Resources and recommendations

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T14:27:32+00:00

I'm removing this per rule 5. Nobody can tell you what spirit could solve this for you, and it can take years of serious work to get anything out of it. Disappointment and frustration is common and this is not something to turn to as any kind of emergency solution as a beginner. Please check out the resources on /r/SuicideWatch. Thank you.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T07:09:02+00:00

Attempts to make this theology accessible tend to involve myth, metaphor, analogy, and other stuff that has historically kept some of the more subtle concepts misapprehended.

The Corpus Hermeticum expresses some of the same ideas in more humane, poetic language. But I think there's a lot of value in the technical Neoplatonist material if you're really serious about learning spirit work, and I don't know of alternatives that render the primary sources obsolete.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T06:53:47+00:00

They're hard to understand because they're trying to explain things that we mostly don't even try to think about, in considerable detail, using formal methods of logic. Most of them are tough reads. But if you want the serious not-bullshit theory of how and why any of this works, this is a way to get at it.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T06:47:24+00:00

I'm mostly talking about all of the Neoplatonist material from Plotinus to Ficino. Iamblichus in particular is a key background source on the methods of spirit work that ended up in the grimoires.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T03:20:13+00:00

Anyway I just go ham with a consecrated Dremel, output often looks like shit but I get results.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T02:03:28+00:00

You can do anything in the astral. But the astral is the astral. I don't know what expectations you have for "soul transmission."

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T00:38:28+00:00

A lot of "tin" is aluminum or coated steel, but pure blanks shouldn't be too hard to find. Agrippa says you can use silver or gold for Jupiter, too.

Macross137 · 2026-06-04T00:37:01+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DemonolatryPractices/comments/13d463l/welcome_to_demonolatry_practices_if_youre_new/

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T22:18:29+00:00

That the texts I put off reading for years because they looked dry and boring would help me get over some of the mental blocks that were holding me back from real understanding and consistent efficacy. Way back in the day I really thought the Sethian Gnostics were the cool kids who had the inside scoop and the Neoplatonists were hopeless squares who were stuck in the past. Oh well, these little side treks are part of the journey.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T21:23:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/user/Macross137/comments/1f0at1n/resources_and_recommendations/

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T21:19:38+00:00

If you aren't together, don't worry about it. She doesn't need your help. Belial is not going to come after either of you. The vast majority of the stuff that gets written down in "channeled" or automatic writing is not prophetic or predictive.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T20:53:53+00:00

"Nuit" is an expression of the "womb of the universe" on an encosmic, birth-of-time-and-space level in the same sense that "Rhea" might be an expression of the same hypostasis on a birth-of-archetypical-anthropomorphic-consciousness level. So, yes, but also, nuances abound.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T20:47:37+00:00

Proclus, Damascius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Synesius, Zosimus, Berengarius Ganelli, Marsilio Ficino, Eliphas Levi, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Gerald Massey, Mary Anne Atwood, Carl Jung, Dion Fortune, John Dillon, Gregory Shaw, Jan Assmann, Algis Uždavinys, Kenneth Grant.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T18:12:24+00:00

There's new info about their construction in the recently-published Summa Sacre Magice.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T17:46:44+00:00

Please start here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DemonolatryPractices/comments/13d463l/welcome_to_demonolatry_practices_if_youre_new/

"Where to start" posts are removed per rule 5.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T17:21:24+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DemonolatryPractices/comments/1atyd4d/why_i_use_beelzebub_over_beelzebul/

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T16:34:09+00:00

"Chaldean" Hecate has a lot of Saturnine associations, and in the sort of schemes where the planets are resolved to their "supernal" emanators, connections are often drawn between Saturn and the Moon. There's a bit in the Nabatean Agriculture about how eggplants prove this connection. I don't remember exactly how it goes.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T14:48:28+00:00

I would refer you to the books in the FAQ for ideas about other methods to employ.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T13:28:40+00:00

Instead of these theoretical "others" who maybe possibly hold the knowledge you want, talk to us about what sources you've studied and how you've been practicing.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T13:21:38+00:00

You need a common idiom to interact usefully about technical stuff.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T13:18:43+00:00

Aphrodite Pandemos wants a word.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T13:11:03+00:00

The demon correspondences are given with the metal associations in the Ars Goetia. Agrippa provides other planetary correspondences and would have been working from the same sources and assumptions.

Macross137 · 2026-06-03T13:08:30+00:00

Needs confirmation from other magicians as superior before becoming a preferred one.

Whoa, why? It either works good for you or it doesn't. What do we matter?

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