Ceremonial Magic & The Power of Evocation by Joseph C. Lisiewski

Author:Joseph C. Lisiewski [Lisiewski, Joseph C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Original Falcon Press
Published: 2012-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

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1 Flowers, Stephen Edred, PhD., ed. Hermetic Magic. The Postmodern Magical Papyrus of Abaris. Samuel Weiser, Inc. York Beach, Maine. 1995. page xviii. 2 Mathers, S.L. MacGregor, translator. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech A.D. 1458. Dover Publications, Inc., NY. 1975. page 34. 3 Ibid. page 36. 4 Ibid. page 24.

Chapter Four:

The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and the Heptameron — Their History, Purpose, and Power

I take my hat off to the reader who has made it this far. I am well aware of the inner turmoil Chapter Three must have caused you. I too had to endure much anguish when I finally realized the facts underlying the art and meaning of what I term the Science behind the Art of Magic. The gloss and glitter of ‘modern magic’ faded for me as quickly as a cheap paint job on an old jalopy. I wish I could apologize to you for the anguish you have and no doubt still are enduring. But the cold hard fact is that I cannot. This is the only way evocation to physical manifestation can be brought about, and the only way genuine magic can be operated, as described, and as confirmed countless times by my colleagues and myself. That being said, perhaps I can make it up to you—at least to a point—by getting on with the business at hand.

Thus far, you have been instructed in the history of the grammars of magic, and in the ‘thou shalts’ and ‘thou shalt nots.’ But how to apply those restrictions and directions has been held back until you were grounded in the underlying theory and warnings. Remember, they will go far in aiding you to construct your own effective subjective synthesis, and the subconscious belief system that results from it. In this and the succeeding chapters we will get down to business of just how to apply what you have learned thus far. But first, by obeying the injunction “Know the Theory before attempting the Praxis,” we have some (more) preliminary work.

What never ceases to amaze me is the reaction to the grimoire you will be using in this work of application. It is so little known. Yet why, I have no idea, because there are few Practitioners or occult writers who are not well acquainted with its presumed author. Even while writing this book, I was introduced to a well known writer in the occult who, when I mentioned I was writing this book and the grimoire it is based upon said, “Whhaatt? I never heard of that grammar! Where did you find it!” His response is the rule, not the exception to it.

The relatively unknown grammar you will be using is entitled Heptameron or Magical Elements,1 supposedly written by one Peter de Abano in the late thirteenth to early fourteenth century C.E. This grimoire is by far the simplest, but perhaps not the easiest grammar of magic to work from.

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