The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain.
– The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic, Aleister Crowley
I generally take "brain" to mean "mind" here, since I don't imagine Dantalion is just another way to say basal ganglia. He goes on to explain,If then I say, with Solomon: "The spirit Cimieres teaches logic," what I mean is ( Read more... )

For me, necromancy is a symbol of the past. It's a dramatic representation of the forces of history, occasionally personalized but just as often faceless and irresistible, the lingering effects of choices made long ago. The form of the dead is an intepretative key ( Read more... )

And then things got weirder.

Boffins create zombie dogs

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death...
Fascinating, I think to myself. This can't ( Read more... )

If I were ever going to do a movie based on the concept of Gnostic necromancy, this would be the voiceover at the beginning. An Orson Welles-like voice, visuals of insubstantial shapes whirling through a dark mist...

Either someone will be in this world ( Read more... )

"If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be commanded into a Triangle, △, or else he will deceive him, and tell him many Lies."
– The Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, SHEMHAMPHORASH, 44th SpiritEven if you accept that a book (any book: the Holy Bible, Liber AL, the Starseed Transmissions ( Read more... )