Lucifer: Praxis by Peter Grey

Lucifer: Praxis is a scholarly and practical exploration of spiritual power in the Western magical tradition, tracing the evolution of Lucifer as an archetype of rebellion, liberation, and transformation. The book continues themes developed in Grey’s earlier work, Lucifer: Princeps, examining how magical authority and spirit-work developed in tension with Christian theology and later materialist thought.

Grey presents magic as praxis—a lived, operative engagement with spirits—drawing on sources such as the Book of Enoch, the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri, and Solomonic grimoires. He reframes Lucifer not merely as symbol, but as a current within a counter-tradition of spiritual antinomianism.

Themes & structure

• Examination of the twenty angels of 1 Enoch as tutelary and elemental intelligences
• Historical analysis of how exorcism, binding, and demonisation shaped Western magic
• Ritual and conceptual frameworks for spirit engagement outside orthodox Christian paradigms
• Engagement with the Ars Goetia and related grimoire traditions
• The transformation of Lucifer through Romanticism, especially via William Blake and Paradise Lost by John Milton

Editions

• Hardback (£60) — limited to 1000 copies; scarlet silk binding, black dust jacket stamped with a gold pentagram, embossed endpapers, 150 gsm paper
• Paperback (£25) — sewn binding, 120 gsm paper
• 248 pages, 240 × 156 mm (8vo)
• Frontispiece: Satan in his Original Glory by William Blake (c.1805)

A work that blends historical scholarship, poetic vision, and operative magical philosophy, intended for readers interested in the development of Luciferian thought and practical spirit-work within the Western esoteric current.