This small book forms part of The Black Crow Expansion Series and is a collection of the texts from the original Black Crow which pertains to Banishing Rites, together with some additional material and Rites including my own creations, The Cosmic Crossroads Ritual and The IAO Rite.

This is a collection of poems that I have put my heart into writing when special events happened during my life. I wanted to share them with others and hope you find a poem in the book that you might find special to you also. Most of my poems are either or religous or ones of love.

A family uses black inventors to motivate their son to show more interest in school.

In this collection of essays and short stories, the Native American author explores reservation life through a range of genres and perspectives.In this moving collection, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) distinguishes himself not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson's stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable cha...

An astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, “a natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his characters—the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth.”Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. There’s Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by gettin...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

The Echo Will Never Die is a comprehensive historical account of the origins and development of West Coast Hip-Hop, documenting a movement that has remained largely underrepresented in mainstream music history.Drawing from firsthand experience and direct accounts from pioneering artists, this work examines the emergence of West Coast Hip-Hop culture in Los Angeles during the late 1970s and early 1980s, prior to widespread commercial recognition. It explores...

Elementals and Servitors are energetic beings that are created by a Magician or Witch to perform tasks for them. They have been used in various forms by cultures spanning the globe for centuries. This book gives you the methods to work with them and a practical guide on how to create them. Not only does it discuss this aspect of Magic from the perspective of Chaos Magic, but also presents the Kabbalistic method of Elemental creation, giving you a descriptive means of using the Yetziratic W...

Excerpts from the many unofficial "manuals" avidly bought by members of the British Home Guard desperate to prepare for invasion during World War II.How would you clear a stoppage on a Bren Gun while in action? What is the most effective way to clear a wood of enemy forces? How best could you counter a landing by enemy airborne forces in your area? What measure can you take to help ensure accurate rifle fire at night? What qualities should you look for when selecti...

Little introduction needs to be made of Hermes Trismegistus, also known as "The Master of Masters" or "The Thrice Greatest Intelligencer". After his death, he was deified by the Egyptians and gained the named Thoth, and the Greeks, as Hermes. In this small collection of his works are The Divine Pymander, "Aureus" or The Golden Tractate and The Book of Revelation of Hermes. This forms a solid basis for the Hermetic Teachings.

Whilst on a business trip to Shanghai, Peter Newton buys a beautifully carved jewelry box from an old junk shop in the crowded city. It is a gift for his girlfriend back home in New York. The box turns out to contain within, a daguerreotype - the original form of photography - of four persons, one of whom, he discovers to his shock, is him. He has never seen the others before. This is the beginning of a bizarre change in his life as he, his girlfriend and all who are associated w...

In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related...