The Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft

Chelmsford: Xoanon Publishers, 2015. Third edition. Black cloth board octavo with green pictorial DJ; 408 pages; glossary; numerous b&w illustrations throughout New. Very fine. Photos are of item offered. Hardcover.

The Standard 2015 Third Edition, hand-numbered exemplar 812 of 1000. "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." --Publisher