Asenath Mason - Author & Artist

  Lilith: Grimoire of the Nightside The Author's Edition ✶   ✶   ✶ Some of you will remember Rites of Lilith, the limited hardcover leather edition of my grimoire on the Queen of the Night, published a few years ago. It suddenly disappeared from the publisher’s store last year, and since then I have tried, repeatedly, to get in touch with the publisher about what would happen to the book going forward, but never received a clear answer. After months of silence, I made the decision that felt most honest to me and to the readers who have been asking when it would be available again: I am publishing it myself.   This is the author's edition of the book, and it carries a new title: Lilith: Grimoire of the Nightside. The change in name reflects something real about the book itself — this is not simply a reprint of the old text under new management. I went back into the manuscript, expanded several sections, added a completely new chapter on Lilith a...

  Group Ritual RITE OF THE RIPENING POISON A Working of Samael's Blade 5TH SEPTEMBER, DUSK ❖ ❖ ❖   This is a group working dedicated to Samael in his aspect as the Sword of Severity, the archangel whose bitterness is not cruelty but correction. It is built for performance in deliberate synchrony with other practitioners, each alone in your own temple and yet bound together through the same current, the same blade drawn at the same hour across however many miles separate you from the rest of the circle. Samael is invoked here not as a destroyer but as an assessor — the archangel whose severity exists to balance excessive mercy, whose traditional epithet names him the poison of God: not poison as ruin, but poison as the substance that, correctly metabolized, becomes medicine. The early September date of this working refers to the moment when the harvest stands cut and gathered but not yet sorted, when what looked like triumph all summer must finally be opened and inspect...