While I have been working on my book and also talked to people about the subject of Grimoire Magic I have noticed that there are a lot of confusion on what Traditional Grimoire Magic really is. Even experienced magicians seems to think that as long as you work with the spirits in a grimoire you are doing grimoire work and can call your self a grimoire magician. Also there seems to be some idea that traditional grimoire magic can mean whatever style if its been along since the times of Golden Dawn and Crowley.

This is not the case. Just working with the spirits of a grimoire will far from qualify you as a grimoire magician. Lets say for example that you are a Golden Dawn member and chose to work with the Goetia Spirits and you then use techniques such as the LBRP and Bornless ritual in your work. Then you are doing Golden Dawn work and not Goetia work. If you are a Demonolator and use the spirits of the Goetia and treat them as your best est buddies you are doing Demonolator work and still not Goetia work.

For you to be called a Grimoire Magician you will have to work with the Grimoire and use the system described in said Grimoire. Traditional Grimoire Magicians follow every world in the grimoire to the end and make no changes. What I was describing earlier could at best fit in to the category of modern Grimoire Magic but even that is not a good fit. Within the modern Grimoire Magician I would place people like Poke Runyon and his work with the triangle as mirror instead of as a point of evocation. People who mixes different grimoires and such things. What I described earlier I would in those cases call  Golden Dawn magic or Demonolator magic. Only thing they have in common with the grimoires are the spirits used.

So now I have an entire chapter in my book explaing this in much more detail to try and make this clear for once.

Maestro Nestor

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