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Author Archives: Rebsie
The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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Romance of the Faery Melusine … reviewed
We’ve just received this lovely review from the September issue of the Inner Light Journal. Book Review: The Romance of the Faery Melusine by André Lebey Translated by Gareth Knight ISBN 978-1-908011-32-9 Publisher: Skylight Press We owe a debt of … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Reviews
Tagged faery, Gareth Knight, Inner Light Journal, Lusignan, Medieval, Melusine, review
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Skylight is one year old
Left: our first book and our twentieth. Today marks the first anniversary of Skylight’s foundation – or at least the day when I woke up with a strangely persistent desire, completely out of nowhere, to publish a playscript which had … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
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Working with Inner Light: a new book by W.G. Gray
It’s been almost nineteen years since the veteran Qabalist and occult writer William G. Gray passed away at his Cheltenham home (coincidentally only a mile up the road from the Skylight Press offices). And it’s been forty-six years since he … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New books
Tagged esoteric, inner light, Occult, Qabalah, rite, ritual, ritual magic, W.G. Gray, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray
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Gareth Knight on the history of A History of White Magic
Some time in 1977 the Managing Director of Mowbrays, a prestigious religious publishing house was looking in his shaving mirror one morning and was suddenly struck with the thought of publishing a History of White Magic. Goodness knows where that … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric
Tagged esoteric, Gareth Knight, Occult, religious publishing, Western Mystery Tradition, White Magic
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The Rollright Ritual by William G. Gray
When William G. Gray bicycled across the moonlit English countryside to commune with the Rollright stones in Oxfordshire he was presented with a vision of a simple pattern; the fourfold balance of the quartered circle. This pattern was already familiar … Continue reading
William G. Gray on Skylight Press
William G. Gray (1913-1992) was a true original whose books on Qabalah and ritual magic set a fresh pathway across which most others have followed. He was not always an easy man to get on with, but it says a … Continue reading
Depths and Dragons by Hugh Fox
The first of our two Hugh Fox novels is now available. Depths and Dragons is the story of Miriam, a Jewish woman whose spiritual identity is thrown into turmoil when her husband is killed in a terrorist attack in Tel … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books
Tagged Albigensian, Cathar, fiction, France, Hugh Fox, Jewish, Montsegur, Notre Dame, novel, Paris, Solutré, Tel Aviv
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Yours Very Truly by Gareth Knight
Yours Very Truly is a collection of letters by Gareth Knight, which will provide both insight and entertainment for those interested in magic, the Qabalah, the vagaries of esoteric publishing and a vast array of literary and intellectual subjects. Knight … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New books
Tagged Alan Richardson, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Kathleen Raine, Literature, Magic, Occult, Publishing, Qabalah, R.J. Stewart, Wendy Berg, Western Mystery Tradition
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Through the Skylight 