SABBATICA   Books of the Dead, Torches of the Living VOL 9

SABBATICA  
Books of the Dead, Torches of the Living
VOL 9
 
In this ninth volume of Sabbatica, the reader is guided into territories where the boundaries between life and death are not endings but crossroads. This book brings together a body of essays that explore necromancy in its many guises: as ancestral dialogue, as daemonic invocation, as visionary practice, and as philosophical inquiry into the persistence of the dead within the living. The texts assembled here open gateways across traditions and times, revealing that the underworld is not a singular place but a current of knowledge running beneath every culture.
The reader will encounter the Twelve Hours of the Night as mapped by the ancient Egyptians, where the solar barque moves through the hidden lands of the Duat. The Guédé of Voudon arise through the vudotronic vision of contemporary sorcery, binding the living to the irreverent laughter of the dead. Kakodaimon emerges as a mask of shadow and adversity, revealing how daemons embody not only fear but power. The Norse mysteries are unveiled through Odin’s wheel of death and his lupine companions, recalling the cyclical violence and wisdom bound to the fate of gods and men.
 
Other contributions plunge directly into necromantic praxis: the Libri Nigromantici chart the lineage of grimoires of the dead, while Thoth, as scribe and psychopomp, discloses the hidden grammar that structures communication with the departed. The Book of the Dead Who Live challenges the notion that the dead are silent, proposing instead that their voices, once sought correctly, continue to speak in symbols, visions, and dreams. Bune, as spirit of the Goetia, becomes a master of thresholds, teaching how the passage into the realm of the dead can be measured, navigated, and worked with precision.
 
A necromancer’s torch illuminates these pages, sometimes with flickering flame, sometimes with steady fire, showing that necromancy is not a relic of superstition but a craft of presence. Hecate herself stands at the heart of the volume, sovereign of crossroads, bearer of keys and torches, guardian of the restless dead, guiding the practitioner into practices that are at once ancient and radically relevant.
 
This book does not present a museum of fragments but a living grimoire of essays. Each text can be read as an invocation, a study, or a doorway. Together they form a constellation of necromantic wisdom: myth and rite, history and innovation, devotion and experiment. Books of the Dead, Torches of the Living offers its readers not only scholarship but initiation, an opportunity to step into the company of the dead and return carrying flame.
 
200 pages including the follow Authors and exponents of Necromancy
 
CONTENTS
The Twelve Hours of the Night By Lukasz Grochocki
Vudotronic Guédé    by Edgar Kerval     
Kakodaimon by Kyle Fite
Odin, the Wolf and the Wheel of Death by George Mensink
Libri Nigromantici   by  Shawn Frix
Thoth and the Grammar of the Dead by Raven Stronghold
The Book of the Dead Who Live by Sean Woodward
Bune and the Measure of the Threshold by Fr Asar Un Nefer
A Necromancer’s Torch  by André Consciência
Hecate and the Work of the Dead by Madame Orfa