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Witchcraft & Witchcraft Studies
Sabbatic Witchcraft:
Chumbley, A. D. (2002). The Azoëtia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft (Sethos Edition). Xoanon Limited.
Andrew D. Chumbley’s Azoëtia is the foundational text of the Sabbatic Tradition of witchcraft. The chief characteristic of this tradition is the utilization of the medieval witches’ sabbat as a ritual cognate, and glyph for magickal praxis.
Insofar as the medieval witches’ sabbath is concerned with visionary modes of spirit-flight, the Sabbatic tradition is concerned with dream, trance, automatism, atavism, and spirit engagement. For example, certain praxes instruct the seeker to reify and embody the patterns of dream by enacting them in rituals and magical practices held in the waking.
The Azoëtia is unique in this regard, as it represents a particularized praxis which is embedded in the liminal and dreamt states of consciousness. Although it draws heavily on the work of predicating occultists such as Austin Osman Spare and Kenneth Grant, The Azoëtia synthesizes and perhaps transcends these respective systems in a kind of sorcerous apotheosis.
The magical goal of this praxis is the manifold iteration of every possible Self & Other – the dancing rade of spirits, beasts, ancestral forms, gods, atavisms, etc. From this Wild Hunt, the sorcerous arrow may fix and pierce any point of possibility.
The apotheosis of this process is, to quote Chumbley’s contemporary Nigel Aldcroft Jackson:
“... a fusion of all forms in the infinite return to primeval unity.”
Insofar as the medieval witches’ sabbath is concerned with visionary modes of spirit-flight, the Sabbatic tradition is concerned with dream, trance, automatism, atavism, and spirit engagement. For example, certain praxes instruct the seeker to reify and embody the patterns of dream by enacting them in rituals and magical practices held in the waking.
The Azoëtia is unique in this regard, as it represents a particularized praxis which is embedded in the liminal and dreamt states of consciousness. Although it draws heavily on the work of predicating occultists such as Austin Osman Spare and Kenneth Grant, The Azoëtia synthesizes and perhaps transcends these respective systems in a kind of sorcerous apotheosis.
The magical goal of this praxis is the manifold iteration of every possible Self & Other – the dancing rade of spirits, beasts, ancestral forms, gods, atavisms, etc. From this Wild Hunt, the sorcerous arrow may fix and pierce any point of possibility.
The apotheosis of this process is, to quote Chumbley’s contemporary Nigel Aldcroft Jackson:
“... a fusion of all forms in the infinite return to primeval unity.”