Nazarth: Pillars of Gladness
Nazarth: Pillars of Gladness is a treasurehouse of geomantic incantations. Its nineteen keys were received and wrought through a combination of spirit communications, dream incubation, ritual cut-up, and judicious co-editing alongside tutelary shades and attendant spirits.
This Angelical psalter offers prayers for opening and closing rituals of geomantic divination, as well as for clearing the potentially dangerous miasmas of “halted” shield charts, and presents calls for directly working with the spirits, virtues, and materia of each of the Sixteen Figures of Renaissance European geomancy – to remediate deleterious conditions, transmute obstacles, stir and direct spirits, and galvanise blessings.
It offers the enterprising diviner-sorcerer resources to explore the Adamical roots of the so-called Enochian language, as well as imagery and spiritual landscapes to engage with the oracle of geomancy through more visionary lenses. It also presents an approach to Angelical charms for practical sorcery, spiritwork, and spellcraft that welcome further experimentation and individuation by practitioners.
The production of the hardcover straddles the line between a standard and deluxe edition, with the first print run limited to 300 copies. Text has been printed on Munken Pure white 100gsm paper, and the book itself is a sewn bound hardback covered in Suedel Luxe Alaska, with printed marbled endpapers, white head and tail bands, and silver foiling on the front and spine. The cover artwork was provided by S. Aldarnay to Dr Cummin’s specifications.
“Beautifully forceful and moving, Dr. Cummins’ Nazarth is an excellent achievement of seamlessly blending magic, poetry, and prayer in a hitherto unexplored realm of Enochiana.”
“Dr. Alexander Cummins’ Nazarth aids us in becoming the hallowed vessels which pour forth “fonts of medicine as well as mystery”. This geomancer’s psalter of Angelical calls speaks from within the figures - a weaving of tongues and intrepid interpolation to conjure poetic power. A tool of the worshipful divine as much as a tool of the geomancer’s Arte.”
“Nazarth is a poetic union of heaven and earth, the Enochian language and Geomancy, demonstrating elegantly how vital modern innovation is to the continuing practical evolution of the grimoire tradition.”
Contents
0. On Angelical Geomancy
A gladdening welcome
I. Erm Iadnah – The Ark of Knowledge
A prayer for opening divination
II. Noromi Salbrox – Sons of Live Suphur
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Puer
III. Drilpa Yarry – Great Providence
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Fortuna Major
IV. Maasi Prge Aldi – Stored Fires of Gathering
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Acquisitio
V. Abaivonin – Stooping Dragons
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Cauda Draconis
VI. Iadnah Iadnahmad – Knowledge of Pure Knowledge
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Albus
VII. Yarryvonin – Providence Dragons
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Fortuna Minor
VIII. Ors Od Ohio – Darkness and Woe
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Tristitia
IX. Pabs de Pabliar – Daughters of the Places of Comfort
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Puella
X. Zna De Graa – Motion of the Moon
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Via
XI. Graa Miam – Moon’s Continuance
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Populus
XII. Drix Cnila – Cast Down Blood
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Rubeus
XIII. Dorphal Iehusoz – Looking with Gladness Upon God’s Mercies
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Laetitia
XIV. Comselh Bransg – Circle Guard
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Carcer
XV. Sibsi Piamo – Covenant at the Balance of Righteousness
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Conjunctio
XVI. Panpir Monons – Pouring Out the Heart
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Amissio
XVII. Momao de Vonin – Crowns of the Dragon
A prayer for working with the spirits and virtues of Caput Draconis
XVIII. Micmax-Ulx-Quasbx – Beholding-Ending- Destroying
A three-part prayer for addressing halted shields
XIX. Oecrimi Gah Od Pir – To Sing Praises of the Spirits and Holy Ones
A prayer of gratitude for closing divination
Nazarth: Pillars of Gladness, or, A Geomancer’s Angelical Psalter of Calls, containing vessels 19 with which to water the Earth
Alexander Cummins
ISBN 978-1-914166-44-0 (Hardback)
198mm x 129mm
ISBN 978-1-914166-45-7 (Paperback)
198mm x 129mm
96 pages
Published September 2022.
