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The Grimoire Magic Video Blog 3
24/07/10
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.
For the Grimoire Video Blog 3
16/07/10
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
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!
Do not miss the Podcast with the amazing David Rankine on Greg Kaminsky’s site occultofpersonality.com . Make sure to check out all the other amazing podcasts Greg has done with different magicians while you are there.
Maestro Nestor
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.
Great article by David Rankine.
05/08/09
Just wanted to tip you all of a great article written by David Rankine called Solomon’s Keys: Revealing the Origins of Modern Ritual Practices. It takes up some really interesting theories on how the key was used and connections between high and low magic. Go here for a good read.
I am sitting here only 4 hours after I received Avalonia Books A Collection of Magical Secrets that is translated by Paul Harry Byron with introduction and commentary by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine and find my self having read it in one sitting. It is a rather small book at only 161 pages but those are some extremely interesting pages.
The first of two parts of the book deals with something that is often called “experiments” in the grimoires. It is shorter and often easier ways to obtain things then doing an entire evocation in a grimoire. It deals with things from ways to not get shot, find treasures, curing diseases and all kinds of wonderful things. One thing that struck me was how similar some of the “experiments” are to the Swedish Black Art Books that circulated around Sweden in the 1700’s to the 1800’s. Some of them are very alike but do not use as much Latin and the Swedish material is more connected to the Swedish way. It feels though as if much of the Swedish Black arts Books must have lent ideas from the grimoire “experiments” since it draws from older sources. I wonder if not folk magic that was practiced in the 1700’s to 1800’s are not more related to the grimoires then many modern magicians care to admit.
The second part is more like a divination technique to get in to a sort of ecstasy stage of mind where deep Cabalah secrets will be revealed to you. This is something I have not worked with before but the descriptions are very straight forward so I think I will actually give it a go when I have the time.
This was a great presentation of a material that is often overlooked and underestimated. It is nice to see that people care about giving the public access to these more unusual materials that David and Stephen keeps bringing us. I believe this will become one of my favorites rather soon as I get more in to it. So this is defiantly 5 stars out of 5 possible!
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.
