Are angels and demons real? What makes the New Age the New Age? Does consciousness survive death? Writing from the perspective of a practicing ceremonial magician, one of America's most knowledgeable and engaging authorities on Western Hermeticism answers these questions and many more with humor and personal anecdotes. Illustrated and with color fold-out.

In this text, Lon Milo DuQuette takes readers into the sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious world of the modern ceremonial magician. Laced with self-effacing humour, his confessions, insights, and profundities contain a body of technical information on magick.

Traditional Qabalistic sources can sometimes be difficult to read. This text uses humourous anecdotes and metaphors to teach a practical approach to learning the traditional wisdom of this arcane system.

The dawning twentieth century is not big enough for eccentric genius Aleister Crowley. He is an acclaimed poet, chess master, world-class mountaineer, and probably the most passionately liberated man in Victorian London. His real devotion, however, is magic...and the search for his own soul. An infamous fourteenth century Arabic book of magic survives the centuries to spawn the formation of a hidden society of magicians in London. The Order is led by occult scholar MacGregor Mathers and his wife Moina, who claim to be in touch with secret masters that give them ever-increasing magical...

The Serpent Tongue: Liber 187 A Workbook of English Qaballa The English Qaballa presented herein encompasses the full definition of a qaballa, not just a system of gematria. This book deals with hands-on applications which will enable the magician to explore its complexities for themselves, and provide them with a qaballistic framework capable of almost infinite diversification. The purpose of this book is to set the record straight about the discovery of the EQ, and to make its methodology available to a wider audience.