[Rarebooks] FS: The Dragon Book of Essex. Deluxe Edition.

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:

CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.

THE DRAGON-BOOK OF ESSEX. Grimorium Synomosia 
Dracotaos. An Enchiridion of the Crooked Path, 
Being a Grammar of Quintessential Sorcery, 
Containing the Sacred Rites and Formulae 
Undertaken in the Mysteries of the Great Dragon. 
Transmitted through the Circle of Four Watchers, 
Seen and Unseen, and Here Set Forth By the Hand 
of Alogos Dhul' Qarnen Khidir, Andrew D. Chumbley.

DELUXE EDITION, LIMITED TO 196 HAND-NUMBERED 
COPIES, BOUND IN FULL BLACK GOATSKIN, SLIPCASED.

No Place: Xoanon. 2014. First Edition, First 
Printing. Large Thick Quarto, original full black 
morocco stamped in gold on spine and front panel, 
marbled endpapers, silk ribbon bookmarker. 
Slipcased. 834 pp., single volume. Containing 
numerous illustrations and sigillae by the author 
throughout. Issued in an edition limited to 196 
hand-numbered copies. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued.


¶ Following the Azoëtia, The Dragon Book of Essex 
represents the second work of Chumbley’s 
three-book magical opus the Trimagisterion. From 
this period of work, Chumbley formulated ‘Crooked 
Path Sorcery’ as a trans-historical magical 
model, operant in a number of systems of sorcery, 
most notably in the witchcraft of his native 
Essex. The Crooked Path may be seen to mirror the 
zoötype of the Serpent, wending between such 
magical antipodes as blessing and cursing, honour 
and treachery, Tabu and its breaking. Its 
quintessential nature is transgressive, and 
through this apostasy, the illuminant fire of the 
Serpent descends. This substantial work expounds 
the sorcerous ethos and praxes of the Crooked 
Path ritual system. Its contents include a cycle 
of ten extensive Mystery-rites, each accompanied 
by adjunctive solitary rituals and detailed 
commentaries. Additional texts relate the 
intricacies of Sabbatic ritualization, as well as 
an extensive body of stellar lore and ritual. The 
Sorcerous Formulae of Number and Sign are also 
communicated, together with detailed exegeses of 
the Quadriga, the specific covine-type of the 
Crooked Path. A detailed section on the Magical 
Weapons of the Draconian Sorcerer complements the 
text. This work is intended as an entire resumé 
of the ancestral and ophidian components of 
Traditional Craft Sorcery and Sabbatic Gnosis. 
The Dragon Book of Essex originally comprised a 
portion of the rites and practices of an inner 
conclave of the Cultus Sabbati known as The 
Column of the Crooked Path. Central to the 
Draconian ritual cycle is the enfleshment of the 
primordial Serpent of Eld both within the body of 
the practitioner as the First Sorcerer Azha-Cain, 
and within the earth of the World-Field as the 
Dragon Azhdeha. This dual-natured work is 
realised through rites of bodily sacrifice unto 
the Serpent, and subsequently through a year-long 
cycle of practices. These rites, being solar, 
lunar, and stellar in nature, transfix the 
celestial attributes of the Dragon’s Body within 
the telluric ritual arena and the sensorium of 
the practitioner. A private initiatic edition of 
ten copies, each having three volumes, was 
published in 1997. Subsequently, other sections 
of the book were diffused through the Cultus’ 
outer sodality, ‘The Companie of the Serpent 
Cross’ for private study and solitary work. This 
first public release of the Dragon-Book 
incorporates refinements to the text made by the 
author in 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003, as well as 
corrections and marginalia from his own personal 
working copy and never-before-seen illustrations.


$2,750.00 Cdn.

Note: This is a very large, heavy, oversized 
volume; additional postage will be required from Overseas buyers.




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