Magic: History / Theory / Practice
Ernst Schertel (Author), Adolf Hitler (Reader)

In May of 2003, Timothy Ryback, the author of "Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life" had an article published in The Atlantic Monthly. In the article he detailed several of the books held in a portion of Hitler's library at Brown University. Mr. Ryback also mentioned some of the passages Hitler marked in these books. One particular passage was worthy of attention: "He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will never give birth to a new world." That passage appeared in the book "Magic: History / Theory / Practice", written by Dr. Ernst Schertel. Schertel was a researcher of alternative sexual practices, nudism, and the occult. After finishing his book Magic in 1923 he sent a dedicated copy to Adolf Hitler. Now, for the first time ever, "Magic: History/Theory/Practice" has been translated into English, with all sixty-six Hitler annotations intact. Softcover book, 137 pages. 29 euros

The Lightning and the Sun
Savitri Devi

Savitri Devi posits that history occurs in cycles, each beginning with a golden age of heroism and nobility, but as time goes by corruption and dissipation set in, gradually tending to kill all civilization. In The Lightning and the Sun, Devi elucidates her concept of Men in Time, Men above Time, and Men against Time using the lives of Genghis Khan; a medieval Mongol conqueror, Akhnaton; a king of ancient Egypt, and Adolf Hitler, the greatest German leader of the twentient century, respectively, as illustrations of the forces of "Lightning" (destructive power), "Sun" (life-giving energy), and "both Lightning and the Sun" (destructive power harnessed for a life-affirming purpose). Softcover book, 199 pages. 40 euros

Enuma Elish
Edited by L.W.King

The Enuma Elish is Sumerian Babylonian myth of creation recounting the struggle between cosmic order and chaos. Its primary original purpose, however, is not an exposition of theology or theogony, but the elevation of Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, above other Mesopotamian gods. Softcover book, 155 pages. 25 euros

Aghora I
At the Left Hand of God
Robert E. Svoboda

The Aghora trilogy have been embraced world-wide for their frankness in broaching subjects generally avoided and their facility for making the 'unseen' real. We enter the world of Vimalananda who teaches by story and living example. An Aghori is a practitioner of the spiritual discipline known as Aghora. Aghora is the apotheosis of Tantra, the Indian religion whose Supreme Deity is the Mother Goddess. This is the story of the Aghori Vimalananda, penned by his student and disciple. Softcover book, 317 pages. 25 euros

Aghora II
Kundalini
Robert E. Svoboda

Book Two of the trilogy explores the kundalini, the force of forces. Tantra, mantra, the sacred fire, chakras and consciousness. Written in the personable form of Vimalananda's storytelling and recounting of life's episodes we are able to truly enter the invisible realms. Softcover book, 328 pages. 25 euros

Kali- The Feminine Force
Ajit Mookerjee

Kali has often been represented simply as death-dealing, cruel and horrific, the same goddess is however also creator and nurturer, feminine energy. In India, worship of the goddess in her multiple forms, and the vision of the sacred as woman, have never ceased. Using a collection of paintings, sculptures and original writings, this is a celebration of Kali and an exploration of the rich meanings of feminine divinity. Softcover book, 112 pages. 22 euros

Kalis Odiyya
Amarananda Bhairavan

Beautiful story of worship and initiation to Kali in an culture that still exists today, the author writes of his experience of initiation into the world of Kali's odiyyas shamans of the goddess. We learn the goddess tradition first-hand and experience and exorcism, Kundalini training, astral travel, shape-shifting, healing, how to deal with the death of a shaman, and how this matriarchal society governs the devotees. Softcover book, 299 pages. 35 euros

Kali - The Black Goddess of Darkshineswar
Elizabeth U. Harding

The concept of Mother Goddess in the West - the meek, everloving, patiently suffering female - is very different than the image of Kali in the Hindu pantheon. The Darkshinewar Temple in India is devoted to the worship of Ma Kali, this book tells you all about the temple and how Kali is worshipped there- her festivals, her daily rituals. You get an insight into mystics who attained God by worshipping Kali and read about the Godman Sri Ramakrishna, who lived and worshipped the live image of Kali at the Darkshinewar Kali Temple. This is a living story and one of inspiration. Secondhand book, good condition. Softcover book, 318 pages. 20 euros

Song of Kali
Dan Simmons

Fictional novel. "O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by a New York magazine to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta, and before long Luczak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare... it is rumoured that the poet has been brought back to life, in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice. Softcover book, 311 pages. 22 euros

The Yoga of Power
Julius Evola

The author introduces two Hindu movements- Tantrism and Shaktism- both of which emphasize a path of action as well as master over secret energies latent in the body. Tracing the influence of these movements on the Hindu tradition from the fourth century onward, Evola focuses on the perilous practices on the Tantric school known as Vamachara- the "Way of the Left Hand"- which uses human passions and the power of Nature to conquer the world of the senses. During the current cycle of dissolution and decadence, known in India as Kali Yuga, the spiritual aspirant can no longer dismiss the physical world as mere illusion but must grapple with- and ultimately transform- the powerful and often destructive forces with which we live. Evola draws from original texts to describe methods of self-mastery, including the awakening of the serpent power, initiatory sexual magic, and evoking the mantras of power. 25 euros

The Gnostics
Jacques Lacarriere

Seth, the Serpent, Cain, it is these first Rebels in the history of the world whom the Gnostics were to raise to the highest dignity, to claim as the founders of their sect and the authors of their esoteric books. Man, like the universe, is a failed creation, a lamentable imitation, the mere semblance of a man - and the farce - of the cosmos. To awaken, to be alert, to keep vigil, these are the recurring themes in Gnostic texts. We spend our lives asleep, and only those who are aware of it can hope to break down these walls of mental inertia, to awaken in themselves the spark which still glows within us. Remarkable book for both knowledge and the understanding of Gnostic texts. Softcover book, 136 pages. 25 euros

The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics
Jean Doresse

This prodigious collection of sacred Gnostic texts came to light in the late 1940s when the treatises, concealed for sixteen centuries, were discovered in Chenoboskian, a remote hamlet of Upper Egypt. Among them was The Gospel According to Thomas. The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics, tells the full story of that discovery. It is the first complete survey of the documents and their contents and the first full-scale appraisal of their significance to scholars and the world at large. Believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, these Gnostic texts throw new and startling light on the vanished world in which Christianity was born and bred. Hidden for nearly two millennia, these sacred teachings are as vital for our time as they were at the time of their writing. Softcover book, 464 pages. 22 euros

The Gnostic Religion
Hans Jonas

Here is a full-scale study of the heretical world of Gnosticism- its literature, symbolic language and main tents- based on actual Gnostic documents and written by an eminent authority in the field. The paperback edition of this classic contains and important new chapter entitled: "The Recent Discoveries in the Field of Gnosticism," and an epilogue on "Gnosticism, Existentialism and Nihilism". 358 pages. 25 euros