{"product_id":"lucifer-princeps-hardback-by-peter-grey","title":"Lucifer: Princeps (hardback) by Peter Grey","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-af9b5e5b54114c014d2b\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eSecond Hardback edition, limited to 800 copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucifer: Princeps\u003c\/em\u003e is a seminal study on the origins of the Lucifer mythos, the first in a two volume work. The fall of Lucifer, and that of the rebel angels who descended upon the daughters of men, comprise the foundation myth of the Western occult tradition. \u003cem\u003ePrinceps\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of origins, a portrait of the first ancestor of witchcraft and magic. In tracing the genealogy of our patron and prince, the principles that underlie the ritual forms that have come down to us, through the grimoires and folk practices, are elucidated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eThe study draws on the extensive literature of history, religion and archaeology, engaging with the vital discoveries and advances of recent scholarship. A concomitant exegesis of the core texts conjures the terrain and koiné of the Ancient Near East, the cradle cultures and language of his nascence. Of critical importance are the effaced cultures and cults that lie behind the Old Testament polemics, viz. those of Assyria, Ugarit and Canaan, as well as Sumeria, Egypt and Greece; they provide the context that give meaning to what would otherwise be an isolated brooding figure, one who makes no sense without being encountered in the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eIntended to be the definitive text on the origins of Lucifer for practitioners of magic, \u003cem\u003ePrinceps\u003c\/em\u003e spans wingtip to wingtip from the original flood myth and legends of divine teachers to the Church Fathers, notably Augustine, Origen and Tertullian. The tales of the Garden of Eden, the Nephilim, of the fall of Helel ben Sahar and the Prince of Tyre, the nature of Azazel, and the creation of the Satan are drawn beneath the shadow of these wings into a narrative that binds Genesis and Revelation via the Enochian tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eOpening with ‘The Angelic Principate,’ Grey examines the twenty named angels of 1 Enoch, giving their genealogies and functions, and revealing them as tutelary spirits and teachers, elemental forces and sublunary epiphanies of wind and storm, immanent in starlight, stone, flora and fauna. Grey emphasises the power of storytelling, place and ritual to evoke and commune with these spirits, and gives oaths, initiations and protocols.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eSubsequent chapters examine magical authority and practice through such figures as St Paul and Simon Magus, as the daimonic is actively demonised and exorcism becomes a tool of eschatology and conquest. Proposing a Luciferian praxis, Grey provides rituals for engaging with spirits at different time depths, patterned on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Solomonic grimoires. Particular attention is given to the \u003cem\u003eArs Goetia\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLivre des Esperitz\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eRed Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e, with revised conjurations for those who wish to operate outside the dominant Christian paradigm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eLucifer enters the modern era through the line of prophecy as revolution shakes England, Europe and America. The archetype transforms from the rebel against God into the scourge of tyrants. William Blake’s visionary assault on John Milton’s sublime \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e gives permission to the Romantic poets to invoke Lucifer as illuminator and liberator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucifer: Praxis\u003c\/em\u003e is both a scholarly and poetic guide, offering a framework for magical practice that is rooted in historic precedent yet contemporary; an innovative fusion of Enochic lore, the line of prophecy, and contemporary ritual craft. Grey charts the emergence of a new Luciferianism which blooms from the ritual texts and revolutionary fire that have shaped our modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1760342370643_11287\" data-block-type=\"47\" class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Watkins Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56474474807670,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0635\/6656\/files\/IMG_4916.jpg?v=1760698412","url":"https:\/\/shop.watkinsbooks.com\/products\/lucifer-princeps-hardback-by-peter-grey","provider":"Watkins Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}