Viridarium Umbris
The Pleasure-Garden of Shadow
by Daniel A. Schulke
2005
A grimorium of wortcunning (herb-magic), the Pleasure-Garden’s principal concerns are the operative magic, gnosis and lore of Midnight’s Eden, the spirit-realm of plants. The work encompasses magical practices, formulae, and mystical exegesis, all treating the respective arcana of Nature-Spirits and the powers of individual herbs. Magical foci are on devotion, solitude, and the hieros-gamos of practitioner and plant as a tutelary relationship, in conjunction with the Mysteries of Cain, first tiller of the soil. The whole is intended as a textual reification of occult herbalism within the context of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition.
Issued in three editions:
Standard hardcover edition:
Limited to 576 numbered copies, casebound in gilt-stamped luminescent green bookcloth.
Deluxe leather edition:
Limited 72 numbered copies casebound in full antique brown goat, gold-stamped with slipcase and accompanied by the mystery-text The Epistle of the Tree, 526 pages.
Arbor Infernis edition:
This special edition edition was limited to 77 copies, casebound in Moss-green cloth with Mandrake death’s-head blocked in gold on the front cover. Each copy is accompanied by an original hand-drawn talisman of coloured ink on papyrus, bearing one of 77 Emanants of the Arbor Infernis — the liminal genii of Midnight’s Eden.
