A great review-essay on grimoire publishing posted on Hadean Press Blog written by Jake Stratton-Kent.

Yours truly is even mentioned for my work in Both Sides of Heaven.

“Both Sides of Heaven is another compilation, with a most impressive list of contributors (including ardent grimoirists Aaron Leitch, David Rankine, Stephen Skinner, plus Charlotte Rodgers and yours truly). There is much of value here, and I mention but two personal favourites. Gifted academic and occult practitioner Kim Huggens gives an excellent appraisal of the daemons intermediary role between gods and men in the Hellenistic era. Maestro Nestor shares a personal account of his liberation from a truly demonic pact made in his youth, which marked the beginning of his mature path as a grimoire traditionalist.”

By Jake Stratton-Kent

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It was apparently OK to talk about the project and upcoming book from Avalonia Books. It is handled by the lovely witted or perhaps I should say wicked Kim Huggens who has been a contributor for Avalonia Books before and is a major tarot and hoodoo/voodoo practitioner. The book will be called “From a Drop of Water: A Collection of Magickal Reflections on the Nature, Creatures, Uses, and Symbolism of Water”. A topic that I found very interesting and something that you might not think about that hard until you actually get involved in a project like this.

My contribution is about the use of water in the grimoires and believe me when I say you do spend a lot of water in this kind of magic. Plenty of holy water is needed and you do take a lot of baths. I have found a lot of things that I have not thought about before but found now that I was intentionally searching for water associations. One of the things I found was in Idries Shah’s “The Secret Lore of Magic” was a description from the “Book of Power” that Shah has a translation of. It is a description of how to make the elixir of life or the water of life that I found interesting. Only problem is that you have to travel to Africa to find a stone in the deserts and it only exists in Africa according to the book. I have actually used the book of power before and performed a ritual from it to get two persons to fall in love with each other with great success to my friends delight.

I think this will become a very different and interesting book in the end. I will see if I can get Kim to tell us more about the project as the contributions starts to come in. Still some time before the deadline is over:)

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Pre-orders are now accepted for Avalonia Books Both Sides of Heaven. Click the picture below to get to the Pre-order.

My contribution to the book deals with Devils, Demons and how they relate to the art of Traditional Grimoire Magic. I also describe my own experiences with pact magic. Just look at the list of contributors to this anthology and you will know its a book you will not want to miss.

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