By Andrew D. Chumbley
The Opuscula Magica sequence treats in 4 volumes the quick exegetical works on magic by means of the British occult writer Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004). The sequence provides his magical essays, homilies, and different imprecise works which initially seemed in small-circulation occult journals now out of print. each one quantity offers a chain of collated works, a few revised or up to date ahead of his loss of life, in addition to a couple of writings and illustrations formerly unpublished. along with his grimoire-texts of the mystical order Cultus Sabbati, those "minor works on magic" are the origination-point and origin texts of Sabbatic Witchcraft and Crooked direction Sorcery, of Chumbley's most crucial contributions to the paintings Magical. With the purpose to make those works extra greatly on hand to students and magical practitioners, the sequence is outlined and sure in a great e-book structure suited for their research and protection. The sequence editor is Daniel A. Schulke. This, quantity I, includes 9 essays written among 1990 and 2003, together with one formerly unpublished. This quantity additionally comprises an Author's creation by no means ahead of released, in addition to an accelerated model of the interview with Chumbley within the Cauldron. The essays mirror a level of magical perception, readability of imaginative and prescient, and creativity seldom equaled in occult writing to today.
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It would thus be somewhat unfair of me to insist that the practices of these womenfolk should be repeated today merely because of some artificial sense of nobility placed in their humble state; it is worthy nonetheless to remember them with honour and to preserve certain important customs and fragments of oral teaching. T could also make comment upon the influence and co-operation between old Witches and ceremonial magicians which stretched across the divisions of society and was unhindered by nominalizations which artificially divide the 'types' of magical operators, when in fact the difference bet\veen such types lies solely in the specific modes of application tc)r principles which are common to all.
In simply reading this you might be sceptical, weathershy, cowardly, or all three; the technique was designed for people like you. The Feeler of Feeling, the Lover of Love, his rites and his path are reversed; who knows what he will do next? I I \ I I \ I I BAUL TANTRIC DICTUM One must find the Path through self-overcoming; the Way is against the nature which you presently indwell and in apotheosis is against all that you consider to be Nature. In this sense the circle is a mirror, reflecting a reversal of the self; it is this Opposing Form which the aspirant walks toward.
I Behold! these be grave mysteriesJor there are also qfmyJriends who be hermit. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds qfpurple, caressed by magnificent beasts qf women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses qfj1aming hair about them; there shall yefind them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest one force another, King against King. LIBER AL VEL LEGIS \Ve may attempt, using certain outer forms of symbolic language, to discuss and obtain a degree of insight into the Nature of the True Sorcerous mentality, but the psyches of such are unique to their own Entity and hence any discussion of them is somewhat predestined to be a generalization and remain so because of the necessary imposi tion of a terminology other OPUSCULA MAGICA than that in which the particular psyche is wholly congruent (except upon the inner, where the cipher of symbols or Sigillated Truth is universally acceptable).
