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Handfasting and Wedding Rituals has everything you need to plan the perfect Pagan wedding. You'll find advice and examples to help you with basic wedding planning, writing vows, and ritual construction, along with practical tips and great ideas about everything from low-cost wedding favors to candle and bonfire safety.

<p><b>'Magnificent. A vivid and authoritative biography . . . a vibrant portrait of an entire world' Kyle Harper</b><br/><br/><b>'A stunning tour de force, Sarris brings one of history's most momentous dramas back to life' Walter Scheidel</b><br/><br/>In this groundbreaking new biography of Justinian, Peter Sarris gives us an intimate insight into both the Emperor and the man. We meet a man who from the humblest beginnings, rose to become ruler of much of the known world achieving an almost god-like status.<br/><br/>An emperor who infused even the most mundane tasks with spiritual and religious significance. A gifted administrator obsessed with detail. A middle aged lover who fell for a dancing girl and changed the law so he could marry her, ruling with Empress Theodora by his side for over twenty years. A brilliant military strategist who was never a soldier.<br/><br/>The challenges he faced - climate change, battles over culture and identity, the first recorded global pandemic -and many of the solutions he found to address them still resonate with us today. And his legacy remains all around us, in the massive building programme of which the most beautiful manifestation is surely Hagia Sophia; in our legal systems through the codification of the <i>Corpus juris civilis</i>; and in our culture and history by making a fundamental contribution to both the formation of Christendom and the emergence of Islam.<br/><br/>In this tour de force Peter Sarris shows us that in all his complexity and contradictions Justinian was, in many ways, a very modern Emperor.</p>

Magic is in every part of the living world--one just needs to know how to tap into it. The Witch&#39;s Spellbook is a powerful collection of spells, rituals, and enchantments that you can use to tap into your intuition and the power of the natural world. This book reveals how, by casting spells that align to the cycles of nature and the universe, you can begin to manifest your dreams and shape your destiny. Organized by topic, such as spells for prosperity, charms for body, beauty, and sex, or enchantments for creativity and charisma, each spell draws upon world traditions, sacred holidays, and lunar events such as solstices and equinoxes. Whether you're new or experienced, this is every person&#39;s guide to practical magic.

<DIV><DIV><B>A practical guide to the famed medieval book of pre-kabbalistic Jewish magic, freshly interpreted and revealed for the first time with instructions on how to use the spells.</B><br/><br/><I>The Sword of Moses</I> is one of the earliest Jewish magic books, which describes a rite for adjuring angels to assist in controlling and wielding the &quot;Sword of Moses&quot; for magical purposes. The rite involves a short period of purification and then the adjuring of four sets of angels, each higher than the last. These angels in turn give the magician the power to control the Sword through a series of divine names that work as magical spells. The spells, 137 in all, have a wide variety of uses, including healing, harm, love, sex, exorcising demons, divination, and more.<br/><br/>This work was first translated by Moses Gaster in 1896, but he removed many of the spells, making the text unusable for magic. <B><I>The Magic of the Sword of Moses</I></B> is the first book to show in detail, exactly how a magician can use the Sword&mdash;how to do the purification ritual, adjure the angels, and pronounce and use the divine names for each spell.</DIV></DIV>

<DIV><DIV><B><I>C.S. Lewis For Beginners</I> is a thorough examination of C. S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, throughout his career as an author and as a professor at Oxford University.</B><br/><br/>A Christian apologist defends Christianity as a consistent and coherent worldview that squares with human reason, history, and desire. It offers answers to every facet of our lives on earth as well as answers to our questions about what happens after we die.<br/><br/>What makes C.S. Lewis unique as an apologist is the way he balanced so perfectly reason and imagination, logic and intuition, and head and heart. In addition to writing such non-fiction apologetics books as <I>Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain,</I> and <I>Miracles,</I> he wrote eleven novels: the seven <I>Chronicles of Narnia,</I> a trilogy of science-fiction adventures, and a haunting retelling of an old myth set in the ancient world. All eleven tell wonderful, captivating stories that stand on their own as fiction but that also support and bring to life the kinds of apologetical arguments he makes in his non-fiction. He also wrote two utterly unique works of fiction, <I>The Screwtape Letters</I> and <I>The Great Divorce,</I> that offer a fresh, highly original take on sin and temptation, angels and devils, and heaven and hell.<br/><br/>And that&rsquo;s not all. Lewis the apologist and novelist had a day job. He was a celebrated English professor at Oxford, and then Cambridge, University who wrote works of literary criticism that are still famous today.<B><I> C.S. Lewis For Beginners</I></B> takes the reader through the wardrobe of his complete catalog of writing.</DIV></DIV>

Eileen Holland. This book is both a tutorial for new witches and a reference book for experienced practitioners. Covers the many ways there are to be a witch -- as a solitary practitioner, or part of a coven following one of many traditions. Holland shares useful information for writing spells, creating rituals, and making tools, charms, and potions. She also includes an index of spells, ancient and modern, making this an all-inclusive reference manual for all skill levels. Glossary. Index. Bibliography. 320 pp.