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22/06/2025

With trepidation, I'm posting a direct link to the PDF of "The Many Faced Jewel" once again, my book about Traditional Witchcraft. With trepidation because it was withdrawn from sale because of serious errors concerning its statements about Andrew Chumbley's philosophy. Nonetheless, despite these errors, I believe that there still are valuable parts to the book, which people could benefit from. So, for no cost, here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wJni9Vtjl_A6d7wQZRGIOqWRAVO9gc9F/view?usp=sharing

It's also available from this link at Scrib.com https://www.scribd.com/document/852370819/The-Many-Faced-Jewel-vol-1-Traditional-Witchcraft-by-Frater-Sabellicus-John-Madziarczyk

The Many Faced Jewel is a comprehensive exploration of Traditional Witchcraft by Frater Sabellicus, detailing its historical roots, practices, and influences over time. The book is divided into three parts: Foundations, the Nineteenth Century, and Practice, examining the origins of witchcraft, its e...

13/05/2025

1,200 pages on Christian mysticism. (link in comments)This is the first post in what will hopefully be a series. This is a large, unpublished, book about The Free Spirit Heresy and the Family of Love, a heretical sect that incorporated Free Spirit ideas with Anabaptist radicalism. It deals with both the Free Spirit, Bonaventure, William of Saint Thierry, Marguerite of Porete, Joachim of Fiore, and many more, as well as presenting the history of radical Anabaptism looking at figures such as Melchior Hoffman, David Joris, the Munsterites, Karlstadt, Thomas Münzer, and more.

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13/05/2025

After consideration, "The Many Faced Jewel" has been withdrawn from sale. It's no longer available. People interested in it can find PDFs online, particularly on Scribd.com and Academia.edu, but it's not for sale anymore.

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04/05/2025

Disclaimer about "Many Faded Jewel". Despite us heavily promoting it, there appear to be serious errors in it with regards to its treatment of Andrew Chumbley's philosophy. It has been withdrawn from sale. Nonetheless, there are positive parts to it. It will only be available via PDF, for free, here at Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wJni9Vtjl_A6d7wQZRGIOqWRAVO9gc9F/view?usp=sharing and also here at Scribd.com https://www.scribd.com/document/852370819/The-Many-Faced-Jewel-vol-1-Traditional-Witchcraft-by-Frater-Sabellicus-John-Madziarczyk

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03/05/2025

E-Books are now available for all of Topaz House Publications' works through Google Play and Google Books, with the prices as follows: Magitians Discovered, each volume $7.99, Hermetic Behmenists, $9.99, Sorcerous Anthology, $8.99, Many Faced Jewel $8.99, History of Genii and Familiar Spirits, $7.99, The Station of Man in the Universe, Ebenezer Sibly on the Spirit World and Magic, $4.99

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03/05/2025

Big Announcement: The Many Faced Jewel and all the rest of Topaz' catalog are now available as E-Books via Google Play. The Many Faced Jewel is available for $8.99 Facebook won't let me post a direct link, so the link to the Google E-Book is in the comments.

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25/04/2025

As part of our publishing of unreleased work, here are the drafts of "The Many Faced Jewel, Book 3", (link in comments) which has to do with Luciferian Masonry, the origins of the OTO system, s*xual magic and mysticism, and the Richel-Eldermanns witchcraft collection

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24/04/2025

Over the next few weeks, we're going to be putting some PDFs of unpublished works online. Today, we're posting the nearly 300 page introduction to the planned work on the "Chaldean Oracles", treating the Renaissance, the Oracles themselves, Theurgy, as well as Pico Della Mirandola's work "On Love" in great detail. Link to this is in the comments.

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21/04/2025

Hello Topaz readers. I've decided to make an e-copy of "The Many Faced Jewel" available for free, to download and to share. We'd still appreciate it if you would buy a hard copy of the book. It appears that there is an issue with a direct hotlink to the PDF, so if you want to download it, I'm putting the link in a comment.

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10/04/2025

Four gods of the system outlined in "The Many Faced Jewel". Here, we have two male and two female. There's the male god of life, who is the ph***ic principle of life bursting forth in the spring, perhaps identified with the green man, then the male god of death, who, among other things, is a psychopomp who leads the dead to either the underworld or to the supercelestial realm.

Then, there's the goddess of life, who is the goddess of the manifestation of nature in the summer, the full flourishing of life. Finally, there's the goddess of death, who is the goddess of the fates, of destiny, who binds people to their will and who oversees trials of initiation.

"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, G...

10/04/2025

Gerald Massey and the craft. One of the things that "The Many Faced Jewel" https://topazbooks.pub/MFJexamines is the symbolism and ideas of Gerald Massey, from a non-historical point of view. Some of this can be presented concisely: Massey's ideas see a hidden sun, a central sun, existing in supernatural reality, which is the place of the gods.

This sun is symbolically hidden behind the Big Dipper, specifically behind the Pole Star, which is a gateway to it. The seven stars of the Big Dipper echo the Seven before the throne of the god of light, who exists at the center of the central sun, with these being gods themselves.

Later, in Massey's thought, he would get away from looking just at the Big Dipper and develop a mysticism that made use of both the constellation of Orion and the Dipper. Here, Orion corresponds to the positive, to life and to the going forth of life at the spring Equinox, while the Dipper corresponds to death, and to the going back of life at the autumnal Equinox. These correspond to Horus and Set. The Central Sun is now thought to be, symbolically, in between these two constellations.

Now, with this, you also have, arguably, two sets of seven in these constellations. Arguably, because you can take the three stars of Orion's belt as one star, as Chumbley does in the Azoetia, thereby making a symmetry between the Dipper and Orion.

The seven around the throne of the Central Sun, where all of this is derived from, can correspond to seven of the eight directions of the circle, with one of them being vacant, with the center corresponding to the god of light.

As manifest in the two different constellations, you now have a set of seven which corresponds to the positive, that of Horus or Sah, which is the name of Orion in Massey's work, and another set of seven which corresponds to the negative, to Set or to Khepesh, the Egyptian name for the Dipper.

These both can map onto the eightfold plot of the circle, meaning that at every direction you have a positive and a negative. The truth, the true meaning of the direction, though, would be that which exists within the central sun, which can be metaphorically seen to be in between the positive and the negative within each direction.

23/03/2025

Positive Arcana, Negative Arcana, Non-Dual Arcana, in relation to initiation, the three centers of the body, and other things. Broadly related to the "Many Faced Jewel" https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ . So, there are three centers in the body, the head, the lower center, and the heart. The head center is the source of intellect and intellectual analysis. The lower center is the root of instincts, both violent and s*xual, and so is not *precisely* identical to the s*x center. It's linked with the unconscious mind and desires.

The heart center is the place where the archetypes live within us, which is identical with Jung's collective unconscious, and is also the place of the good, core, self, which is full of love and kindness.

These three correspond to the three types of arcana, and you should go through them in a particular way.

The positive Arcana are centered on the intellect, looking at sacred reality, transcendent reality, from a more intellectual, formal, perspective. There's often schematism in this. It does reflect sacred reality, but often from a perspective that's not personally earthed.

After the meanings that are available on this level have been realized, this has to be sacrificed. This opens the door up to descend down to the lower center, which is where the negative Arcana live and refer to. The lower center is the place of instinct, and, in this, the personal issues that one faces have to be confronted and overcome. We don't just live in the mind.

Once this has been done, the individual can rise up to the heart center, and the non-dual arcana. What these are is the realization of the transcendent reality that has been described from the outside in the positive arcana from within, within the experience of the sorcerer, magician, witch, whatever you want to refer to it as. This is the "New Flesh" and the Regenerated Man, the Reintegrated Man, to use a Martinist term.

This level, the level of the heart, and the archetypes, is a version of the "Millions of forms of Being", which is the Divine Mind, the Sabbath in its purest form. The archetypes here are often represented as different animals or animal powers, with the rising to this being accompanied by "Theriomorphic" phenomenon.

"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, G...