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Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock
Chappell, Vere
Red Wheel/Weiser
Sex, Magick, Aleister Crowley, Orgasms, Erotic Dances, Angelic Beings, Revolutionary Activism, Liberation, Persecution, Defiance, and Suicide.
Persecuted by Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice, this turn-of-the-century heroine was also a spiritualist who learned many secrets of high magick through her claimed wedlock to an angelic being. Born in Philadelphia in 1857, Ida Craddock became involved in occultism around the age of thirty. She attended classes at the Theosophical Society and began studying a tremendous amount of materials on various occult subjects. She taught correspondence courses to women and newly married couples to educate them on the sacred nature of sex, maintaining that her explicit knowledge came from her nightly experiences with an angel named Soph. In 1902, she was arrested under New York's anti-obscenity laws and committed suicide to avoid life in an asylum. Now for the first time, scholar Vere Chappell has compiled the most extensive collection of Craddock's work including original essays, diary excerpts, and suicide letters--one to her mother and one to the public.
Price: $21.95

The Book of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images
Taschen, Benedikt
Taschen America
The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and almost 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each of the c. 350 essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow, the ways in which diverse cultures have engaged a symbolic image -- all these factors are taken into consideration.
Price: $39.99

Gurdjieff in the Public Eye: Newspaper Articles, Magazines and Books 1914-1949
Taylor, Paul Beekman
Eureka Editions
The history of Gurdjieff in newspaper articles, magazines, and books during his lifetime traces his public reputation in what is said of him on the world stage. Some of the writers were reporters, others followers and visitors to the Institute, and still others were persons intrigued by social and religious fads of the day. Many of the newspaper reports written by journalists, who had never seen his demonstrations nor listened to him or his followers, pandered to readers intrigued by scandal and the sensational by inventing stories about him and his activities.
Nonetheless, the articles printed between 1914 and 1949, the year of his death constitute a topical history of his life and his work in a running account of Gurdjieff's changing public image as a man and a teacher, and provide an insight into the way his teaching was perceived from an age in which theosophy was a prevalent intellectual occupation.
Many of those whose words appear here were leading figures in the intellectual and cultural life of their age, among them the editor A. R. Orage, writer Katherine Mansfield, theosophist and actress Maude Hoffman, actress Georgette Leblanc, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, critic Denis Saurat, literary historians Waldo Frank and Gorham Munson, Hollywood screen writer Nunnally Johnson, and Clifford Sharp, the founder and editor of the influential English New Statesman.
Price: $36.00

Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology (Wooden Books)
Lundy, Miranda
Walker & Company
The quadrivium -- the classical curriculum -- comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences.
Quadrivium is the first volume to bring together these four subjects in many hundreds of years. Composed of six successful titles in the Wooden Books series:

Sacred Geometry
Sacred Number
Harmonograph
The Elements of Music
Platonic & Archimedean Solids, and
A Little Book of Coincidence
it makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us today. Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, Quadriviumwill appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the universe works.
Price: $20.00

Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
Lebling, Robert

When Westerners think of a genie, the first image that comes to mind may be Barbara Eden in her pink harem pants or the illuminated blue buffoon from the animated Disney film Aladdin. But to the people of the Arab and Islamic worlds, the picture is dramatically different. Legends of the Fire Spirits looks beyond Westernized caricatures to immerse the reader in the vibrant lore of the jinn -- the wondrous, often troublesome, and sometimes terrifying spirit beings of ancient Arab and Islamic tradition.
Robert Lebling delves into long-lost accounts, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologists reports, and travelers tales to explore the origin and evolution of legends that continue to thrive in the Middle East and beyond. He cuts through centuries of Orientalists cultural presumption to craft a study that stands apart from the overwhelming body of literature concerned with religion in the Middle East.
A captivating synthesis of history and folklore, this is the most diverse collection of jinn lore ever assembled in one volume. From ancient scriptures to The Arabian Nights and beyond, and with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Tahir Shah, Lebling has constructed a comprehensive account that not only transcends geographical borders but also spans some four millennia.
Price: $16.95

Witch Eye #16: A Journal of Feri Uprising!
Faerywolf, Storm (ed)
FaeryWolf
Witch Eye: A Journal of Feri Uprising is a quality, print journal with full color covers published once per year, full of art, articles, spells, and lore inspired by the F(a)eri(e) tradition, meaning various permutations of the branch of traditional witchcraft passed down from the teachings of Victor & Cora Anderson, and Gwydion Pendderwen. While much of our focus is rooted in the Feri tradition, we also offer many items of interest to any Pagan or Witch.
In this issue:

Cora Anderson: A Community Remembers our F(a)eri(e) Grandmother
Drawing from the Wells of Creation: The Goddesses of the Primal Elements by Storm Faerywolf
A Feri Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram by Valerie Walker
Shiva: Creator, Dancer, and Destroyer by Abel Gomez
Alchemical Feri by Ravyn Stanfield
Feri Faeries? by StarChild

Price: $15.00