Balder Ex-Libris - Stewart Robert JohnReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearStewart Robert John - Robert Kirk Walker between worldsurn:md5:0f2c6f73ff5a1bd313b281e71284aa102017-03-28T20:31:00+01:002017-05-18T09:57:36+01:00balderStewart Robert JohnCeltesEuropeInitiationMythologyReligionTradition <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Stewart_Robert_John_-_Robert_Kirk_Walker_between_worlds.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Robert Kirk Walker between worlds</strong><br />
Year : 1990<br />
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Foreword : by Jennifer Westwood, London, 1990 The road to the fairy knowe. The Secret Commonwealth of Robert Kirk ( 1644-97), minister of Aberfoyle, is one of the most important books about fairies ever written. It is quite the fullest account of the subject from the seventeenth century, a period when many country people in England as well as Scotland still believed implicitly in Fairies and antiquarians such as John Aubrey laboured to record their testimony. Kirk and Aubrey recognized that in their day something valuable was fast being lost from the culture. Fairy belief had long been dying from natural causes - Chaucer as far back as the fourteenth century suggested that fairies were things of the past - but now the process was being accelerated by events. One was the seizure of political control by Protestant radicals under Cromwell's Commonwealth. Unlike the more tolerant Catholics before the Reformation, these extremists - Puritans Presbyterians, and others - viewed things that smacked of paganism, including maypoles, fairies and Christmas, as idolatry, and suppressed them. It is no coincidence that, later, in Wales people said it was the Methodists who had driven out the Fairies. <strong>...</strong></p>Stewart Robert John - The underworld initiationurn:md5:5b06d07c5e26339c268e75516eee9b562015-01-05T23:28:00+00:002015-01-05T23:33:35+00:00balderStewart Robert JohnCeltesChristianismeConspirationDreyfusFranc-maçonnerieHébraïsmeInitiationMythologyPanamaProtestantTradition <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Stewart_Robert_John_-_The_underworld_initiation.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The underworld initiation A journey towards psychic transformation The authentic core of the Western mysteries revealed through oral traditions, Celtic myth and legend</strong><br />
Year : 1985<br />
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Preface. This book deals directly with magical matters; specifically with a powerful esoteric tradition native to the Western Hemisphere. For many, a tradition is something vague, quaint and dull; perhaps an escapist fantasy or a political and commercial symbol used for manipulation. In the following chapters, however, tradition is regarded as an enduring and potent mode oflearning, transformation and exposition. Tradition has levels and structures of meaning, living, and new experience that transcend not only the trivial definition given above, but also the illusory personality of the individual. In modern works of occultism or esoteric studies there is a strong tendency towards lip-service and justification through the use of ephemeral and fashionable schools of reason. The holistic and harmonic metaphysics of the Ancients have frequently prompted modern apologists for occult studies to amalgamate their art with intellectual sleight-of-hand and to suggest that all attempts at delving into the unknown regions of consciousness are essentially identical. This popular trend is based upon a typical misunderstanding oft he old writings and teachings, filtered through the spurious theosophy oft he nineteenth century. The result is a very weak pap that cannot nourish our imagination adequately. Such vague attempts at rendering magic respectable are not followed here. <strong>...</strong></p>Stewart Robert John - The book of Merlinurn:md5:24db6d09dda0b92fb39439b489256f8d2015-01-05T23:26:00+00:002015-01-05T23:27:04+00:00balderStewart Robert JohnCeltesChristChristianityLondonMagic <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Stewart_Robert_John_-_The_book_of_Merlin.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The book of Merlin Insights from the first Merlin conference, London, June 1986</strong><br />
Year : 1986<br />
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Merlin - magician, kingmaker and prophet - remains one of the most fascinating and intriguing figures of legend. The Merlin Conference held in London on 14th June, 1986 was the first of a series of annual events to discuss, explain and decipher the character, influence and prophecy of this powerful and evocative figure. With Merlin as a central theme, the Conference ranged over history, legend, drama, psychology, story-telling, folklore, music, magic, prophecy, mysticism, literature and film. Merlin's lessons were, after all, carried by tales, songs, poems and tradition, not merely by literary texts alone. Each of the contributors is an international expert in his own right, having previously published material on Merlin and the legends of Arthur. As a non-commercial event, the annual Merlin Conference aims to generate interest in the mysterious figure of Merlin, to renew neglected traditions and offers a wide spectrum of information, performance and discussion. The BOOK OF MERLIN, edited by R. J. Stewart and illustrated by Miranda Gray, is based upon that first significant and memorable event. It includes new research, insights and invaluable studies of the true nature of Merlin through the centuries: Merlin in the Earliest Records by Geoffrey Ashe; Merlin in Fiction by John Matthews; Merlin as an A.rchetype by Gareth Knight; Merlin, King Bladud and the Wheel of Life by Bob Stewart; Thomas Heywood's Chronographical History; William Shakespeare's The Birth of Merlin; Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon; Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophecies and Life of Merlin. There are also items on Merlin in magical arts and poetry, Merlin and sexuality in legend and tradition, the blue stones of Preseli and much more. <strong>...</strong></p>Stewart Robert John - Earth lighturn:md5:ce2905806b4b9584af47c2916b8dab3d2015-01-05T23:19:00+00:002015-01-05T23:20:22+00:00balderStewart Robert JohnCeltesChristianityInitiationParapsychologySatanismTradition <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Stewart_Robert_John_-_Earth_light.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Earth light The Ancient path to transformation Rediscovering the wisdom of Celtic and faery lore</strong><br />
Year : 1992<br />
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Preface to 1998 edition. Earthlight is the second book in my UnderWorld series, and I am very pleased to introduce this 1998 reprint by Mercury Publishing. First published in Britain in 1992, Earthlight and its companion volume Power Within the Land were written to expand and develop ideas first explored in The UnderWorld Initiation (now also published by Mercury). Earthlight offers ways of working with the ancient Faery tradition, as a means of vision, of altered consciousness, and of deep inner transformation. Although much of the background material is Northern European and often Celtic, the methods described in this book can be, and have been, successfully used in the USA and Canada, in South America, the Caribbean, and in Australia and New Zealand. The faery tradition comes out of the land, so its basic methods can be used in any land. But different lands have different inhabitants, human, animal, and faery, so the faery and inner contacts will vary according to region, climate, and historical conditions. Since 1992 I have had the privilege of holding many faery and UnderWorld workshops and events in Europe and America, and there is now an active network of people working with this material. You can find out more by accessing our Web site: http://www.dreampower.com. Most of all I invite you try the exercises and techniques in this book, and in the companion books, for yourself. We cannot resolve our environmental crises until we change ourselves .. .if a steadily growing number of individuals come into a more conscious relationship with the lands, with the Planet , we stand a chance of collective rebalancing, and moving on into a healthier future. The old ancestral faery and underworld traditions contain remarkable opportunities for personal transfonnation and enhanced awareness, so it is my pleasure to offer these experiences, thoughts, and inner teachings to you, the reader, in this new edition. R J Stewart. Inverness, California, 1998. <strong>...</strong></p>Stewart Robert John - Celtic myths, Celtic legendsurn:md5:e2d016ba9b853e497e80eb8a5fa62e2b2015-01-05T23:14:00+00:002021-01-12T00:33:30+00:00balderStewart Robert JohnCeltesMythology <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Stewart_Robert_John_-_Celtic_myths_Celtic_legends.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Celtic myths, Celtic legends</strong><br />
Year : 1994<br />
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lntroduction. This is not a strictly academic set of translations but a wide-ranging collection of themes from Celtic myths and legends. Some of the tales are translated directly from Irish, Breton or Welsh, and some from Latin or medieval French. Others are written anew from ideas or older tales that embody Celtic myths. The individual items range historically from extracts of early sagas that seem to come from the time ofbron~e weapons (though not written down by Irish monks until the eighth century) to my own twentiethcentury versions of classic Celtic tales. Between these elder and younger voices is a wealth of material from folklore, manuscript, and various books and collections that use Celtic myths in either an academic or an imaginative way. Some of the source texts and academic commentaries are listed in the Bibliography, as are suggestions for further reading into the imaginative power and potential of Celtic tradition. In Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses I described some of the major and minor Celtic deities, their attributes, ceremonies and worship, powers and traditions, and the ways in which they might have an inspirational poetic or visionary value for us today. In Celtic Myths, Celtic Legends I have gathered tales that seem to carry the Celtic tradition through time, offering something of the beauty and savagery, the spirituality and sensuousness, of the Celtic ancestors and their modern descendants. There is a tendency in modern revivals of Celtic lore and legend towards prettiness - a falsely romantic approach that conveniently ignores the harsh and often violent nature of Celtic tradition. While I have not hesitated to include some of the more romantic themes, at the same time I have not tried to omit the battles, the vengeance, the cruelty. Without these hard edges, beauty and inspiration can become insipid, and lose its value. <strong>...</strong></p>Stewart Robert John - Advanced magical artsurn:md5:0c09d8fa215b84d655fd968ec1d5e1852015-01-05T22:57:00+00:002015-01-05T22:59:07+00:00balderStewart Robert JohnChaos MagicDictionaryEuropeMagicMagicRitualsTradition <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Stewart_Robert_John_-_Advanced_magical_arts.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stewart Robert John</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Advanced magical arts Visualisation, mediation and ritual in the western magical tradition</strong><br />
Year : 1988<br />
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Preface. There is no claim whatsoever that the material in this book is superior or unique. Indeed, as it is drawn from continuing traditions of magical arts, it cannot claim to be beyond the traditions themselves, though it is aimed at potential development of such traditions for the future. This is the companion volume to Living Magical Arts] and some of the concepts and practical work described in that book are developed in detail in the examples of ritual and visualisation in our later chapters. But Advanced Magical Arts is also designed to stand on its own, and is for the reader who is dissatisfied with the plethora of beginners' books on magical or esoteric subjects, and who can already meditate, concentrate and visualise. Thus the contents are advanced in the sense that they are for those who wish to move on from the levels usually found in classes, open groups, or publication, particularly in modern lightweight or popularised books. I would personally hope that it will provide some interest for those who have already left such opening stages, even those well trained in magical work, though I would not presume to be able to 'teach' such people anything, merely to provide some alternative material. Any magician will readily admit that he or she cannot teach; magic is learned through experience once the initial stages have been passed; most self-styled teachers tend to repeat what little they have learned rather than brave any further adventures. <strong>...</strong></p>