The Sworn and Secret Grimoire
This ‘Guide to Grimoiring’ renders the grimoires comprehensible and ‘user friendly’ in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it.
Forging and reforging grimoires has always been a part of their real nature; in a metallurgical as well as a literary sense. Ritual composition from scratch is a neglected but necessary skill, requiring a qualified and informed approach, which the current work addresses. So too this handbook departs from the homogenised ‘Solomonic’ form, drawing instead on the great iconoclast and revitaliser of tradition, Paracelsus. While avoiding Christophobia, the implications for a more pagan (or pagan friendly) approach to the grimoires, compatible with the Greek Magical Papyri and other predecessor forms, are greatly increased by this shift of emphasis.
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““Jake Stratton-Kent has done a fabulous job of presenting the essence of grimoiric magic in a workable form which not only maintains but evolves the tradition.””
“JSK’s Sworn and Secret Grimoire is not at all a ready-made modern grimoire. Instead, it challenges its reader in similar ways like the cryptic composition and language of the Arbatel has been challenging readers for more than four centuries: points where meaning-making is breaking off, where one’s understanding – like the Tarot’s fool – walks out over the edge into Otherness, are not at all flaws of the newly arranged text, but an explicit invitation to reforge the material into each practitioner’s own practice”
The hardcover edition is printed on 100gsm offset paper, with Toile du Marais Marine cloth on the cover, Wibalin Imperial endpapers, blue and silver endbands, and gold and silver foiling on front and silver on spine. First print run of 500 litho copies.
Night School: Volume I: The Sworn and Secret Grimoire
Jake Stratton-Kent
ISBN 978-1-914166-07-5 (Hardcover) see details below
ISBN 978-1-914166-08-2 (Paperback)
210mm x 148mm
120 pages.
Published July 2021.
