Daniel Schulke: ARS PHILTRON 1st Edition
1st 2001 144pp Xoanon. Illustrated by author, including colour frontispiece. Brown cloth with design and titling foiled in gold. Boards slightly bowing (as is common with this title) else VG+.
Ltd. ed. 112/144. NB. Each copy unique as it contains a full-colour frontispiece of one of a series of 24 paintings of the Sabbatic-Alchemic Temple, backed with one of six evocations to Cain or Lilith. This copy has "Prayer Unto the First Murderer of Man." Also signed and sigilised in gold pen on rear endpaper.
This work treats extensively of Sabbatic-alchemical gnosis as manifest through the medium of potion-making, expositing eight principal philtre taxa, their pharmacoepia, gnostic dominions, and formulation. Evocations to aspects of the Sabbatic Guardians Lilith and Tubal-Cain are also given to empower the revelation and reification of the Philtre Arcana.