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Melusine of Lusignan and the Cult of the Faery Woman [2013 reissue]
The Faery Melusine is a major figure in medieval French lore and legend. This book shows how it is a powerful initiatory legend, and presents a vivid interpretation of the medieval source texts.

It also demonstrates how such legends manifest through history: the innate sacromagical power of Melusine affected key places and events in the development of the medieval world and from there reached far into the shaping of the modern world through the conflicts for Jerusalem and the Middle East. This reissue edition includes some extra illustrations.

See publisher’s website www.skylightpress.co.uk

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Christ and Qabalah [2013]
For forty years my friendship with the Rev. Anthony Duncan provided a two-way source of inspiration and encouragement, leading directly to his book The Christ, Psychotherapy and Magic and my Experience of the Inner Worlds, which have become companion texts of esoteric Christianity. This book tells the story of that friendship, illustrated with photographs and with Tony's letters and poems.

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Dion Fortune's Rites of Isis and of Pan [2013]
This book contains the full text of the original Rite of Isis and Rite of Pan which formed the basis for Dion Fortune’s Moon Magic, The Goat-Foot God, and The Sea Priestess. Further archive material elucidates the practical magical principles found in The Winged Bull, supplemented by several articles written by Dion Fortune in the 1930s which shed further light on the practical content of her novels.

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For full details, see publisher’s website www.skylightpress.co.uk

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Magical Images and the Magical Imagination [2012]
Third edition
A little book that is a logical extension and complement to my earlier Practice of Ritual Magic. It aims to give an easy to follow classification of various types of magical image, along with instructions for their use as agents of self realisation and spiritual growth. In short, the theory and practice of creative visualisation and meditation ranging from the circulation of force within the aura to the development of a full magical system of "path working". Topics covered are the Magical Imagination, Cosmic Charts and Maps, Landscapes and Journeys, Temples and Shrines, Guardians and Guides, the Threefold Way of the Lesser Mysteries and the Sevenfold Way of the Greater Mysteries. The new and expanded Third Edition includes chapters about the Tarot and Qabalistic Pathworking.

For full details, see publisher’s website www.skylightpress.co.uk

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Tarot & Magic: The Treasure House of Images [2012]
Second edition
A substantially expanded version of the original Tarot book, first published in 1986 as The Treasure House of Images and then re-issued in the US with the new title Tarot & Magic. This edition combines both titles and adds several chapters of new material, including a substantial section on working with the archetypes behind the minor arcana. Overall the book makes comprehensive guide to using the Tarot as a system of practical magic.

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Faery Loves and Faery Lais [2012]
A collection of 12 medieval Breton lais, rich in faery lore
The first nine tales come from travelling poet-musicians, who collected stories from the Celtic fringes of Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany on the continental mainland. These are the more ‘rough and ready’ lais, but the supernatural elements of these tales are left intact for the masses that delighted in a rich diet of fantasy and spiritual wonder. The latter three tales come from the pen of Marie de France, a courtly lady connected to the English court of Henry II. Unlike the more rustic jongleurs Marie sought to recontextualise, even secularise, the material for a more sophisticated courtly audience. However, this translation shows that such secularisation has not completely obfuscated the faery presence within them. Each tale is accompanied by a commentary explaining the faery lore.

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Merlin and the Grail Tradition [2011]
Expanded edition
In this collection of essays I trace the historical importance and esoteric influence of Merlin and the Grail tradition from its mythological beginnings right down to modern times, including Dion Fortune's Grail work at Glastonbury, the Merlin archetypes, the "Elizabethan Merlin" Dr John Dee, the bluestones of Preseli which were used to build Stonehenge, and the connection between Merlin and Tolkien's figure of Gandalf.

First published at the turn of the millenium, this new edition contains three new topics: The Faery Tradition in Arthurian Legend and a new analysis of Chretien de Troyes: the First Arthurian Romancer. Additionally an old manuscript has come to light on Sir Gareth: the Quest of a Round Table Knight, resurrected from a private lecture given to the Martinist Order in Paris in 1987.

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I Called It Magic [2011]
Autobiography
My esoteric autobiography - detailing six decades of magical work. Also released as a limited edition hardback.

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The Abbey Papers [2011]
Re-issue – expanded edition (with Rebecca Wilby)
Zapped by a trio of inner communicators when I was working on the war letters of Dion Fortune back in 1993, this book began to come through and contains a very full run down on practical magical working, whether individually or in a group.

It was first published in 2002 but the new edition contains a remarkable extra section by Rebecca Wilby working with one of these original contacts, which provides very direct instruction on how such contacts are made and maintained, and also throws a revealing light on that part of “I Called It Magic” (Chapter 29 ‘This Wretched Splendour’) that saw us ranging from rituals at Hawkwood, plodding through Flanders mud, my playing “Amazing Grace” on a church carillon over the old battlefields, to theatrical performances on the London stage, and an esoteric novel “In Different Skies”. All very moving and what the deeper forms and intentions of magic are all about.

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The Romance of the Faery Melusine [2011]
Translated from the novel by André Lebey
Faery lore has always been with us, and so has the historical tradition of certain families that have claimed faery ancestry. One such is the family of Lusignan, which like the town named after them near Poitiers in France, was founded by the faery Melusine. Little known in the English-speaking world, the legend of Melusine is an important element of the French faery tradition and was retold in a rich and vivid fictional setting by André Lebey (1877-1938). This translation aims to capture the lush magical imagery of Lebey's interpretation.

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A History of White Magic [2011]
Re-issue
Originally commissioned in 1978 by a major religious publisher seeking to come to terms with what magic is all about. It comprises a comprehensive overview of the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition and was intended as an outgoing approach to the general public, presenting magic as an art and science in its own right with universal applications – a technology of the imagination acting as a middle ground between science and religion, which properly used can bring about personal fulfilment and spiritual regeneration.

For full details, see publisher’s website www.skylightpress.co.uk

Experience of the Inner Worlds [2011]
Re-issue
A major work upon which I based the training of all my personal students over a period of 25 years running the Gareth Knight Group (now Avalon Group). It is based on a sequence of symbols for meditation: the Sphere of Light, the Fiery Spear, the Serpent Flame, the Holy Grail, the Sea of Light, the Table Round, the Upper Room, the Light of Christ, the Winding Stair that accompany chapters on the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition, including Old and New Testaments, Alexander the Great, the Mysteries of Isis and Mithra, medieval Holy Spirit movements, Christian Platonism, Sufi love poetry, Templars and Crusaders, Troubadours and Courts of Love, the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends, Spiritual Alchemy and principle Renaissance magicians. Also with practicalities of modern occultism such as inner plane communications, ideas about "the Masters", the symbolism of the Sepher Yetzirah, Hebrew Letters and Cube of Space, concluding with a summary of personal occult work undertaken over the previous ten years with a small home group. Originally published 1975.

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Yours Very Truly Gareth Knight [2010]
Selected Letters 1969-2010
Written over a period of forty years and to over seventy different people, including R.J. Stewart, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Caitlín and John Matthews, Wendy Berg, Kathleen Raine, Warren Kenton, Alan Richardson and Ronald Hutton, these letters include discussions with academics, exchanges of strange experiences with esoteric colleagues, and advice to seekers trying to find their path. A glimpse into my real life and personal world.

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The Magical World of the Inklings - new edition [2010]
with foreword by Owen Barfield
Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1990, and described by Owen Barfield as "more than outstanding", this new version has been substantially revised and expanded. It gives a comprehensive overview of the mythopoeic writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, including up-to-date coverage of their more recently published posthumous works as well as their major imaginative fiction.

For full details, see publisher’s website www.skylightpress.co.uk

Melusine of Lusignan and the Cult of the Faery Woman [2010]
The Faery Melusine is a major figure in medieval French lore and legend. This book shows how it is a powerful initiatory legend, and presents a vivid interpretation of the medieval source texts.

It also demonstrates how such legends manifest through history: the innate sacromagical power of Melusine affected key places and events in the development of the medieval world and from there reached far into the shaping of the modern world through the conflicts for Jerusalem and the Middle East.
See publisher’s website www.rjstewart.net

To the Heart of the Rainbow [2010]
How to experience the power of the Paths of the Tree of Life without having to mug up on all the theory! It is simply a matter of lowering the barriers of disbelief and intellectualisation and being borne along on the flow of story. It follows that what may seem to be a children’s story is a highly appropriate vehicle – for you need to have the willing acceptance of the eyes and ears of a child to register certain things – “of such is the kingdom of heaven”. So identify with one of the children (or even the dog!) and you never know what might happen!

With evocative illustration by Libby Travassos Valdez.

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Granny's Magic Cards [2004]
At first sight a venture into children's fiction but one that should also be suitable for grown ups. Two children meet the Joker of their granny's magic pack of cards and, assisted by his dog, meet many of his friends on a hair raising cycle of adventures that takes them into many strange worlds, that will not be unfamiliar however to anyone acquainted with the Paths of the Tree of Life and the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

Now reissued as To the Heart of the Rainbow (see above).

Esoteric Training in Everyday Life [2001]
Another book of collected articles written by me over the years. In addition to the title article it covers The Meditation Process, the Tree of Life as Image of God, The Tree of Life as Model of the Universe, Reflections on Life and Spirituality, The Importance of Coleridge, and The Impact of Psychology on Esoteric Societies. The underlying theme is how our daily lives can be made a training ground for adepthood.

Re-issued by Skylight Press – see above.

Principles of Esoteric Healing [2000]
Shortly after her marriage to Dr Thomas Penry Evans in 1927 Dion Fortune began to receive a series of inner communications from a contact they came to know as the Master of Medicine. Their initial idea to found an esoteric clinic never came to fruition but a mass of material was gathered in the course of their little publicised healing work, which combined esoteric knowledge with professional medical expertise. Recovering much of this from scattered files I have been able to edit and arrange their approach to esoteric healing, which takes into account the whole human being, physical, etheric, astral, mental and spiritual, with principles of diagnosis based upon the Tree of Life. Apart from its application to the healing arts, much of the material is of wider application, demonstrating techniques for the development of psychic and intuitive faculties in reading the aura.

Dion Fortune and the Inner Light [2000]
My return to the Society of the Inner Light in 1998 enabled me to access the archives to produce a comprehensive esoteric biography of Dion Fortune in which much comes to light that had not before been revealed. It covers:

I: her formative years (1890-1922) from her visions in childhood, psychological counselling, her teacher Theodore Moriarty, her initiation into the Golden Dawn, her trance experiments with Maiya Curtis Webb and Frederick Bligh Bond.

II: the foundation years (1922-1926), her meeting with her life time colleague and benefactor Thomas Loveday, their establishment of a base at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, her contacts with a group of inner plane Masters, and reception of teaching that provided the foundation for her life's work.

III: forging the Fraternity (1926-1928) in a time of testing and dedication, her presidency of the Christian Mystic Lodge of the Theosophical Society, her dispute with Moina Macgregor Mathers and expulsion from the Golden Dawn, her marriage to Dr Thomas Penry Evans and their plans for an esoteric clinic, and the launching of the Community of the Inner Light that was to become a teaching Fraternity.

IV: the Fraternity at work (1928-1938) a remarkable period of development including friendship with the young Israel Regardie, establishment of their headquarters in London, the contribution of Colonel Seymour to the work, her writing of The Mystical Qabalah and a series of occult novels, culminating in semi-public performance of Rites of Isis and of Pan, much lecturing and discussion groups.

V: the years of transformation (1939-1946) in coming to terms with the problems of running a group in war time, with considerable planning for the work that lay ahead in post-war reconstruction on inner and outer levels.

VI: the post mortem inheritance, (1946-1999) a brief analysis of the continuance of her work by her senior students, within the society and without, over the subsequent fifty years, with an Appendix of her astrological birth chart and its interpretation.

The Magical World of the Inklings [1990]
The last of the Hawkwood College workshop spin-offs and arguably the most academically prestigious of my books. The works of Tolkien, Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield have made a profound impact upon the contemporary world. In the case of each author I examine how each one has created a "magical world" which initiates the reader into the hidden and powerful realms of the creative imagination. Owen Barfield, the last surviving member of this great quadrivium wrote to say: "… because of the combination of information, understanding and insight on which it is founded, The Magical World of the Inklings is more than outstanding. It is not in the same league with anything else I have come across."

In 2001/2 the work was reissued in America in four separate parts, as The Magical World of C.S.Lewis; The Magical World of J.R.R.Tolkien; The Magical World of Charles Williams; and The Magical World of Owen Barfield. Those covering Tolkien and Barfield being somewhat expanded.

A new edition, with the four expanded parts further revised and reunited in a single volume, was published by Skylight Press in 2010 (see above).

The Gareth Knight Tarot Deck [1984]
This set of Tarot cards was originally intended to accompany A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism but colour printing being so expensive in those far off days, it ran into financial problems until rescued, twenty odd years down the line, by the great Tarot collector Stuart Kaplan. The artwork is by Dutch artist and astrologer Sander Littel, the power of whose linework did not fully strike me until I once reproduced the Trumps designs in black and white outline for a series of lectures. Had it been published when it was produced it would have been one of the first modern Tarot decks to appear for a very long time on what was then a very desolate scene. It now joins a vast array where the student is spoilt for choice!

A History of White Magic / Magic and the Western Mind [1978]
Rather surprisingly commissioned by a major religious publisher seeking to come to terms with what magic is all about. It comprises a more comprehensive coverage of the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition than that outlined in the previous books. It was intended as an outgoing approach to the general public presenting magic as an art and science in its own right with universal applications – a technology of the imagination acting as a middle ground between science and religion, which properly used can bring about personal fulfilment and spiritual regeneration. Reissued in America under the title Magic and the Western Mind in 1991 as an exposition of ancient knowledge and the transformation of consciousness.

A reissued edition (with the original title) is due to be published by Skylight Press in 2011.

Experience of the Inner Worlds [1975]
A major work upon which I based the training of all my personal students over a period of 25 years running the Gareth Knight Group (now Avalon Group). It is based on a sequence of symbols for meditation: the Sphere of Light, the Fiery Spear, the Serpent Flame, the Holy Grail, the Sea of Light, the Table Round, the Upper Room, the Light of Christ, the Winding Stair that accompany chapters on the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition, including Old and New Testaments, Alexander the Great, the Mysteries of Isis and Mithra, medieval Holy Spirit movements, Christian Platonism, Sufi love poetry, Templars and Crusaders, Troubadours and Courts of Love, the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends, Spiritual Alchemy and principle Renaissance magicians. Also with practicalities of modern occultism such as inner plane communications, ideas about "the Masters", the symbolism of the Sepher Yetzirah, Hebrew Letters and Cube of Space, concluding with a summary of personal occult work undertaken over the previous ten years with a small home group.

After many years out of print, it was reissued by Skylight Press in 2010.