The True Grimoire
The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent
Necromantic emblems by Artem Grigoryev
The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica, The True Grimoire is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. A coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.
The second edition appears thirteen years after the True Grimoire was first published, in which time it has become a critical and foundational work of the current magical revival. As Dr Alexander Cummins observes in his Foreword, the True Grimoire ‘spearheaded a particular renaissance in grimoire studies towards more informed historical analysis and more engaged mythopoetic ritual praxis, all the while centring the realities of hands-on cunning.’
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The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent
Necromantic emblems by Artem Grigoryev
The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica, The True Grimoire is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. A coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.
The second edition appears thirteen years after the True Grimoire was first published, in which time it has become a critical and foundational work of the current magical revival. As Dr Alexander Cummins observes in his Foreword, the True Grimoire ‘spearheaded a particular renaissance in grimoire studies towards more informed historical analysis and more engaged mythopoetic ritual praxis, all the while centring the realities of hands-on cunning.’
[read more below]
The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent
Necromantic emblems by Artem Grigoryev
The first volume of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopaedia Goetica, The True Grimoire is a reconstruction of the Grimorium Verum from the corrupted Italian and French versions of the grimoire. A coherent and eminently workable system of goetic magic, with extensive commentary and notes by a practicing necromancer.
The second edition appears thirteen years after the True Grimoire was first published, in which time it has become a critical and foundational work of the current magical revival. As Dr Alexander Cummins observes in his Foreword, the True Grimoire ‘spearheaded a particular renaissance in grimoire studies towards more informed historical analysis and more engaged mythopoetic ritual praxis, all the while centring the realities of hands-on cunning.’
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Scarlet Imprint
Printed on 150 gsm paper and bound in black cloth, bearing the seal of Frimost on the front, red endpapers, red ribbon, black dust jacket with design in bronze metallic ink and black foil. + Letterpress print of The Prayer of the Salamanders.
Royal 8vo (234 × 156 mm). 280 pp.
Limited to 1200 copies total
About the Author
Jake Stratton-Kent (RIP) has been called the most notorious necromancer in England, and described himself as a ‘very late Late Pagan.’ He died on 17th January 2023, having made a significant contribution to the current magical revival. He championed a spirit centred approach and the importance of the grimoires for the western magical tradition. He will always be associated with the Grimorium Verum, the book which was central to his practice for over forty years.
He wrote numerous articles, pamphlets and books since the mid 1970s. With Scarlet Imprint he published the Encyclopaedia Goetica, a three volume work comprising: The True Grimoire, a reconstructed and extensively commented edition of the Grimorium Verum; Geosophia, an extensive two volume survey of the Greek origins and mythic background of goetia; and The Testament of Cyprian the Mage, an analysis in two volumes of the roots of the grimoires and their spirit hierarchies in Late Antiquity.
His background in the youth radicalisation and free festival movements of the 1970s never entirely left him.
Description
In his introduction and notes to the grimoire, Stratton-Kent elucidates the importance of this concise and comprehensive text to magicians and students of magic alike:
‘The grimoire deals with significant themes that other, often larger, texts have lost, omitted or obscured. […] It enables the persistent seeker to see, essentially, what many have failed to see, that underlying goetic magic is a hidden tradition of great depth and significance. It possesses a traditional methodology that confronts and deals directly with the same primal realities faced by our most remote ancestors; in which all later magic and religion had their original impetus, but which in the West is primarily preserved in goetic magic alone.’
We are given insights across the grimoire tradition into allied texts such as the Grand Grimoire and Red Dragon, the Key of Solomon, the Lemegeton, Abramelin, Honorius and the Black Pullet. This is a treasure trove for the student of magic. Stratton-Kent reveals a grimoire tradition with roots in the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the necromancy of the goês.
The True Grimoire is an elemental and chthonic grimoire of conjuration, pact-making and spell-working. It clearly and concisely explains how to contact and build a relationship with the spirits, and the primary role of the intermediary spirit, whom JSK characterises as ‘akin in a real sense to the Holy Guardian Angel in the Abramelin system.’ The text provides the timing, tools and conjurations for what is an attainable and practical system of magic.
The new edition is augmented by two previously published and out of print essays by the author: ‘ The Spell for Success’ gives a comprehensive analysis of a key part of the Grimorium Verum ritual, which it shares with a number of other Solomonic works, but which originates conceptually in pre-Solomonic magic; and ‘The Conjuration of Nebiros,’ which details a complete conjuration from the author’s personal work, illustrating the entire process and contextualising it.
The book has been redesigned and typeset by Alkistis Dimech, with necromantic emblems by Artem Grigoryev. In addition, the hardback and fine edition are issued with a letterpress print of The Prayer of the Salamanders.
