Pentamegistus

Ritual for binding and restraining an enemy This was a ritual I devised to remedy a personal situation, where a jealous individual was deliberately fomenting trouble for my family. The invocation in this rite is based on a spell in the Leyden Demotic magical papyrus (PDM IV, column XXIII, a rite to inflict catalepsy), combined with a long tested Hoodoo technique. I performed this a year ago, as the situation was escalating, and approximately a week afterward, the individual went quiet and has not stirred up any strife since.   Some may question my use of Saturnian associations for Set-Typhon, who is a bellicose, Martian deity, but in the lead up to the final version of this rite, I had several insights urging me to funnel Typhon-Set’s unwieldy, aggressive nature, through the tempering medium of Saturn, whence restriction and subjection arise (but which likewise shares Mars’ malefic nature).  Moreover, in the Egyptian myth, Seth used a leaden coffin to imprison and bind O

Refulgent, lofty Maia of starry gaze, eldest one of all luminaries. Bound with Zeus in sacred union, Thou didst beget venerable Hermes, whereat the whole cosmos rejoiced. Purest of countenance, comeliest of all Thy sisters, who didst enthrone Thyself upon  the heavenly vault, circumscribing the celestial pole in harmonious circles. Mighty  ZIZAUBIÔ , thy holy angel, venerates Thee, and brings Thy will upon the terrestrial regions, weaving the four elements in sacred equilibrium. Goddess, do Thou attend to these sacred rites, at this very hour and moment, bestowing Thy favour on mine endeavours.

Healing illnesses with the 36 Decans Originally published in the Hermetic Tablet , Winter 2016. Thanks to Nick Farrell for kindly allowing me to publish this and other material there.   The following is a simple method I developed working with the Decans for healing purposes. It is quite different from what is found in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius, but it works well. I have experimented with Hoodoo-type techniques brought into other systems I work with, and found them to be tremendously effective, so this method incorporates some of them. For the complete list of Decan names & the body parts they govern, please see the Sacred Book of Hermes . Requirements : small white votive candle, a photo of the person to be healed, a small disk-shaped magnet, olive oil. If you have an herb related to the decan, mix it into the oil. Prior to the ritual, draw the figure of the decan on a piece of paper, with its Greek name, then burn it to ash, and mix it with th

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Agathodaimon Liturgy Originally published on Orphic Platonism  (Thank you to Todd Jackson), and the Hermetic Tablet Standing before the shrine. Purify yourself with the water, and chew some natron. Then say: Let the earth be still, let the air be still, let the sea be still, let the winds also be still and do not be a hindrance to this sacred rite! No sound, no loud cry, no disturbance of any kind. For I am a priest\priestess, and I am about to call the great Agathos Daimôn, the benevolent helper of mankind, the noble ruler of visible and invisible natures, the resplendent Sun above the sun, He who is the invisible nature of all things. Awaken  PŠOI PNOUTHI NINTHÊR , Good Spirit, God of Gods, great serpent, whose processional way are the heavens, who governest the earth, who matest in the sea, glorious one amongst the stars, awaken to this rite which I perform in Thine honour. I call Thee  SATRAPERKMÊPH , mighty and kindly Agathodaimôn, who breathest life into all

The Sefer ha-Malbush or ‘Book of the Garment’ is a Jewish esoteric text, consisting of a ritual for evoking angelic beings and performing various feats. This text can tentatively be traced back to the Geonic period (6 th -11 th centuries), and may have originated in Babylonia, where Jewish communities thrived during this era. Another mystical work with the same title, but only distantly related to it, is found in the Sefer Raziel. The ritual embodied in the Book of the Garment involves a practice referred to as lebishat ha-shêm , in Hebrew, literally ‘putting on the Name’. Essentially, the practitioner seeks to impregnate their being with the Name or Names of God, usually by immersing themselves in water and reciting the Names. Variations on this procedure were commonplace in Jewish theurgic literature. In the Sword of Moses, another magical text from the Geonic era, we find an impressive ritual to evoke the Angel of the Presence, which begins with a procedure for putting on a

Hermetic Self Initiation Ritual Originally published in Orphic Platonism Required materials -Water (with salt or natron in it) -Bread & wine -Censer (incense: frankincense) -White candle or oil lamp (not red) -Flask of holy oil -White robe or alb Preliminary instructions – Let the aspirant remain pure and chaste for 8 days, beginning on a Sunday, and for the first 7 days at sunrise recite the adoration to God from Corpus Hermeticum 1 facing east (see end of this document) -The initiation is to be performed on the 8th day, Sunday at sunrise. -The aspirant shall fast for 1 day prior to the initiation, beginning the previous day at sunrise – Prior to initiation he/she must have read: Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius, and the Discourses of Isis to Horus -The ritual setup is as follows: central altar with candle, cup of wine, paten of bread, oil flask. Ritual Clothed in a black robe, having meditated for a while,

Originally published in the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition . Materials needed : Statue of deity, 2 offering dishes (for libation and food), censer, candle or lamp (not red), wine or milk for libations, water with natron in it for purification, altar or shrine, white robe. Standing before the shrine. Purify yourself with the water, and chew some natron. Then say: Let the earth be still, let the air be still, let the sea be still, let the winds also be still and do not be a hindrance to this sacred rite! No sound, no loud cry, no disturbance of any kind. For I am a priest, and I am about to call the great Goddess Isis, the Queen of the Gods, whom Agathodaimon permitted to rule the whole world. Awaken O Usat, lady Isis, Goddess of many names, awaken in peace comely one, awaken renowned queen of the Gods, divine mother of Horus, refulgent diadem of life, awaken in peace, to this rite which I perform in Thine honour. Hear me, whether Thou hast journeyed around to t

The Sefer ha-Yashar (‘Book of the Just’ or ‘Book of the Righteous’) is a Jewish magical text from the Geonic period which consists of an abridged version of the famous Sefer Adam (the first book of the Sefer Raziel, wherein the names of seasons, planets, etc. are listed for practical use). It should be noted that another esoteric work exists with the same title, but is otherwise unrelated to it, a later prophetic text, written by the qabbalist Abraham Abulafia in the 13 th century. The present work was published by Irina Wandrey alongside the Sefer ha-Malbush, which are both found in the same manuscript. The translation here presented is taken from the Hebrew and Aramaic text of MS Oxford Michael 473. The Sefer ha-Yashar is attributed to a certain Shemu’el, head of the Academy (presumably the famous Talmudic academy of Babylon), who received it from Rab Huna bar Sehora, an African Rabbi. While the authorship may be pseudonymous, our work was well known amongst the Babylonian