ANDROMALIUS, TAKE TWO: GOETIC STORIES
SPECIAL HARDBACK EDITION LIMITED TO 144 COPIES
6×9 inch | indigo silk cloth stamped in silver with silver edges | grey ribbon and pearlescent coal mine end papers | 200 pp printed on Munken Polar Rough 150 gsm paper | hand numbered and signed by the author.
TWO VARIATIONS
$149 | For the book and folded map numbered 1–72 | SOLD OUT
THE BOOK AND THE MAP: 72 hand numbered copies are accompanied by original art in the form of black and indigo ink calligraphy, oil chalk and iron dust on 72 large vintage maps published by the Danish power house Gyldendal in 1948.
As the chief function of the demon Andromalius is to find treasure, the idea with the sigilized maps is to enable the bearer of this talisman to find treasure. Nothing more, nothing less. As each map is unique, the calligraphic X that marks the spot further carries a bibliomantic significance. The collector in possession of this talisman must think of the connection between what Andromalius does under conjuration as a matter of expectation and how this may relate to the geography of the place on the map. What kind of treasure can manifest out of this connection? Read more below for the magic of it, or the longer essay on talisman creations, The Book as a Talisman.
$119 | For the book and the Devil card numbered 73–144 | SOLD OUT
THE BOOK AND THE DEVIL CARD: 72 hand numbered copies are accompanied by a single tarot card that depicts the Devil of the Carolus Zoya Tarot, unique in the world and not available anywhere else. Each card is printed on Illusion Parchment Celtic Velum paper. On the back the card features original seals for both Andromalius and Mercury cazimi (read more below).
While you find treasure with the map, with the Devil you make pacts. One such pact could aim for the power to enchant. With style. Without style, no magic. Cultivating a style requires courage, so the line of benefits from making a pact has just stretched. Courage is a conqueror. Conquests bring new territories with them, and with new territories there’s new treasures to be found. On the intangible level, yet one that can be felt on the physical plane, just imagine the significance of being able to conquer fear. My Devil talisman has all these ideas embedded in it. Then there’s this Devil holding a tulip in his hand that encodes further iconic representations. Just think of French actor Alain Delon in the 60s film, La Tulipe Noir…
PAPERBACK AND EBOOK EDITIONS | AVAILABLE
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Reviews
“Andromalius shows his first results. Yesterday someone booked a reading session with me (I don’t offer that!) and today I also found my first treasure. How cool is that?” – Marcel Schmidt
Description
The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius entanglement, Camelia Elias tells stories about how Andromalius fares when dispatched to perform over and above what the Goetia prescribes. Andromalius doesn't merely deliver the mail, or 'find treasures, catch thieves, and punish the wicked,' but rather functions as a spy, orchestrates dreams, and divines for missing links. Elias also tells stories about how pacts are made and by whom, and what literature, poetry, and Zen have to say about demonic encounters.
These stories are not merely anchored in the set descriptions of how to conjure a demon and put him to work that we find in most grimoires. Rather, they are stories of collaboration that are entirely based on an assessment of skill in relation to style. This book discusses style in magic, and about how the magician, occultist, or fortuneteller as a stylist manipulates with the perception of the received images of spirit personalities in grimoires. What is the grammar of these images and how does it participate in creating a unique signature for the magician in his encounter with demons?
In practical magic that aims at evocation, invocation, and conjuration of spirits and demons, it's one thing to go by the instruction book and match a demon's office and function with what the scope of an operation is, and quite another to think about how authority is established in heaven and hell. Without being ceremonial about working with the grimoires, the author contributes original, scholarly, and penetrating ideas to the philosophy and practice of demonology.
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A talismanic book
Not just an object for reading, but one that makes its own speech act through additional inks, maps, and devils. As already stated above, with the map you find treasure, with the Devil you make pacts.
Each copy of the 144 available books, Andromalius, Take Two: Goetic Stories, is accompanied by original talismanic artwork in the form of sigils on old maps and cards.
There are 72 maps torn at random from a large atlas published by Gyldendal in 1948 (11.5 x 19.5 inch). They accompany the copies numbered 1–72.
There are 72 facsimile cards from the original Carolus Zoya Marseille Tarot, ca. 1780, printed on Illusion Parchment Celtic Velum paper (3.5 x 6.5 inch). They accompany the copies numbered 73–144.
Each map and card is individualized through calligraphic seals in ritual.
Astro magic
On September 23rd Mercury was cazimi, that is to say, Mercury was with the King, in the bosom of the Sun. This is a most auspicious place to be for a planet. Whatever petition you make, chances are that your wish will be granted. The Moon was also applying to a tight conjunction with the fixed star Regulus, a star that enhances the authority of occult interests, and gives great power, honor, wealth and independence, to all who petition.
The election took place on the west coast of Denmark. This means that at the time of the conjunction in Mercury’s own hour, Mercury and the Sun were in the 12th house, the house of demons. What is Andromalius? A demon.
Mercury was petitioned to grant its powers of enchantment, transactional wit, and swift communication to Andromalius’ domain, which is to find treasures, deliver goods in transit, and also locate thieves and punish them. All excellent and useful functions. All tied to the book.
The talismanic art intended to accompany the book on Andromalius was done and consecrated in this window. Those who receive the book and the magic that is made for it, can expect a manifestation of all of the above. Read more about this art in the essay, The Book as a Talisman.
More goetic magic
Signing Andromalius and noticing how the last words on various pages participate in enhancing the calligraphic magic.
Magic works with the spontaneity of chance encounters, such as the ones between word and number, or word and image.
As I was signing Andromalius, when I got to copy 133, just before I closed the book, it opened to page 66. I looked at the last line on that page. It consists of one word only: kinship.
‘I’ll be damned,’ I thought to myself. ‘There is kinship,’ I said to myself and it comes as a bond. ‘I might be thinking of Lucifer,’ I also wrote on that page, right below the word Andromalius, which made me think of the entanglement between these two stars. I nodded, for this innocent bibliomancy here felt like a strengthening of my argument in the book.
Great bonds all of them, including the kinship between the numbers 66 to 133. 133 is 66+66+1. There’s nothing like cool arithmetic associations. As everything is an abstract in performance, we go with this magic.
I had to make a film for it, because why not? Especially since my head was well fumigated and irrigated: Dragon blood and wormwood. The evening dew in a fine crystal glass shimmered in the full moon’s silver light. Magic is magic…
