1st 2022 560pp Three Hands Press 4to hardback in dustwrapper. Illustrated, including colour, by Benjamin Vierling. Full green cloth, with lettering foiled in gold. NEW.
 
Special offer while stocks last, with every purchase of a Three Hands Press herbalism related title (including The Witches Cabinet, Dream Divination Plants, Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism, Plants of the Devil and The Green Mysteries) we will include a small sachet of an important magical herb in dried form for you to get to know and work with, courtesy of Midian team member, artist and plant kingdom disciple, Eleni Avraam.
 
Ltd. ed. 1500 copies. An Occult Herbarium, or 'Granary of the Fauns.' A monumental product of twenty-five years of experiential research on the spiritual and occult properties of plants. Being a compendium of trees and herbs from countless spiritual traditions, this exhaustive Herbal of esoteric botany examines in detail the folklore, magical uses and spiritual essences of the vegetal kingdom. While presenting the material through both magical and mythopoetic narrative, the stance of the book is also grounded firmly in supportive disciplines such as botany, chemistry, and anthropology, and also includes up-to-date phylogenetic and pharmacological findings. The text focuses especially upon the Doctrine of Plant Essence, and how those powers are utilized in the active practice of magic and sorcery.
 
Interspersed with encyclopedic plant entries are short narratives addressing such concepts as the Witches’ Flying Oinment, intoxicating incense, the herbal dimension of Alchemy, and the ‘Green Saints’ such as Al-Khidir, the medieval Wildman, and the forest-dwelling Nymphs who nourished the Greek gods. More than a mere collation of previously existing works on plants, much of the material is drawn directly from the author's private field notes, diaries, and manuals of magical operation from 1991-2016.