GATEWAYS THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADOW - Frater Ashen Chassan (Special Full-leather Binding, Azoth Press, 2016)

GATEWAYS THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADOW - Frater Ashen Chassan (Azoth Press, 2016)

A special edition copy -- bound in full leather, debossed lion emblem to cover, 4 raise bands to spine, solve titling, silver endpapers, ribbon marker. 638 pages.

One of a handful of specially bound copies that Azoth issued after the 1st pressing of the standard hardback edition had sold out. Very limited numbers, beautiful binding work. 

"Gateways Through Light and Shadow is the second book by Bryan Garner, known to his fellow ceremonial magicians as Frater Ashen Chassan, and in it we are again offered the illuminating opportunity to observe and learn from a practicing magus engaged in his Work. Once more he offers instruction in the processes of grimoric ceremonial magic and shares the insights he has gained from his ongoing research and operations. However, what may be most extraordinary about Gateways is that it allows us access to the detailed magical journal records of the communications received by Ashen Chassan and his gifted scryer, Benn mac Stiofán, during the evocations of such profound Spiritual beings as the seven Planetary Archangels, the seven Olympic Planetary Spirits, the four Spirit Kings of the Cardinal Directions, and the Supercelestial Angels Sandalphon and Metatron.

Gateways Through Light and Shadow is illustrated throughout with two-color line art of the talismanic magical implements used in the evocations, including sigils, seals, lamens, pentacles, and magic circles, along with new implements created by the magician under the guidance of the Archangels, as well as new portraits of the evoked Spirits.

"This book is a major contribution to the study and practice of Western ceremonial ritual magic. This is a book that no serious practitioner of magic should be without."
—from the Foreword by Dr. Stephen Skinner." - Azoth Press, 2016.

Condition : As new / Unread copy. There is natural mark down the leather on the rear cover which is part of the actual leather prior to binding, just in case you were wondering. The book is mint.