{"title":"Three Hands Press","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe premier publisher of contemporary occultism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eand metaphysica, representing the new generation \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eof esoteric scholars, artists, and practitioners\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"be-banished-prince-of-darkness","title":"BE BANISHED, PRINCE OF DARKNESS","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlants Used to Keep the Devil and Demons at Bay in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Corinne Boyer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll orders will include a free issue of Auspices, while supplies last. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe use of sacred herbs for driving away evil spirits is as old as the written record, and common to pre-Christian religions in Europe. Cleansing and cathartic plants formed the basis of sophisticated anti-demonic practices well into the period of European Christendom. Satan, as a figure of corruption and malice, belongs squarely within the Christian pantheon, and priests were empowered to exorcise him, sometimes using plants as weapons of spiritual warfare. In the Early Modern era, such plants and practices also belonged to the layperson, as practices of folk magic: herbs to banish the Devil and his servants. The present text gathers together a potent European pharmacopeia of anti-diabolic herbs, and is complemented by twelve original illustrations by Johnny Decker Miller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStandard hardcover edition, with colour dust wraps, limited to 750 hand numbered copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":":AJNA:","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42871458693182,"sku":"BBP","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0208\/4004\/files\/banished_cover-562x880.jpg?v=1780876869"},{"product_id":"the-olympic-spirits","title":"THE OLYMPIC SPIRITS","description":"\u003cp\u003eParacelsus' Practice of the Inner Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Frater Acher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStandard hardcover edition: 1500 hand-numbered copies in gilt red cloth with colour dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll copies will include a free copy of Auspices, the official prospectus of Three Hands Press, while supplies last. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reputation of the Swiss physician Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, also known as Paracelsus (1493–1541), looms large in European esotericism, particularly with regard to his groundbreaking work in the disciplines of pharmacy, chemistry and medicine. As a practicing alchemist, his works on the Royal Art are also the subject of modern inquiry; serious studies on his occult works, particularly those of operative magic, are however lacking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, in the corpus of Paracelsian writings, many were magical in nature; perhaps the most enigmatic among these concerned the Olympic Spirits, a group of seven powerful spirituous intelligences with whom the practitioner of magic could make ritual contact. Frater Acher's The Olympic Spirits explores this hierarchy of spirits and their powers with a detailed and holistic approach for the modern practitioner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three categories: biographical, historical and practical. The biographical approach examines the often larger-than-life personality of Paracelsus, as the creator of the term Olympic Spirits; and the radical new magical concept behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the historical approach, the author examines the transformation that the Olympic Spirits have undergone as they have migrated into different books and manuscripts over the past five centuries, constantly evolving with each recension into new forms and magical operations. The practical dimension of this study examines the lived experience of the Olympic Spirits within the magical practitioner, and offers guidance for the student's own magical work with the Paracelsian retinue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his well-known clarity and practical approach, Frater Acher brings the complex and original Renaissance magic of Paracelsus into the twenty-first century, making it accessible for the modern student. The book also provides ample access to the writings of Paracelsus by translating original sources into English for the first time. Additionally, work also includes four critical appendices with first-time English translations of important works by Robert Fludd and Adam Haslmayr, important inheritors and propagators of the mystical legacy of Paracelsus, as well as an English translation of the late 17th century grimoire-text Cod.Mag.55 - The Conjuration of the Olympic Spirits according to Solomon, Son of David.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Olympic Spirits also contains original illustrations by the visionary occult artist Joseph Uccello, known for his work in Occlith 0 Omniform and Occlith 1: Codex Homunculi, both of which include translated works of Paracelsus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":":AJNA:","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42871469637694,"sku":"TOS","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0208\/4004\/files\/THP_Olympic_Spirits_Cvr10_resized-562x803.jpg?v=1780877319"},{"product_id":"venificium","title":"VENIFICIUM (inscribed by author)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagic, Witchcraft and the Poison Path\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Daniel Schulke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback edtion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll copies will include a free copy of Auspices, the official prospectus of Three Hands Press, while supplies last. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in late Summer 2012, Schulke's book on esoteric toxicology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeneficium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas an instant success, selling out in six months.  Its principal concern is the intersection of magic and poison, originating in remotest antiquity and reaching into the occult traditions of present day. Beyond their functions as agents of bodily harm, poisons have also served as gateways of religious ecstasy, occult knowledge, and sensorial aberration, as well as the basis of cures. Allied with Samael, the Edenic serpent of first transgression whose name in some interpretations is ‘Venom of God’, this facet of magic wends through the rites of ancient Sumer and Egypt, through European Necromancy, Alchemy, the arcane the rites of the Witches’ Sabbath, and modern-day folk magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeneficium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis now properly contextualized within a trilogy of forthcoming books entitled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriangulum Lamiarum \u003c\/i\u003e(‘Triangle of the Witches’), each of which concerns a specific ontological aspect of witchcraft.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeneficium\u003c\/i\u003e, of course, treats the occult parameters of poison, toxins, and venom, and their presence in witchcraft and allied magical arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly released, the second edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeneficium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtains the first edition in its entirety, but there are some notable expansions and evolutions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—a new typographic design for the entire book, to be used for the whole of the trilogy\u003cbr\u003e—slight expansions of certain chapters\u003cbr\u003e—one additional chapter\u003cbr\u003e—additional images\u003cbr\u003e—a new title page illustration by artist Benjamin A. 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Schulke’s forthcoming work \u003cem\u003eThe Green Mysteries (Arcana Viridia)\u003c\/em\u003e, is an occult herbal 25 years in the making. Meticulously illustrated with over 250 original images by renowned artist Benjamin Vierling, its primary rubric is that of an original occult pharmacopeia written from the perspective of a contemporary magical herbalist. As a whole the book emerges principally from the discipline of Occult Herbalism, which encompasses the knowledge and use of the magical, spiritual, and folkloric dimensions of plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a foundational treatise introducing this work,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003espeaks to its interior philosophical concerns. Circumscribing the metaparadigm of herbal magical practice, providing useful examples of its manifestation, as well as demonstrating its time-honored routes of inquiry, it examines the ways in which knoweldge of this type is acquired and put into practice. This perennial wisdom animates many global spiritual traditions, especially those that have maintained their integrity of transmission even in the face of industrial development and cultural destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften concealed within the deepest strata of the Western Esoteric Traditions, this green strand of wisdom, though obscured, is a potent legacy of all magic, sorcery, and occult science.  In addition to the hard sciences of botany, ethnology, agriculture and ethnopharmacology, a number of pathways can assist the magical herbalist in furthering the depth of understanding and integrity of personal approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":":AJNA:","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42871477207102,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0208\/4004\/files\/13Paths.jpg?v=1780877621"},{"product_id":"the-green-mysteries-a-r-c-a-n-a-v-i-r-i-d-i-a-inscribed-by-author","title":"THE GREEN MYSTERIES | A R C A N A ✠ V I R I D I A (inscribed by author)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Daniel Schulke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStandard hardcover edition, which is now sold out. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll copies will include a free copy of Auspices, the official prospectus of Three Hands Press, while supplies last. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFrom the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeneficium \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ecomes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Green Mysteries,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e the monumental product of twenty-five years of experiential research on the spiritual and occult properties of plants. Being a compendium of trees and herbs from countless spiritual traditions, this exhaustive Herbal of esoteric botany examines in detail the folklore, magical uses and spiritual essences of the vegetal kingdom. While presenting the material through both magical and mythopoetic narrative, the stance of the book is also grounded firmly in supportive disciplines such as botany, chemistry, and anthropology, and also includes up-to-date phylogenetic and pharmacological findings. 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