Occult & Esoterica
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] Opuscula Magica Volume I: Essays on Witchcraft and the Sabbatic Tradition (Deluxe Edition)
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] Opuscula Magica Volume I: Essays on Witchcraft and the Sabbatic Tradition (Deluxe Edition)
Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 152pp. Deluxe Edition, limited to 242 hand-numbered copies. Quarter black morocco over charcoal boards, blocked in black with an illustration by Chumbley. Gilt titles and devices to spine. Issued without dust jacket. Housed in a cloth bound slipcase. With black and white illustrations by the author. A fine copy in like slipcase.
Contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron Magazine. The essays reflect a degree of magical insight, clarity of vision, and creativity seldom equaled in occult writing to this day. And while these essays are considered to be lesser known works, they do present much initiated commentary on Traditional Craft, the Art and Nature of Magic and Crooked Path Sorcery, the Question of Sacrifice, and the Secret Nature of Ritual.