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| delayed books? |
[19 Apr 2009|10:10am] |
Just a quick note. We’ve been experiencing some postal delays with The True Grimoire.
Having come down from the mountains we sent them from the nearest large post office in France.They very helpfully (we thought) sent them out labelled as livres/brochures. However, they neglected to mention that this can take up to three weeks, though many are getting to their destination much sooner.
This is not the case in England, where books sent as printed papers take exactly the same time to ship. So, if you are worrying about your precious orders, they are on the way! Our apologies for the delay. All books sent out from Friday will be sent from England. Again, thanks for your understanding with this. |
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| Scarlet Imprint NEW TITLE The Encyclopedia Goetica Volume 1: The True Grimoire |
[09 Apr 2009|12:07pm] |
The Encyclopaedia Goetica
Volume 1: The True Grimoire
The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent
In stock now for immediate dispatch
The True Grimoire is a substantial octavo book of 280pp.
The text is profusely illustrated with characters, sigils, magic squares, and pontos riscados.
It is bound in verdant green book cloth, bloody endpapers and stamped with a rubeus memento mori.
This is a volume with presence, as befits one housing so many spirits. It is released in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of a thousand copies.
A copy of the Death's Head edition can be yours for thirty-five English pounds plus postage.
The True Grimoire is a major contribution to the practice and study of Goetic magic.
The neglected Grimorium Verum has been restored to it's rightful place as a potent and coherent system of Goetic magic.
Jake Stratton-Kent has reconstructed a working version from the corrupted Italian and French versions of this important grimoire. As a practicing Necromancer with 37 years of experience his Verum is a clear exposition of how to contact and build a relationship with the spirits.
The True Grimoire springs from the source of Goetic magic, enabling us to unlock the secrets of the other grimoires. We are given insights into the Dragon Rouge, Key of Solomon, Lemegeton, Abramelin, Honorius and the Black Pullet. This is a treasure trove for the student of magic.
The True Grimoire lets us experience a grimoire tradition with links back to the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri and the necromancy of the original Goes. It also places Verum within a living tradtion, one which has taken root in the New World, finding expression in Quimbanda and the Legion of Exus, the 'People of the Cemetery' who have clear Verum equivalents. This is a constistently illuminating text. The copious notes of a working magician, combined with a scholarly attention to detail, enable us to use this text for it's original purpose. The hierarchy of Verum and Goetic spirits is restored, the nature of Astaroth is definitively set down. The planetary hours are explained, as are all the ritual requirements and preparations.
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| Turning America Red |
[03 Apr 2009|12:20pm] |
Scarlet Imprint are delighted to announce that we will be coming to America for the first Esoteric Book Conference. The event will be held in Seattle on September 19-20 2009.
The Esoteric Book Conference is being organised by William Kiesel of the respected Ouroborus Press and promises to be an orgy of antiquarian and occult books, along with speakers and presentations from notable authors and publishers.
We would highly recommend this event to our American readers as this has the potential to become an annual fixture and a focus for the occult community in the States.
We look forward to meeting many of you in Seattle.
Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech will be speaking at the event on their work with Babalon and the Beast. This will be a further expansion on the material which will be first presented at the Occulture Festival in London, and is part of a radical new text in preparation, continuing the trajectory which began with The Red Goddess.
The Esoteric Book Conference have a blog live here with more information
http://www.esotericbookfair.blogspot.com/
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| Call for Submissions |
[09 Mar 2009|05:58pm] |
Scarlet Imprint are fielding submissions for a revolutionary new collection of poetry from the global pagan, occult and magical communities.
This new anthology will combine a sampling of the best poetic work available from contemporary practitioners with additional essays about the practice of poetry as occult art form, poetic spiritual devotion, and the artistic culture of magic.
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| Viva La Revolution |
[03 Mar 2009|05:08pm] |
At Scarlet Imprint we will settle for nothing less than an occult revolution.
To this end we are backing two serious festivals in London this Summer.
Both the reborn Occulture Festival and the newly risen Equinox Festival.
We are putting our money, our time, our effort and energy into creating a thriving esoteric community.
Rather than existing in an empty online environment,this offers the opportunity for real contact and cross-pollination of ideas between those who dare.
Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech will be speaking at Occulture on May 23, along with Jake Stratton-Kent.
We will also be hosting a late launch party for the True Grimoire on the eve of Occulture, May 22 at the thriving Treadwells' bookshop, which is the heart of the magickal revival in London.
Tickets for Occulture can be bought here
David Beth will be appearing at the Equinox-Festival, to talk on Voudon Gnosis. We will also be there to sell books and talk with our readers. The three day festival is a brave and bold move, which we applaud and are proud to support. A really inspiring line-up of international experimental occult artists, performers and speakers.
The Equinox website can be found here
We urge you to consider attending both of these festivals.
They have much to recommend them, presenting as they do, a creative fusion of art, music and magick.
Viva La Revolution x
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| Freya Aswynn review of Voudon Gnosis |
[16 Feb 2009|03:48pm] |
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A great new review of Voudon Gnosis by Freya Aswynn, which can also be found at her blog here Voudon Gnosis Review by Freya Aswynn Ever so rare a book comes along which changes ones
paradigm permanently. The first book which impacted on my mind and set
my magickal Path was: Secrets of Dr Taverner by Dion Fortune and this
was in Dutch in 1968. Many books came after, and now in 2008 forty years later another book has a
similar impact.: Voudon Gnosis by David Beth a genuine Adept and True
initiator. This book is beautifully produced in shiny black cover embossed with a Seal. I am reading it for the second time, it’s not a big book, but the content is a condensed version of various systems of Magick under the umbrella of Voudon. I think that the term Voudon is used here as ‘Spirits Work’ and does not exclusively apply to the African Magickal Tradition but
can equally implemented within a Germanic/Norse magickal paradigm.
How could it be otherwise any True initiation manual has to be ‘universalist’. Yes, my dear Asatru friends I am universalist, guilty as charged! Like it or lump it! Any authentic occult system will correspond with others. This book is full of ‘triggers’ opening channels of knowledge, which reside in the collective Mind. If we consider the scientific fact that the Black Race is the oldest form of Homo Sapiens the first to appear from Africa and dispersing all overthe planet, it stands to reason that their gods and mysteries are also the oldest on the planet, from which may all others could be derived. In the Nordic system here is mention of a primal goddess named ‘Nott’ or Night’. This is not a book for beginners, it’s far to complicated and one must have
an familiarity with the occult concepts and jargon. But for those who
want to go beyond religion into the magick it’s a must. Some serious
excellent sorcery! It has a strong content of‘sexual’ magick, perhaps this must seem odd to you my faithful friends
as I am a sworn celibate, however it doesn’t stop me adapting it intomy own magickal work obviously without breaking my vows. There are only 550 copies printed so get your order in NOW! Let’s face it if
it’s beyond you current scope of occult understanding you either study
hard and catch on sell it one year later on Ebay for a multiplicity of
the money you paid. Topics include: Las
Prise des Yeaux, Points Chauds, Spider Sorcery and Time Travelling,
Elemental Sex Magick and The Grimoire Ghuehde; there are also two
appendices 'Nganga and the Fetish' and 'A-Mor: an initiated analysis of
Love'. Author David Beth is the Sovereign Grand Master for the
international Voudon Orders and is the Presiding Bishop of the Ecclesia
Aeterna. For those who are really interested but hesitant I suggest listening to the pod cast of David. http://www.occultofpersonality.com Where to buy: http://www.scarletimprint.com/
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| We are One |
[14 Feb 2009|11:59am] |
Dear Friends and Subscribers,
Happy Valentines day.
This is officially our birthday.
We are one, and it has been an incredible first year.
2009 is going to be very important for us, with some striking publications slated for production.
Our creative exile deep in the Alps is proving to be inspirational.
Work continues on important manuscripts and artistic and magical projects.
We have broken our silence and emailed all of our subscribers with the details of our newest title.
(Please check your spam folder if you have a particularly ferocious email client.)
If you are not on our subscribers list, take this as a timely reminder, and email us to be added.
There are some very limited and desirable books imminent.
Love
Scarlet Imprint x
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| Review of Devoted by Dr Julian Vayne |
[01 Feb 2009|03:05pm] |
Scarlet Imprint has done it again. Another ravishing text which combines tasteful production with quality writing. Bound in saffron coloured book cloth with a cut back design which, depending on how you look at it, is either a chalice or two faces about to kiss. By all means judge this book by its beautiful cover.
The collection of essays found in Devoted are tales of the bhakti yoga of modern magick. Levannah Morgan described her allegiance to Inanna. Stephen Grasso leads us into the society of the Loa. Peter Grey reveals more on his worship of Babalon. In total fifteen essays, which provide an excellent range, both in style of writing and of the diverse of spirits to which the contributors are consecrated.
In common with previous productions from this energetic publishing house, we have not only quality and substance but also novelty, for these are quintessentially modern practitioners of the arcane arts. If nothing else this book demonstrates successfully that prayerful, even 'religious' praxis within occultism is thriving. Through these essays we are introduced to fourteen occultists who have a living relationship with their gods. This makes a pleasant change from the model that presents spirits as being endogenous psychic productions.
My only reservation is that I want more! (But perhaps that is the doom of those who are devoted!) Not merely more details about methodology (some of the writers in this collection are painfully honest about their techniques). I guess it's that Devoted left me hungry for more of the intensity of experience that our authors have found in their adorations.
In Devoted we hear voices that speak directly from the visionary state. This book is a poetic download from magicians living in the rapture of their gods, and their hymns of praise are quite intoxicating.
-Julian Vayne
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| Devoted: First Review |
[07 Jan 2009|09:49pm] |
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DEVOTED Scarlet Imprint, London; Winter Solstice, 2008; limited edition of 814 copies. This is not a book about dark deities, or a volume of ready-made incantations and rituals. So many occult volumes published these days continue to be instruction manuals, rehashing of established systems or new ones created from whole cloth. At best, we are treated to a few anecdotal stories from the authors if they have in fact worked the systems they write about. All in all, the magick books of the 21st Century are cast from the same mold that was used a century ago. This book is different: it throbs with passion, blood and divine intoxication. It is personal... even intimate, because it is essentially a collection of lovers' diaries. The Beloved, in this case, is the goddess or god that has chosen each of the 14 writers to be hir suitor. This is bhakti yoga, the path of Devotion, in action. Here are the piquant fruits that come after all the theory and practice, after long years of penetrating a Mystery. Evocation is one thing, invocation is another. Evocation is calling in Merry Maids to tidy up your house and then sending them on their way; invocation is inviting one woman or man to move into your house and become your partner -- devotion. Invocation involves surrender, and trust, and the willingness to share one's darkest dreams, fears and desires with the Other. It is an opening of the heart and the shedding of blood and essence. A relationship always requires sacrifice, and in the case of the God/esses, the sacrifice is all-encompassing: body, mind, and heart. Some of the devotees in this volume do risk their health and sanity in the name of Love. Skin is flayed, pierced and tattoed. Poisons are injected. Possession is invited. The sense of separate self -- obliterated. Risking All "for love's sake; for the chance of union." None of the writers express regret or disappointment for their efforts; all feel they have been richly rewarded, and that the relationship and rewards will only grow. Subscribers to Babalon.nu will find much of value in this book, I think; its focus is mostly on the Dark Goddess, whether in the form of Ishtar, Babalon, Lilith, the Yoginis, Tiamat or Hecate. The re-arising of the Sacred Feminine is well represented. But Dionysos, Loki, the Lwa and the spirits of the Goetia are here as well. Another refreshing thing about this volume is, like a previous Scarlet Imprint title -- Howlings -- you get to hear voices from the many traditions that make up the 21st Century magical revival. Thelema is, at best, tangential to these discussions. Most of the authors are followers of the Witch Craft, tantrika, Voodoo, sorcery or are simply eclectic magicians, and in one case, an academician. The public face of magick is only a small part of the picture. I believe the de-centralization of magick is what will ensure its survival as the walls of civilization come tumbling down.
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| Devoted Solstice |
[23 Dec 2008|04:24pm] |
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Dear Friends, Devoted has been sent out to all those who have pre-ordered.
The saffron book cloth came in a week late, it seems that this book wanted to wait for the New Year to be sent.
It has surpassed our expectations.
The pictures do it some justice, but as with all books, you need to feel it in your hands.
http://www.scarletimprint.com/devoted.htm
We collected the books from the printer two days before Solstice.
On the way we stopped at a Stonehenge owned by corvids, safe behind English Heritage fences.
No pagans allowed to walk on the grass. The moorland bare. Sacred geometry now carved up by a triangle of roads.
It makes what we do with Scarlet Imprint seem all the more relevant, making books for those who are connected to the animating
spirits of magick and witchcraft. Neither gazing back at a lost megalithic past, or slackly staring at the mass-produced spectacle.
We are not interested in a magickal revival, we are creating a magickal revolution Now.
Howlings, The Red Goddess, Voudon Gnosis and now Devoted has made this quite a year.
Scarlet Imprint are not only here to stay, we are here to go.
We offer up profound gratitude to our readers for being an inspiration to us, for your support and letters.
We thank those writers who have made this past year such a whirlwind.
Libations are poured to Babalon for Love, and the Spirits of Goetia for making themselves known to us.
We are in voluntary exile in the mountains for the Winter now.
Much Work to do this year, and plans are very much in place.
Our replies to emails may be a little slower over the next two weeks with Saturnalia and limited net access.
Expect some spectacular books to be born in 2009 starting in the Spring, not Lambs but Lions.
Much Love
In Nomine Babalon
Peter and Alkistis x
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| DEVOTED New Scarlet Imprint title available to order |
[08 Dec 2008|01:54pm] |
 Dear Friends,
Scarlet Imprint are pleased to announce that our newest title Devoted is now available to pre-order.
Devoted is an octavo book of 173pp, bound in saffron book cloth, black chalice stamped and finished with night black endpapers. It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of 814 copies.
Devoted comprises fifteen essays by fourteen writers on their devotional practice.
It is a bloody and passionate blend of primal gnosis and poetic expression.
These essays reveal and revel in powerful applicable magickal practice.
They are suffused with the living experience of the Spirit world.
A copy can be yours for thirty-one English pounds plus postage.
http://www.scarletimprint.com/devoted.htm
This title will be dispatched to you shortly before the Winter Solstice.
Devoted provides indepth essays on working with: Babalon
Ishtar
Hecate
Lilith
Loki
Tiamat
Dionysus
The Yoginis
The Lwa
The Spirits of goetia
Our writers are a chorus of powerful new voices and established practitioners whose Work has often been overlooked:
Stephen Grasso, Peter Grey, Mogg Morgan, Jake Stratton-Kent, Richard Ward, Levannah Morgan, Ruby Sara, David Blank, Mark Smith,Charlotte Rodgers, Mordant Carnival, Tony Elliott, Alkistis Dimech,George Sieg.
Full biographies can be found at http://www.scarletimprint.com/devoted_biogs.htm
Devoted will enrich your own work, whether you are witch, magician, heathen, thelemite, or sorceror.
From possession work, to blood letting and fetishes, to sabbatic dance, there is a wealth of experience to explore within these pages.
Scarlet Imprint x
(UK orders placed before Saturday 13 should reach you in time for Xmas)
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| Zeitgeist |
[02 Dec 2008|12:13pm] |
Though we certainly don't agree with all the conclusions, this is certainly worth a slice of your time:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
A compelling mix of conspiracy theory, exposure of the war on terror and 9/11 7/7, debunking of Christianity,
and savage indictment of the economic system.
Take what you will from it. We will dynamite the black iron prison.
In Nomine Babalon
Scarlet Imprint x
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