Sitting In Silence

Something I see come up frequently in discussions around goetic magic is how it seems  coercive and domineering in it's approach towards spirits.  Leading to this phantasm that goetic spirits will be hostile towards the magician. Which I understand from the perspective of someone new to this style of magic. With the threats of chains, hell fire, and more it can seem heavy handed. Especially if you are coming from a paradigm that humanizes spirits. This way of compelling spirits would seem disrespectful because you wouldn't talk to another person that way, so why a would you do so with a spirit?   What I think is important to have in mind is the world view these texts and traditions operate from. The people who originally did this style of magic, and documented it, typically didn't view these spirits as their equals. When you read these texts there is an air of having a divinely given right to command spirits. As this comes from the idea that we are made in god's...

Inspired by dreams and visions, I began the process of creating this new ritual tool. Where a chair serves as a receptacle for receiving spirits, allowing them to manifest in this seat. I came across this child sized rocking chair at a thrift store, and immediately knew it was the one. The people working in the shop told me this chair had been there since before they were hired, and they never expected to see it go. But for only $6 it became mine. The Seat of Spirit To consecrate this spiritual throne, it was washed with water imbued with willow and blessed under the full moon, anointed with a Serpent Oil of my own design, and dressed in smoke & powders before being fed. Finally, a spirit in my court who has dominion over gates and spiritual passages was invited to be the first to sit and empower this seat. The Seat of Spirit is foremost a receptacle for working with spirits. It allows the magician to perceive the presence of spirits in a safe and controlled way. Comparable to th...

This grimoire of Elizabethan magic is a great text for the moderately experienced to advanced practitioners of ceremonial magic. Or witches and cunning folk interested in applying some of it's prayers, conjurations, seals, and ritual methods. The edition I will be referencing for this series is the Joseph H. Peterson, Daniel Harms, and James R. Clark one. I may cross reference parts of this book with other grimoires. The Book of Oberon (or BoO) is first and foremost a text written to be used in practice. Being an amalgam of information from other occult texts and having some original works. Suggesting that the writer(s) of it were copying this knowledge and collecting it for later use. This work includes prayers and psalms, short rites and experiments in creation illusions, fantasies, acquiring treasure, angelic conjurations, ways of fumigating and blessing ritual tools, talismans, and infernal conjurations. As well as an office of spirits which is reminiscent of the Keys of Solomo...