Scarlet Imprint Release: "The True Grimoire"

The True Grimoire
by Jake Stratton-Kent

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The True Grimoire is a substantial octavo book of 280pp. The text is profusely illustrated with characters, sigils, magic squares, and pontos riscados. It is bound in verdant green book cloth, bloody endpapers and stamped with a rubeus memento mori. This is a volume with presence, as befits one housing so many spirits.

It is released in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of a thousand copies. A copy of the Death's Head edition can be yours for thirty-five English pounds plus postage.

The True Grimoire is a major contribution to the practice and study of Goetic magic. The neglected Grimorium Verum has been restored to it's rightful place as a potent and coherent system of Goetic magic.

Jake Stratton-Kent has reconstructed a working version from the corrupted Italian and French versions of this important grimoire. As a practicing Necromancer with 37 years of experience his Verum is a clear exposition of how to contact and build a relationship with the spirits.

The True Grimoire springs from the source of Goetic magic, enabling us to unlock the secrets of the other grimoires. We are given insights into the Dragon Rouge, Key of Solomon, Lemegeton, Abramelin, Honorius and the Black Pullet. This is a treasure trove for the student of magic.

The True Grimoire lets us experience a grimoire tradition with links back to the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri and the necromancy of the original Goes. It also places Verum within a living tradtion, one which has taken root in the New World, finding expression in Quimbanda and the Legion of Exus, the 'People of the Cemetery' who have clear Verum equivalents.

This is a constistently illuminating text. The copious notes of a working magician, combined with a scholarly attention to detail, enable us to use this text for it's original purpose. The hierarchy of Verum and Goetic spirits is restored, the nature of Astaroth is definitively set down. The planetary hours are explained, as are all the ritual requirements and preparations.