Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia Review

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Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia Review`What Goetia is - is the releasing of yourself from your won fears and illusions by direct confrontation.' (pg 10)
According to tradition, the Goetia is the first book in the Lemegaton attributed to Solomon the King, though likely compiled by a host of authors. Goetic evocation deals with the summoning of the seventy-two lesser spirits and demons. In this edition, based on Crowley's Goetia, DuQuette and Hyatt strip away all unnecessary trappings and cut through most of the `fooltraps' designed to dissuade less astute practitioners.
Traditionally, Goetic evocation calls for strict observance of many details, such as the correct ritual hours, lengthy calls, and an inordinate amount of ceremonial trappings. The authors tell the reader what one can safely do away with, and what can be altered as preference dictates. However, there are some items that the authors do believe are required for the successful (and safer) evocation of the Goetic spirits, including a list of `must haves' with detailed explanations and personal anecdotes as to why they are necessary. Noting `that there is absolutely no necessity (nor particular advantage) to blindly conforming with the Conjuration scripts of the ancient texts. The Spirits are no more impressed of you say "thee" and "thine" than they are if you say "you" and "yours".' (pg 45)
Goetic spirits `will work for anyone who knows how to use them. This is one of the horrors people attribute to Goetic workings. You "don't have to be respectable" for Goetia to work for you. Unlike other magical workings there is no implication that the operator has to be "good" and "holy" to achieve results. This idea in itself violates our model of "right" and "wrong", "just" and "unjust". In the Goetic world like in the real world the "bad" can and do prosper. Thus our belief in the moral orders of the Universe appears violated by the simple existence of Spirits who will do the bidding of anyone.' (pg 14)
Though they will work for anyone, the authors caution that one `must be completely convinced that your demands are absolutely justified. (And don't think we are invoking the great demon "morality" here. An unnecessary motive is an unworthy motive - pure and simple). When you are truly justified in your demands then you have the momentum of the entire universe behind you.' (pg 37)
Further cautioning and confirming that `yes, they are dangerous,' DuQuette and Hyatt explain that `while they remain unmastered they can surface unbidden and wreak all havoc modern psychology blames on "things hidden in the subconscious mind".' (pg 24) As well as a few delightfully thrilling personal anecdotes.
There are a few changes, namely the elimination of lengthy calls in preference for Thelemic invocations from Liber Samech by Crowley, Enochian calls, etc. As well, `for the convenience of the modern reader' the authors have translated information regarding each of the seventy-two Goetic spirits into modern understanding and Crowleyan associations, and `where obvious, returned certain Spirits to their original gender.' (pg 43)
Sketches accompany each of the seventy-two spirits, illustrated by artist-clairvoyant David P. Wilson, a practicing Goetic magickian. `Over a period of 15 years, he has evoked each of the Spirits at least once...But it is very important for you to remember that, because no two people have the same visual-emotional "vocabulary", the images of the Goetic universe will be unique to each of us.' The authors caution the reader not to `think that these sketches are what you must see when evoking any particular Spirit,' instead explaining that `they are intended to serve only as springboards to your imagination.' (pg 72)
Though with such a short section on sex magick, I don't know that it really deserves the `Sexual Evocation' subtitle as there are really only a few pages on it at the rear of the text.
Aimed at those actually interested in actually practicing magick rather than simply reading about it, it gives unambiguous description of what tools are required and the methods of evocation and, briefly, of sexual invocation, cutting through the superfluous and get right to what is necessary. An excellent introduction to Goetic magick as Crowley practiced it.Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia Overview

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The Lesser Key of Solomon Review

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The Lesser Key of Solomon ReviewFor many years the occult community had to make due with the smattering of titles and partial titles brought out of obscurity by Mathers and Crowley. Today we are literally witnessing a Hermetic Renaissance as more complete titles come forth to replace their partial or unedited folio predecessors.
Here we have not just the Goetia, but the entire Lemegeton, put together in a uniquely scholarly fashion. Compiled from original manuscripts and fragments from the British Museum Library, this is the most complete and accurate Lemegeton ever offered to the public.
Peterson has done a wonderful job at compiling and editing this work. His continued commentary on derivative works, and analytical comparisons of the variations in the historical manuscripts, is an unprecedented boon to the student. Nearly every page is 20% footnotes and editorial comment, making it particularly valuable for anyone exploring the Solomon cycle.
The copious footnotes go to heroic lengths to contrast different readings or additional materials from other editions. Unlike previous editions of the Lesser Key, you really feel like you have the benefit of the British Museum Library at your fingertips.
If the footnotes weren't curriculum enough for the aspiring Goetic Magician, then the 55 pages of appendices should fill the bill.
Appendix I is a list of addenda from Sloane 2731 and Sloane 3648.
Appendix II - Pseudomonarchia Daemonum - Translated to English.
Appendix III Comparison of Goetia spirits with Weyer's list.
Appendix IV is made up of alternate drawings from other editions of the Lemegeton.
There is only one section that I am not fond of. Peterson gives a breakdown of previous editions of the Lemegeton/Goetia (missing a couple along the way) and it seems to me the judgments he hands out here may not be even handed. His primary beef with earlier editions is that none of them were critical, and most rely on a single manuscript, rather that trying to piece together the original tradition from a survey of all fragments at hand. While that is a true observation, I am not sure that any of these earlier works claimed to be anything other than exactly what they were. The incomplete Mathers/Crowley edition which simply contains the first book of the Lemegeton, "The Goetia" is easy enough to attack. After all, it was pretty sloppy with some unexplained material that doesn't even belong to the Goetia. However his treatment of Mitch Henson's edition is a little on the harsh side. He complains that Henson doesn't include the 5th book, "The Notary Art of Solomon". Henson explains his logical omission of this work very well in his edition. In fact Peterson goes on to explain that there is "no one work" by that name.
I have to say that last gripe would pass right past most readers, and even the ones that agree with me would find it only the most minor of annoyances. It doesn't take a single star from my review of this monumental and over-due work.
The only down side to having so many alternate readings, seals, sigils, and spellings, would be that you are never quite sure again, who you are summoning, and just what he can do once he gets here. Something else that anyone who uses the Mathers/Crowley version of the Goetia will notice, is that these seals are rough, and not inside of a double circle. If you want to augment this book with cleaned up artwork (which means recently altered for production value.) then you might want to also pick up a copy of Mitch Henson's Lemegeton. The seals are all redrawn beautifully.
This is truely the new standard edition of the Lemegeton. King Solomon is dead. Long live the king!
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The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon: From an Original Talismanic Grimoire in Full Color by Ebenezer Sibley and Frederick Hockley Review

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The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon: From an Original Talismanic Grimoire in Full Color by Ebenezer Sibley and Frederick Hockley ReviewThis is a quality, clothbound edition of magical texts graced with the scholarly commentary and textual analysis of Mr. Peterson. Seven exemplars (extant copies) of Ebenezer Sibley's Clavis were used for comparisons, the one owned by antiquarian/publisher Donald Weiser considered to be the most accurate and complete. It is this edition that is reproduced by facsimile here, inclusive of seven other independent texts as follows: The Mysterious Ring, which provides instructions for preparing magic rings; the Experiments of the Spirits Birto, Vassago, Agares, and Bealpharos, which instruct one how to call upon angels and spirits (Vassago and Agares are listed as goetic spirits in The Lesser Key of Solomon); The Wheel of Wisdom, which provides instruction for using celestial harmonies (and is supplemented with a color fold-out of the wheel with another version from manuscript Sloane 1307 provided in Appendix 2); and the Complete Book of Magic Science, which draws on a variety of sources and is more complete than the related text of The Secret Grimoire of Turiel and more accurate than the Teitan Press edition.
Peterson's knowledge of the grimoire tradition is evidenced by his informative introduction, detailed textual notes, and production of a Critically-Established Text which predominantly follows the Weiser manuscript, "except for substantive deviations that can be critically established from the limited number of available witnesses" (page xxi). The textual analysis includes reference to notable works such as Abano's Heptameron, Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Reginald Scot's expanded 1665 edition of his Discoverie of Witchcraft, the Arbatel, and The Magical Calendar, among others. Five related texts to Sibley's Clavis were also used for analysis, including manuscript Wellcome 4670 which was published along with Wellcome 4669 in an English translation through Skinner and Rankine's The Veritable Key of Solomon. In the Acknowledgments section, one also finds credit going to Peterson's daughters Sarah and Lisa who assisted with the artwork in Appendix 2, and his son Karl for providing a wonderful drawing of the wyvern which was missing from the manuscript. What awesome family support! This collectible edition of magical texts is a pleasure to own and reference.The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon: From an Original Talismanic Grimoire in Full Color by Ebenezer Sibley and Frederick Hockley Overview

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Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millennium Review

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Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millennium ReviewFinally, an advanced book of magick! So much of what we get from the publishers today are works for beginners. In Lon Milo DuQuette's Angels, Demons, and Gods of the New Millennium we are fortunate to receive a work written for those who have more than a passing knowledge of Kabbalah, sorcery, and other arts of magick. Here is a book written with the authority of experience, yet without the overbearing weight of received truth. DuQuette speaks to us as if we were guests in his home who share his love of magick. Knowing the groundwork is already covered, he shares the fruit of long thought about, and experience of, magickal practice.
DuQuette writes with a different voice from those of the greater lights of early in this century. His style has the personal qualities of Israel Regardie's but in the '90s it is just not possible to speak with such certainty. Instead DuQuette writes from experience, from successes and failures. He digests all this down to what he feels is important, even if the outcome doesn't fit the usual interpretations.
For example, DuQuette plays with both conceptions of the AA (Argenteum Astrum): the group of people who worked with Aleister Crowley and his students on the one hand, and, on the other, the body of initiates that has been guiding humanity towards enlightenment since time immemorial. DuQuette raises the logical point that if this organization has been present "since the dawn of consciousness" and has been embodied in such great souls as Lao-Tse, the Buddha, and Pythagoras, then how can access to it be limited to those with pieces of paper signed by Crowley and his heirs? DuQuette moves the AA to a more immediate plane, where any student with right aspiration can find herself in the great chain of initiates.
DuQuette's chapter on the Kabbalah is more basic than most others in this book, but it is pithy enough to give anyone a leg up on the study and practice of the discipline. He avoids the usual formulaic definitions of the sefirot and other components of this tradition by speaking from the distilled essence of his experience. One excellent display of his skill is his presentation of the Shem ha-Mephorash, the 72-fold divided Name of God from which a series of spirit names are generated. DuQuette boils down the abundance of turgid writing on this subject to a few pages accompanied by a chart, which Weiser obligingly prints in color in a foldout sheet. This, combined with the methodology presented in the later chapter "Demons Are Our Friends," provides a sufficient, though sparse, basis for sorcery, the practice of spirit conjuring.
A practice more common in theology than in magick is textual exegesis. DuQuette engages this discipline by explicating the Emerald Tablet of Hermes in light of the doctrine of the Holy Guardian Angel, the practice of seeking contact with the divine through a personal source, one's own angel. In his analysis DuQuette interprets the alchemical process of the Tablet as a way of attaining to knowledge and conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel - a key component of Crowley's magick.
Such analyses are a necessary step in the evolution of magickal thought and practice. We can only improve on our methods by engaging with classical texts and practices in the light of our own experience; doing so illuminates the depths that we have intuited in these sources. Having no formal academy in which to share our insights, we are aided by DuQuette's book. He has moved our understanding of magick forward.
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The Mystic Grimoire of Mighty Spells and Rituals Review

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The Mystic Grimoire of Mighty Spells and Rituals ReviewA Grimoire is the record book of a worker of magic.
In this book, the Mystic Grimoire of Mighty Spells and Rituals,
the author, Frater Malak and his magical order of
Campo Santo, a Mystery School in Canada, researched thousands of rituals
and wrote about 27 rituals and 28 spells
that were the most effective in getting results.
Malak covers every eventuality that you could want:
Good luck, health, money and great wealth, love and sex,
invisibility, relaxation, success, and overcoming enemies.
Every angelic name appearing in this book has been throughly researched.
As an example, in the Arcane Invisibility Ritual, you call upon Yeshayah,
this is another form of the angel Metatron.
In the Overwhelming Good Luck Ritual you summon Bodiel,
this is an Spirit serving under the Goetic Spirit Barbatos.
In the Titanic Enemies Vanquished Ritual, you work with Narudi,
the Akkadian Lord of the Great Gods.
Over the last thirty five years, I have personally tested the rituals
and spells in this book. Without exception,
they have worked over time, depending upon my application of
the knowledge and secrets given in the book,
and properly executing what has been taught there.
The late author, Geof Gray-Cobb provides
an arcane admitting password, this is the Being
that guards the ritual you are working.
There are two ruling planets for each ritual.
There is a Cosmic Being with particular areas of expertise,
meaning that Being has an office. And there is an avatar mantra
that fixes the Cosmic Being upon your goal.
I believe that there is no need to feed or reward the Spirits
in this book, and the reason being that Hebraic Angels
never required offerings or sacrifices. The Biblical text
shows that Yahweh's Angels told humans do not bow down
and do not worship them in any way.
All told this magic works amazingly well.
I believe that this book was one of the best if not the best
work that the author wrote. He called it a feast of magic.
This magical system was inspired by Geof Gray-Cobb's
spirit guide.
This Grimoire was published in 1976.
But remains a definitive work about magical evocation.
That is the art and science of calling down spirits.
And most importantly getting results
for magicians and sorcerers of today.
Try it and see the glorious results.
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