Lucifer: Praxis
by Peter Grey
Lucifer: Praxis is a profound and original study of spiritual power in the western magical tradition, explored through the evolution of the figure of Lucifer – as the archetype of rebellion, liberation and, ultimately, transformation and renewal. The work continues the trajectory of Lucifer: Princeps, Grey’s meticulous study of the origins of the figure of the light-bringer and the myth of the rebel angels at the root of our occult tradition.
In this volume, Peter Grey traces the development of magic as praxis, through a critical engagement with the Christian vision of the spiritual world and its heritage of compulsion, binding and exorcism. Grey rejects the post-Christian materialist dismissal of spiritual encounters, and instead advocates for a counter-tradition of spiritual antinomianism and intercourse. Praxis presents magic as a dynamic pact with spirits, whilst recognising that authority requires the exercise of power.
Opening with ‘The Angelic Principate,’ Grey examines the twenty named angels of 1 Enoch, giving their genealogies and functions, and revealing them as tutelary spirits and teachers, elemental forces and sublunary epiphanies of wind and storm, immanent in starlight, stone, flora and fauna. Grey emphasises the power of storytelling, place and ritual to evoke and commune with these spirits, and gives oaths, initiations and protocols.
Subsequent chapters examine magical authority and practice through such figures as St Paul and Simon Magus, as the daimonic is actively demonised and exorcism becomes a tool of eschatology and conquest. Proposing a Luciferian praxis, Grey provides rituals for engaging with spirits at different time depths, patterned on the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri and the Solomonic grimoires. Particular attention is given to the Ars Goetia, the Livre des Esperitz and the Red Dragon, with revised conjurations for those who wish to operate outside the dominant Christian paradigm.
Lucifer enters the modern era through the line of prophecy as revolution shakes England, Europe and America. The archetype transforms from the rebel against God into the scourge of tyrants. William Blake’s visionary assault on John Milton’s sublime Paradise Lost gives permission to the Romantic poets to invoke Lucifer as illuminator and liberator.
Lucifer: Praxis is both a scholarly and poetic guide, offering a framework for magical practice that is rooted in historic precedent yet contemporary; an innovative fusion of Enochic lore, the line of prophecy, and contemporary ritual craft. Grey charts the emergence of a new Luciferianism which blooms from the ritual texts and revolutionary fire that have shaped our modern world.
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Table of Contents
Proem
The Angelic Principate
The Prince of the Power of the Air
Hostile Forces
The Abominations of the Earth
Venite Lucifer!
The Hourglass
Black Star
Milton’s Teeth
An Archangel Ruined
Epilogue
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Frontispiece: Satan in his Original Glory: ‘Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee.’ William Blake, c.1805.
Three drawings by Blake of the Book of Enoch
Standard Hardcover Edition - Limited to 1000 copies
248 pages. Bound in scarlet silk, cropped black dust jacket, stamped with a gold pentagram, embossed black endpapers.
Paperback Edition
248 pages. Sewn paperback, printed on 120 gsm paper.
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Press, reviews, endorsements
“…a definitive contemporary articulation of the Luciferian tradition from both a theoretical and an operative perspective, and a defining work in the evolutionary unfolding of the Western esoteric tradition.”
Peter Mark Adams for Paralibrum - read the full review here
“Like Princeps did back in the day, Lucifer Praxis has torn open the floorboards of my thinking again. Their Lucifer is not a symbol you contemplate – it’s a current you step into. A force pointed toward what’s coming. There’s a sense here that the future isn’t something we wait for – it’s something that hunts us. The writing is razor-sharp, the scholarship fierce, but what stands out is the pulse behind it. This is a channeled working, a transmission of revolution – not the polite kind, but the raw, disruptive, blood-and-fire kind.”
Sirius White, An Antidote to Magical Thinking - read the full review here
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About the Author
Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has inspired the resurgence of interest in Babalon, the goddess of Revelation. His Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) has been called the most important modern book on witchcraft, placing it in the mythopoetic context of the sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. His collected writings, from 2008–2018, are published in The Brazen Vessel (2019) with those of Alkistis Dimech. His notable work, The Two Antichrists (2021), is a return to the Babalon and Antichrist workings of Jack Parsons and his eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. His Lucifer: Princeps (2015) is a study of the origins of the figure of Lucifer; followed up by his most recent work; its second installment Lucifer: Praxis (2025).
He has spoken at private and public events and conferences worldwide to both practitioners and academics. These have included Occulture, the Occult Conferences in Glastonbury and London, Treadwell’s Bookshop, the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, Flambeau Noir in Portland, the Psychology, Art and the Occult conference in London, Here to Go II in Norway, the Trans-States conference in Northampton University, the Magic and Ecology conference for CRASSH at Cambridge University and Pagan Federation events. He can be heard on podcasts including Rune Soup, Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, Right Where you are Sitting Now, Thelema Now, Spirit Box, Quarantine Sessions with Jake Kobrin, Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Grimerica, Witches and Wine, Thoth-Hermes, and Rendering Unconscious.
Peter lives with his lover Alkistis Dimech in Cornwall on the edge of the Lizard peninsula, where he surfs in the cold Atlantic, walks the ancient land and pursues his magical practice.
