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Summary: An excellent catalog of spirits, and their sigils.
Review: This is truly an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the arts of evocation or invocation. This tome catalogs 72 spirits, those that are referred to as the "Goetic spirits", of such famed repute.
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Summary: The Best Extant Edition
Review: When Samuel Liddel MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley collaborate on a work of such magnitude as the Goetia, you know you're in for something big.Written by an unknown author in a relatively unknown time (but at some point during the Renaissance), Goetia is the first text of a series of five known as "Lemegeton", which some people have suggested was originally the name of a magician. The idea that this books was "translated" is inaccurate, as Mathers simply transcribed the existing English manuscript which can be found in the London museum. No editions in Hebrew or Latin are known to exist. The book contains 72 demons, which were supposedly summoned by Solomon the King (hence the title) into visible appearance, following out the instructions in the text. Aleister Crowley does a masterful job editing the text, and his essay in the beginning of the text describing his theory on the operations of Ceremonial Magick is unusually clear and easy to read. Mathers' transcription of the manuscript makes the whole ensemble just as simple to understand. There is also an insightful introduction written by Hymenaeus Beta, the current Frater Superior of the O.T.O. His description of the climate of the Golden Dawn, and the competitive nature of the two men Mathers and Crowley, makes for an interesting backdrop to the text itself. The sigils are just wonderously drawn, and the reprint of the ritual in the back of the book (which includes the Enochian reading in both the Golden Dawn phonetic pronunciation and the Enochian language itself) is a nice addition. To those who seek Solomonic grimoires, you don't have a better option than this text.
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Summary: A Primary Key To All Occult Arts
Review: Whether approached in the truly appropriate manner a la Aptigrah and Demonolatry or with full ceremonial armor in the style of Savedow or somewhere in-between via Duquette, Runyon, Riva or others, the Goetic Spirits offer one of the few tried-and-true keys to real magick power and sorcery. If you treat these powerful entities with respect and have courage, the Gate will be opened to you. Don't miss the opportunity they offer!
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Summary: A Must Have for Those Lonely Nights of Re-Runs
Review: Why bother with re-runs, 108 cable channels with nothing good on them and psychic hotlines that wipe out your wallet? Go straight to the source - adopt-a-devil. It is your choice, with or without protective circle. If you use the protective circle, they will deftly affect your mind anyway (they have that in common with advertising). If you choose to go circleless and engage in a little chat time, they may never leave! But then, Taisha Abelar referred to her familiars (allies, as she terms them) as merely friendly pets, little spots of light that would occasionally follow her around. Just visitors from another dimension - the twilight zone. These _are_ twilight zone denizens, as the drawings scrawled by Crowley in his personal copies of this book, and reproduced here, prove. To really get a feel for them, the Duquette Goetia book is highly recommended as well. But be sure to have this one! Besides Crowley's drawings and notes, it is well annotated by an excellent Crowley scholar. M PS: This is not to be confused with black magic. Crowley used the Goetia to attain his HGA, Holy Guardian Angel, and the invocation to the HGA herein contained, and later reproduced in Regardie's groundbreaking popularization, is indispensable. Otherwise known as the "Bornless One."
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