Azoetia; A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft

[England]: Xoanon Publishing, 2015. Deluxe Limited Third Edition. Large quarto in red gilt-ornamented and titled goatskin leather & black marble boards; in a burgundy slipcase; marbled endpapers; 408, [2] p.; glossary. Numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Very fine. Photos are of item offered. Hardcover.

A gorgeous and scarce object. "Being the complete textual recension of the Sethos Edition, also called the Book of the Magical Quintessence". Hand-numbered exemplar 109 of 111 copies, as stated in colophon. Illustrations by the author. "Andrew Chumbley was an author working in varied esoteric currents including traditional witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and Asian spiritual traditions. He was the Magister of the traditional witchcraft under Cultus Sabbati until his death, and has authored several works for Xoanon."--publisher. "Also known as the 'Book of the Magical Quintessence', [Azoetia] expresses the core principles of the medieval Witches' Sabbat - the phantasmagoric rites of spirits, women, men and beasts - as the generative grammar of sorcery itself. Its reification was informed by the Author's initiatory perspective of traditional witchcraft, as arising from two operant historical strands of lore emanating originally from Buckinghamshire and Wales. On its publication, it provoked a sea-change in the understanding of the modern magical practitioner, identifying the Sabbat as a primal source of oneiric and atavistic ecstasy. Since it was originally published it has become one of the most sought-after new magical works of our time and may be regardd as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition. The Grimoire is comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working tools; the full txt 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."// Cultus Sabbati; Left-Hand Path, Crooked Path; Sorcery. Occult, Occultism. Grimoires.