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PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
MICHAEL S. JUDGE ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press. Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel. Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man . He spent his adolescence in a basement making records, some CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality MY ONGOING OBSESSION WITH THE BACH CELLO SUITES At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused my curiosity was not surprising, given my history with such things, but the way in RUPERT COPPING ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather - the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a consequence, during his childhood and teenage years he spent long interludes in the jungle. On BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOR BY MARGARET LUMLEY BROWN First published in 1918 and chronicling events some five years earlier, Margaret Lumley Brown's Both Sides of the Door offers a marvellous peek into England on the verge of the great war. This little psychological novel packs a punch with its battle of a very different sort, one that turned the heads of the likes of Sir Arthur WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
MICHAEL S. JUDGE ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press. Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel. Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man . He spent his adolescence in a basement making records, some CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality RUPERT COPPING ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather - the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a consequence, during his childhood and teenage years he spent long interludes in the jungle. On A CHEST OF VIOLS: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH VIOL As a cellist and guitarist I have always thought the perfect instrument to be the Viola da Gama, a gut-fretted instrument tuned like a guitar but played like a cello. As with most aficionados my introduction to the instrument came through the 1991 French film, Tous Les Matins du Monde, which introduced two famous Gambist PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
STILL BOOMING: THE REVOLUTIONARY ENCLAVE OF SOUTH AND With American and British literature intent on creating black-holes of postmodernity and worm-holes to the neo-neo perhaps the most sturdy literary platform of that last few decades has been the ‘boom latinoamericano.’ Spurred on by its own vangardia to challenge existing forms but not to the point of auto-collapse, the writers ofthe Latina American
EARTH GOD RISEN BY ALAN RICHARDSON Earth God Risen is a tour through the origins and archetypes of male spirituality for both new seekers and seasoned practitioners (of both sexes). Perhaps it is best elucidated by his old teacher and mentor, W.G. Gray: “Richardson traces the presence of the male aspect of deity in Westerners through ancient Egypt and medieval metaphysicsinto
A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC BY GARETH KNIGHT Originally published by Mowbrays of Oxford, then reissued as Magic of the Western Mind by Llewellyn, A History of White Magic was an attempt by a then up-and-coming author (in his words) to “explain to the intelligent layperson that an interest in magic was not so weird or deviant as is generally assumed.”. In retrospect we can say it’s a good deal more than that as Gareth Knight, in HOW MUCH IS MY STRAD WORTH? Back in the days when I worked in a luthier’s shop selling and restoring violin family instruments there was an oft occurrence. About once or twice a week someone would come into the shop positively beaming and bearing and old dusty coffin style violin case. They had come across a ‘Strad’ in their attic, in PLAKTHONESTRID URU: DOES GIBBERISH HAVE A PLACE IN VOCAL In a recent classroom survey to determine the most important musical elements for college students deciding whether or not to like a new song, coherent and comprehensive lyrics were given as one of the top two answers. Only one percent said that they found any aesthetic pleasure in songs sang in a foreign language and ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality MY ONGOING OBSESSION WITH THE BACH CELLO SUITES At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused my curiosity was not surprising, given my history with such things, but the way in RUPERT COPPING ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather - the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a consequence, during his childhood and teenage years he spent long interludes in the jungle. On BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOR BY MARGARET LUMLEY BROWN First published in 1918 and chronicling events some five years earlier, Margaret Lumley Brown's Both Sides of the Door offers a marvellous peek into England on the verge of the great war. This little psychological novel packs a punch with its battle of a very different sort, one that turned the heads of the likes of Sir Arthur WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
MICHAEL S. JUDGE ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press. Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel. Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man . He spent his adolescence in a basement making records, some CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality MY ONGOING OBSESSION WITH THE BACH CELLO SUITES At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused my curiosity was not surprising, given my history with such things, but the way in RUPERT COPPING ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather - the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a consequence, during his childhood and teenage years he spent long interludes in the jungle. On BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOR BY MARGARET LUMLEY BROWN First published in 1918 and chronicling events some five years earlier, Margaret Lumley Brown's Both Sides of the Door offers a marvellous peek into England on the verge of the great war. This little psychological novel packs a punch with its battle of a very different sort, one that turned the heads of the likes of Sir Arthur WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
MICHAEL S. JUDGE ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press. Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel. Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man . He spent his adolescence in a basement making records, some CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality RUPERT COPPING ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Rupert Copping was born in London into an eccentric and bohemian family. As in infant, in the early fifties, he was taken to Ecuador by his mother and stepfather - the latter being, among other things, a herpetologist. As a consequence, during his childhood and teenage years he spent long interludes in the jungle. On A CHEST OF VIOLS: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH VIOL As a cellist and guitarist I have always thought the perfect instrument to be the Viola da Gama, a gut-fretted instrument tuned like a guitar but played like a cello. As with most aficionados my introduction to the instrument came through the 1991 French film, Tous Les Matins du Monde, which introduced two famous Gambist WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
EARTH GOD RISEN BY ALAN RICHARDSON Earth God Risen is a tour through the origins and archetypes of male spirituality for both new seekers and seasoned practitioners (of both sexes). Perhaps it is best elucidated by his old teacher and mentor, W.G. Gray: “Richardson traces the presence of the male aspect of deity in Westerners through ancient Egypt and medieval metaphysicsinto
STILL BOOMING: THE REVOLUTIONARY ENCLAVE OF SOUTH AND With American and British literature intent on creating black-holes of postmodernity and worm-holes to the neo-neo perhaps the most sturdy literary platform of that last few decades has been the ‘boom latinoamericano.’ Spurred on by its own vangardia to challenge existing forms but not to the point of auto-collapse, the writers ofthe Latina American
HOW MUCH IS MY STRAD WORTH? Back in the days when I worked in a luthier’s shop selling and restoring violin family instruments there was an oft occurrence. About once or twice a week someone would come into the shop positively beaming and bearing and old dusty coffin style violin case. They had come across a ‘Strad’ in their attic, in A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC BY GARETH KNIGHT Originally published by Mowbrays of Oxford, then reissued as Magic of the Western Mind by Llewellyn, A History of White Magic was an attempt by a then up-and-coming author (in his words) to “explain to the intelligent layperson that an interest in magic was not so weird or deviant as is generally assumed.”. In retrospect we can say it’s a good deal more than that as Gareth Knight, in PLAKTHONESTRID URU: DOES GIBBERISH HAVE A PLACE IN VOCAL In a recent classroom survey to determine the most important musical elements for college students deciding whether or not to like a new song, coherent and comprehensive lyrics were given as one of the top two answers. Only one percent said that they found any aesthetic pleasure in songs sang in a foreign language and THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 4 “The task of the neophyte is to render himself sensitive to the impressions available to him from his inner teacher. These may be in the form of actual teachings to be disseminated to others, or of actions to perform in POTATO | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Posts about Potato written by Daniel. Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour andcooking quality.
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Posts about ritual magic written by Rebsie. When William G. Gray bicycled across the moonlit English countryside to commune with the Rollright stones in Oxfordshire he was presented with a vision of a simple pattern; the fourfold balance of the quartered circle. THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 4 “The task of the neophyte is to render himself sensitive to the impressions available to him from his inner teacher. These may be in the form of actual teachings to be disseminated to others, or of actions to perform in POTATO | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Posts about Potato written by Daniel. Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour andcooking quality.
HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN Posts about hermetic order of the golden dawn written by Daniel BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THE LOST ART OF POTATO BREEDING Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour and cooking quality.RITUAL MAGIC
Posts about ritual magic written by Rebsie. When William G. Gray bicycled across the moonlit English countryside to commune with the Rollright stones in Oxfordshire he was presented with a vision of a simple pattern; the fourfold balance of the quartered circle. THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and MY ONGOING OBSESSION WITH THE BACH CELLO SUITES At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused my curiosity was not surprising, given my history with such things, but the way in THE MAGICAL BATTLE OF BRITAIN: THE WAR LETTERS OF DION The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune. “Let us meditate upon angelic Presences, red-robed and armed, patrolling the length and breadth of our land. Visualise a map of Great Britain, and picture these great Presences moving as a vast shadowy form along the coasts, and backwards and forwards from north to south and east ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 4 “The task of the neophyte is to render himself sensitive to the impressions available to him from his inner teacher. These may be in the form of actual teachings to be disseminated to others, or of actions to perform in THE COSMIC DOCTRINE: ESSAYS INSPIRED BY DION FORTUNE’S THE Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and instruction to many practitioners. Here is an excerpt from the original book jacket: “Fortune examines the PATRICK HARPUR ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press. Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel. Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research that he wouldeventually
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Exactly what were the Qabalists seeking? Their main objective was the same as other Mystery Schools, namely the discovery and knowledge of the Elements of Existence in terms of Fundamental Energies, and the codification of Consciousness as the Pattern (or BARBEY D’AUREVILLY Posts about Barbey d’Aurevilly written by Daniel. These savants proclaim that the material universe is perfectly organised, and that all will occur according to rule since, they say, everything is subject to laws of causation and the conservation of energy. THE LOST ART OF POTATO BREEDING Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour and cooking quality. THE LOST ART OF POTATO BREEDING BY REBSIE FAIRHOLM The Lost Art of Potato Breeding is the first book of its kind to provide a clear and practical guide for new or experienced gardeners interested in reviving this ancient practice. Best known for her Daughter of the Soil blog, Rebsie Fairholm is an experienced heritage gardener that has successfully cultivated many rare and new varietiesof
CENTRE FOR FORTEAN ZOOLOGY Ronan Coghlan is a unique and multifarious Irish writer from Dublin now living in Bangor, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he has served as a schoolteacher for over 20 years, notably at Rockport, Northern Ireland and Hawkhurst THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality THE MAGICAL BATTLE OF BRITAIN: THE WAR LETTERS OF DION The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune. “Let us meditate upon angelic Presences, red-robed and armed, patrolling the length and breadth of our land. Visualise a map of Great Britain, and picture these great Presences moving as a vast shadowy form along the coasts, and backwards and forwards from north to south and east THE COSMIC DOCTRINE: ESSAYS INSPIRED BY DION FORTUNE’S THE Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and instruction to many practitioners. Here is an excerpt from the original book jacket: “Fortune examines the ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 10 Posts about Esoteric written by Daniel and Rebsie. Before its dissolution by Henry VIII the Abbey was a group of buildings that facilitated prayer, meditation, service, but also served as BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 9 Peregrin Wildoak was born in Warwickshire and during his childhood lived in several semi-rural locations. At a young age he learned to appreciate the Land, which later opened the door to the mysteriestherein.
LUD HEAT: A BOOK OF THE DEAD HAMLETS BY IAIN SINCLAIR Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair. Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come across a lichen diagram, the MICHAEL S. JUDGE ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press. Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel. Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man . He spent his adolescence in a basement making records, some THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. ABOUT US | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT SKYLIGHT PRESS Our main website is at www.skylightpress.co.uk We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in literary fiction, drama and poetry, advanced horticulture and the esoteric. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality THE MAGICAL BATTLE OF BRITAIN: THE WAR LETTERS OF DION The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune. “Let us meditate upon angelic Presences, red-robed and armed, patrolling the length and breadth of our land. Visualise a map of Great Britain, and picture these great Presences moving as a vast shadowy form along the coasts, and backwards and forwards from north to south and east THE COSMIC DOCTRINE: ESSAYS INSPIRED BY DION FORTUNE’S THE Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and instruction to many practitioners. Here is an excerpt from the original book jacket: “Fortune examines the ESOTERIC | THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT | PAGE 10 Posts about Esoteric written by Daniel and Rebsie. Before its dissolution by Henry VIII the Abbey was a group of buildings that facilitated prayer, meditation, service, but also served asAUTOBIOGRAPHY
Here is a short review of Gareth Knight’s autobiography, I Called it Magic, written for The Inner Fire Journal by David Goddard: “If you have ever wanted to glean some understanding of the mind, and motivation, of an adept Mage-of-Light THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stageplay in two acts, and Skylight Press is proud to offer it as our first launched title.. The play is set in 1916, and follows the fortunes of a group of demoralised British soldiers in the front line trenches. “NOW WE ARE THREE” BY GARETH KNIGHT Now we are three. That is to say – three years old. And we are Skylight Press. A brain child of my daughter Rebecca (AKA Rebsie) along with kindred spirit Daniel Staniforth, based in the USA, and we recently got together to celebrate the occasion. In some respectsSkylight is a
BOTH SIDES OF THE DOOR BY MARGARET LUMLEY BROWN First published in 1918 and chronicling events some five years earlier, Margaret Lumley Brown's Both Sides of the Door offers a marvellous peek into England on the verge of the great war. This little psychological novel packs a punch with its battle of a very different sort, one that turned the heads of the likes of Sir Arthur WILLIAM G. GRAY ON SKYLIGHT PRESS William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a lot about his character and calibre that many of the people who wereblasted and
CONVERSATION WITH ALAN RICHARDSON Conversation with Alan Richardson. Posted on May 16, 2013 by Daniel. As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, the Arthuriad, theQabala, Ancient
THE BOOK OF MÉLUSINE OF LUSIGNAN: IN HISTORY, LEGEND Mélusine of Lusignan is no stranger to the Europeans and their interweaving histories and mythologies; indeed her great progeny impacted an area roughly the size of the Roman Empire at its height. It is claimed that her serpentine bloodline produced royalty at the far corners of Europe and the Middle East, with heroic deeds spanningSANGREAL SODALITY
Skylight Press to publish a series of William G. Gray Books. Posted on August 16, 2013 by Daniel. “Magicians are not made, they make themselves.”. Skylight Press is pleased to announce that it will be publishing a series of out-of-print and possible new books by William G. Gray over the next three years. The series will commence in . NICK FARRELL ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Nick Farrell is an esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. Joining the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17, he started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic. He moved to ANTHONY DUNCAN ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Anthony Duncan on Skylight Press. Anthony Duncan (1930-2003), the son of a Scots father and an English mother, was schooled for accountancy but soon discovered a dislike for office work. He joined the army and served in Germany and the Far East until resigning his commission as a thirty year old captain in order to follow his spiritual calling. THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT Publisher of quality esoteric and literary books, based in the UKSkip to content
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I, UNIVERSE BY DARRYL SLOAN Posted on January 6, 2019by Daniel
_“The search for truth is not for everyone. It is not for those who accept __without question the beliefs they inherited by accident of birth. It is __not for those whose natural tendency is to mimic the thoughts and __attitudes of their peers. It is not for those who are afraid to be different. __It is not for those who need the approval of others to maintain their own __happiness. It is not for those who only have ears for what makes them feel __good. It is not for those who think they already know and need never change __their minds. In short, it’s not for a lot of people…._ _This book is primarily for anyone who feels frustrated, angry, or confused __in the task of figuring out what life is all about. It is a love letter to the __person I used to be, someone whose anxieties and sorrows are undoubtedly __mirrored in the experiences of others – perhaps you. This is my attempt to __lend a helping hand to anyone who has intuitively felt (to borrow a line from __the movie The Matrix) “a splinter in your mind.”_ Thus begins the introduction of Darryl Sloan’s all-encompassing new tome, _I, Universe_, sub-titled _Demolishing and Rebuilding Spirituality for a Scientific Age_. While it is a sign of the times that many people are abandoning their inherited faith systems and modes of worship, Sloan is not content to slip into any sort of spiritual void and undergoes a fascinating search for the numinous that takes his readers down many surprising and invigorating avenues. Sloan, a self-propelled and successful Northern Irish YouTube personality and all-round thespian, takes a demolition hammer to church doctrines and rigid dogma but is not content to play gleefully in the rubble as so many deconversionists do. His book presents an earnest quest with a fascinating admixture of philosophy, psychology, theology, science, cosmology, telekinesis, and the occult. Each fascinating chapter is sprinkled with relatable analogies from our contemporary world, always stoking embers of possibility and intrigue. What is the true underlying nature of reality and what is my place in it? Does my life have meaning, or am I a cosmic accident? Are the answers to these questions found in religion, or is science where the real enlightenment lies? Is it even possible to know? In this bewildering world of differing beliefs, what chance do I have of finding any genuine truth? And where do I even begin? With two words: question _everything_. Darryl Sloan steps outside of conventional wisdom and brings together a wealth of insight from both personal experience and quantifiable research. The result is a must-read book that will help the ‘everyman’ within us all find their place in the Universe. Skylight Press is delighted to offer this important book, one that will challenge the experienced esotericist as well as provide a great starting point for aspiring seekers. _I, Universe_ can be purchased from our websiteas well as Amazon
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DARRYL SLOAN ON SKYLIGHT PRESS Posted on August 27, 2018by Daniel
It has been a while since we presented a new author to the wider public so it is a great thrill and privilege to introduce Darryl Sloan – an author, musician, technician, and all around thespian who has developed quite a following in the YouTube vlogging community with a profound and provocative channel. He has written and published two novels, _Ulterior_ (2002) and _Chion_ (2007), as well as two non-fiction works, _Reality Check_ (2009) and the original edition of _I, Universe_ (2012), which was given the inciting tag-line – ‘Demolishing and Rebuilding Spirituality for a Scientific Age.’ Skylight Press will be publishing an all new and greatly expanded edition of _I, Universe_ in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, here is Darryl in his own words: _I was born in 1972 in Northern Ireland and grew up during the Troubles. In spite of the tensions between the Protestant and Catholic communities (which occasionally erupted into murders and bombings), I felt that I had a good childhood, full of fun and creativity. The province’s tribalism never infected me in the slightest. Although fate branded me a Protestant by accident of birth, I always considered myself an outside observer of the madness._ _As a child of the seventies and eighties, I was privileged to be present for the birth of the home computer, the synthesizer keyboard, and the portable camcorder – technologies that fuelled my creativity and became abiding passions. An interest in writing fiction also emerged in my mid-teens. Some of my creative accomplishments in later years include composing music for commercial computer games, writing and publishing two science fiction novels and a computer programming guidebook, co-producing micro-budget horror movies, teaching filmmaking and computer programming to young teens._ _Christianity played a huge part in my life from age seventeen, but it was always a bad fit for my questioning nature. What promised peace of mind became a source of suffering and confusion, until I finally put it behind me in my mid-thirties, when I stumbled upon a more esoteric view of reality. I discovered that my natural intuitions about God, the Universe, and consciousness were drastically wrong, and this change in perspective had a profoundly life-enriching effect upon me._ _The paradigm shift also provoked an interest in parapsychology and the occult. I had the unforgettable memory of bearing witness to a strange phenomenon in my early teens – something I had never fully been able to dismiss as mundane. My new philosophical outlook provided a foundation where extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, even magic, were no longer impossible or irrational. So I undertook my own experiments and achieved small but mind-blowingly real results. This served to reinforce the perspective that consciousness is a much more significant aspect of reality than commonly assumed._ _For the best part of the past decade, I’ve been highly motivated to help others overcome their cultural conditioning and get in touch with a deeper view of life. To that end, I am an active vlogger on YouTube, where I discuss religion, spirituality, philosophy, and the occult._ But perhaps the best way to meet Darryl is to watch one of his videos and hear him opine in that beautiful Northern Irish lilt. Here is an example where he talks about some books that have influenced his philosophical ideas. Darryl’s thoughtful videos, which cover a wide range of subjects,can be found here.
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BEYOND THE SUN BY NICK FARRELL Posted on March 7, 2018by Daniel
Nick Farrell is a prolific esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. He joined the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17 and then started to read everything he could find on the Golden Dawn and Magic, eventually moving to Hawkes Bay where he was trained by some of the elderly high-grade members of Whare Ra. He has since moved to Rome where he established a new international Golden Dawn Order, called the Magical Order of Aurora Aurea, which is dedicated to fusing a practical modern magical current to the Golden Dawn system. Among other works, he has written _Magical Imagination: The Keys to Magic _(also Skylight Press), _King over the Water, Mathers’ Last Secret _and_ Mathers’ Last Secret Revised. _In this all-new reissue of _Beyond the Sun: The History, Teachings and Rituals of the Last Golden Dawn Order, _Farrell returns to the source. _Beyond the Sun _is both a fascinating history of the last Golden Dawn order as well as an exploration of its various pathways, teachings and rituals. Farrell, in close proximity to the various remnants of the order, illuminates both its formation and survival with various offshoots. The book contains the formerly unpublished ‘Inner Order’ teachings of the missing order of the Golden Dawn, which came to be known Whare Ra. Whare Ra managed to keep secret and above all keep running long after the other Golden Dawn magical orders had given up the ghost. Closing in the late 1970s, the Order was founded by Dr Robert Felkin 100 years ago. From its base in New Zealand, Whare Ra became a secret forefront of occult teaching. After relaying its history, Farrell then presents the Second Order Rituals of the Order including the 6=5 and 7=4 in their complete and unedited state as well as the 6=5 training papers and lectures. Each ritual is then accompanied by various commentaries of their practitioners, including the 6=5 experiences of the poet WB Yeats and other adepts who went through the various initiations. It also contains numerous magical exercises inspired by the Whare Ra material. Peregrin Wildoak, author of _By Names and Images: Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life_ (Skylight Press), pens a provocative new foreword andhas this to say:
_“This is a dangerous book: possibly the most dangerous Nick Farrell has ever written. This is quite a statement considering Nick has previously tackled such daring topics as the creation of talismans, journeys to inner planes, advanced magical practices, shamanism, and perhaps most perilous of all, forming magical groups with real human beings whose foibles are only marginally less challenging than confronting a demon before breakfast…”_ _“The renaissance of the Golden Dawn since the early 1980s – however we view this phenomenon – has reached a point where many temples and groups are requiring and looking for ceremonial motifs and processes ‘beyond the Sun’. This book is, in part, a way of providing some solid and sensible approaches to this task, through methods and ideas formulated and honed down by the longest lasting Golden Dawn temple in the world.”_ _ _Beyond the Sun was originally published by Aurora Aurea via Lulu books in 2013. The first edition was limited to 100 copies and published on the anniversary of Robert Felkin’s death. Skylight Press is thrilled to reissue the book with additional material and diagrams as well as a new foreword. The book can be purchased from our website as well as Amazonand Amazon UK
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THE COSMIC DOCTRINE: ESSAYS INSPIRED BY DION FORTUNE’S THECOSMIC DOCTRINE
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Dion Fortune’s _The Cosmic Doctrine_ is a spiritual work that resulted from a psychic experiment between two friends in Glastonbury, 1923. It has since become one of the most important works in modern esoteric literature and a constant source of inspiration and instruction to many practitioners. Here is an excerpt from the original book jacket: _“Fortune examines the limbo where Science and Magic interact, where the cosmology of the “Big Bang” and chaos theory run parallel to the evolutionary process. She also illustrates the true nature of Good and Evil, which is generally viewed from an individual’s own highly subjective and very personal perspective, and provides further insights into the interaction of the positive and negative polarity within the universal scheme of things.”_ _Sparks from the Cosmic Flame_, then, is a series of essays written by some of those inspired practitioners, which rather than seeking to ‘explain’ the work or re-write it in more modern vernacular, instead develops various and different aspects of its ideas that can be applied to one’s practice. It’s a book about how _The Cosmic Doctrine_ can be used, or perhaps used differently and more flexibly. Wendy Berg, author of _Red Tree, White Tree_ and _Gwenevere and the Round Table_ (both Skylight publications) has collated a series of illuminating essays by those who share a common enthusiasm for _The Cosmic Doctrine_ and its applicability to contemporary practice. The contributors include the editor as well as M. E. Beardsley, James North, Stuart Delacey, Dale Kendrick, J.R. Petrie, Derek Thompson, Gwen Blythe, Christian Gilson, Holly Mulhern and Alan Robinson. There is no single or orthodox interpretation but rather a call for individual imagination and intuition, as well as the reasoning mind. It is unlike any other book and the reader will find that the guidance and inspiration of the original Inner Plane communicators are still there to be contacted; the words are the catalyst. One needs only to read a portion of the text and hold the images and concepts in their mind for the magic to work. Skylight Press, an avid supporter (and publisher) of the work of Dion Fortune from both a literary and practical perspective, is thrilled to introduce this vigorous collection of essays. The book can be orderedfrom our website ,
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EARTH GOD RISEN BY ALAN RICHARDSON Posted on July 31, 2017by Daniel
As a master story-teller and crafty novelist, Alan Richardson is the right voice to revisit the legend with its entwining tendrils of history and mythology. And this particular story becomes all the more prescient as it is told through a conversation between a seasoned magical sophist and his younger exuberant self. The result is a fascinating two-pronged, double lensed tome – but not without spontaneous wit and self-reflexive humour. The story of the Horned God can be heard in various mythologies from around the world and like the Goddess he has become part of our psychological and spiritual heritage. The author revisits his previous work on the male mysteries, _Earth God Rising,_ adding a sharp and entertaining new commentary alongside the original text. His expertise on magical matters and its practitioners make for an insightful commentary on male deity – but always prodding readers to forge their own paths and make up their own minds. _Earth God Risen_ is a tour through the origins and archetypes of male spirituality for both new seekers and seasoned practitioners (of both sexes). Perhaps it is best elucidated by his old teacher and mentor,W.G. Gray:
_“Richardson traces the presence of the male aspect of deity in Westerners through ancient Egypt and medieval metaphysics into modern mysticism and his own experience. This he does with scholarly skill and a pleasant fluency. A delight to read and a worthwhile asset to possess. So much has been written of our Primal Goddess that it is refreshing to read of Her consort, the Primal God – which the author eventually finds in himself after looking nearly everywhere else. Adventurous and fascinating.”_ Alan Richardson is well known to Skylight Press and it’s readers but for those new to him here is how he describes himself: _Alan Richardson has been writing weird, wonderful, winsome and frequently embarrassing books – not all of which appear on Amazon – for longer than many of his readers have been alive. He has done biographies of such luminaries as Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley, Christine Hartley and William G. Gray. Plus novels and novellas that are all set in his local area. He is also an expert on Earth Mysteries, Mythology, Paganism, Celtic lore, Ancient Egypt, jet fighters, army tanks, Wiltshire tea shops, Great British Actors and Newcastle United Football Club. Although he regards supporting the latter as being the closest thing a man can get to a Near Death Experience. He does not belong to any group or society, does not take pupils, no longer gives lectures, and insists on holding down a full-time job in the real world like any other mortal. That, after all, is part and parcel of the real Path – however it might be defined. He is married with four daughters, and lives the life of a Happy Hermit in the south-west of England._ _His simple-simple website has long since died but didn’t have much interesting on it anyway. Skylight Press did a nice interview with him here._
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THE TESTAMENT OF MERLIN BY THÉOPHILE BRIANT (TRANS. GARETH KNIGHT) Posted on February 13, 2017by Daniel
Myrddin is the beloved legendary wizard that has come down to us through the British and French Arthurian legends as well as a smattering of mediaeval Welsh poets. Amalgamated from these many diverse strands, he stands before us as a completed figure in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s great 1136 work, _Historia Regum Britanniae_. But there are always more sources to explore, some of which are just being translated for wider consumption. _The Testament of Merlin_ is an evocative esoteric novel that follows the life and work of Merlin as the founder of the Round Table fellowship, his return of Excalibur to the Lake, his safe conduct of Arthur to Avalon, his liaison with Viviane and the Faery powers in the Forest of Broceliande, and the resuscitation of his disciple Adragante in the Cauldron of Keridwen – including a remarkable sequence of initiations for the young knight. For it is Adragante who is called to bear witness to Merlin’s life, his death at the hands of some shepherds at Drumelzier on the Scottish borders, and his subsequent apotheosis. This exquisite offering from Théophile Briant is both an action-packed adventure and page-turner in the conventional fiction sense – as well as an esoteric work of depth and scope for practitioners in the Western Mystery Traditions. Much of this new translation is of great contemporary relevance in the present clash of Christian and Neo-Pagan dynamics. Known affectionately as ‘poète de la mer,’ Théophile Briant needs no introduction in France: from an old windmill and lighthouse in Brittany he published, between 1936 and his death in 1956, a remarkable journal (Le Goëland, or The Seagull) devoted to poetry, the arts and the esoteric. A great enthusiast of all things Breton and Celtic, he spent twelve years writing this powerfully esoteric novel, which was not published until nineteen years after his death and amazingly has not appeared in English until now. A perfect conduit for such a revelation, Gareth Knight is one of the world’s foremost authorities the Western Mystery Tradition and author of other respected grail lore books including _Merlin and the Grail Tradition_, _The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend_, and _The Fairy Gates of Avalon_. _The Testament of Merlin_ is another of Knight’s important translations, which include _The Romance of the Faery Melusine _(André Lebey’s 1920s novel exploring the work of 15th Century trouvere, Jean d’Arras) and _The Initiations of Paul Sédir_ (an important figure of the late 19th century occult renaissance inFrance).
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A CHEST OF VIOLS: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH VIOL CONSORT MUSIC Posted on May 25, 2016by Daniel
As a cellist and guitarist I have always thought the perfect instrument to be the Viola da Gama, a gut-fretted instrument tuned like a guitar but played like a cello. As with most aficionados my introduction to the instrument came through the 1991 French film, _Tous Les Matins du Monde_, which introduced two famous Gambist composers to the general public, Jean de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais. The soundtrack to that film still serves as a beautiful introduction to the solo repertoire – but the instrument had quite a storied and uniquely English period before that. I have been academically aware of the Viol Consort music of the Tudor court composers but could never find recordings or a means to sample them. Thanks to recent developments in the Early Music movement, ensembles like Fretwork and the emergence of YouTube – all that has changed. In early 2015 I listened to nothing but Viol Consort music for about 2 months, working my way my way through all the recordings I could find by such composers as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Jenkins, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and Christopher Tye. It’s hard to put into words the effect this music had but I found it deeply contemplative, almost timeless, to the point where no other music seemed to exist. There was just something about the drone quality of several viols played together, the way the intervals and cadences seem to hover and glide tectonically – gravitational and infinitely pleasing. It was a period of great musical flowering in England, an era of vastly interesting composers (William Lawes died tragically while fighting in the English civil war), with rooms throbbing with sonic and spiritual gravitas. But first, a general introduction the viola da gamba is in order (quoted from http://beth.marmorstein.org) _The viol originated in Spain, but was later introduced in Italy, where it was developed and improved. From Italy it gained popularity and was spread to the rest of Europe. Viols first reached England sometime in the early 16th century, the first two viols being employed as a part of the royal court during the reign of Henry VIII. Over the course of Henry VIII’s reign, the role of the viols in the English royal court grew to include 25 instruments and at least 8 musicians. The music played by viol consorts in this period was generally not written specifically for the viol, but rather consisted of short, textless, polyphonic consorts written without any instrumental specifications. Unfortunately, very little of this music has survived. At first, most of the court viol players were born and trained in Italy, or elsewhere in Europe, but in the early 1540’s native Englishmen and Scotsmen began to take up the viol. As the viol gained prominence in the royal court, viols also began to appear in private households, primarily among the nobility, who were anxious to keep up with the tastes of the crown. These private households drew musicians from several sources: some instructed their servants to learn to play the viol, some apprenticed local musicians, and some recruited foreigners. At the same time, the viol began to be considered an instrument well suited to teaching children. The concerts given by children in schools such as St Paul’s and Westminister exposed the viol to a much wider audience. During this period, English composers began to write music for viols specifically, possibly due to the demand for viol music created by choirboys and their masters. As the years passed, viols were used more and more in theatrical presentations by choirboy companies and soon began to be used by adult companies as well, providing incidental music for dumb shows between acts or during important moments during the drama. This use of viols in theatrical productions contributed to the introduction of the viol to many remote locations. As these choirboys grew up and dispersed to various colleges, careers, and private households, they contributed to the adoption of viol playing by amateurs and the instruction of children in private households, who then in turn provided an appreciative audience for new developments in viol consort music in the early 17th century… _(The rest of the article can be found here)
There have been many interesting and sweeping periods of English music, including a couple of well-known ‘invasions’ of our own time. Just as we English took the Blues, repackaged it, and sold it back to the US – so too did we piece together consort music from European sources and popularised it in a new and interesting context. Here is a brief introduction to elements of consort music from the website http://www.hoasm.org: _The instrumental ensembles of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were called in England ‘consorts’, a misspelling of ‘concert’ which, like ‘concerto’, probably comes from the Latin verb consererewith its past participle consertus, meaning ‘to combine together’. Consorts were either ‘whole’ or ‘broken,’ the former and by far the most popular consisting of members of the same family, as ‘consort of viols’ or ‘consort of recorders’, and the latter of various instruments, as in Morley’s Booke of Consort Lessons (1599), which is ‘scored’ for treble and bass viols, flute (=recorder), lute, cittern, and pandora. The practice of playing in ‘whole consort’ began in fact in the latter part of the fifteenth century, but this did not become widespread until the following century. Most consort music is for treble, alto, tenor, and bass viols, and the two main types of composition are the fantasia , and that based on a cantus firmus. Of the latter the In nomines easily exceed not only other cantus firmus pieces, but also the number of In nomines written for the keyboard or lute , the reason being that this type of composition is a fundamentally polyphonic one, and hence lends itself more naturally to, and indeed sounds better on, a group of strings than on a single instrument, even an organ. Polyphony, in fact, is a far more essential constituent of extended string writing (as Haydn discovered after he had written a number of string quartets) than any other class of vocal or instrumental composition, because, being completely abstract (i.e. no words) and with only a limited range of timbre, the ear requires more than just accompanied melody, although this is perfectly satisfactory in short pieces, such as dance movements. This fact also explains the greater number of fantasias for strings than for keyboard or lute, because the. fantasia consists, in the main, of imitative polyphony and, like the cantus-firmus type, usually differs little in technique and style from the contemporary motet or madrigal. In some of the later fantasias, however, especially those of Gibbons–the greatest master of this type of composition–the writing is decidedly instrumental in character, with rapid, repeated notes and wide leaps, and with more complex cross-rhythms and frequent use of sequence than in any vocal music of the time… _(The rest of the article can be found here)
Thankfully, more and more of the viol consort repertoire is becoming available. A short introduction can be found at http://www.earlymusicworld.com: _One thing we can say with certainty is that the repertoire is more extensive than we might imagine from the designated music for viol consort that survives, given that much of what we today consider as the great consort repertoire had still to be written – the works of such as Gibbons, as Jenkins, William Lawes, Locke and of course Purcell all lay in the future. In fact the foundation of the viol consort repertoire existed not in works composed especially for it, but in the rich tradition of contrapuntal vocal music that lay waiting for transposition by consorts. This debt to vocal music would play an enduring role long after composers moved beyond simple transposition to parody or reworked versions of vocal compositions and examples of it can be found in such works as Tallis’ 3-part Salvator mundi or some of the many transcriptions of Italian madrigals and motets made by Bologna-born Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (1543-1588), who arrived and England in 1562 and served at the court of Elizabeth I for nearly twenty years… _(The rest of the article can be found here)
Of course, listening to low resolution recordings on YouTube gets old after a while – and amassing any sort of CD collection will quickly run into the hundreds. A good place to start is simply to acquire a few sample recordings by ensembles committed to making period music more available, like Fretwork. _The English Viol_ and _Heart’s Ease_ are wonderful introductory CDs that include consort works by the top composers of the period. I just hope your listening experience is as deep and rewarding as mine.SHARE THIS:
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