Babylonian Magic - The Maqlu Ritual - Invoking the Gods to Destroy Evil Magic
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2021
- The Maqlu ritual is an ancient Mesoptoamian ritual invoking the Shamash, the god of the sun and justice, the destroy those that work evil magic and to unbind that sorcery. This ancient, 3000 year old ritual, is among the most complex forms of counter-magic known in the world. Join me as I explore this fascinating magical ritual!
Recommended Reading:
Abusch - The Witchcraft Series Maqlû - 978-1628370829
Jacobsen - The Treasures of Darkness - 978-0300022919
#babylon #magic #maqlu
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This was unbelievably amazing! You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
Hey
I love the dry humor you put in these. Absolutely great.
The dryer, the humorer
@@TheEsotericaChannel you know what’s hilarious tho is this is the e x a c t type of humor that i s n t dry to people like u s ❤️
Same. hehe
Asafetida!!! I remember when I was a boy, a piece of asafetida was hung by a string around my neck to ward off my catching a cold in winter. For those who don't know, it's a brown resin, supposed to smell really bad (I sort of liked the smell, actually). I never head that head colds were caused by evil spirits, but I suppose asafetida has been used for that for thousands of years
As an Assyrian witch I would LOVE to be a part of recreating this ritual. I've been a practicing with for over 20 years and barely know anything about my ancestor's magical ways. Thanks for this.
It's really a pity that so much of these ritual texts remain basically in volumes for experts in the respective ancient languages, Assyrian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Old Babylonian, etc., especially given how foundational those civilizations are to, well, civilization and how popular they are in the public consciousness. Sadly, because of that gap all manner of 'Anunnaki ancient alien' nonsense has rushed in to fill it. Hopefully I can circle back to this material soon!
Well, modern members of the Assyrian nation/church have little in common with the ancient Assyrians.
Such as most living members of the Roman Catholic Church arent direct descendents (sp???) of ancient Romans....
Me too
@@chrisrauber6602Hence, why they are thanking Dr. Justin Sledge for sharing this info..... Thanks @Esoterica / Dr. Sledge!
@@CallMeJamezCuzDatzAGiantPeach Totally agree. A truly never-ending source of inspiration and knowledge. I hope u dont take it personally but most of the pagan revivals I have
experienced up to now are more or less "re-enactment". Entertaining for sure....but nothing more.
often wondered if the idea of the burning purification idea came after we started cooking meat, and how the burning/cooking seemed to stop many diseases and parasites, this burning/purification is old and found all over the world, the ancient druids used to do this same thing, running their bulls through the flames to purify them, for example
New framing? Love it, much more badass also noticed you worked on the cuts and transitions and the mystic memes keep getting spicier
Yep, trying to make the content better and better!
Thank you! This is so interesting, I'm Chaldean (a group native to Iraq) and we trace our roots back to Mesopotamia. It's difficult to find good content on this stuff or on anything about my roots in general. I don't know why but stuff like this just makes me feel a greater connectedness. If you have any other recommended readings that relate more generally to Babylonian or Mesopotamian occultism please do share! :)
Hi, I'm from the Dir clan of Djibouti (Dir are a somali clan but we don't share the same e1b1b dna that cushite somalis carry), my paternal dna, and that of my Dir clan, is haplogroup T-m184, the highest frequency of this dna in the entire world is carried by my Dir clan, interestingly according to genetic scholars, this haplogroup T-m184 y dna originates from mesopotamia and is the oldest native mesopotamian dna
What a splendid acknowledgement of the inherent dignity and value of those who practice witchcraft in the modern context by disclaiming your language. Well done, sir.
"Pure cringe friends." I loled 🤣. Great video as always my friend and I agree, this subject deserves much more respect than it gets on the History Channel via the "Chariots of the Gods?" usual suspects.
Totally agree - it's super embarrassing. Glad you like the episode!
This channel is absolutely fascinating. My some odd Great Grandfather was a Hex Painter and Exorcist in early 19th Century Ontario, so besides my own fascination with folklore and mythology, I feel a personal connection to counter magic rituals.
The lords work🙏🏻thank you. Many blessings. Bread and salt
Thanks!
@@TheEsotericaChannel I know it seems strange but I’m digging into knowing more about the silver and fire ritual , I’m new to all this and on a time crunch ☺️ is this something you would have more knowledge of off hand?
I believe I’m being led by archangel jophiel. And it’s all really new to me. I appreciate any and all help. 🙏🏻❤️
You are unique my dear friend. I enjoy watching your videos
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Opening for Deafheaven at St. Vitus
Yes! I am so glad to hear you advocating that kind of interdisciplinary investigation! I've been struggling for years to figure out how to increase the flow of dialogue between experts in the different fields I've been independently studying. It would do a lot to help with the Ancient Aliens problem that you described at the very end. That very body of literature has made it incredibly difficult for me to have intelligent discussions with my peers about a lot of esoteric topics. I would really just like to get to a point where these topics can comfortably fit into our casual conversations. I think if we could establish a clearer picture of how our global religious ecosystem formed and for what purpose, we could arrive at conscious solutions to the unconscious problems that religious behaviors are designed to solve.
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Might be cool if you did a cunning folk video, I don't know a tremendous amount about them so I'm not suggesting anything specific but I just noticed you mentioned them here.
Loved this. Congrats on hitting 20K 😍🎉🥳
Thanks, akhi! Looks like one of my old episodes on angel magic caught fire for some reason. But yeah, the Maqlu is super interesting especially when thinking about the Sotah or the Urim and Thummim. That whole ancient near east magic world is super fascinating. Hope you are well!
Perhaps another video on angel magick.🙂 there are tons of books on angel invocations/evocations these days. And i'm beginning to understand its origins and correlations thru your videos. New subbie here.
Madd props, Doc, channel is fiya! Thank you🙌🏻
Fascinating! I'm really enjoying this playlist - thanks for making & sharing it with us!
This is great! Thanks so much for sharing. 🌞
Learning so much from your channel. Thanks
I've been going through your videos out of curiosity recently and find them very interesting. The more we learn the more we realize nothing ever really changes. We are dealing with much of the same issues in our world today as they were back then. They had a financial system based in necromancy and so do we. They had "plague" gods, and so do we. It goes on and on and on and on... I appreciate your efforts in regarding to sharing this information and enjoy your perspective. Thanks.
@@onefeather2 For sure.
Y'know, as far as your forensic magic pitch goes Steven Skinner might be a good person to tackle that. He's (if you're not already familiar) both a scholar and practitioner who's done a lot with actually working with the PGM and other ritual approaches from the general time frame. Regardless, agreed, would definitely be super cool!😁
Right on. “Mr Sumerian tablet” is very questionable and telling at the same time as to being related to the coming alien hoax. I digress. Great content here and I love the resource presentation greatly. Thank you very much
Thank you Dr. Sledge.
Coming in from latest and ultimate livestream of this year, thank you for this enthralling episode of Esoterica! As you might have said, endlessly fascinating, and the formidable challenge for practitioners to recreate and study ritual is without equal. I'm effusive at moment, just finally getting around to this with maybe a kind of critical mass stemming from here and there of finding starting praxis (yes, I get to use fancy word hopefully correctly) and then who knows. Recreate with relevant intermediate practicing experience under the belt and with Dr Justin Sledge as esoteric consultant along with highly respected practitioner authors and their acclaimed practice tomes, let's forge this baby maqlu ritual! Plus a handy trusty squire at ready with fire extuminguisher, of course. Thrill aside, thank you as well for excellent academically rigorous deep dive references! My synchronicity (to me) asking after ancient Library after Lilith episode leading me here is on point. What's Brill?
Good job Justin
I love your channel. I've been listening for a while but just recently subscribed. Today I learned we both live in the same place, which was exciting. Keep up the great work!
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Just discovered this channel. I really appreciate that you take a nerdy scholastic approach instead of a sensationalist or religious one.
Also like that you dumb it down a bit for those of us who are just hobbyists.
BRILLIANT 👏👏A New meaning to Ethical Esoterica. 🖖
I'm going to rewatch this this weekend.
Amazing
Thanks for the great work
Dhanyavaad
Always stoked when my boy Ashurbanipal gets some love. And yes, if he heard a peasant like me calling him "my boy" he'd have me skinned alive. But he's dead.
Very cool, love the respect!
I ❤️🔥ESOTERICA and I’ve always felt “closeness” to Mesopotamia/Phoenicians and even Ancient civilisations like Akkadians, Aztecs, Mayans and so forth, therefore thank you very much for this X 🤘🏻😈🤘🏻🥰🔥🔥🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥✨🧿✨🙌🏻👌🏻
Sure! happy to recreate this with my students.
Thanks for sharing! It is interesting to hear similarities (and differences) with what is done today in various places. For instance, asafoetida to repel unwanted spirits. I wonder if the massage functioned similarly to hands-on or energy healing is done today, but was just described as a massage.
Man your funny as hell and very informative.
Great gift for the Exorcist in your life.
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Sulphur is also used in uncrossing rituals in african american folk magic.
Fascinating to know - thanks!
Hi. Great video.
Thanks, Ken!
Considering the "Southern Accent": To paraphrase Doctor Who here: A lot of ancient realms have a south.
Very interesting
Thanks, Jorge!
Aren’t those tablets in cuneiform/ancient Sumerian? Love this channel’s vibes 🥰😊🙌🏻
Notions of love and that's when the title of my working white paper and abstract discussions on weight versus Mass
This is An AMAZING, INCREDIBLE GOOD VIDEO. Thank you for sharing.
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4 more days until the full moon. The Full Moon is August 1st . The First day of the month just so happens to be the Full Moon 2023
I want to take my inner victimself subject of witchcraft through the MAQLU RITE ❤
Heres to The Reproducing of THE MAQLU RITE❤❤❤❤
Im DIVING INTO THE BOOK IM DIVING INTO THE BOOK. IT JUST CAME IN THE MAIL a few days ago. 😂😂😂
wonderful video, your humor is funny.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have you made a red dragon grand grimoire video?
Could you do a video on the jewish amulet writing tradition?
Yeah, neat topic!
Shamash somewhat reminded me, will you perhaps do a video exploring the Shams Al-Ma'arif...???
As a lover of everything Sumer and Mesopotamia, this topic got me excited. I own a copy of the ritual in the Writings from the Ancient World series. Love those books. I would also recommend The Treasures of Darkness. Read that beautiful serveral times over the years. Great beginners book on Mesopotamia.
Have both of those - wonderful texts !
@@TheEsotericaChannel They truly are. I wish more people had a interest in ancient Mesopotamia. But not from that weird ancient alien viewpoint. That's just so absurd and does a great disservice to the knowledge and great achievements of mankind.
@@suzannetol yes yes yes
I am very interested in Ba'al and Shemyaza, and believe Shamash🌞 to be a predicessor for Khepera, the creator deity of ancient Egypt...
Interesting cast of characters for sure!
I’d love to recreate it, you know, purely for academic purposes. 🤫
For purely academic purposes. Of course. 😉
Yo hire someone to curse you to to see if it works lll
TREMENDOUS
P.S: I think a video or 2 at the end is no real Hardship to we Viewers -even a beginning one (just not any in the Middle IMHO)
Could you please share your collected information on the order of Melchizedek?
If you enjoy his amazing content, I recommend, Robert Sepher and or Manly P. Hall.
Robert Sepher is pseudo-science at it's worst and often just downright anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
Very interesting. I never doubted you are balanced and confident in your field
You amazing me the wealth of knowledge you have. Personally I stay away from magic. On a personal level I stay away from magic. I have never killed an animal for sacrifice or practice in the launage you describe
Then I feel other want to hurt me. I name then ask it to leave my side
I asked in my mind if it with not leave. I command it to be ground and go into the ground
Then say a lot of word and launage I don't understand
I get a glimpse in English of the word I speak but this launage is weird
The reason I did not like spells or burning dolls is the fact it might rebound on me. It might simply staying away from places and people who practise the craft. I accept the magic is strong and in a master hand you can blow yourself of or worse and be stuck in a loop of what you crated. I know myself I stick to Prays and meditation. Not because I am super holy. Or hold any firm title. Magic is dangerous because it takes you over than it in charge not the person. I am fusey but I rather be fusey than sloppy
Out of respect that oh what a web we weave then we Practice to deceive
I know the symbol for order that good enough it was only after one of your video I looked up sign because you should me a sign I was draw to
You think it's would be cool watching others practice from your piont of view I understand your mind wait to understand and experience see for yourself
I get it but you try and find someone who will let you watch them. Would they let you explain what you studied afterwards
It like me saying I like one of my favourite artists is going to ring me up. I think you're supposed cool and a very good teacher.
MarHaba, what if the kashaptu also performed the ritual on the victim, wouldn't that produce a countering effect, thereby nullifying the effects of the ritual? Salaam.
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Sounds like it's time to reproduce the Maqlu ritual! I'm down!
Me too
Little k,we fact: nuru massage is a derivative of the Maqlu ritual. But the emphasis is different.
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Have you heard if the bit meseri ritual??
Yeah, I totally agree with you about that last part. According to my understanding of ancient Sumerian language and belief, anunaki means "sky not earth." That seems to go against the impressive sounding but inaccurate translation "from heaven to earth came" or whatever. Cause they were aliens, see?
How close is the akkadian to hebrew in pronunciation and can you also read it? Have been learning arabic and the sounds are coming more naturally.
Read it? Look at hebrew with actual letters then google akkadian and it is weird symbols
Thank you for being kind to witches and explaining the misogynistic terminology. I have read about this in The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Levack. Any other historical book suggestions you’d recommend on witch history or magic in general?
I've done a couple of episodes on witchcraft with book recommendations. Check those out!
@@TheEsotericaChannel - Thank you! I will! ❤️
That always stands out to me in his videos too. Thank you Dr Sledge, much respect.
@@sabrinakrisb4672 - 100%! ✨⭐️❤️⭐️✨
Would a specialist in ancient Mesopotamian writings be a "cuneilinguist"?
I tried searching but have you done any videos on lilitu?
Not yet!
@@TheEsotericaChannel - Ah I hope that means you will! It seems like there’s lots of conflict regarding origin. Thanks!
Interesting that ‘maqlu’ means burning. My first thought was the Arabic word ‘makla’ which means meat/food. In both senses they’re ‘cooking’!
Can I find your reading list anywhere? Please like put your library on here lmao
I hate to admit it, but my first exposure to the "Maqlu ritual" was through the Simon Necronomicon, and...Simon got a few things wrong.
Yeah not so much wrong as just.... totally made up;)
@@TheEsotericaChannel Well, you know, the late Sixties/early Seventies. There was a lot of crazy stuff going around, and it wasn't all information.
I'm really curious, how close are ancient Egyptian (language) and Akkadian? Also, knot magic must have been around for a very long time from the sound of this video. It is still used today. Again, another comment, asafoetida?! Eek, isn't that toxic?!
Anciet Hebrew prayer like my grandfather Abraham 👴🙏
I'd be ever so grateful, if you could share any materials you have on Ishtar, the world's first International deity. And a feminist one at that.
in your opinion,
what is the most powerful magic book in the world?
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@@TheEsotericaChannel lol....ok
@@brunolopes7311 ;) pretty dark magic though !
Good one
Oh, if anybody is willing to recreate this ritual, I'll be more than happy to provide coffee and doughnuts for the whole group!
Sweet. Thank you. I like donuts ,
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I am Him
Dr Sledge I have a personal question of you to ask. Feel free not to answer but I am curious are you a practioner of magick as well?
@Luke Grochocki Dr Sledge takes care of the academic side of things,,, I can help with the magik, what do you require?
@@NGC-catseye yeah where do I find information about what to do if my friend keeps singing strange songs while they are alone?
@@loganh2140 If they are alone, how do you know they sing strange songs?
@@NGC-catseye fine be that way. I'll take a love potion that can be used on myself then. Not too strong wouldn't want to become a full blown narcissist but you know just enough so I can stand to look at myself in the mirror. Got anything like that.
@@loganh2140 “May you bath in the Lacus Bonitatis to clear the space in which you dwell, to allow your inner beauty to consume your outer flesh”
This spell will only work if you find yourself worthy of love. The more gooder your qualities the more more love you will receive❤
I think they figured out Peter Levenda faked the Simon "Necronomicon"? I wonder how close he got the Maqlu ritual in that?
not....not close.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Guess that explains all our 12 year old failures at raising Cthulhu? :P
Yeah...and it doesn't help that Cthulhu isn't...uh...real. :)
@@TheEsotericaChannel Blasphemy!!! lol
"this channel ain't called Esoterica for nothin!" 😂
The ultimate Uno Reverse card.
Yeah we have Zechariah Sachin to thank for all of this cringe crap. The fact the media likes to run with his ideas is a sure sign for me. Thank you! 🙏🏽💕
Yeah, that stuff is depressing
according to the encyclopedia of witchcraft, there are four hex breaker scriptures in the bible.
Do you remember where it said the hex breakers are in the Bible? I’m curious
@@gabriellemasters7070 in psalms, you can probably find the book online,as well. Verses are 10, 13, 15 and 91.
Esoterica and cutting cucumbers has become an integral erev shabboth minhag
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I came for the unhexing, I stayed for the oil massageS in the wee hours.
"Pure cringe friends." Exactly what a lizard person would claim!
Talking about history *and* taking a jab at Ancient Aliens? Yes please! 😂
I don’t think it’s necessarily sexist if the cultural belief is that only women can perform certain rituals. Men are the only ones able to perform rituals in other religions, and if all this is to be taken as ‘real’, I imagine the reasons would be the same as a purified individual being the only person who can perform magic in some circumstances, and not so in others... not saying women are unclean, just saying maybe there’s something about the difference that makes the ritual work 🤷♂️
...sorry I’m late.
That might be true if it weren't for much larger social patterns of oppression that such exclusion fits in and supports. It could be both sexist and 'why it works' as well.
Fair enough. What I said is only an argument if magic is in the equation, but even if it is... demons could be sexist too. Never met any myself, so I’m not going to be some bigot and say they’re all sexist; but I can imagine they exist.
There is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered. You fulfill NT prophesy with every breath. A gift for the Masses.
Nt is not divinely inspired at all. Christianity is the least credible of all religions and the easiest of all to prove wrong from 1000 angles. Their mistake was attaching it to the tanach. Couldn't prove it totally false from 1000 angles if they hadn't done that
We didn't have religion back then only code of lore
Adunai mother father gid
everything is perception/mind, yet everything is energy
explain perception without conscious energy
Magick is real nerds
your ignorance of it, is no excuse
Your so cute..
And here I thought you were called Esoterica just because you want your channel to sound like a symphonic metal band (a worthy reason). XD
Ugh yes, the ancient aliens theories are cringe for many reasons, many of the worst being imo the harm to current peoples (if I understand correctly many conspiracy theories have an anti-Semitic element?) and the disrespect of ancient peoples' abilities.
To lighten things again, I love your dry sense of humor. Keep the good content coming. :)
:) I totally agree, the ancient aliens stuff is most just crypto-racism. C R I N G E
the voice of reason in a sea of chaos...is is not ironic your site was blocked for 4000 years and the BLM is spread far and wide...praise the lord you are not republican or you would be blocked.thank you Prof..Selah to you
I wonder which fallen angel Shamash is
5:06 misogyny lol
"Misogyny"
positive exploration is not uncritical exploration
ilu bae, keep talkin' truth