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JAKE STRATTON-KENT

Highly regarded internationally and known (only semi-jokingly) as “the most notorious necromancer in England”, Jake Stratton-Kent was a driving force in the 21st century ‘Grimoire Revival’. His major works included the Encyclopædia Goetica, a three-volume series comprising his edition of the Grimorium Verum; Geosophia, a study of the Greek origins of Goetia; and The Testament of Cyprian the Mage, an analysis of the roots of grimoire spirit hierarchies.

As a fiercely working class occultist, Stratton-Kent aimed in his work to return grimoire-based, spirit-centred magic and its practical real world utility to prominence in Western occultism. He was one of

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