I must say that I had a lovely time on Witctalk today and I hope all of you liked it as well. There were much more I would have wanted to say so look out for a follow up episode:) I can not recommend the show enough. Karagan is great and I feel honoured he wanted me on the show considering all the occult masters he have had on his show. Even topics that I normally are not that interested in Karagan makes interesting. I am a big fan of the work Karagan has done with the show. So those of you that has not discovered it yet really should download a few episodes.

Anyway to download shows go to this page and scroll down to the list of shows. At the moment the show with me should be at the top and at the end of it there is a download link. From here you can also access all the episodes from the archive.

I also would like to thank all the people who came to listen. Bappho and her son thewretchedcrow both came in to the chatroom:) Only thing that sucked with being on air was that I couldn’t chat really and do my clever remarks that I usually do:)

Best Regards

Maestro Nestor

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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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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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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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Like a week ago Witchtalk made an excellent interview with David Rankine that you just have to listen to if you have not heard it yet. Even yours truly gets a small mentioning in it:)

Anyway you can find the interview here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/witchtalk just scroll down the page until you see David and you can even download it and listen to it wherever you want to.

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It was apparently OK to talk about the project and upcoming book from Avalonia Books. It is handled by the lovely witted or perhaps I should say wicked Kim Huggens who has been a contributor for Avalonia Books before and is a major tarot and hoodoo/voodoo practitioner. The book will be called “From a Drop of Water: A Collection of Magickal Reflections on the Nature, Creatures, Uses, and Symbolism of Water”. A topic that I found very interesting and something that you might not think about that hard until you actually get involved in a project like this.

My contribution is about the use of water in the grimoires and believe me when I say you do spend a lot of water in this kind of magic. Plenty of holy water is needed and you do take a lot of baths. I have found a lot of things that I have not thought about before but found now that I was intentionally searching for water associations. One of the things I found was in Idries Shah’s “The Secret Lore of Magic” was a description from the “Book of Power” that Shah has a translation of. It is a description of how to make the elixir of life or the water of life that I found interesting. Only problem is that you have to travel to Africa to find a stone in the deserts and it only exists in Africa according to the book. I have actually used the book of power before and performed a ritual from it to get two persons to fall in love with each other with great success to my friends delight.

I think this will become a very different and interesting book in the end. I will see if I can get Kim to tell us more about the project as the contributions starts to come in. Still some time before the deadline is over:)

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Pre-orders are now accepted for Avalonia Books Both Sides of Heaven. Click the picture below to get to the Pre-order.

My contribution to the book deals with Devils, Demons and how they relate to the art of Traditional Grimoire Magic. I also describe my own experiences with pact magic. Just look at the list of contributors to this anthology and you will know its a book you will not want to miss.

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Just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you about the new anthology that will soon be released by Avalonia Books called Both Sides of Heaven. It features many good writers opinions on Angels, Demons, Fallen Angels and so on from very different perspectives. My contribution to it is actually a chapter from my upcoming book about Grimoire Magic where I talk about Devils and Demons and how they fit in to the grimoire world. I also talk about the effects of pact making from my own experience. I think it will be an interesting read.

For more information and a picture of the cover please visit. http://avaloniapress.wordpress.com/

Maestro Nestor

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