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The complete two-volume study of Lucifer by Peter Grey, presented together in a specially bound, signed, limited slipcase set — the single most significant contemporary articulation of the Luciferian current in Western magic.

Lucifer: Princeps is the seminal study of Lucifer’s origins — a portrait of the first ancestor of witchcraft and magic, tracing the fall of Lucifer and the rebel angels through the foundation myth of the Western occult tradition. Drawing on the literature of history, religion, and archaeology, and engaging directly with recent scholarship, Grey excavates the effaced cultures behind the Old Testament polemics — Assyria, Ugarit, Canaan, Sumeria, Egypt, and Greece — to give Lucifer real context and landscape rather than treating him as an isolated, brooding figure. The study spans from the flood myth and legends of divine teachers through to the Church Fathers — Augustine, Origen, Tertullian — binding Genesis and Revelation together via the Enochian tradition, and touching on Eden, the Nephilim, the fall of Helel ben Sahar, the Prince of Tyre, Azazel, and the creation of Satan.

Lucifer: Praxis is the companion volume, tracing the development of magic as lived praxis: a critical engagement with the Christian heritage of binding, compulsion, and exorcism, in favour of a bold counter-tradition of spiritual antinomianism. Opening with the twenty named angels of 1 Enoch — their genealogies, functions, and elemental correspondences — Grey moves through the demonisation of the daimonic by figures such as St Paul and Simon Magus, before offering revised conjurations drawn from the Ars Goetia, the Livre des Esperitz, and the Red Dragon for those working outside the dominant Christian paradigm. The work closes by tracing Lucifer’s transformation through the line of prophecy — from rebel against God to scourge of tyrants — as Blake’s visionary assault on Milton hands the Romantic poets a Lucifer reborn as illuminator and liberator.

This edition unites both volumes in matching fine bindings — Princeps in green silk, Praxis in scarlet silk, each with a cropped dust jacket, ribbon marker, and gilt edges — housed together in a custom slipcase. Signed by the author and limited to just 200 sets.