Goetic Musings
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Inspired by the recent ramble, this is a bit of my own rambling unintended manifesto. No practical content whatsoever, just a collection of random thoughts about modern goetic magic and some signposts from the Greek tradition that I plan to adapt to my own practice in the future.
This is unfortunately a form of magic where I have little practical experience. I've been eyeballing goetic magic from the sidelines for sometime, largely because there doesn't seem to be any agreement on the extent to which one should include Abrahamic rituals.
After years of internal deliberation, I started finding hints of a non-Abrahamic ritual framework ripe for excavation. It will take me some time to explicate it via divination and alternative methods of spirit conjuration. Until then, I might look first to the popular framework which I think of consisting of 4 steps.
Purification of all the Things
Invocation of Authority
Evocation of the Spirit
License to Depart
Purification concerns rarefying the energies necessary in myself, my space, the ritual time, and all other extradimensions so that they are conducive to the spirit being evoked. This is where I'd deploy Chapter 33 Book III of Agrippa's "three chains" to give the spirit something to latch onto (AKA "binding the spirit"). Invocation of Authority is where I'd align with the universal or "ruling" powers necessary to compel the intended spirit, again per Agrippa's theory of going from universal to more specific principles to draw in power. The Evocation is where I'd actually bring all the aforementioned ingredients into alignment to generate the gravity necessary to bring in the spirit to negotiate the work at hand. The License to Depart walks back each step of the ritual to release the spirit, ground myself, and return the ritual space to a neutral state.
You are earthy again like a freshly dug grave 🤣 I am jesting, I mean fresh soil.
Thank you, I have little to no interest in this subject but you sucked me in with
‘Allah, and Christ with bigotry, discrimination, and self-loathing. I just cannot bring myself to call on these gods and mean it. This lack of conviction seems like it could result in a lack of efficacy at best and in dangerous side-effects at worst.’
😁 Nice, I like that. HAIL.
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter is an amazing essayist and this prose pulled me into your work like Hunter does for me.
Don't take recommendations from me I also think Crowley's essays are interesting. 🤔😮
I have little to no interest in Aggrippa she says when a leather-bound copy is making its way to me. One of my lovely clients bought me it.
When I say I have no interest I read and I take away what I want. I see the world slightly differently and I got royally told off and told to step into the 3rd for a while to see how it feels.
My copy is literally in pieces. I have no interest in it, despite that I enjoy reading your work.
We have different ideas of what natural magic is, despite this, I enjoy a Saturday ruminating on what you've said. However your style is inconsistent 😁 I try to ignore that.