Occult & Esoterica
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] The Azoetia - A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft (Amethystine Edition of 33 Copies)
[CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.] The Azoetia - A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft (Amethystine Edition of 33 Copies)
Full title: The Azoetia - A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft; Being a full and accurate transcription, compiled and amended by the author from the original manuscript of 'The Book of Magical Quintessence'
(Hercules, CA): Xoanon Publishing, 2015 [2023]. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. [x], 366pp. Limited Amethystine Edition of Thirty-three hand-numbered copies only, this being No. 4. Bound in full Purple Goatskin with gilt design to front and rear, spine titled and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, in black cloth slipcase, and accompanied by a hand numbered booklet (8 pages), numbered the same as the book, of the Rite of Amethystine Light, completed by Andrew Chumbley, in 2003, before his passing. Foreword by Daniel Schulke and Soror I.S. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket, in like slipcase.
The Third edition presents the complete text of the 'Sethos Edition' of 2002, being the definitive recension of the work. Original images have been digitally conserved and the text has been freshly typeset. Design and Materials are of the highest standard, for which Xoanon is well known. As the incepting text of Xoanon Limited, Andrew D. Chumbley's visionary book 'The Azoëtia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft' was first published in 1992 and is regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition. The grimoire 'Azoëtia' is comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working instruments, the full text of the Sabbatic Rituals of Ingress, Congress, and Egress, and an eleven-chaptered grimoire detailing the arcana and composite practices of the Sacred Alphabet - the twenty-two lettered code of sorcerous principles underlying the practical spectrum of the Arte Magical. The entire work intends the reification of traditional British cunning-craft praxis according to the spiritual vision and artistry of a contemporary initiate.