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This Sunday the 15th at 21:00 GMT I will be on Witchtalk speaking with Karagan about demons.
Here is the text describing the show.
Numina is the plural of the latin term for the power of either a deity or a spirit that would be present in places and/or objects in the Roman religion. Demons (or the “immunda” or unclean “numina”)have a strange and obscure history. We do not know exactly where they come from and for some they don’t even exist. The fact is that in the history of magic, there are whole systems build to call upon these spirits and this is a fact…. One can even argue that most of the demonology that we can find in Judaism, was in fact carried from Persian Temples. Maestro Nestor’s interest in the occult stemmed from an interest in the darker aspects of magic during his teens, including Satanism, which he practiced until his early twenties. On a trip to New York things changed when during a book buying spree he encountered Cavendish’s The Black Arts and Waite’s The Book of Black Magic which introduced him to the grimoire traditions, and since then he has explored the right hand path traditions extensively. His work has previously been published on a variety of websites, as well as in Swedish language magazines
. His essay “Demons & Devils” appeared in the Both Sides of Heaven anthology edited by Sorita d’Este. He is currently engaged in working on a series of books on the practice of grimoire magic. See www.grimoiremagic.com for more information. On this show, we will listen to what Linus have to say about this particular intelligences and also learn why it is not a good idea to make pacts (contacts) with them! A WITCHTALK SHOW you will never forget! Linus biography written by Sorita d’Este for the anthology “From a Drop of Water” by Avalonia Books.
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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!
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.
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.
Even though this book was made as an effort to disprove witchcraft it still holds genuine information on how magic was practiced in the 1500′s. For the grimoire magician it is actually a small treasure. Even if that part only takes up a very small portion of the book it reveals such things as protective circles not seen anywhere else. It describes a very early version of the Goetia for example and suggest that the lion skin girdle could also be made in Harts skin. That is buck skin for those of you that did not know that. Might not sound all that exiting for most people but for a grimoire magician that is a real find.
It offers much in the way of those sort of things and also gives us an idea how people actually worked the material in England at that period of time. As a book to disprove witchcraft I do not consider it that good but to show on how magic was practiced it is a great resource.
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.
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