On Thursday July 21st the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

review two new books in the Hermetic field:

"The Emerald Tablet" by Martin Faulks from Faulks Books and " Liber

Spirituum" compiled and edited by Adam Forrest from Azoth Press. The

Emerald Tablet is only 84 pages, and follows upon Martin's first

publication "The Universal Master Key" (2013) (reviewed by the Hermetic

Hour on March 26th, 2015). Martin Faulks is an ardent Bardonian and the

Emerald Tablet is a commentary on that ancient document from a Bardonian

perspective. Martin brilliantly analyses each paragraph or aphorism of

the Tablet in relation to the Four Hermetic Elements in a process of

internal alchemy and the ascent and descent of the Holy Spirit on the

Middle Pillar. The second new publication is "Liber Spirituum"

from Azoth Press, (251 pages hardbound) which is a compilation of

articles on traditional magical evocation, invocation, and talisman

making edited and introduced by Golden Dawn authority Adam Forrest. This

is a beautifully bound limited edition, featuring inclusions by John

Michael Greer, Chic and Tabetha Cicero, Aaron Leitch, Bryan Garner,

Jeffery Kupperman, Scott Stenwick and Isadora Forrest's account of her

forty day Raphael-Tiphareth retreat meditation which for me was the most

inspiring and memorable aspect of the book. I was also impressed with

John Michael Greer's article which reveals his own Lodge's interest in

the "Nassaene document" and "From Ritual to Romance" which we have been

writing and lecturing about for years. All considered Liber Spirituum is

a very impressive and useful work, so if you want to learn what's new in

the Hermetic universe, tune in and we'll have a look.