- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford; Large type edition edition (21 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906958394
- ISBN-13: 978-1906958398
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 16 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Craft of the Untamed sets out to present the main pillars of traditional witchcraft. Its premise is that a proper tradition is defined as a timeless unity. Outwardly the tradition bears a great diversity across different lands and spirit. Traditional witchcraft is found in various sodalities and groups across the world. Even so it is possible to discern several harmonious, shared themes. These themes are the land, the crossroads, death, night and the mountain of Venus. It is witchcraft where a human and angelic blood mingles to form a special pedigree that has shaped the archetypical image of the witch. Traditional witchcraft is largely a peasant craft. These "black arts" are works of the earth and the black soil with all its mystery of death, growth and change. This book aims to present the craft free for needless obscuration. I have endeavored to reveal the richness of the tradition as it flows down through time and geographical space. The reader will come to appreciate and understand the wise arts both infernal and celestial; the powers wielded by the denizens of the night will be accessible; and you will come to value them for their beauty and power. Contents: Foreword by Shani Oates/Introduction//At the Crossroads of the Worlds/Solomonic Magick//The Blood of the Living Bones/Within the Mountain of Dame Venus/The Vinculum of Eros/The Art of Timeless Tradition/Within the Veil of Night/Against the Current
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This book by Dr. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is absolutely unique. Very much in the line of the book's description it journeys to some of the landscape bearings of the Craft, in the search of the bones that in their whiteness share a universal feature with the different manifestations of Witchcraft. It conveys a real crossroads where the different paths conjoined create a central vertical vortex of wisdom and mysticism. It is a starting point for the development of the search of the True Faith that relays all witchcraft traditions, giving core elements to consider, from which later one is to proceed.
Written from a traditionalist point of view, the book is very well informed bearing in mind the author's knowledge of a lot of different traditions from around Europe and South America, and the literature and philosophy of old times. But he is also an anthropologist and psychologist, so this gives a very unique take on the magic and witchcraft of the book, both in a historical and a metaphysical way.
The book deals with the most controversial elements of Traditional Witchcraft, being the figures of the Devil and the Dame, the Blood, the Sabbath, the Land, healing, malefica and the mysteries of Eros, the Watchers, the Realm of the Fairy, and the traditional Magical Arts. All this in a non-univocal way, i. e. the range of meaning is not limited to one specific tradition each time, but it can be applied to many of them, and still leave the way open for further thinking. This leads to a thirst for knowing more and explore, which in my opinion is a very remarkable feature of it.
His writing style shows at times shades of poetic prose, giving the whole academic discourse a very rich amount of symbols and metaphors, which speak directly to our deeper selves. Not enough with this, the author has illustrated the knowledge shared with actual ritual practice of all sorts: to commune with the spirits of the Land, open the ways of the Crossroads, to take flight to the Sabbath, etc. This shifts all the knowledge imparted into the experiential level, all of which allows to crystallize this knowledge in sound understanding.
The text permeates from the highest spiritual form of inspiration to the most mundane level of analysis, in a uniquely harmonized way (a sign of the author's first-hand mastery on the subject), through a very clear discourse, that not only can be read literally, but also in between the lines. All this together with beautiful illustrations throughout each chapter by artist Enoque Zedro. It is one of those books which one knows it needs to be read more than once, to learn new things each time.
Written from a traditionalist point of view, the book is very well informed bearing in mind the author's knowledge of a lot of different traditions from around Europe and South America, and the literature and philosophy of old times. But he is also an anthropologist and psychologist, so this gives a very unique take on the magic and witchcraft of the book, both in a historical and a metaphysical way.
The book deals with the most controversial elements of Traditional Witchcraft, being the figures of the Devil and the Dame, the Blood, the Sabbath, the Land, healing, malefica and the mysteries of Eros, the Watchers, the Realm of the Fairy, and the traditional Magical Arts. All this in a non-univocal way, i. e. the range of meaning is not limited to one specific tradition each time, but it can be applied to many of them, and still leave the way open for further thinking. This leads to a thirst for knowing more and explore, which in my opinion is a very remarkable feature of it.
His writing style shows at times shades of poetic prose, giving the whole academic discourse a very rich amount of symbols and metaphors, which speak directly to our deeper selves. Not enough with this, the author has illustrated the knowledge shared with actual ritual practice of all sorts: to commune with the spirits of the Land, open the ways of the Crossroads, to take flight to the Sabbath, etc. This shifts all the knowledge imparted into the experiential level, all of which allows to crystallize this knowledge in sound understanding.
The text permeates from the highest spiritual form of inspiration to the most mundane level of analysis, in a uniquely harmonized way (a sign of the author's first-hand mastery on the subject), through a very clear discourse, that not only can be read literally, but also in between the lines. All this together with beautiful illustrations throughout each chapter by artist Enoque Zedro. It is one of those books which one knows it needs to be read more than once, to learn new things each time.
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A perfect blend of academy and the metaphysics of witchcraft
20 May 2011
This book by Dr. Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is absolutely unique. Very much in the line of the book's description it journeys to some of the landscape bearings of the Craft, in the search of the bones that in their whiteness share a universal feature with the different manifestations of Witchcraft. It conveys a real crossroads where the different paths conjoined create a central vertical vortex of wisdom and mysticism. It is a starting point for the development of the search of the True Faith that relays all witchcraft traditions, giving core elements to consider, from which later one is to proceed.
Written from a traditionalist point of view, the book is very well informed bearing in mind the author's knowledge of a lot of different traditions from around Europe and South America, and the literature and philosophy of old times. But he is also an anthropologist and psychologist, so this gives a very unique take on the magic and witchcraft of the book, both in a historical and a metaphysical way.
The book deals with the most controversial elements of Traditional Witchcraft, being the figures of the Devil and the Dame, the Blood, the Sabbath, the Land, healing, malefica and the mysteries of Eros, the Watchers, the Realm of the Fairy, and the traditional Magical Arts. All this in a non-univocal way, i. e. the range of meaning is not limited to one specific tradition each time, but it can be applied to many of them, and still leave the way open for further thinking. This leads to a thirst for knowing more and explore, which in my opinion is a very remarkable feature of it.
His writing style shows at times shades of poetic prose, giving the whole academic discourse a very rich amount of symbols and metaphors, which speak directly to our deeper selves. Not enough with this, the author has illustrated the knowledge shared with actual ritual practice of all sorts: to commune with the spirits of the Land, open the ways of the Crossroads, to take flight to the Sabbath, etc. This shifts all the knowledge imparted into the experiential level, all of which allows to crystallize this knowledge in sound understanding.
The text permeates from the highest spiritual form of inspiration to the most mundane level of analysis, in a uniquely harmonized way (a sign of the author's first-hand mastery on the subject), through a very clear discourse, that not only can be read literally, but also in between the lines. All this together with beautiful illustrations throughout each chapter by artist Enoque Zedro. It is one of those books which one knows it needs to be read more than once, to learn new things each time.
Written from a traditionalist point of view, the book is very well informed bearing in mind the author's knowledge of a lot of different traditions from around Europe and South America, and the literature and philosophy of old times. But he is also an anthropologist and psychologist, so this gives a very unique take on the magic and witchcraft of the book, both in a historical and a metaphysical way.
The book deals with the most controversial elements of Traditional Witchcraft, being the figures of the Devil and the Dame, the Blood, the Sabbath, the Land, healing, malefica and the mysteries of Eros, the Watchers, the Realm of the Fairy, and the traditional Magical Arts. All this in a non-univocal way, i. e. the range of meaning is not limited to one specific tradition each time, but it can be applied to many of them, and still leave the way open for further thinking. This leads to a thirst for knowing more and explore, which in my opinion is a very remarkable feature of it.
His writing style shows at times shades of poetic prose, giving the whole academic discourse a very rich amount of symbols and metaphors, which speak directly to our deeper selves. Not enough with this, the author has illustrated the knowledge shared with actual ritual practice of all sorts: to commune with the spirits of the Land, open the ways of the Crossroads, to take flight to the Sabbath, etc. This shifts all the knowledge imparted into the experiential level, all of which allows to crystallize this knowledge in sound understanding.
The text permeates from the highest spiritual form of inspiration to the most mundane level of analysis, in a uniquely harmonized way (a sign of the author's first-hand mastery on the subject), through a very clear discourse, that not only can be read literally, but also in between the lines. All this together with beautiful illustrations throughout each chapter by artist Enoque Zedro. It is one of those books which one knows it needs to be read more than once, to learn new things each time.
A well written book on non-dogmatic Witchcraft
24 May 2012
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A well researched, highly intelligent, detailed account of traditional witchcraft practice and history from a very educated practitioner . "A damn good read!" Well worth the purchase price!
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