Goetic Liturgy
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.12 (894 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1907881433 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Recitations for Thelemic Evocation - and More Amazon Customer Be advised this book is not a stand-alone resource. It is a collection of various recitations to be included as a part of larger rituals which are not detailed in this publication. However, there are some comments and notes by the author interspersed throughout that, if you have experience in that type of spirit work, will be of good value - even if you do not anticipate using these specific recitations. I learned a few very valuable things that made this book worth the inconsequential price of purchase for me. Furthermore, it has fanned the flames of my curio
Both the formula itself, and example invocations and conjurations are given. This is also a manual of ritual composition; for working within a defined liturgical frame, providing structure rather than setting finite limits. These are underworld deities, as appropriate to goetic tradition. The deities involved in these rituals are - or equate with - Greco-Egyptian deities from the period of the ancient syncretism. First published in The Equinox: British Journal of Thelema, Volume VII 9-11 as 'Liturgical Approaches to Invocation & Evocation', GOETIC LITURGY concerns the art of invoking gods in order to conjure spirits by "the Egyptian formula". Thus these rituals are equally applicable frameworks for working with the magical papyri & 'neo-archaic' approaches to the spirit catalogues of the grimoires.