Magician’s Workbooks with Alexander Cummins

Most Grimoires which are housed in the many museums and collections around the world are somewhat well copied documents that seems to have been done by professionals. Yet every once in a while what shows up like a bad penny in these collections are very obviously personal Grimoires that you can tell have been worked on and with by at least one but in some cases a few practicing magicians. What these astounding documents show us within their pages can tell us a lot about not only the times in which they were used, but how magic has evolved through the ages. No one knows Magician’s Workbooks quite like the greatest Cunning Man of our age- Dr. Alexander Cummins.

Dr. Alexander Cummins is a practicing as well as Consulting Magician, a scholar and an author– truly a Cunning Man of the 21st Century. He is co-host of a Magic Podcast Radio Free Golgotha with Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and also a founder of one of the only Facebook groups worth Joining – Folk Necromancy. His online courses are beyond exceptional and if you’d like to support his work and get discounts on his courses, be sure to hop on his Patreon. He just released his series of classes regarding infamous Grimoires so be sure to look into Libraries of the Sorcerers: A Guided Tour of Grimoire Magic. To Subscribe to his newsletter and see what the good Doctor is up to, have a click on the pic! 

Show Notes & Book Recommendations

• Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic by Frank Klaassen – Contains the Antiphoner Notebook and Boxgrove Manual
• The Cambridge Book of Magic edited by Dr. Francis Young – Be sure to grab a copy
• An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke edited by Phil Legard
• A Cunning Man’s Grimoire: The Secret of Secrets
• The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet: A 17th Century London Cunningman’s Book of Charms, Conjurations and Prayers edited by David Rankine
• William Lilly’s History of his Life and Times: From the Year 1602 to 1681 – I love this little book
• Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
• The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England as well as Everyday Magicians Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England by Frank Klaassen & Sharon Hubbs-Wright are well worth grabbing. Fantastic in every way
• Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era by Tabitha Stanmore
• The Magical Adventures of Mary Parish: The Occult World of Seventeenth-Century London by Frances Timbers
• A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts by George Gifford
• The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole–Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society by Tobias Churton
• The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot – Be sure to grab the EPUB so you have the version I talk about in the epsiode. Otherwise, you can grab the Dover edition that doesn’t have the cool magic bits at the end
• Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
• Like Grimoires? Ya gotta know Dan Harms- His new Blog and his Old Blog are book of magic treasure troves
• Procession of the Night Theatre: An Exposition on the Lunar Stations by J. M. Hamade
• A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary translated by Dr. Francis Young