Issue One – Autumn Equinox 2009

Treadwells and Fulgur are delighted to announce the first issue of our new esoteric journal ABRAXAS is now in press. In keeping with our intent, writers and artists have kindly submitted material from across the globe: Australia, the United States, Mexico, Italy and the United Kingdom are keenly represented.

Nearly all the material is published for the first time. Here may be found inspiring essays from luminaries within the esoteric community, many of them written especially for the journal. Artists too are well represented, both established masters and emerging talents: a feast for the eyes and soul. Our poets include Allyson Shaw, Zachary Cox and, from beyond the veil, Aleister Crowley, whose evocative verse ‘Babalon’ finally finds itself in print more than sixty years after it was written.

Produced in a large quarto format, with 128 pages printed on high quality paper and richly illustrated in colour and monochrome, we hope Abraxas will offer you a strange mirror through which may be glimpsed the zeitgeist of the global occult community today.

Literary contributions for this inaugural issue include:

The Green Intercessor
Tutelary Spirits and the Transmission of Plant-Magic
Daniel A. Schulke

Caveat Anonyter!
A Study of Flying Ointments and their Plants
Sarah Penicka-Smith

Sorceries of the Threshold
Transgression into the Between States
Anon

The Uncertainty of Illumination
Gnosis and Epistemology in Traditional Craft
Stuart Inman

Lucifer by Starlight
An Interview with Francesco Parisi

The Third Eye
The Fantastic World of Lobsang Rampa
Phil Hine

Transmutations of Good and Evil
Alchemy, Witchcraft and the Graal in the Work of Arthur Machen
Edward Gauntlett

Skip Witches, Hop Toads
Stephen Grasso

A Dream of Witchcraft Turned to Nightmare
The Five Witches of Albrecht Durer
John Callow

On Sappho
James Butler

Ordering

We are now accepting pre-orders, both for the deluxe issue and for the standard. The publication date is officially September 22nd, but due to the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, orders will be dispatched by mid-October. We might even have a launch party at Treadwells around Samhain.

Issue One

Deluxe Issue
171 numbered copies with an ORIGINAL hand-printed wood-engraving by Francesco Parisi.
290mm x 232mm, 128 pages, hardcover, bound by hand in full grey cloth, endpapers, title stamped on spine, letter-press Manifesto.

£70.00 (+p&p for non-UK orders)

Francesco Parisi is one of Italy’s most respected and critically acclaimed wood-engravers. His symbolist work has been secured by some of the worlds most prestigious institutions, such as the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, as well as musicians such as COIL. In offering us a hand-printed edition of ‘The Garden of Proserpine’ Francesco is therefore making a very generous gift in support of our inaugural issue. The original woodblock is reproduced opposite, before the delicate work of cutting the image is undertaken.

Standard Issue
290mm x 232mm, 128 pages, softcover
We might not be hand-numbering these, but then, we won’t be reprinting them either. There are less than you think, and included in every copy is a letter-press printed Manifesto.

£25.00 (+p&p for non-UK orders)

Customer Comments

“Yesterday I received the ‘Abraxas’ journal and I must say that it is one of the most beautiful publications that you’ve published. The pages are so tight, the artwork is so alive and the whole journal is vibrating with energy…”

“It is a sheer feast for the eyes alone!”

“It is truly beautiful. I have for a long time searching for something like this… I am of no traditional line of knowledge, more like the psychedelic free-form ritual of alone-in-the-dark-forest, make-your-own-way-through-the-chaos thingy. My mind has been through times of “are there no others, is all this my imagination?” … As time has passed, I have met the others, and I see now, that there are alot of us (and when we get down to the details, maybe all of us, reflecting each other?) This is a timely journal, highly sought after, at least by me and probably a whole lot of other people… it will be a pleasure to dig through this treasure trove.”

“I have recently purchased this! I have to say that the articles are fantastic. I am particularly interested in Schulke’s piece; I love working with plants! I have yet to read the rest, but I am looking forward to Stuart’s article; it sounds interesting! The artist in me salivated at the Surrealist approach to the ‘zine; I even felt a hint of Dadaism in there too! Anyway, I absolutely recommend buying it; it is well worth the money. I have yet to read a magazine publication on this subject that looks and feels like a glossy mag with the same content calibre as The Cauldron! This Mag is literally the only one that has that!”

“…the production value is fantastic, the articles of the highest quality & as a when-its-gone-its-gone journal it’s bound to leap to unobtainable prices eventually, so get it whilst you can!!!”

Abraxas Journal

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