IAO: Ophite Iconography (Paperback Edition)Author: Jose Gabriel Alegra Sabogal IAO is an iconographic proposal, an attempt to illustrate the Gnostic worldview and its myths as understood by the Ophites, a sect of which little is known. It is, perhaps, an exercise of imagination, of what Christian iconography could have resembled if the Ophites had survived. Visually, it follows the sequences of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis and the Biblia Pauperum, reordering their contents according to

Author: Dale Pendell

and whilst each viewing yields new insight

in order to gain the ‘knowledge and conversation’ of one’s ‘guardian angel’ via whom magical secrets will be revealed unto the practitioner

All said to have been drawn from the peasants and witches of Romagna and the Tuscan Mountains by Maddalena

Once I had a glass

wealth and health

exploring the importance of this connection

’ Profusely illustrated throughout with Leland’s typically bewitching ink drawings

are renewed through this book and the old ways live once again

obtaining knowledge of future loves

presenting such phenomena as hallucinatory experiences fueled by psychoactive concoctions and the Devil's cunning

connecting with the spirit of your home