num_pages: 520
description: An extensive grimorium of Wortcunning or herb-magic the Pleasure-Garden treats of the secret knowledge of trees and herbs as delivered by the Fallen Angels unto mankind. The books principal concerns are the sorcery and gnosis of the Greenwood as arising from the varied luminaries of the Eternal Gardens of the Arte Magical. As a grimoire of Spiritual Botany the Book is a Hortus Conclusus of text and image intended for the indwelling of these plant-spirits. The work encompasses magical practices formulae and mystical exegesis all treating the respective arcana of Nature-Spirits and the powers of individual plants. Magical foci are on devotion purity humility silence solitude and the hieros-gamos of wortcunner 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.The work was initially issued in Three Editions:Standard Edition: limited to 576 numbered copies casebound in gilt-stamped luminescent green bookcloth.Deluxe Edition: limited 72 numbered copies casebound in full 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 Deaths Head blocked in gold on the front cover. Each copy is accompanied by an orginal hand-drawn talisman of coloured ink on papyrus bearing one of 77 Emanants of the Arbor Infernis  the liminal genii of Midnights Eden.
language: English
title: Viridarium Umbris: The Pleasure Garden of Shadow
publisher: Xoanon