One: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad
By Andrew D. Chumbley
Second Edition
2025
A seminal text of the Sabbatic Tradition, ONE: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad is the working magical record of the author’s 1999 undertaking of the ritual known as ‘The Waters of the Moon’, the East Anglian Toad-Bone rite which was said to convey power over horses. It explores the arcanum of the English Toad-Man, sometimes called ‘toad-witch’ a magical archetype whose roots lie in antiquity and whose magic was known to the Græco-Romans.
The rite served as a personal harrowing for Chumbley, and an evolutionary catalyst for the Cultus Sabbati. Using both expository and poetic language, the grimoire details the mysteries of the Toad-Bone rite, and its linkage to the Sabbatic Current, particularly its motto of Unum Adversus Omnia. Additional arcana of the work include the introduction of Sabatraxas, the Daimon or patron spirit of the Toad.
Released in 2000 and limited to only 77 standard copies and 3 special edition copies, it quickly sold out and has been out of print since. At the twenty-first anniversary of Chumbley’s passing, the text has been newly released in a second edition. Faithful to the text of the 2000 edition, it also includes a short Afterword by Frater A.H.I. and Soror I.S., present Magister and Magistra of the Cultus Sabbati.
The book is 80 pages with blue spot colour, and has been released in three editions:
Standard Hardcover:
Dark blue cloth with copper-blocked black dust jacket, limited to 777 hand-numbered copies.
Deluxe Edition:
Quarter blue goatskin and copper-stamped blue mohair, slipcased, limited to 77 hand-numbered copies.
Special Edition:
In full blue goatskin with inset toadskin panel, with slipcase, limited to 7 copies and distributed to the Brethren of the Cultus Sabbati.
The Deluxe and Special editions of this title also include a small letterpress talisman imprinted with a prayer by the author to Sabatraxas, spirit of the Toad, never before published.