Tag: goetia
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Overview and Index
Over the last four months, I’ve been writing a series of posts that explore the nuances of Solomonic spirit conjuration as a technology we can (and should!) apply in our magical practice. The series has taken turns that I never expected, ultimately clocking in over fifteen thousand words across twelve posts. For folks who haven’t…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: The License to Depart
We’ve now made it all the way through our examination of Solomonic conjuration rituals. The spirit has appeared and any desired requests or exchanges have taken place. The only thing left to do is close down the ritual. This is where our final step comes in: Licensia, the license to depart. In the Constrictio step,…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Defining the Boundaries
We’ve now made it up to step four in our Solomonic conjuration framework: Constrictio. We’ve performed all our invocations and evocations, and made contact with the spirit. From here on out the ritual will proceed quickly; the main hurdle has already been overcome. The constrictio step is a reiteration of the boundaries you wish to…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Calling the Spirits
We’re now through all the preparatory phases in our deep dive on Solomonic conjuration. We’ve talked about setting the stage, consecrating our tools and completing the requisite purifications. We’ve talked about spirit names and seals, and the various different ways a spirit may show up when called. We’ve invoked various divinities, patrons, and gatekeepers for…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Choosing a Spirit
Let’s recap where we are in our Solomonic ritual. We’ve consecrated our tools, our spaces, and ourselves. We’ve drawn out our circle. We’ve invoked various powers (God, angels, intermediary spirits, patrons, directional guardians, etc.) to set the stage. Now we’re ready to actually summon the spirit we are trying to contact. Before we can get…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Calling the Powers
So far in our Solomonic magic series, we’ve covered the first step of our conjuration ritual framework: Consecratio Dei, the consecrations to God. We’ve talked about preconsecration of tools and materials, personal purification, and creation of ritual space. Now we’re ready to step into the circle and begin the actual ritual of conjuration. The next…
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Solomonic Magic in Practice: Drawing the Circle
Over the last few weeks we’ve explored the idea of consecrations in the Solomonic tradition. That everything brought into the ritual space is exorcised and blessed ahead of time, to give the magician a spiritually clean environment in which to work. There are two final pieces we haven’t talked about yet: the purification of space,…
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What They Meant Was…
One of my biggest pet peeves with modern analyses of historical texts is when an author states – with authoritative confidence – they have decoded the true meaning of a text, and that it is something only tenuously implied by the text itself. And this happens all the time with magic and occult topics. Things…