Order of the Skeleton Key was published in 2011 as a compendium of the previously-published Jeremy Christner material and has sold out from its original publisher; the stunning new editions published now by Aeon Sophia Press will find themselves at home with Luciferians, Gnostics, and collectors of fine esoterica.

Being comprised of the books Kosmology and Lanterns of Wisdom from the Firmament in their entirety, with numerous complementing essays included, and now featuring a new section, Ritus, being a small selection of recommended religious dedication rituals according to the practice inspired by the theological foundation of the previous texts.

Kosmology, originally published in 2005, is a Gnostic treatise on the origin and nature of the Kosmos, the Aeons, and the Archons, with ponderances about the mechanisms of magic, life after death, and divination.

Lanterns of Wisdom from the Firmament, originally pressed in 2009, is a devotional consisting of 27 scriptures, prayers, and meditations of Ophite Gnostic inspiration, complementing Kosmology to form the complete theological foundation upon which the Order of the Skeleton Key – and its publicly accessible ecclesiastical association, the Sophian Gnostic Church – is built.

Supplemental to Kosmology are numerous essays, including The Silhouettes of Twilight, published originally in Ixaxaar’s Clavicula Nox II: Lucifer issue.

Ritus is a small, previously unpublished tract containing a self-initiation ritual, a rite for fortification and protection, and meditations for mindfulness, mindlessness, and reunification with the Pleroma.

Order of the Skeleton Key: Table of Contents

Introduction

Kosmology:

Soterion
Theogony
Theorica Magica
Theorica Thanatos
Profheteia
Skeuos
Kakiva
Soterion: Of Twilight
Appendices

Supplementary Texts to Kosmology:
The Silhouettes of Twilight
Eidola
Synchronicity
Deicidal Deity
Elementals

Lanterns of Wisdom from the Firmament:

Rubaiyat
The Book of the Bottom of the Heavens
A Prayer to the Witness to Creation
Holy Alchemy
Endarkenment
An Address to Scoundrels
The Sorrow of the Species
The Fires of Faith
Pantheon
The Song of the Virgin
The Sea is All and All is the Sea I
The Sea is All and All is the Sea II
The Forms of My Worship
A Prayer to the Aeons
The Scrutiny
A Mountain of the Deceased
Call for an End to Serfdom
The Gamecock
The Death of America
Dying River
In This Sand the Minds of Man
Ennoia
The All-Seeing Eye
The Devotional
Phantasmal Forthcallings
There Are No Masters Here
The Trampled Weed to Majesty

Ritus:

On Settings and Implements
Initium Solus
The Simon Rite
The Rite of Baphomet
Lunar Meditation