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.

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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

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Review of The Satanic Bible by Anton Zandor LaVey:

This book contains no original thought. It is just plagiarized work from Ragnar Redbeard, Ayn Rand and the Golden Dawn. The rest is a mix of ideas stolen from Darwin, Crowley and Nietzsche. In most of the cases he has not even bothered to rewrite the ideas he stole in his own words. The only people who can think this is new and fresh must never have read any books on the subject before. Instead of raising the book to the skies it should be removed from the book stores because of pure theft.

It claims to be Satanism even though there is no Satanism in this book. The forewords nail it down to social Darwinism which is a much better title for what this philosophy really is. It is atheistic which makes it impossible to call it Satanism according to all definitions of what that word really means. He has more or less hijacked an already established definition and claims his is the correct one even when his own books make that impossible. It is similar to the Republican Party suddenly claiming they are Hindu. It just does not work that way.

To support this they make silly claims that there has never been Satanism before LaVey. Another proof that they do not read books much. What about Stanislaw Przybyszewski a self proclaimed Satanist who wrote several books on his teachings? How about August Strindberg who was also a self proclaimed Satanist and also wrote about it? Then we have Ben Kadosh who listed him self as a Luciferian in the Danish records. There are tons of examples long before LaVey was even born. Another common argument is that it was not organized before LaVey. Not true either. Strindberg and Stanislav belonged to the same group of Satanists together with many other famous Satanists such as Joris-Karl Huysmans. If we go further back in time it is hard to ignore Gilles de Rais.

So what is this book really? It is an attempt at creating something that would bring attention but still not be bad enough to cause a major out roar. This way it was possible to seem like an educated and reasonable group and still get to be called Satanists. It made it possible for people like Jayne Mansfield and Sammy Davis Jr to play bad without it actually being bad. People that are well read weren’t fooled by it though and will always consider this a major scam and theft. The book is a disgrace to the occult society and a mockery on real Satanists.

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Häxan or Witchcraft Through the Ages as its international title was is a part documentary and part fiction of witchcraft in the medieval times. The first part goes threw how the medieval people looked at witchcraft and it shows many beautiful woodcuts from books of that time. The second part is like a play on how a witch was back then and how the inquisition worked.

It is definitely critical to the entire idea of people believing in both witches and the inquisition back in those times and it shows very well in the movie. Still this is a fascinating movie that must have been extremely shocking for its time in 1922 with full nudity and exposure to how it was perceived the medieval witch worked. I recommend all of you to download this movie since it is well worth to see for all occultists. Check it out on imdb.

It is today in the Public Domain so it can be downloaded legally without fear for being victim of a similar witch hunt that Hollywood is performing at the moment on innocent file sharers.

You will need a bit torrent client to download that you can find here. The movie can then be downloaded here. You can also watch it directly online here. These are versions with subtitles in English.

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This is the book that made me realize that I was not alone with many of my opinions. For a long time I felt rather alone and undermined on forums and places like that for how I believed things worked when it came to evocation and grimoires. Lisiewski changed all that not just for me but for many magicians of the old arts that have been oppressed for such a long time by modern ceremonial magicians.

It is a book that serves many purposes. First of all it is a guide in traditional grimoire magic and shows how to apply a traditional style to the grimoire Heptameron which is also included in the book. Now you can debate weather or not all the axioms he lays forward are really needed or not but at least it is a serious attempt of creating a sort of standard for working with the grimoires.  It is also explained in a very simple way without any of the cryptic stuff modern new age magicians are so famous for. This is the book I recommend that all new students on grimoire magic reads first of all. Then they can move on to the more complex grimoire translations out there by legends like Stephen Skinner, David Rankine, Joseph Peterson, Donald Tyson and many less known translators and editors.

If you can you really should try to get a hold of the few Journals called Howlings from the pit that he wrote that further describe his style of magic. He expands a lot on his theories regarding grimoire and old school magic in them.

Another thing I love about this book is how he totally bring down the modern new age magicians of today. He does it with undeniable logic and using their own theories against them. He gives both Alister Crowley and the Golden Dawn a well needed wake up call and also reveals some interesting information on what Israel Regardie really thought about the Golden Dawn system that most modern magicians praises to the sky’s today.

That I think is a very important message that this book has. New is not always equal to better. Many people seems to have taken this the wrong way and think he is against all development but that is not the case. He is a strong believer in what is called New thought. Not just Crowleys and Golden Dawns version of it. I personally believe he suspected the same as I have for a long time. That something went wrong with magic during the period of the Golden Dawn and Crowley and that what we have today is a very weak version of magic that you can even question if it actually is magic or if it is not more a way to reach self enlightenment. Modern magic seems to have forgotten what magic really is about and Lisiewski explains this in a very effective way in his book.

It is a very provocative book and I can understand that many people feel hurt by it since it is basically saying that most modern magicians today are not even doing magic. Still I think this is a book that every magician should read since it will challenge you and probably upset most readers. If you can not take that you really have no business doing evocations anyway in my opinion.

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