Frater Barrabbas
Frater Barrabbas Tiresius is a practicing ritual magician who has studied magic and the occult for over forty years. He believes that ritual magic is a discipline whose mystery is unlocked by continual practice and by occult experiences and revelations. Frater Barrabbas believes that traditional approaches should be balanced with creativity and experimentation, and that no occult or magical tradition is exempt from changes and revisions.
Over the years, he found that his practical magical discipline was the real source for all his creative efforts. That creative process helped him build and craft a unique and different kind of magical system, one that is quite unlike any other yet based on common Wiccan practices. So, despite its uniqueness this magical system is capable of being easily adapted and used by others.
Frater Barrabbas is also the founder of a magical order called the Order of the Gnostic Star and he is an elder and lineage holder in the Alexandrian tradition of Witchcraft.
Theurgy is magical practice that seeks to create change in our lives via compact and communion with the Witch’s chosen Deities. Theurgy, as presented within this book, teaches the Witch new methods of invoking Deity and working transformative magic explicitly through them. You’ll learn about the ten levels of Godhead assumption, the importance of the Witch’s sacraments, explore the five mysteries of Light and Darkness, and how to incorporate and work with placeholders of the Deity in magical practice.
This highly engaging book is a part of Frater Barrabbas’ for Witches series and will certainly appeal to the advanced practitioners looking to intensify their magical practice. Be sure to check out Frater’s other books, including Spirit Conjuring for Witches (Llewellyn Worldwide), Elemental Powers for Witches (Llewellyn Worldwide), and Talismanic Magic for Witches (Llewellyn Worldwide).
ISBN: 978-1-959883-26-5 | Page Count: 278 | Dimensions: 6” x 9”
Format: Paperback | Publication Date: 02/06/2024
Mastering the Art of Witchcraft: Building a Practical Foundation is a beginner's guide to building both a liturgical and magical practice completely autonomous and independent from any tradition or current practice in Modern Witchcraft. Unlike many other beginner's books, this book succinctly defines what is required to bridge both the religious and the magical aspects of Modern Witchcraft to build a personal independent Witchcraft practice. Everything that you would need to know, all of the liturgical and magical rites, and the basic background information is included in this work. Frater Barrabbas has written a five-book series for advanced Witchcraft studies and practices. These books were not for beginners, but now he has written this book that will supply the new student of Witchcraft with what they would need to know and master to make the five-book series accessible. Modern Witchcraft, as it is practiced, is one-half religious rites and the other half magical rites, seamlessly joined to produce a powerful discipline and regimen of practical rituals and exercises. This book was written for the beginner Witch who wants to establish an independent and personal practice that will aid them in building an advanced magical and liturgical capability. Whether you belong to a coven and a tradition or are a solitary Witch, this book was written exclusively for you.
This title is being released as both a paperback and a hardcover. The hardcover is bound in navy blue with black foil stamping on the front cover and spine.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959883-31-9 | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-959883-79-1
Page Count: 152 | Dimensions: 5” x 8” | Format: Paperback & Hardcover
Paperback Publication Date: 06/10/2024 | Hardcover Publication Date: 02/20/2024
MacGregor Mathers published a book that introduced the magical ordeal to the magicians of the 20th century. That book was called The Book of Abramelin and contained an arduous preparation practice that lasted six months to manifest the Holy Guardian Angel, which instructed and guided the adherent. The book contained many magical squares of notorious potency. To use them, the magician had to undergo many months of prayer, meditation, fasting, purification, abasement, and a period of complete sequestration. Another recently published version of this working lasted for eighteen months with three months of sequestration. Many magicians attempted this arduous task; some succeeded, and some failed. This working was typically beyond the means and resources of your average magician.
This was the challenge to achieve the knowledge and conversation with their Holy Guardian Angel. However, Frater Barrabbas took this challenge and used it to forge a whole new magical ordeal. He decided to base it on a lunar cycle instead of a solar cycle, crafting an ordeal that could be accomplished in seven weeks with three days of sequestration, thus making its performance more practical. Frater Barrabbas sought to create a powerful series of magical workings to produce the promised transfiguration state and manifest one's Holy Guardian Angel. He used invocations of the four Seraphim and Cherubim in four weeks, along with the Element Godhead, to produce a holy tabernacle of godhead and angelic intelligence. He chose a revised version of the Bornless or Headless One invocation rite of Golden Dawn fame as the apex. He plumbed the Greek Magical Papyri to extract three more rituals to add to the Bornless rite. These rituals and others are included in the book, in addition to the diary entries where he performed this working back in 2009 to validate it. This lore and instruction are encapsulated in Abramelin Lunar Ordeal, a unique and profound contribution to the art of ritual magic. The Sacred Magic of Abramelin is now available using a new, concise paradigm.
ISBN: 978-1-959883-83-8 | Page Count: 310 | Dimensions: 7" x 10"
Format: Paperback | Publication Date: 2/4/2025
Initiation is one of the most mysterious and documented traditional practices of Witchcraft. What is not well known is that behind the scripted initiations are the symbols of transformation encapsulated in the twenty-two tarot trumps of the Major Arcana. Initiations follow the literary cycle of the hero and the heroine and, combined with the trumps, produce a system of magic used to trigger and wield the powers of psychic transformation.
Additionally, this book analyzes the traditional scripted initiations of Witchcraft, their relationship to Masonic initiations, and produces new practices like the periodic dedication rite, the third-degree ordeal, self-initiation of the four elements, the rumored fourth and fifth degrees, and the initiation mysteries of a Witchcraft inner order. Most importantly, this book gives the reader the ability to direct and shape their own inner cycles of transformation so that they might master the art of inner change for themselves and their students.
The purpose of directing and shaping inner change is to assist in achieving a sustainable mind-state of conscious ascension. The rituals and practices in this book give the reader, for the first time, the ability to design, write, perform, and realize the powers of psychic transformation and initiation.
ISBN: 978-1-959883-30-2 | Page Count: 199 | Dimensions: 6” x 9”
Format: Paperback | Publication Date: 06/24/2024
Mastering the Art of Ritual Magick contains three volumes that represent a comprehensive approach to developing a personal system of magick. For practitioners who have some magical experience, this book combines several forms of magick that are extended and joined together to form a unique approach to solitary or group ritual magick. The volumes are as follows:
Volume One: This foundation establishes the fundamental practices and experiential knowledge required to formulate and perform this unique approach to ritual magick.
Volume Two: This grimoire introduces the practitioner to nine modular rituals to build up a complete Wiccan or Pagan ritual magick regimen. This suite of rituals represents the kinds of magick that an intermediate ritual magician must master to proceed to more advanced work. This suite of rituals represents the kinds of magick that an intermediate ritual magician must master to proceed to more advanced work.
Volume Three: The Greater Key demonstrates how the nine basic rituals can be developed and customized to become a uniquely personal grimoire of rituals. The key itself is a system of correspondences that the magician builds up with their personalized symbology – such a key can be used to develop other rituals or unlock entire systems of magick.
In this groundbreaking book, you are invited to explore these magical systems from Frater Barrabbas.
ISBN: 978-1-959883-36-4 | Page Count: 400 | Dimensions: 6” x 9”
Format: Paperback | Publication Date: 12/03/2024
This book, entitled The Magical Notary Art, is a book that aims to deliver the practical methodology of the entire spectrum of notary art as it pertains to spirit names, pictographs, symbolic images, seals, words of power, and signatures. The notary art is a creative and imaginative methodology that translates names, words, phrases, and ideogramic images so they can be understood by the deities, spirits and powers that reside within the super-symbolic domain. This book is divided into four parts, which cover the range of the notary arts. Frater Barrabbas has written this book for the practical ritual magician and includes the methods of construction and deployment in ritual workings or as stand-alone devices.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959883-96-8 | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-964537-39-9
Page Count: 170 | Dimensions: 5" x 8" | Format: Paperback & Hardcover
Paperback Publication Date: 5/20/2025 | Hardcover Publication Date: 5/20/2025
Written with an Occult context and aiming to train the novice magician, Disciple’s Guide to Ritual Magick contains the knowledge and mysteries needed to become a great spellcaster.
Disciple’s Guide to Ritual Magick is a book written for the beginning magician who seeks the integral practice of a ritual magician. This book presents concepts and insights found in no other book on the subject. Frater Barrabbas believes that all magicians seek enlightenment and Gnosis, whether they know it or not. This means that the practice of magick must be expanded and broadened so that it is as much a full spiritual discipline and means to gaining Gnosis as any other spiritual system. This book is an attempt at making magick a comprehensive discipline that affects all aspects of life.
ISBN: 978-1-959883-35-7 | Page Count: 280 | Dimensions: 6” x 9”
Format: Paperback | Publication Date: 09/10/2024
A new grimoire for an ancient provenance. The wisdom of the Nephilim, those who have been exiled by God and who taught ancient mankind the ways of civilization, awaits you within the pages of Frater Barrabbas’s guidebook and grimoire, Liber Nephilim: A Grimoire of Fallen Angels.
While the grimoire traditions have done much to enlighten the occult community about the various banned books of magic and secret powers, only Liber Nephilim works with the first of the angels to fall. Yet these are spirits that loved humanity, mated with mortal women, and gave birth to a new age of magic so long ago. Yet they were omitted from that Medieval magical lore—until now. Liber Nephilim is the starting place where these renowned spirits are again engaged as they once were to the magicians of the most ancient times.
This title is being released as both a paperback and a hardcover with a dustjacket. Both editions are 6”X9” and are approximately 330 pages in length. We are currently accepting preorders for the hardcover with shipping to commence in late August.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-959883-55-5 | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-959883-84-5
Page Count: 290 | Dimensions: 6” x 9” | Format: Paperback & Hardcover
Paperback Publication Date: 10/07/2024 | Hardcover Publication Date: 09/30/2024