Catholiconomicon — A Rimbonic Grimoire of the Universal Law (Bilingual EN/ES Edition)
CHAOS IS NOT THE OPPOSITE OF THE SACRED. IT IS ITS CLOCK.
Catholiconomicon (katholikos: universal, of the whole) is a grimoire of 40 chapters and 14 appendices - over 360,000 words - built on a thesis almost nobody is willing to write down: the Catholic symbolic tradition already contains the complete apparatus of the chaos magician. Sign, name, hour, image and invocation were all there. The chaos cycle is not a rival path toward the unio. It is its temporal instrument.
TWO COMPLETE EDITIONS INCLUDED
- English edition, 749 pages
- Spanish edition, 761 pages
FIVE BOOKS
1. Katholikos - The Common (ch. 1-6)
2. Marge - The Marge (ch. 7-13)
3. Correspondentiae - The Correspondences (ch. 14-21)
4. Ritus - The Rites (ch. 22-31)
5. Compendium - The Compendium (ch. 32-40)
Plus 14 appendices: the Table of Correspondences, Angelarium, Table of Hours, Index of Sigils, Liturgical Year, Tables of Shadows, Glossary, Bibliography and more, all with locators.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
- Every claim is tagged: Scripture, Magisterium, Patristics, Tradition, History or the author's synthesis. Nothing enters without a source.
- The rejected derivations are documented and explained. It tells you not only what to use, but why the alternative reading you already read elsewhere is wrong.
- Six numerologies with documentary sources, including the 96 cells (twelve offices by twelve planetary hours) and the Shemhamphorah ordering.
- No ornament. The author concedes his own book's weak points in the first two hundred words of each chapter.
FOR
Chaos magick practitioners with Catholic formation; clergy and occultists who want the liturgy on the correct side of the grimoire; researchers in the history of magic who need cited sources.
Typeset PDF with opening versals, rubrics, mirrored margins and a full apparatus of notes. No images: this is a text, laid out as one.