I was always intrigued by the old grimoires.
In studying the old grimoires in my University days, I was struck by the almost scientific complexity of ritual. Anyone who has perused the Key of Solomon and its companion book, the Goetia, knows that there are so many particulars to any ritual that it rightly earns its name of being an "operation" to carry out. Everyone also knows that the main function of the grimoires is to contact spirits and/or demons, to seek their aid.
S.L.M. Mathers, with help from other members of the Order of The Golden Dawn, greatly simplified the rituals by interpreting them in the modern sense, and replacing the physical requirements by and large with symbolic ones. For instance, the modern rituals do not require actually drawing out the circle with the various names of God, but rather they can be intoned in the various quadrants and given symbolic place.
Whether simplified or traditional, do you think the grimoires work? I never had any success.
2007-08-18
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Jack B, sinistral
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