Abramelin - Introduction to the Magical Text and the Ritual made famous by Aleister Crowley
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- The Book of Abramelin purports to be a text of 15th century magic with a wide range of effects though, most importantly in modern occultism, communication with one's Holy Guardian Angel. The famous famous undertaking of these rituals was performed by Aleister Crowley at House Boleskine around the dawn of the 20th century. In this episode of Esoterica, we explore this fascinating texts, its rituals and history.
Support Boleskine House:
www.boleskineh...
Also, you can support Boleskine by buying fragments of the former structure! I did, it's fun to own some of the former Oratory where Crowley did the Abramelin.
shorturl.at/mBU03
Recommended Reading:
Mathers - The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage - 978-0486232119
Dehn and Guth - The Book of Abramelin - 978-0892542147
Various - The Penn State Magic in History Series
Schwartz - Scholastic Magic - 978-0691605913
#abramelin #crowley #magick
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Also, check out some of the great Anti-Semitic comments I got after publishing this episode in the comments below!
Are you Jewish? I see a kippah
a man wearing a yarmulke and being honest.
42 years living in new jersey (aka nu jeruselam) and you and ben shapiro are the only two I have found.
what am i missing?
Tysm Doctor, I enjoy learning about new things and never heard of this book until an hour ago so I researched it a tad and thankfully came across your channel where you have given me a good comprehension of this book in your opinion. Every point you made seems validated in your explanations. I normally wouldn't read this type of book anyway but I was intrigued by the part where it says something about contacting your spiritual guardian. I thought hmm, if it were possible, wouldn't everyone do it all of the time? So I wondered what it could possibly say. Not really a rabbit hole that I want to travel down tbh but I'm glad to have seen this video on the matter and I appreciate your expertise and knowledge. Such knowledge makes me want to dive into your other videos, so ty again!
Btw, sorry for such the long message!
This channel is immensly underrated
Agreed
It’s pretty poppin tho
Yeah he needs to work on his keyword search terms!!! I stumbled upon his channel while doing my weekly astrology tag search.
For now.
@@ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211 I don’t know you, but I love your mind!
"support your local occult oil maker" , ha ! I love this channel.
😁
Thank you for this perfect overview, it's exactly what the community needs, and such care to detail and presentation, wow! I'm a fan :D
Thanks so much for saying so - it means a lot coming from someone like you who has so, so much knowledge. Thanks for your book reviews as well. You really provide an important service for folks.
@@TheEsotericaChannel 😄🙏 haha! You're very kind!
Omg, my 2 favorite esoteric channels right here together! Dennis, I LOVED your intro to The Cloud of Unknowing. It was the single most profound introduction to a book I've ever read. And, Dr. Sledge, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this channel. You are like the Cliffs Notes to so many occult/esoteric concepts, and it was because of YOU that I've bought so many books, such as Hermetica (by Copenhaver) and and The Way of Hermes (the new translation). Thank BOTH of you for helping to enrich my mind and soul, truly. I look forward to the future!
My two favorite esoteric UA-cam legends here in one place talking to each other? Today is going to be a great day
I am reading the Mathers text right now. A lot of what makes this book so fascinating is the emphasis on purity, piety, withdrawal, isolation, and the idea of enflaming oneself with prayer. I had seen Crowley use this wording in several other places and I never realized it came from Abramelin (and also from the New testament, I think).
Every video you upload is a treasure of knowledge, my friend! 🖤
Thanks so much for saying so, Angela. It's so wonderful to be colleagues on this platform and friends to boot!
Of the several personal messages I've gotten since I published this video less than a week ago Every. Single. One. that insists that I only publish content like this after I speak to or learn from some hidden 'initiate' or a 'master' or an 'adept' is also unabashedly anti-Semitic. Coincidence?
Word! I find it so ridiculous that so many people want to claim so much garbage when 90% of western modern esoteric thought, in my opinion, has a Jewish origin or influence. Yet, they want to buy or bully themselves into some kind of esoteric culture to build themselves up or try to control something they don't even understand must less cultural appropriate. The dark ages was rough on them.
For instance: Patrick Orbin aka Frater Apep just wrote "It is Jews like Mr. James Justin Sledge that are a good excuse for a Nazi." and yes I'm publishing these right here with their names.
Frater David Bersson wrote: "As for Mr. Sledge unless he is willing to divorce his wife and give his children up for adoption I see no future for him...After all, Mr. Sledge in spite of his horrifying wife does seem to be made of some decent material. A female Rabbi [my wife is a rabbi] instead of a Priestess doesn’t set well with us and of course he would take this wrong where we mean no insult. "
Jacob Lot wrote "Of course, you are a Jew who embraces
and tries to merge Marxism so some will not communicate with you not knowing for sure if you are a communist."
Wow. So much brain washing going on. And how dare they even try to make an opinion on your personal life. You provide a great service to true seekers and they smear themselves with filth by making such comments.
oh my God, did I just find this channel?
blow me away my good sir, thank you for existing.
love, admiration and grattitude from Amsterdam.
Yours sincerely, Gyon.
Man, I think this is the one of the deepest rabbit holes I've ever been in, and I love it
That one mage who summons a terrifying spirit out of this world only to snap their fingers in a Z and go "entertain me". The metaphorical balls on that one.
Yeah, a lot of these magic users seem simultaneously terrified and crazy bold with this stuff. Me, from what I've read about angels, etc., I'd rather not bother them.
@@TheEsotericaChannel As someone who has experienced Lilith in her sublime and debased forms I can attest to this truth!
@@FraktalPriest can u explain ?
I have done some things.
You must be 25 years old to perform this rite.
That always freaked me out. When spells have fine print you know they aren't fucking around...
back in medieval times it was like midlife point
Absolutely love the channel. The humor and seriouseness with which complex subjects are engaged is wonderful.
Thanks for the video. The humour is much appreciated in what is often presented as a serious subject.
I try to take the content seriously not so much myself ;)
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I have only gotten into Kemetics recently.
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You know it is true that I've been Pavlovian trained to click away the second someone indicates that the video is over. Yet you do this and then continue with some last tidbits; and I've never been fooled into clicking off because you're information is so valuable. That is a unique skill, truly, and reminds me of classy investigative news television of the 80s and 90's. I tip my hat sir.
Just found this channel. This is the greatest thing I have ever done with my life.
This channel is pure gold! Thank you for the in-depth discussions of each topic in each video as well as the simple admission when something is unknown. I also want to thank you for the amount of videos that you are producing which I find extraordinary. My one request is that they eventually get grouped according to subject matter as it is sometimes difficult to find an earlier video that relates to a newer one. Your channel and Foolish Fish have opened my eyes to so much that I could devote all of my time to the study of Esoterica - ahhh if only that were possible.
Love how this channel keeps it scholarly. Much respect!!
Thank you for you great wisdom and teaching. Been on my magical journey and have learned more from you than I did anywhere else. Not to mention, your research is scholarly research rather than opinions and that is golden!
Thanks for your kinds words and glad you are finding the content worthwhile!
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Love this, very informative and accessible. I appreciate your humor as well, you have done what many fail to do, make something very educational, enlightening and fun. Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks for being kind and saying so - no reason we can take the material seriously and have a good time learning together!
All of this!!!
I love this. "Historically" informative and humorous regarding the dubious yet popularized work. Thank you!
Yep, trying to keep a sympathetic but critical approach. Hope you enjoy the content!
An episode on my fav Alchemist, Eliphas Levi would be Great especially works about Astral Light
Why is he your fav?
@@SHAX516 I dig his whole Astral Light concepts, Eliphas Levi was quite intelligent and had his own opinions on things Arcane, and I do Love an Innovative Thinker. Btw, Crowley claimed to be a reincarnation of Levi, birthdate or something
@@ladykheperaankh999 ok im sold, ill have to check him
@@SHAX516 I'd recommend starting with Et Rituel de la Haute Magie in English of course. Lmk pls what you think....Check my UA-cam channel, should be getting my Intro vid in the works soon. Waiting on my laptop upgrade and stimulus....Smh
@@SHAX516 Do....Levi collated Western Esoteric doctrine and his theories are credible.
He lived and contributed to an epoch that saw a rebirth of interest of the subject. Best wishes
Glad the film A Dark Song got some mention in this having seen it recently and being reminded of it, even though my familiarity with the Abramelin work started with a (somewhat misleadingly titled) book "The 21 Century Mage".
I've been to Boleskine House on the east shore of Loch Ness in the hamlet of Easter Boleskine.it is up a little bank and behind a locked gate so you can't actually see much.I didn't see any demons or the Loch Ness Monster either!there are huge waterfalls however a 20 minutes walk down the road in Upper Foyers so worth a visit.
I've always been interested in Enoch and Lamech both being born to Cain and Seth, not discussed very often
I am of the same opinion and did a lot of research on this. I would love to see an investigation of this as well.
@@shedtalksrecovery Richard Elliot Friedman discussed this in both
Who wrote the Bible
And
The bible with sources revealed
The summary is that there were 2 competing versions of the story and that someone chose an interesting way to combine the two versions
I haven't seen any detailed discussion on it beyond these 2 books but yes I am sure that someone might be able to do an in depth on it
For myself I think that the 2 Enochs and the 2 Lamechs might be the same person
But that's just my opinion not backed by a PhD in the subject.
I once wrote an email to Richard Elliot Friedman about a specific detail in his books and he answered me.
I have to say, I really like/appreciate your presentational style. I laughed a few times. Thank you.
In the acts, peter is said to have "an angel" who's appearance can be confused for his physical being.
Woohoo. This is the only thing i look forward to every week
Thank you. The last time that I mentioned that I didn't think it was plausible that Abremelin had a Jewish author, I was met with a wall of flames. You would think that I told them not to study it.
Back around 1990/1991, I had a visual encounter with a grayish horrid face with a serpentine body that came out of a cloud like shimmering essence near the ceiling. It was terrifying but rather than remain in fear, I surrendered to it, changed my internal state and projected love onto it. The horrid face then changed into a beautiful smooth porcelain-like ivory radiant mask (sun-like) with brownish eyes. I remember there were illuminated silken strands flowing behind the face. After my projection of love, that face of elegance smiled at me and projected intense love back at me. I then felt although I was rising out of my body towards it as I fell back asleep. That is the only time in my life so far that I saw such an emanation, a discharge of divine radiance…once was enough to realize the universe is much more mysterious than we could ever imagine.
"once was enough to realize the universe is much more mysterious than we could ever imagine." - Sadly **A LOT** of people have no such experience and therefore have no basis for the reality of "god" and can only ever wonder about it as an idea. We are truly gifted with something to base our reality off of.
@@FraktalPriest So true. I believe it was from the Gnostic viewpoint that referred to those who have not encountered "the reality of 'god'" as hylics and somatics.
@@asteroxfoundation Very interesting, thanks.
That was beautiful, thank you for sharing that. ☮️
For the record I'd like to remind readers to get a carbon monoxide detector.
This channel, the Modern Hermeticist and What Magic is This? Are my go to channels on all things esoteric and magickal! By the way, your introductions are so polished and just visually....perfect! I hope it's your own Sancttum Sanctorum. Cheers and keep on Occulting.....
Just found your channel, by chance or design... I completed the AbraMelin 34 years ago I am now 56. I read Crowley from a very young age and experimented with ritual magic including the Goetia, the Enochian rituals, and still own the original Magick in Theory and Practice. The AbraMelin is a harsh undertaking, though many of it's components can be stripped away as unnecessary. And by no means should Mather's 'version' be taken as the truth. The sequence can be boiled down to some simple, though incredibly arduous, disciplines. And few have the patience or stomach. I have been around the occult community for a long time now, since my teens. In that time I have met only a very few that have lived it real time...the rest are in mental institutions. The AbraMelin works...if you are clever enough to work it. I didn't get to meet my HGA, but I did get to meet all of my demons. Some I have overcome, some I may never will. My only advice if you want to take on the AbraMelin ? Be sure, be prepared to lose a lot and be ready for the consequences. That said, your 'life' will never, ever be the same again. Oh and be careful what you wish for... J.
...what you wish for? Mh, would you care to elaborate on that? As I know it, the Abramelin isn't a ritual you undertake to have wishes granted. It can actually scrambre you and your life for the years to come, as a primary consequence.
@@Chickenface12345 Hi, thanks for your reply. The overall aim of the sequence is to attain communion with your Holy Guardian Angel and thus a complete understanding of self and your motivations. Some take it literally in that they expect to meet supernatural beings (the film 'A Dark Song' is a good example of a modern working loosely based on the Abramelin) others see it as a mental exercise (Liber MMM is a comparable modern working). For me I met my demons, some as quite subtle 'isms' and learned behaviour, others as full on character flaws. Which when you become aware of them can be approached and adjusted. I didn't meet my HGA but I am given to believe on doing so you can ask for and receive your wishes. Whether that is on a supernatural level like the genie in the bottle, or an epiphany that allows you to give full focus to your true self, is I guess conjecture. In saying be careful what you wish for ? If you undertake the working be prepared to meet some darker aspects of yourself is all... Thanks.
@JayKaos so I'm trying to understand all this, I find it fascinating. Did Crowley summon demons at Boleskine? Or no? It all seems so complicated, the ritual I mean.
@@angelwalker979 Crowley aborted the ritual part way in but by then had put the sequence in motion. As even a witch will tell you, you always close your working or it leaves residual influences. Boleskine was left with those influences and Crowley had demons he didn't address. Hence dying broke and lonely in a pit in Hastings. The ritual itself if done from the old text is indeed complex. I took it down to its roots and dispensed with the unnecessary. However the requirements of discipline, mentally and physically remain the same and must be observed. If you choose to initiate the sequence read the original text thoroughly. Plan appropriately and remember that this is a process of change. I found all of my demons, recognising them in yourself is a victory all by itself. All of your demons can be dealt with once you expose them. I am happy that mine are under control. I'm not disappointed that I didn't meet my HGA, I rather think he or she is working behind the scenes and always has been. 2 things. If you haven't already watch a film called 'A Dark Song' it is the only Abra Melin based work out there and will give you an idea. 2nd, if you embark on the ritual be prepared for 3 months of change to many aspects of your life. If you have the determination that is... Good luck in your choices, here if you want to sound off. J.
@JayKaos thank you J, appreciate it!
NASA, hmmm? I wonder if Jack Parsons might have suggested that particular acronym?
"Secret, juggling monkey magic" is simply the best sentence I've ever heard. Thank you.
This channel is one of the best online, with regard to the huge work that is behind each video, the exiting of the video...the lessons on early Jewish mysticism are really brilliant
Marvelous, as usual... Elsewhere, I saw a quite interesting examination of angels, as they appear in ancient, Middle Eastern sources, including the Bible, especially as the ancient depictions differ sharply from the fluffy, diaphanous, Northern European-looking creatures with which many of us grew up. I wonder if Dr. Sledge would consider doing an episode focusing "the angelic", granting that it's potentially a very large topic. 🙏
Yeah, I want to do an episode on the origins and evolution of angels and demons in the Hebrew Bible!
Been stumbling around with books on Magick and trying to find a decent tutor online to explain the backstory to so many of the rituals that are still in practice today and then I stumbled upon your channel and I love how much care is being taken to calmly educate on the history of the Occult especially for someone like me who is just getting their feet wet with invocations and other more serious feats. Thank you
I recognize your high praise and double it with my own. This channel has helped me apply the Delphic maxim = Know thyself.
Hail Lilith! Praise be unto Myaeu, Glory unto the highest of the low and lowest of the high!
Lilith Samael Lucifer Stolas Beezlebub Andariel
The rest of you tube is suddenly so boring! Your videos take the full attention. You uber geek, are sooooo worth funding! (For anyone watching with some moola) thankyou thankyou, please do not stop. 💖💖But hey, if you dont mind me asking, what is your faith? Not a lead in I promise 😀 just curious... sincerely, rose
Thanks so much :) Me? Jewish (Reconstructionist - I follow the teachings of R. Mordecai Kaplan, z"l)
The Hammer edition joke in the beginning got me :) Much respect for your immense work and knowledge! Highly, highly needed channel!
I loved A Dark Song. Gonna check out your review, then come back to this.
Thanks for sharing knowledge.
Another fantastic video. Looking forward to seeing you create some form of online class, so that I can particpate.
10:30 “Support your local occult oil makers?”
XD I love how you said that. It was hilarious.
I have to get some Abramelin oil myself. Maybe one day I can try making my own when I am more well-versed in herbalism and potions.
I shall gladly support my local occult oil maker.
While you we’re talking about guardian angels. I have a bit of concern. While I was in a coma. I was in a pure white room sitting in front of a being of light. It said “be careful because of what you’re doing to sleep” as if me and you were sitting and conversing while having a cup of coffee.
Just an explanation for a concern that you might want to study up on. As you are born with spirit watching and assisting with your life.
I appreciate what you do, and how you do it.
Thanks and thanks for watching!
What a great conversation. Thank you for posting!
Excellent, as always, Doc! Thanks!
Here because I'm watching the movie A Dark Song and was curious about the text. Im a Christian but very interested in esoteric and occult texts. I would not practice stuff like this but it is fascinating.
a friend just nabbed me a copy of this book and i was immensely pleased to find you had a video on it. keep up the amazing work!
Excellent presentation. Thanks!
Despite the confusion about the origins and authorship of the text, the two slightly different versions, and also the sharp contrast between the latter part of the book ( the squares) with the main corpus of the text, which focuses on the essential practices to be performed to summon the HGA, and evocation of the spirits, this is an incredible grimoire which stands in its own right. I would thoroughly recommend this ritual to anyone of sane mind. Provided one follows the instructions it is one of the safest methods to learn magic, whereby one is taught about purification, invocation, transcendence, evocation and .. a lot more. That has been my own experience.
It certainly seems so - folks who know way more about that than I do swear by it. I'm just hopeful my presentation is a good mix of sympathetic and critical.
@@TheEsotericaChannel It is a very balanced presentation. Keep up the good work!
@@bzeliotis Really met your HGA ?
Awesome 😎 thanks Dr.Sledge!!🙏
I love your channel. Its so hard to find an academic approach to these topics together
I have a copy of second edition the book of Abramelin compiled by Georg Dehn and it's a great read
i've yet to finish reading Stephen Skinner's thesis on the connections between the PGM and Solomonic magick, but it could be an interesting topic... while reading multiple things i found how some demon-names are basically just random words from other languages like Sallos (phoenician) or Zebulon (i might remember it wrong, but it was a biblical place), so the moral of the story is that christian magicians of the medieval times had a so-so knowledge of foreign languages and couldn't realize the difference between words, names, and places
love your work as well as subtle yet noticeable humor...in this case the quick m c hammer clip.
Yep, we should take the content seriously, not ourselves ;)
Has anyone written a book on how to practically perform Abramelin step by step? I’m not interested in Crowleys Liber Samekh.
I was told that no matter your particular path religion or background that Hebrew is the most magical language. So even if it was a Christian who wrote it , truth could be truth that it works , or doesn’t . But your reasons are not the “end all. “ love your channel ! Big fan .
Makes me so happy to see that everyday your subscribers are growing
Dr. Sledge, have you been interviewed on Glitch Bottle and/or Inside the Magic Circle or invited to be? That would be terrific and enjoyable.
I haven't but I would really enjoy chatting with them - solid and wonderful content creators!
Thank you for this Channel! LOVE and stárs ✨
It would be amazing if you made a video discussing _The Picatrix._
I am excited about the video about selum as well.
Talk about timing. Cheers!
This is great. Thank you for your presentation. Sometimes, threads are easy to follow and BS can be sniffed out. ;-)
This should be more popular
Was definitely not expecting to laugh when I decided to watch this it makes this interesting subject even better
This.
Yes, I was just thinking of how I needed to do more search on him after reviewing the tarot deck he made. Ohhhhh mr. crowleyyyyyyy. Sledge I’m hoping that when Covid is a thing of the past if I could sit in to make up for trimester covid semester. ✨🌚
Sure thing - folks are always welcome to sit in. How are you holding up? I really miss being in the class room and can't wait to get back to it.
After hearing the overview of the kinds of spells included in the book, I'm disappointed in the lack of spells for finding buried treasure.
Edit: I take it back!
Story of my life
What are wonderful surprise - 2 videos! Your interview with Miguel (Aeon Byte) this week was great too. I saw the MC Hammer insert. LOL
;) If you can't have fun with all this stuff, why bother - right?
@@TheEsotericaChannel Right on! That's an great point!
Loads of great info, very digestible !
Wow II was able to create that Oil w Big success, thank you for a Cosmic confirmation .
All the Best ....
I really like what you are doing...TY..
Excellent and interesting.
I saw “A Dark Song” years ago and never knew the ritual was called Abramline😮
You had me at secret monkey , juggling magick
Thank you!
has anyone here summoned an entity successfully? something you could feel or see?
Not summoned. Yet a real and powerful - strangely comforting - life-changing experience! Other experiences, too, in the past. But this one cemented for me the reality that we are definately not alone. Their energy, and their power, is immense. Only those who have had personal experiences, of this nature, will understand.
Thank you for this channel
Welcome!
I've never studied anything from aleister crowley but I will say that one's "true will" reminds me of the idea of the over soul. This concept combined with the idea of reincarnation (human to human) brings about the belief that in your current life you can take actions (free will) that might go against what your over soul would want. Essentially "lying" to yourself or going against your true desires. Also as a sidenote in this ideology in between lifes, presumably, people's souls mutually agree to certain activities, such as teacher/student, marriage, etc. relationships, which constitutes our "destiny". Inso two people are bound to have children because they agreed to this prior to birth but free will allows one to break their promises, which I would imagine is not a good thing.
Exactly right. Your true will is infact your pre birth plan or soul contract. The reason why magicians seek to reconnect with their HGA or whole self while still alive is so they can become a co creator of their reality rather than an unconscious victim of circumstance. How well this works in reality is a mystery. Natalie Sudmans NDE talks about how we reunite with our whole self at death.
17:43 What is the current most complete English version? It is unfortunate that the Mathers translation is incomplete.
I shall check out the Dehn, Guth, and DuQuette version.
Thank you for this thorough breakdown
New and grateful subscriber here. Your research and work are awesome. Please consider addressing the rumors that many occult authorities and historians like Mathers and Crowley intentionally mis translated and or changed works to lessen their influence
🙏🏼
I think they would have to be more competent translators to do anything like that :)
Just subscribed, much love from the UK
Beautifully done
I love this channel. Great information and wonderful topics further rescearch. Hmmm.. Juggling spirit monkeys... It's been so long since that I last read this text I don't recall anything about THAT piece of information. Time to buy a better copy of this text.
So much knowledge here. Amazing
Another great video!
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Is there any record of someone actually completing the Abramelin rite in Modern times?
Yes. Does this even work? You can put in all that effort and nothing happens lmao
Secret monkey magic juggling, just the spell i was looking for!
A question, primarily rhetorical, since I doubt any certainty exists: Has anyone ever fully completed the Abramelin ritual? How did it turn out? 🤷
I tried myself twice, years ago, once in my early and again in my mid to late 20s. Both times I fell on my butt when it came to the self-isolation. That movie Doc Sledge mentioned, "A Dark Song", a place like the one rented by the female protagonist in that truly awesome film - a place miles from nowhere and nestled between nothing and bugger-all - would have been ideal in both cases. But as carefully as I planned everything, as resolute I was in getting through it, 21st-century life just had other plans. About 20 years lie between those two attempts and now and somehow, I still can't help regretting failing to get through it. My attempts had their moments of terrific and unforgettable profundity though. And while I have to admit to my failure as far as completing Abramelin is concerned, I did subsequently find ritual practices in more modern magickal systems that perform somewhat similar functions without making the demands Abramelin does. All the same, I'd like to try again someday. The whole thing is so pregnant with promise.
@@markwarrensprawson - that IS an excellent movie. I do wonder though, if anyone has ACTUALLY seen their archangel or even perhaps demonic entities. Or, was it primarily in their brain due to the 18 month long grueling rituals....more psychological in nature. You mentioned other rituals so have you worked with any Goetian? Obviously I'm not asking for your secrets 😊 but rather any luck with any others besides The Abramelin?
I performed the Rite in 1997 with success, and have worked regularly with my Holy Guardian Angel ever since. I now teach a full course on Abramelin (focused mostly on the practicalities of performing it in the modern world) which has produced a good number of successful initiates over the past three to four years.
@@sisu4134 Hi! Yes, I've nosed about in the Goetia quite a bit since then. I'm not half as dedicated to proper magickal practise now as I have been in the past. I do, however, have journals from back then that were fairly fastidiously kept. I was lucky enough to meet a few people who introduced and initiated me into quite a few systems of ceremonial magick. I'd be fooling myself if I claimed to believe that I'd gained "the knowledge and conversation of my Holy Guardian Angel". I will say though that I was hella inspired by something. Goetic work proved pretty mandatory when it came to getting on with things as far as the work in general was concerned. One ritual in specific I was thinking of when I mentioned more modern systems offering similar workings (similar only in certain limited ways, mind) was one I was introduced to while studying chaos magick. It's overall a bit of a weird one because it's based on a fusion of Sumerian spiritual concepts and science fiction/horror literature, specifically that of HP Lovecraft. The ritual is an initiatory one to do with the opening and passing through a series of nine gates, each based on a planet and its correlating deity. Things that make it "like" Abramelin are; it's a solo mission, it is performed over a fairly lengthy period of time (nine months, one for each lunar month), it involves fasting, as well as as much meditation on that month's deity one can manage, which of course involves study of that deity's nature, attributes, things sacred/abhorrent to it and last but not least, the learning by heart of each deity's invocation in what I was told is Summerian as well as opening and closing sections for each ritual in the same language. When the night comes for each gate one has been putting all this time and energy into, one doesn't really need any fancy stuff. It doesn't all need to be done at the same place. In my case, I pretty much popped out to a different spot that I'd been scouting out for each gate, one in a hidden place beneath the moon and open sky. Each gate is to be considered an initiation on its own until finally, you come to the ninth gate, symbolically passing into Chaos on its completion. It doesn't promise and "knowledge and conversation of your HGA," but I can say this much with certainty. It far surpassed my expectations and it affected me in truly profound ways, during and especially at the end of the ordeal.
Gosh. You probably didn't expect a mini-essay from me. If you read this far, I just hope I didn't bore you to death. I wonder if you see what I meant though. Although it isn't as, sort of, austere as Abramelin and hasn't the history or tradition Abramelin has, and although it doesn't offer "knowledge and convo of the HGA," it's pretty well-suited to the general pace and lack of space to disappear off to of these, our current times. Like I also said though, I'm older, more mature, a little wealthier, and having another go at Abramelin might be a very worthwhile endeavor.
Think I might watch "A Dark Song" again tonight. Peace. Hell, I hope I didn't bore the doody out of you. Light, life, love and liberty to all y'all! ;-)
@@kheph777 Good on you! In retrospect, I was just too young and lacked proper financial stability. My ideal setting would be up in the mountains somewhere. The attempts I made were at my home on both occasions, and on both occasions, I was lured out by business opportunities. Out of interest, your course, is it something undertaken via correspondence?
As usual, excellent content, Dr. Sledge. I'm curious about the use of the word "president" in the (translations of) medieval demonological grimoires, which otherwise describe the hierarchies in terms typical of European monarchies. What are the words translated into "president" in the English versions? How would medieval readers have understood the use of these words?
The Hebrew word is נשיא which historically meant something like "person who has power by inheritance" and is related to the word for prince, נסיך. It was also used to indicate the 'leader' of the Sanhedrin, e.g., Yehudah HaNasi, as well. The modern sense of the word is 'president' or 'chairman' or something like that. A medieval person, assuming they knew Hebrew, would likely have understood it to mean 'person in charge' or something like that.
@@TheEsotericaChannel So decidedly not a reference to some democratically obtained position. Thank you.
@@tateengstrand1349 Not then, no. But in Modern Hebrew use, yes.
The HGA dates back to Greece, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia. Holy Daimon
Shalom Doc. Is it at all possible to practice the rituals described in that book and succeed in same?
Great video, as usual. I wonder, do you have any book recommendations about the nature and belief of magic, especially about the questions:
"What makes gods/demons/spirits/the Cosmos obey the spell, and why only if I use a certain language and certain rites? Did someone make an ancient pact with them and those were the terms?" and
"How do ancient magic practitioners view failure? If I try to summon a castle (as I learned from this channel) and there is no castle to be found, have I done something wrong or is there another force working against me?"
This is so fascinating. Thank you for sharing this. I am from Edinburgh Scotland. I’ve never visited this house. I think I may need to go visit it. P.s, I am studying Hermetic Qabalah. Can you please tell me what are the main differences from Jewish and Western practices? I feel so confused as I read. Thanks.
I think it’s funny when believers of one crazy idea mock believers of another crazy idea using deeply flawed, mistranslated texts.
^ this
Star Trek vs Warhammer?
Personally I prefer mocking other crazy ideas with soyjaks
Right! Makes me think about The Book of Mormon (the musical) where Christians laughed at the "crazy" believes of the mormons, not realizing the sheer irony in that.
Would you consider doing a video about the "Sefer Raziel haMalach" in a near future or so?! I'm very interested in some angel magic, and i'm finding it difficult to find a reliable academic source concerning this book.
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