Llewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick: A Comprehensive Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition (Llewellyn's Complete Book Series, 14)

Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick features the greatest minds of magick assembled in one place, available as a limited-edition hardcover as well as a trade paperback edition. Compiled by two of the leading figures in the magick community, this new title in Llewellyn s Complete Book series includes more than 650 pages of insights into magical systems, techniques, grimoires, correspondences, and practices. These two outstanding editions of Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick are must-haves for collectors and for magical practitioners with a variety of experience levels. Twelve extensive chapters each explore an aspect of the fascinating tapestry that is ceremonial magick, focusing on practical knowledge that can be put to use by ceremonial magicians from many different traditions or backgrounds. This comprehensive work is filled with practical historical perspectives as well as fresh insights, including working with Notariqon, Gematria, and Temurah in the Qabalah tradition; an in-depth analysis of historical grimoires and their registers of spirits; step-by-step instructions for six alchemical workings; example rituals of planetary magick for devotion and talismanic preparation; Enochian magick from John Dee to the Golden Dawn; a deeply personal description of the Abra-melin operation; an overview of Aleister Crowley s syncretic influence on working Golden Dawn magick using polytheist symbolism, with step-by-step instructions for several rituals; and a glimpse into the future of ceremonial magick.