Part 1 of this blog is now up and it is about what versions to buy or not buy of The Key of Solomon. It will be followed in a few days by Part 2 that will be about the Lemegeton and the Goetia. Will update this blog once the different parts are up.

You can watch the video on my youtube channel by clicking here.

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I figured I would do a suggested reading list for people that wants to learn Grimoire Magic and are not sure what they should read. When it comes to what versions of the Grimoires to actually buy that is something that will be continuously updated all the time on this blog or the Video blog.

Understanding Grimoire Magic

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
The Book of Ceremonial Magic or The Book of Black Magic by A E Waite
The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah
Occultism: Its Theory and Practice by Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation by Joseph Lisiewski
Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires by Aaron Leitch

Actual Grimoires

Key of Solomon
Veritable Key of Solomon by David Rankine and Stephen Skinner
Lemegeton
The Lesser Key of Solomon by Joseph Peterson
The Goetia of Dr Rudd by David Rankine and Stephen Skinner
The Book of Abramelin by Abraham Von Worms
The Grand Grimoire translated by Gretchen
Grimorium Verum by Joseph Peterson
The Armadel by Joseph Peterson
The Secret Grimoire of Turiel
The Grimoire of Pope Honorius III-Trident Edition
Picatrix
De Nigromancia by Roger Bacon
Heptameron
Arbatel
Le Petite Albert
Le Grand Albert
Sworn Book of Honorius
Hygromantica
Le Dragon Noir
The Black Pullet
6th and 7th Books of Moses by Joseph Peterson
Testament of Solomon
Sword of Moses
Hollenzwang

Understanding the Religious Aspects

The Bible King James version
The Torah
The Talmud
The Quran
The Book of Enoch (Slavic and Ethiopian version)
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Rituale Romanum
Biblical apocrypha

Other helpful books

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Conjuring Spirits by Claire Fanger
Forbidden Rites by Richard Kieckhefer
The Complete Magician’s Tables by Stephen Skinner
Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson
Kabbalistic Handbook for the Practicing Magician by Joseph C. Lisiewski
The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
A Collection of Magical Secrets by David Rankine
Tales of King Solomon John D. Seymour
Solomon the Esoteric King by Pablo A. Torijano
The Greek Magical Papyri
Ritual Magic by Butler, Elizabeth
The Book of Gold By David Rankine and Paul Harry Barron
The Book of Treasure Spirits by David Rankine

Anthologies

Both Sides of Heaven edited by Sorita d’Este
Howlings by Scarlet Imprint
Diabolical by Scarlet Imprint

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In the next video blog I will talk about which books to buy and which you want to stay away from. This is a list of the books I will talk about. Expect it to be a few parts of the blog since youtube only allows 10 minutes at a time.

Pure Grimoires

Key of Solomon

Veritable Key of Solomon by David Rankine and Stephen Skinner
The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon by Joseph Peterson by Ebenezer Sibley and Frederick Hockley

Hygromantica (A translation of this is on the way)

Untrustworthy

Key of Solomon by Mathers

Key of Solomon by De Laurance

Lemegeton and Goetia

The Lesser Key of Solomon by Joseph Peterson
The Goetia of Dr Rudd by David Rankine and Stephen Skinner

Lemegeton – The Complete Lesser Key of Solomon by Mitch Henson

The True Grimoire by Jake Stratton-Kent

De Nigromancia by Roger Bacon

Untrustworthy

The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King by Mathers and Crowley

The pirated versions by Delaurance

Pure Crap

Aleister Crowley’s Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation

Daemonolatry Goetia by S. Connolly

LUCIFERIAN GOETIA by Michael Ford

The Goetia Ritual Book by Kuriakos

The Goetia: How to summons these Spirits by Lightworker

Abramelin

The Book of Abramelin by Abraham Von Worms

Untrusted

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by Mathers

The Grand Grimoire translated Trident Edition

Also goes under the name Le Dragon Rouge, The Red Dragon

There is also a book that connects to it called Le Dragon Noire

Grimorium Verum

Grimorium Verum by Joseph Peterson

Grimorium Verum Trident Edition

The True Grimoire by Jake Stratton-Kent

Pure crap

The Grimoire Verum Ritual Book by Kuriakos or Lightworker

The Armadel

Untrustworthy

The Grimoire of Armadel by S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Pure Crap

The Grimoire of Armadel Ritual Book by Kuriakos

The Grimoire of Pope Honorius III

The Grimoire of Pope Honorius III – Trident Edition

Papal Magic: Occult Practices Within the Catholic Church by Simon (Contains a version of it)
The Grimoire of Saint Cyprian

The Grimoire of Saint Cyprian by David Rankine and Stephen Skinner

Picatrix

Picatrix-Oroborus Edition (translation from the Arabic text)

Picatrix Books I & II by Christopher Warnock, and John Greer (Entire translation for insane amounts of money on their website)

Heptameron and the Arbatel

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Donald Tyson (includes Heptameron and Arbatel)

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Stephen Skinner

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy Oroborus Edition

Arbatel: Concerning the Magic of Ancients by Joseph H. Peterson

Sixth and seventh Books of Moses

Sixth and seventh Books of Moses by Joseph Peterson

Le Petite Albert
Le Grand Albert

Sworn Book of Honorius (planned release by Peterson

Le Dragon Noir

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A great review-essay on grimoire publishing posted on Hadean Press Blog written by Jake Stratton-Kent.

Yours truly is even mentioned for my work in Both Sides of Heaven.

“Both Sides of Heaven is another compilation, with a most impressive list of contributors (including ardent grimoirists Aaron Leitch, David Rankine, Stephen Skinner, plus Charlotte Rodgers and yours truly). There is much of value here, and I mention but two personal favourites. Gifted academic and occult practitioner Kim Huggens gives an excellent appraisal of the daemons intermediary role between gods and men in the Hellenistic era. Maestro Nestor shares a personal account of his liberation from a truly demonic pact made in his youth, which marked the beginning of his mature path as a grimoire traditionalist.”

By Jake Stratton-Kent

Click here to get to the entire text!

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These are the subjects I talk about in this video blog that is in 2 parts.

Defining a Grimoire

Modern Grimoires

Lesser and Greater Key of Solomon

Traditional Grimoire Magic

Modern Grimoire Magic

None Grimoire Magig disguising as Modern Grimoire Magic

How to relate to God, Angels and Demons?

How to view Christianity, Judaism and Islam?

You will find both of them on my youtube channel. Click here to go to the channel!

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First attempt so video will get better as I learn how to work the cam and software:)

Watch it here!

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I have set up a Grimoire Magic channel on YouTube where I will talk about different subjects regarding Grimoires and other forms of magic. You are all invited to add magic related videos to the channel. New additions to the channel will be announced in this blog and I hope it will become something we can all gain from.

Would be great if you would let me know what you would like me to talk about so I can plan that. Now in the beginning I will start by talking about some of the Grimoires and show some root magic workings. You will find the channel here or in the menu to the right.

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So me and Henrik Holmdahl got together to perform the rite. After putting up the altar and modifying the ritual to fit our needs we started to shoot it. It was not until after we realized that the full moon was huge and slight yellow shining. A very beautiful sight. Afterward we went to a crossroad in a small forest to place out the offering food. We stopped at a place where you could see the crossroad and saw at first a dark shape that later lit up with light on the way to the crossroad. Could it have been Hekate her self checking out our offerings perhaps?

Anyway here is the ritual performed in Swedish!

Hekate: The Rite of Her Sacred Fires

It will also be uploaded to the official youtube site that you can find here!

I would also like to say a big thank you to Sorita D’Este for organizing all of it and to Henrik for translating it to Swedish and for doing the ritual with me.

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Tonight the Moon is in the 20th Mansion for where I live. So I will be putting it to good use. The 20th Mansion “helps for the taming of wild beasts, for the strengthening of prisons, it destroys the wealth of societies, it compels a man to come to a certain place” So today I am going to do a binding of some of the higher Jupiter Spirits.

I have used this before and always to good effect. The 10th hour of the night would be profitable. If where you live it is not in the 20th Mansion yet then alter the spirits you are to bind according to what day it is.  I usually get visited after bindings but not always.

Take a Pentacle of wax and write the names of God, El, YHVH, AGLA, ADONAY, SHADDAI around the edge. Then the names of the angels of the day four times, then the seals of the angels so that it makes a box. Now inscribe the name of the demon in the centre and begin your invocation and binding. You should let the wax set at the end of the hour before (9th of the night), but do not inscribe until the 10th hour of the night. Whenever you call the demon then show it the pentacle and it should obey.

if the Moon is not in the 20th Mansion until tomorrow, then wait until the 3rd hour which is the hour of the Moon. Binding Venus spirits of course. You can set the wax and inscribe in that hour

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The blog is called The Writers Blog and is written by a friend of mine named Richard AKA TolkaScrolls. His main area of expertise is the planets and the grimoires. An area I suck at so we compliment each other very well. I am really looking forward to him and me doing some rad experiments when I get well again and hope you will find his work as inspiring as I have. Hopefully he will also find time to do a blog here at Grimoire Magic Blogs once in a while. He is also working on a book on his subject that I for one will buy as soon as it comes out!

Go check his blog out I do not think you will regret that you did!

Richard, thanks for all you have contributed to this blog and for the new great blog you are providing the magic scene.

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Talk about a mixed altar! Gonna build a new one for solomonical magic purposes this summer.

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An international act of devotion to the Goddess Hekate will be taking place on the Full Moon of Thursday, 27th of May 2010. The Rite of Her Sacred Fires can be performed by itself, or as part of a larger ceremony.

Click here for information and downloading the ritual.

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I have recently been discussing the concept of Rune Magics existence in pre Christian times. All of the people have been convinced that it is proven without doubt that the runes were used magically during the time of the Vikings. Note that I am talking about using the rues magically and not just use the runes to write down a curse or whatever. Since there are even Christian magic written on rune stones and that hardly qualify as rune magic. They base this on a few things. First of all the different Sagas. Secondly the Poetic Edda. Gravestones and amulets that have curses and so on them. Some even use Galdrabok as an example. One person even said it was before it was written down by Christians an oral tradition and use that as proof.

Let look at the texts first. The Sagas were mostly written after even Iceland was Christian so it proves absolutely nothing. They are also Sagas and not meant to be taken as instructions in any way. If that reasoning that a saga could be used for a solid proof of magical use I could then in a few hundred years use Buffy or Charmed as proof of a system that was practiced and write a book about it.  If that was enough as proof we could say that Solomonic magic is also older because of older Sagas and Legends talking about Solomons magic.

The oldest surviving version of the Poetic Edda is from about 1240. Also after Iceland was Christian. They say it is obvious that older versions existed but have been destroyed. Now why can we not say that about the Key of Solomon and use that as proof. Well because it is just a belief and not a proven fact. The Edda is also a poetic work and should be taken with a big grain of salt.

Galdrabok is also a Christian project that people now think was written far after the 1500’s as it claims to be.

Now if we look at the runes found on graves, amulets and so on I consider this the poorest evidence of all. We have no way of telling who has written down these runes or why. Could be a sales man that just wants to make some money and telling them they are magical. Or on gravestone to scare away people. In Solomonic magic an amulet would never be enough to prove that Solomonic magic existed.  Instead we would say that it could imply and use words like that. The Scholars on rune magic on the other hand sees this as hard proof.

That it was an oral tradition that was never written down before anyone can claim for everything. Yep the Key of Solomon was an oral tradition until it finally was written down. Same with the 6:th and 7:th book of Moses. So now we have proven that. Sorry people it simply do not work like that. The fact still is that we can not prove that Solomonic magic is older then the oldest text we have found and Rune Magicians can not prove that Rune Magic is older then the earliest text they have that describes it. Which would date it to the the earliest 1500’s.

It is interesting how many of these pagan religions and pagan magical paths claims things that they can not prove at all but on the other hand demand a much higher grade of proof for other religions and or magical systems.

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I finally got the site up and running again. Will try my best to not forget future bills on it:)

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Ok so first of all, here are the results for the Love and Favour talisman I have been carrying around with me. I can honestly say that to my surprise I had a noticeably nicer week than usual. People stopping their cars to let me pass, offering me things lending me money. However for the Love aspect it seems it fell flat. But that’s okay, because I’m putting it down to the Mastic being missing.

The next spell will be for ‘hooking up’. It will be with the Moon in the 8th Mansion which is the start of Cancer. I will do it at night with the Moon in the fifth house which is the House of Play. It will be a traditional Moon candle spell, on which I will gage the improvements made by the Mansion. ‘3′ jumped like a chocolate bar in a weightwatcher meeting. ‘2′ pulled but looses interest as the night goes on. ‘1′ interest but the spell is not powerful enough to stop me messing it up.  The result will follow in the next blog with the rating but little detail obviously. I am invocating Amnediel who is the angel of the Mansion and I shall include a description of how he has appeared and reacted also.

FYI I cancelled the property spell as Saturn is in Retrograde and I was worried it would effect the spell as it deals with property.

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Hi all!

Today I received the Lion skin part that will be made in to the belt of the Goetia. It was a perfect piece that has not been tempered with which I am glad for since I want to do that part my self. It really is a beautiful skin that is hard to describe the feeling of without holding it in your own hands.

Here is the front side of it with the fur.

Here you can see the back of it without fur and this is where the text goes when done.

You will be able to read about how I made the things still needed to be done in Volume II in the Series on Grimoire Magic. I will also video tape all that I do so it will be easy to follow. An alternative to using a real lion skin belt will also be presented in the book and video. Will take a while to finish that project and I need to finish volume I in the series first of all since it is a primer to all following books. I hope you can all live with me being a bit slow on finishing the stuff:) I do way to many things at the same time.

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Brazilianguy made some good questions regarding the book I am working on that I think deserves its own blog reply.

His questions were:

I’ve noticed a couple of grammar mistakes, but no doubt you will revise the whole text before publishing.

Can you tell us if the book gives examples of results obtained with the rituals, as well as methods of verifying if the entity summoned is present (in case of evocations)?

Also, will the book teach the student how to tackle any grimoire?

My reply:

Well spelling and grammar I leave to the editor

This first book will be a primer and is mainly for two purposes. First is to introduce the reader to the concept of grimoire magic. So it is very general. Second is to create a base of knowledge for coming books in the series. So this one will not go in to results much or specific techniques since they differ a lot among the grimoires. It is generic though so most of the knowledge in it will apply to many different grimoires.

The next book on the other hand will be purely practical as I will go thru each step of the Goetia and will end with an evocation. So everything from how to get the items needed, preparing the items, fasting and the actual evocation. As a bonus I will actually video tape what I do so it will be possible to get it all on a few DVD’s as well. That includes the final evocation. Difference is that the book will go deeper in to details then the video. So you will get those answers first of all for the Goetia.

What I come up with for book 3 I have not decided yet. All I know is that I want it to be different from other things out there. My goal with this has from the beginning been about doing fresh material with the exception perhaps with the first book that will be rather basic for already established grimoire magicians but my hopes is that it also will create a door in for people interested in it but who think it is to much to handle.

I hope this cleared some question marks up for all of you:)

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Most people don’t realise this, but Moon Mansions are not commonly accepted among the majority of Astrologers, I myself am one of those doubtful astrologers. However in the fairness I am going to make a talisman for each of the major categories. Thus one for love, one for gain, one for treasure etc, I will perform one a week and give the results the next post in a weeks time.

The first that I made was last Friday, and it was for love and favour. The Moon Mansion that I chose was the 26th. It was chosen because of the beneficial astrology of the time. The Moon has to be in Aquarius to Pisces to fit the Moon Mansion thus as that astrologically is not good for the Moon in my opinion, the placing of it must be made favourable by other planets. Venus who rules love is in its own sign; Taurus which is excellent. From there I took the Sepher Raziel as my guide to the houses. According to the Book the Moon joys in the 3rd house, and Venus joys in the 5th. In the day of Venus in the hour of the Moon (as I’m doing a Moon Mansion) Venus was in the 5th and the Moon was in the 3rd. I now had my hour and day, but what did I do?
According to the Magus: In the twenty-sixth, for love and favour, they sealed, in white wax and mastich, the figure of a woman washing and combing her hair; and they perfumed it with good odours. So I set about drawing a naked woman washing and combing her hair. (probably the most enjoyable part) I then moved into my circle and melted a white candle over the top, sealing the image in the white wax, turning it and doing the same the other side so it was completely engulfed. (No Mastich) While still in my circle I invocated Gabriel, the angel of the Moon predominantly and Tagriel the angel of the Moon Mansion. I then sprayed the talisman with perfume.

I will carry this with me for the next week and give it every opportunity to work. Hopefully I will have something to report in my next post next week despite my missing of the tree resin. I mean hell they may have had resign and perfumes but they hardly had Joop the nicest smelling spray I have. : ) I do not have my own blog by the way, but Maestro Nestor is kind enough to let my post here, so please contact me concerning this in the comments area.

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This is an unedited part that deals with the relations to God when working grimoires. The text might change some before the book goes to print.

God or Gods

God or gods are important in Grimoire magic because when we work with these entities we are doing it thru our divine spark. In theory we all are creations of god no matter what god or gods you choose to believe in and it is thought that we all have an inner part of god in us often called the divine spark. It is thru that we can actually do magic. Many believe that Moses was taught magic on the Sinai Mountain while he also received the books of Moses. So in Judaism, Christianity and Islam mythology Moses was the first magician and it was with that magic King Solomon built his temple of by ordering an army of demons to do the building of the temple. So the connection to the grimoires is rather obvious.

In more or less all the grimoires the religions inspiring them is Judaism, Christianity or Islam. That means they all share a rather similar concept and that many of the textures for these religions apply to more than one of the religions. You do not need to be a deeply religious person to do this magic but you needs to believe in the entities you are invoking or evoking. If you do not do that you will not succeed in your work. It is important though to understand that your personal faith can be far from how most religious people view their religion.

There are some things you need to be able to accept when working with the grimoires regarding its relationship with religion. First thing you need to be able to accept is that their design is including many religious ideas and theory. Also you cannot change that design unless you know exactly why it is designed that way. Many of the magicians in the times the grimoires were written were highly religious people and sometimes even priests. You also need to have a belief in the spirit world and have some sort of belief in a higher being symbolized by God. All you have to be able to do is to apply your own belief structure to fit in with Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Basically the demands to be able to do this kind of magic can be summarized in to being able to accept the following. There is a higher intelligence that in part exists in all humans. The magic works thru that part of that intelligence that is in us and it lets us control a number of higher and lower beings in the spiritual world. The symbols and words used in this kind of magic fits in to a larger design often based on a religious system. Changes to these symbols and words cannot be changed without fully understanding the design. The important part in the grimoires is not how you perceive the spiritual; it is how the grimoire makers perceived it that matters.

If one can accept those terms it does not matter if you personally believe that God is actually called “Spiderman” or “Jehovah”. Nor does it matter how you perceive the spiritual world, at least not to be able to perform the magic in the grimoires. All that matters is that you can look beyond your own belief structure and apply it to the grimoires belief structure or at least are willing to set aside your own belief structure and apply another one. If you cannot do this you will be better of finding another system of magic to work with.

It is also very important to figure your belief system out before you start working with this kind of magic. You do not want to go head to head with a demon and be insecure about your own beliefs. Also remember that most churches consider this kind of work to be the work of the devil and that it will judge you to an existence in hell after life. Not that I agree with this but unless you are very sure that you will not agree with that in the future you perhaps should reconsider doing this or any kind of magic.

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This month there is a chance to win first of all the book “From a Drop of Water” put together by Kim Huggens. It is an anthology around the subject of Water. My essay is exploring the Grimoires use of water. It is a very interesting book that I am sure will please the winner. This month I was thinking a pure lottery. So just say hi or something under this blog thread so I get your user name and I will write them all down and draw one from a hat or something in the end of the month. You have until the 3:d of May to do this.

The twist is that there will also be possible to win a Swedish Black Arts book, but to be able to do that you need to be able to read Swedish so I know there will be a use for it. So the rest of this text will now be in Swedish:)

Ok, som jag har lovat innan så kommer det ibland finnas chanser att vinna Svenska böcker och denna månad kommer en sån chans. Boken vi talar om är en Svartkonstbok från Göinge som är en del av boken Svenska Landsmål och Svenskt Folkliv från 1960. För att ha en chans att vinna denna så skriv en kommentar på Svenska efter dennna blogg post så kommer jag lotta bland alla som gjort det i slutet av månaden. Ni har till den 3:e Maj på er att göra detta.

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