Lucifer: Praxis

Lucifer: Praxis is a profound and original study of spiritual power in the western magical tradition, explored through the evolution of the figure of Lucifer - as the archetype of rebellion, liberation and, ultimately, transformation and renewal. The work continues the trajectory of Lucifer: Princeps, Grey's meticulous study of the origins of the figure of the light-bringer and the myth of the rebel angels at the root of our occult tradition. In this volume, Grey traces the development of magic as praxis, through a critical engagement with the Christian vision of the spiritual world and its heritage of compulsion, binding and exorcism. Grey rejects the post-Christian materialist dismissal of spiritual encounters, and instead advocates for a counter-tradition of spiritual antinomianism and intercourse. Praxis presents magic as a dynamic pact with spirits, whilst recognising that authority requires the exercise of power. Opening with 'The Angelic Principate,' Grey examines the twenty named angels of 1 Enoch, giving their genealogies and functions, and revealing them as tutelary spirits and teachers, elemental forces and sublunary epiphanies of wind and storm, immanent in starlight, stone, flora and fauna. Grey emphasises the power of storytelling, place and ritual to evoke and commune with these spirits, and gives oaths, initiations and protocols. Subsequent chapters examine magical authority and practice through such figures as St Paul and Simon Magus, as the daimonic is actively demonised and exorcism becomes a tool of eschatology and conquest. Proposing a Luciferian praxis, Grey provides rituals for engaging with spirits at different time depths, patterned on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Solomonic grimoires. Particular attention is given to the Ars Goetia, the Livre des Esperitz and the Red Dragon, with revised conjurations for those who wish to operate outside the dominant Christian paradigm. Lucifer enters the modern era through the line of prophecy as revolution shakes England, Europe and America. The archetype transforms from the rebel against God into the scourge of tyrants. William Blake's visionary assault on John Milton's sublime Paradise Lost gives permission to the Romantic poets to invoke Lucifer as illuminator and liberator. Lucifer: Praxis is both a scholarly and poetic guide, offering a framework for magical practice that is rooted in historic precedent yet contemporary; an innovative fusion of Enochic lore, the line of prophecy, and contemporary ritual craft. Grey charts the emergence of a new Luciferianism which blooms from the ritual texts and revolutionary fire that have shaped our modern world.

Table of Contents:
Proem The Angelic Principate The Prince of the Power of the Air Hostile Forces The Abominations of the Earth Venite Lucifer! The Hourglass Black Star Milton's Teeth An Archangel Ruined Epilogue

About the Author :
Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has inspired the resurgence of interest in Babalon, the goddess of Revelation. His Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) has been called the most important modern book on witchcraft, placing it in the mythopoetic context of the sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. The Two Antichrists (2021), returns to the Babalon and Antichrist workings of Jack Parsons and his eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. Lucifer: Princeps (2015) and Lucifer: Praxis (2025) comprise a significant addition to the canon of Western occultism; His collected writings, from 2008-2018, are published in The Brazen Vessel (2019) with those of Alkistis Dimech.

Review :
"a definitive contemporary articulation of the Luciferian tradition from both a theoretical and an operative perspective, and a defining work in the evolutionary unfolding of the Western esoteric tradition." - Peter Mark Adams, from his review for Paralibrum. "an extraordinary achievement and will mark a BC/AD point in 21st century magic. I consider it the first coherent articulation of a fully British practice post-revival." - Richard. "Like Princeps did back in the day, Lucifer Praxis has torn open the floorboards of my thinking again. Their Lucifer is not a symbol you contemplate - it's a current you step into. A force pointed toward what's coming. There's a sense here that the future isn't something we wait for - it's something that hunts us. The writing is razor-sharp, the scholarship fierce, but what stands out is the pulse behind it. This is a channeled working, a transmission of revolution - not the polite kind, but the raw, disruptive, blood-and-fire kind." - Sirius White, An Antidote to Magical Thinking.