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The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis

Product Description: This book, translated and edited by the occultist Samuel Liddell Mathers (1854-1918) and published in 1889, introduced to Victorian England an important work of Renaissance esoterica. Purportedly the deathbed testament of King Solomon to his son, distilling all the angelic wisdom he received in his lifetime, it provided its readers with detailed instructions in conjuring, divining and summoning God's power to work 'experiments', or spells...read more

By S. L. MacGregor Mathers (editor)

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9781108044219, titled "The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis)" | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 16, 2012), cover price $26.99 | also contains The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis | About this edition: This book, translated and edited by the occultist Samuel Liddell Mathers (1854-1918) and published in 1889, introduced to Victorian England an important work of Renaissance esoterica.

The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis

By S. L. MacGregor Mathers (editor)

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Product Description: The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvelous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (editor)

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9780199556304 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvelous anthology.

The Gnosis Of The Light: A Translation Of The Untitled Apocalypse Contained In Codex Brucianus

Product Description: In 1769, James Bruce, returning from Upper Egypt, brought The Codex Brucianus to England and bequeathed it to the Bodleian Library. It contained several Gnostic works, written in Coptic, dating from about the 6th century ad, but the original Greek texts from which they came are probably much older...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (contributor) and F. Lamplugh (editor)

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9780892541188 | Ibis Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 1769, James Bruce, returning from Upper Egypt, brought The Codex Brucianus to England and bequeathed it to the Bodleian Library.

The Apocalypse Of Baruch And The Assumption Of Moses

Product Description: It is no longer news that the texts that became the official Bible excluded apocryphal books, in many cases because they didn't serve the worldview of the ruling classes. Early in the 20th century, R. H. Charles translated and edited a series of these texts...read more

By R. H. Charles (trans), William J. Ferrar (trans) and R. A. Gilbert (introduced by)

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9781578633630 | Samuel Weiser, February 1, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It is no longer news that the texts that became the official Bible excluded apocryphal books, in many cases because they didn't serve the worldview of the ruling classes.

The Meaning And Philosophy Of Numbers

Product Description: As part of a series that reprints little-known texts relating to the Western spiritual tradition, this volume presents a treatise that views numbers as symbols of the beginning and development of the universe. That this sounds reminiscent of Kabbala, Jewish mysticism, is hardly surprising since Bosman (1879-?), a Jew, Theosophist and Freemason, ...read more

By Leonard Bosman and R. A. Gilbert (foreword by)

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9780892541386 | Ibis Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: As part of a series that reprints little-known texts relating to the Western spiritual tradition, this volume presents a treatise that views numbers as symbols of the beginning and development of the universe.

John Dee: 1527-1608

Product Description: John Dee (1527-1608) is most known for his work with Edward Kelley in contacting spirits and transcribing angelic language. Smith provides a clear retelling of their famous and tempestuous relationship and lays to rest some of the ridiculous stories about Dee...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (introduced by) and Charlotte Fell Smith

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9780892541041 | Ibis Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: John Dee (1527-1608) is most known for his work with Edward Kelley in contacting spirits and transcribing angelic language.

The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum

Product Description: Eliphas Levi (1810-1875) was the greatest innovator in the revival of Western occultism, most significantly with his great leap of imagination that linked the tarot trumps to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. He set out this tarot theory in his book Transcendental Magic, but never revealed its magical application...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (introduced by), Eliphas Levi and W. Wynn Westcott (trans)

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9780892541065 | Ibis Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eliphas Levi (1810-1875) was the greatest innovator in the revival of Western occultism, most significantly with his great leap of imagination that linked the tarot trumps to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Book of Formation or Sepher Yetzirah: Attributed to Rabbi Akiba Ben Joseph

By R. A. Gilbert (foreword by), Knut Stenring (trans) and Arthur Edward Waite (editor)

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9780892540945 | Ibis Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $14.95

The Paradoxes of the Highest Science: With Footnotes by a Master of the Wisdom

By R. A. Gilbert (introduced by) and Eliphas Levi

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9780892540853 | Ibis Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $14.95

The Book of the Mysteries of the Heavens and the Earth: And Other Works of Bakhayla Mikael(Zosimas)

By Mikael Bakhayla, E. A. Wallis Budge and R. A. Gilbert (foreword by)

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9780892540877 | Ibis Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $18.95

Count Michael Maier: Life and Writings, 1568-1622

By J. B. Craven and R. A. Gilbert (foreword by)

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9780892540839 | Ibis Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $16.95

The Blazing Star and the Jewish Kabbalah

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By R. A. Gilbert (foreword by) and William Batchelder Greene

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9780892540860 | Ibis Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $14.95

Devil-Worship in France With Diana Vaughan and the Question of Modern Palladism

Product Description: A.E. Waite's Devil-Worship in France, rather than being an infernal how-to book or even a history of what the title purports, is in fact an examination of a most sensational hoax perpetrated by Parisian journalist, Leo Taxil. Taxil and fictitious associate, Diana Vaughan, created a scandal in the late 1800s by reporting on a most heinous occult sect, the "Palladian Masons," that admitted women and performed diabolic acts of "Luciferian Spiritism...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (introduced by) and Arthur Edward Waite

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9781578632862 | Weiser, October 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A.

With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians

Product Description: The narrator of this delightful and instructive tale, written at the turn of the century, escapes to the magnificence of the Tyrolean Alps for a much-needed respite from the angst of his life. There, he encounters a dwarf who seems to understand the dilemmas that cloud his brain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. A. Gilbert (foreword by) and Franz Hartmann

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9780892540761 | Ibis Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The narrator of this delightful and instructive tale, written at the turn of the century, escapes to the magnificence of the Tyrolean Alps for a much-needed respite from the angst of his life.

Book of Enoch the Prophet

Product Description: This new edition of The Book of Enoch, banned by Christian authorities and thought lost for millennia, features a new introduction by bestselling author and expert on mysticism and the occult, Lon Milo DuQuette. "The Book of Enoch is important more for what it is rather than for what it says," explains DuQuette...read more

By R. H. Charles and R. A. Gilbert (introduced by)

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9781578635238, titled "The Book of Enoch the Prophet" | Red Wheel/Weiser, June 1, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This new edition of The Book of Enoch, banned by Christian authorities and thought lost for millennia, features a new introduction by bestselling author and expert on mysticism and the occult, Lon Milo DuQuette.

9781578632596 | Red Wheel/Weiser, May 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Book of Enoch the Prophet is the oldest known existing mystical document and is referred to in the Hebrew Zohar, The Epistle of St.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

By Michael Cox (editor) and R. A. Gilbert (editor)

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9780192804471 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 24, 2003, cover price $19.95

Mazzaroth: The Constellations, Parts I-Iv, Including Mizraim : Astronomy of Egypt

Product Description: The idiosyncratic ideas expressed in the four parts of Mazzaroth, and its appendix Mizraim, are all based on solid research-misapplied, perhaps, in light of Rolleston's steadfast Christian outlook, but fully documented and with sources quoted length...read more

By R. A. Gilbert (foreword by) and Frances Rolleston

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9780877289463 | Red Wheel/Weiser, February 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The idiosyncratic ideas expressed in the four parts of Mazzaroth, and its appendix Mizraim, are all based on solid research-misapplied, perhaps, in light of Rolleston's steadfast Christian outlook, but fully documented and with sources quoted length.

The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order

Product Description: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the last and greatest flowering of the Victorian occult revival. Historian R.A. Gilbert uses photos and personal letters never before seen or published to provide an intimate and cohesive history of this controversial group--from its creation in the late 1800s to its fractured dissolution in the early 1900s...read more

By R. A. Gilbert

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9781578630073 | Red Wheel/Weiser, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the last and greatest flowering of the Victorian occult revival.

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9781578630370 | Red Wheel/Weiser, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the last and greatest flowering of the Victorian occult revival.

Baphomet and Son: A Little Known Chapter in the Life of 666

By R. A. Gilbert and Darcy Kuntz (editor)

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9781558183933 | Holmes Pub Group Llc, October 1, 1997, cover price $9.95

Revelations of the Golden Dawn

Product Description: Even today, the cult of the Golden Dawn generates an obsessive fascination. It is a rock-solid niche in the Mind, Body and Spirit market. In this expose of the cult, the present day Archivist of the Society reveals its intimate history - warts and all...read more

By R. A. Gilbert

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9780572022587 | Foulsham & Co Ltd, July 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Even today, the cult of the Golden Dawn generates an obsessive fascination.

Successful Interior Projects Through Effective Contract Documents

Product Description: How to produce clear and concise contract documents for interior design and construction, along with proven management techniques. The book defines project phases, responsibilities of the parties, scheduling, monitoring the performance of team members, and estimating...read more

By Joel Downey, Patricia K. Gilbert and R. A. Gilbert

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9780876293836 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: How to produce clear and concise contract documents for interior design and construction, along with proven management techniques.

Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and Its Threat to Society

Product Description: Christian lay reader, antiquarian bookseller and mystical philosopher Gilbert examines the battle lines that have been drawn between orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy, tradition and "alternative" innovation, religious fundamentalism and the "New Age" and looks at the activities of intolerant extremist pressure groups whose aim is to impose their own restrictive values and belief systems on all levels of society...read more

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9781852303679 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Christian lay reader, antiquarian bookseller and mystical philosopher Gilbert examines the battle lines that have been drawn between orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy, tradition and "alternative" innovation, religious fundamentalism and the "New Age" and looks at the activities of intolerant extremist pressure groups whose aim is to impose their own restrictive values and belief systems on all levels of society.

Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology

A collection of thirty-five stories by such authors as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling

By Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert (editor)

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9780192142023 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 31, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-five stories by such authors as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling

Mysticism: The Elements of Mysticism

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By R. A. Gilbert

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9781852302016 | Element Books Ltd, November 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Gilbert, R.

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