Guides to the Underworld

Hadean’s collection of pamphlets for the discerning reader, including the Spirit Work Series, an introduction to working with spirits, particularly those of the True Grimoire.

Pamphlets, said to have appeared in the late Elizabethan period in a form recognisable to us now, are considered scurrilous little bits of paper filled with subversions and remonstrances. Hadean Press adheres to the second idea of the radix of the word Pamphlet… that it takes its derivations from παν, all, and φιλεω, I love, signifying a thing beloved by all; for a pamphlet being of a small portable bulk, and of no great price, is adapted to every one’s understanding and reading. Our Guides to the Underworld combine the aesthetic of a popular pamphlet with a depth of praxis rarely found in trade publications.

Pamphlets are £3.00 each, plus shipping.

Goetic Pharmakos
by Jamie Alexzander and Jake Stratton-Kent
24 pages. Part of the Spirit Work Series.

Just as ‘goes’ is an ancient term for a magician working with spirits of the Underworld, so ‘pharmakos’ represents a magician working with herbs, alchemical processes and so forth. The types are not mutually exclusive, and accordingly there are spirits of the grimoire who work with alchemy, herbs, stones, etc. These spirits are very suitable allies for magicians combining the work of the ‘goes’ and the ‘pharmakos’. The purpose of this booklet then is to detail approaches to goetic spell-work, facilitating the further reintegration of New World and Grimoire approaches.

Tools of Avernus
by S. Aldernay
16 pages.

Even the purest, most noble of souls must at some point enter the caverns of Avernus. Some are lost forever, doomed to wander with the misty shades amongst the asphodel, whilst others rise renewed, strengthened and full of knowledge granted by the gods themselves. This short work is a collection of simple tools and charms attuned to the realm of Lord Hades.

Goetic Divination
by Jake Stratton-Kent.
24 pages. Part of the Spirit Work Series.

Goetic divination has had a bad press from the urban literati of the Classical world up to the present day. In Goetic Divination, Jake Stratton-Kent provides an overview of the history of divination, as well as practical instruction on divinatory methods, including the use of astragals, pendulums and hydromancy. The pamphlet also includes an easily removable pendulum board.

Elelogap: The Spirit of the Waters
by Jake Stratton-Kent.
28 pages. Part of the Spirit Work Series.

For the assistance of a Mighty Spirit of the Waters: in contacting the Celestial and Terrestrial Gods, the Chiefs of the Underworld and the spirits of the dead. For invoking in conjurations of lesser spirits of the Waters; for assistance in working with herbs, magical baths and washes, visions and clairvoyance; to enhance your emotional nature, to improve your health and your life.

Liber Pyramidos
by Aleister Crowley with additional notes by Jake Stratton-Kent.
20 pages.

Jake Stratton-Kent has carefully expanded the abbreviated and skeletonic sections, restored headings and numbered the sub-rituals. It is the author’s understanding that this ritual is not identical with the A.·.A.·. Initiation rite (TROA) referred to in the Dominus Liminus task and elsewhere, but is very closely related to it. He is also aware that certain parties, including the O.T.O. are opposed to information being released concerning that ritual. On this occasion the author is in agreement with the Caliph, accordingly, while certain documents have been consulted to make this the most definitive text possible, no expanded commentary, and no comparisons with the unpublished text of TROA have been included.

The Grimoire of the Sixfold Star
by Count Abaka.
20 pages.

This small book describes a method of invoking twenty two Genii of a combined Solar-Mercurial nature. This is a method derived from Thelemic sources and involves an English qaballistic system. This system is presented solely as a viable magical framework, rather than a ‘secret key’ to the Book of the Law (a premise described in The Magick of the Ghebers: The Equinox: British Journal of Thelema, VII 9).