Greetings Aspirants! So we have entered another Abramelin season, and I’m getting more questions about how to properly perform the Rite. (A little late for Easter, but it’s still good that folks are asking the right questions.) The following exchange took place between me and (I believe) two different aspirants on the Abramelin Group at Yahoo. [...]
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Figuring Out Abramelin (A ‘How To’ Discussion) 13 comments
Solomonic Interview 2 comments
I was recently a guest on an episode of the ‘Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole’ Podcast. We talked for about an hour (on the air – and about as long off the air afterward!) and had an absolute blast. We discussed Solomonic magick and its place in the current occult revival, its relationship to the [...]
Making Abramelin Holy Oil 13 comments
According Unto the Art of the Apothecary: Making the Oil of Abramelin Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, and [...]
The Mixed Qabalah – First Working (Samael) 14 comments
As many of you know, I recently published an essay entitled The Return of Psalm Magick and the Mixed Qabalah. (Find it in both Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly and Diamond Fire Magazine.) In that essay, I reviewed two books released by Avalonia Publishing, one of which was A Collection of Magical Secrets & a Treatise [...]
Medieval Magick – Chapter 1 of ‘Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires’ Leave a comment
And while we are on the subject: Chapter One of “Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires”: http://kheph777.tripod.com/secrets_chap1.html ——————- Medieval Magick Chapter One of Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires by Aaron Leitch The Medieval and Renaissance Eras The “classical age” of the grimoiric texts is roughly equivalent to the span of the Middle (or Medieval) and Renaissance [...]
Why Abramelin At All? Leave a comment
Oct 21, 2010 Greetings, folks! It’s that dreaded time again – time for another Abramelin Rant! lol I am amazed at how often I find myself asking the question: Why would one choose Abramelin at all? Let me elaborate that question a bit: Why is the Abramelin Rite so popular among modern Western occultists, when [...]
Another Abramelin Season Ends… 1 comment
October 4th, 2010 Greetings aspirants! Well, another Abramelin season ends. Anyone who performed the Rite *by the book* should have celebrated their spiritual birthday late last month. I observed mine by offering white roses, white wine, bread and honey, milk, wax and incense to my Guardian Angel. I would upload a picture of the Altar [...]