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The Devil’s Dozen ~ Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One ~ Expanded Edition
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The Devil’s Dozen ~ Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One ~ Expanded Edition. From this wellspring of inspiration comes a modern ‘gramarye’, or ‘black book’. Created and offered by Gemma Gary a present day initiate of the ‘Old Craft’. Within its pages there are to be found 13 rites – for both the ‘lone’ practitioner and the assembled companie. Of vision, sacred compact, dedication, initiation, consecration, empowerment, protection, illumination, union, transformation and devotion.
In traditional folk belief, the Devil existed as an embodiment of the chaotic forces of nature. A belief quite distinct and separate from that of the Church with its ‘Satan’ figure. To the witch he might also represent the ‘darker’ aspects of the divine. The keeper and the revealer of the divine light. The psychopomp guide of souls, and the sentinel at the threshold unto the mysteries of death and the Otherworld. The operations of magic and witchcraft deal with the hidden worlds of spirit and the powers innate within the natural world; within plant, stone and magical loci.
The ‘Old One’, often named ‘The Devil’ embodies both the ‘rend in the veil’ and the spanning bridge between the worlds of the material and spiritual, the revealed and the hidden. It is through union with this entity that witches and folk magicians gained access to the powers that reside within the hidden realms and the natural world and awaken the potent fire within. The ‘elder divinity’ and the old ‘spirit of the wild’ has lingered through to the present.
Permeating regional faery lore, the calendar of ritualistic seasonal folk-customs, and traditions attached to ancient landscape features. Themes of untamed, wild nature, its freedom, spirits, power and its magic. So repugnant and threatening to the Church, were grafted onto the diabolical. Affording yet greater preservation of the Old One. For those who sought to stray from the path of limitation and conformity. Tread instead the hidden ways of the witch and magician.
New Edition
Expanded and complimented with an attentive exploration of the witch’s relationship with the Old One as initiator, empowerer and liberator in history and lore, alongside additional line imagery and photography.
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| Weight | 170 g |
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| Dimensions | 12 × 19 × 1 cm |
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The Devil’s Dozen ~ Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One ~ Expanded Edition. From this wellspring of inspiration comes a modern ‘gramarye’, or ‘black book’. Created and offered by Gemma Gary a present day initiate of the ‘Old Craft’. Within its pages there are to be found 13 rites – for both the ‘lone’ practitioner and the assembled companie. Of vision, sacred compact, dedication, initiation, consecration, empowerment, protection, illumination, union, transformation and devotion.
In traditional folk belief, the Devil existed as an embodiment of the chaotic forces of nature. A belief quite distinct and separate from that of the Church with its ‘Satan’ figure. To the witch he might also represent the ‘darker’ aspects of the divine. The keeper and the revealer of the divine light. The psychopomp guide of souls, and the sentinel at the threshold unto the mysteries of death and the Otherworld. The operations of magic and witchcraft deal with the hidden worlds of spirit and the powers innate within the natural world; within plant, stone and magical loci.
The ‘Old One’, often named ‘The Devil’ embodies both the ‘rend in the veil’ and the spanning bridge between the worlds of the material and spiritual, the revealed and the hidden. It is through union with this entity that witches and folk magicians gained access to the powers that reside within the hidden realms and the natural world and awaken the potent fire within. The ‘elder divinity’ and the old ‘spirit of the wild’ has lingered through to the present.
Permeating regional faery lore, the calendar of ritualistic seasonal folk-customs, and traditions attached to ancient landscape features. Themes of untamed, wild nature, its freedom, spirits, power and its magic. So repugnant and threatening to the Church, were grafted onto the diabolical. Affording yet greater preservation of the Old One. For those who sought to stray from the path of limitation and conformity. Tread instead the hidden ways of the witch and magician.
New Edition
Expanded and complimented with an attentive exploration of the witch’s relationship with the Old One as initiator, empowerer and liberator in history and lore, alongside additional line imagery and photography.
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