Examines the left-hand path and reveals the masters of the tradition

- Explores the practices and beliefs of many left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Hell-Fire Club, and heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects

- Investigates many infamous occult personalities, including Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, and Anton LaVey

- Explains the true difference between the right-hand path and the left-hand path--union with and dependence on God versus individual freedom and self-empowerment

From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic...

A practical guide to the magical systems of pre-Christian Iceland

- Reveals spells and workings drawn directly from surviving magical books from the 16th to 20th century preserved at the National Library in Reykjavik

- Explores the history of magic in Iceland through original translations of Icelandic folktales about famous magicians and about legendary grimoires, such as the Galdrabok, the oldest and most complete book of its kind

- Explains how to personalize the spells through the creation of unique signs and symbols based on the mythic names of Odin and Icelandic magical...

A complete guide to the theory, practice, and history of Mazdan magic, the first organized system of magic

- Provides a complete curriculum of magical study and initiation centered on exercises keyed to the sacred Zoroastrian calendar

- Details advanced magical rituals and practices based on archaic Persian formulas, including fire rituals and divine invocations

- Explores the history and lore of Persian magic, explaining how the author reconstructed the original Mazdan system of magic

Stephen Flowers explores the history, theory, practice, rituals, and initiations of the...

Reveals the historical roots of the symbology of the Tarot in the Mithraic tradition of the Persian Magi and the Hermetic tradition