[Rarebooks] FS: Jake Stratton-Kent's GEOSOPHIA, 2 Vols, Deluxe Issue

[Michael John Thompson]

STRATTON-KENT, Jake.

GEOSOPHIA. The Argo of Magic. Encyclopedia Goetia 
Volume II: From the Greeks to the Grimoires. 
Books I-VIII, Complete in Two Volumes.

THE DELUXE EDITION OF 54 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES, 
bound in gilt-decorated vellum and marbled boards, slipcased.

UK: Scarlet Imprint MMX [2010].

First Edition, First Printing. Two volumes. One 
of 54 hand-numbered copies comprising the Deluxe 
edition, this being copy No. 16. Octavo, original 
gilt-decorated quarter vellum over marbled paper 
boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk 
bookmarkers. 312 + 326 pp, eight colour plates 
and illustrations, maps and tables, Indexes at 
rear. A fine set, as new in the original 
publisher's cloth covered slipcase. GEOSOPHIA: 
The Argo of Magic, by Jake Stratton-Kent, 
comprises the Second Volume of The Encyclopaedia 
Goetica, concluding the work that was begun in 
the First Volume, THE TRUE GRIMOIRE, which dealt 
extensively with the Grimorium Verum.


¶ Jake Stratton-Kent's masterpiece. Tracing the 
development of magic from the Greeks to the 
grimoires, it lays bare the chthonic roots of 
goetic ritual. By exposing the necromantic 
origins of much of modern magic we are able to 
reconnect with the source of our ritual 
tradition. There is a continuity of practice in 
the West which encompasses the pre-Olympian cults 
of Dionysus and Cybele, is found in the Greek 
Magical Papyri and Picatrix and flows into the 
grimoires. Rather than a muddle of superstition, 
the grimoire tradition is revealed as the living 
descendant of the ancient practices of the Goes. 
This is a work which redefines our understanding 
of the Western tradition, one which does not 
begin with Cabbala or Solomon, but rather 
descends into the Underworld and brings forth new 
life. JSK illuminates scarce and overlooked texts 
with an incisive commentary, from volcanic 
conjurations to over 70 pages dealing with 
Picatrix. Following the voyage of the Argonauts, 
Geosophia offers biographies of the heroes and 
gods, and discovers the hidden magical meanings 
and significance of their actions and adventures. 
Yet this is not a history lesson, JSK dares to 
imagine a global synthesis of magic where Western 
goetic magic, reconnected to its chthonic origins 
can dovetail with the African Traditional 
Religions. Like The True Grimoire, this further 
work in the Encyclopaedia Goetica series is both 
a scholarly and eminently practical work. 
Geosophia equips the modern grimoire magician 
with an arsenal of techniques and approaches that 
will transform their personal art. The mythic 
structure of Geosophia anchors the practice of 
the modern necromancer in an indigenous yet 
eclectic history which transfuses the Western 
Magical Tradition with the same vitality that we 
find in the African diaspora religions. Jake 
Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 
1972, making forty years of continuous goetic 
practice. His practical work integrates the 
magical papyri, italo-french grimoires in 
particular the Grimorium Verum and African 
traditional religions with a focus on Quimbanda 
and magia negra. His interest in magic spans the 
ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern as 
well as stretching from the West to the Middle 
East and crucially, the New World. His scholarly 
approach is backed with a personal relationship 
with the spirits, which is rare to find in the 
modern world. An essential text, and certainly 
one of the most important and sought after books 
on grimoires & magick that has been written & 
published in the last 10 years.                $1,450.00 US

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