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Clavis Arcana Magica by comp. by Frederick Hockley; ed. and with an introd. by Alan Thorogood is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Clavis Arcana Magica about?
Hardcover. Small Quarto. xii + [84pp]. Bound in high quality black cloth, with a gilt design after Hockley stamped on the front cover, blind rules, and gilt title etc. on the spine. Black moire "coffin silk" endpapers, sewn. Colour frontis. Edition limited to 650 numbered copies. The full text of a previously-unpublished manuscript by Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), an occultist and Freemason, whose interests included scrying, ritual magic, alchemy and spiritualism. In later life Hockley joined the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and other esoteric fraternities, and his work was posthumously used by various members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and his importance to nineteenth-century occultism is only now being recognised. The "Clavis Arcana Magica" is an unusual text for Hockley in that it is concerned with what might be considered "black magic." As Alan Thorogood describes in his Introduction, it gives instruction for the performance of a number of magical workings, the details of which were said to have been obtained for Hockley via his seer Emma, during a series of scrying operations undertaken between 1853 and 1856. The workings are preceded by instructions incl
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- Author
- comp. by Frederick Hockley; ed. and with an introd. by Alan Thorogood
- Publisher
- Teitan Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780933429291
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Esoteric, Occult, & Divination
